I wouldn't have bothered checking the bogus e-commerce site; I'd have checked with my bank for any fraudulent charges, put them in dispute and have them issue me a fresh card # if so, and if anything actually *did* show up at my door, keep it.
And in Thunderbird, the fake addresses on the phishing attempts that get through the spam filters show up when I hover over them. Then I nuke 'em. You're using the wrong mailer...
In B5, "Mr. Bester" was the head of the Psi Corps, where all good little telepaths were sent as soon as their abilities manifested. The name was a deliberate homage by J. Michael Straczynski, the series' creator, to the SF writer.
And I'll suspect that you're UK, since "Tiger Tiger" printed in the US as "The Stars My Destination"...
Two weeks is industry-standard, four is generous as long as the new job is willing to wait. Your loyalty at this point is to them, not the old job.
Any assistance your former employer wants after that point is contract work, at going contractor rates, and may not conflict with your new job (repeat: your loyalty at this point is to them). If he's willing to put that in writing, and if you don't mind the extra work, and if the new employer is willing to allow for it (as opposed to All Your Time is Belong To Us), go for it. If he's not willing, well that's probably why you were looking to begin with, true?
Five years ago I'd have said Zeta-Jones, but they're going to need someone younger to sell this.
You need tall, voluptuous and athletic ("She's built like an AMAZON"...); of the Buffy babes, that's pretty much Charisma Carpenter, but she'd need to hit the gym and get more muscular. Dushku seems too short, Gellar's too petite period. Morena Baccarin from Firefly has the looks, but I don't think she's that tall either.
There's bound to be some relative unknown out there that fits the bill, and would end up typecast as WW the rest of her career. Of course, typecasting as a superhero didn't hurt Christopher Reeve (RIP).
The "verbal OK's" you mention are useless; if it wasn't in writing it doesn't exist.
Do you have logs documenting that the code existed prior to your employment? If so, I'd take that, the GPL code you leveraged, and a copy of the GPL to the legal department. Suggest they also take a look at Groklaw to give them a clue what happens when you tangle with the Nazgul (aka IBM Legal).
Obviously I'd have my resume ready before doing this, you'll need it.
I'd say that would be an excellent *advanced* course; the basic use here would presumably be the usual application-oriented stuff (edu-games, office suite, HTML, e-mail), the mid-range would be learning to code in Java (Eclipse?), the upper-level course would be the raw-hardware-to-working-system type work you're suggesting.
It's the difference between drivers' ed (how-to-use) & auto shop (how-to-fix) classes. Pushing everyone into the latter track is overkill for the vast majority of students. Let those whose interest is piqued take the additional steps.
I'm in Jacksonville FL; the city gov't has set up a large neighborhood hotspot for one of the 'developing' neighborhoods. The article says this sort of thing would be exempted, but the phrase you HAVE to add to something like this is "for how long?"
If the cable/DSL duopoly isn't interested in serving an area, why should they get to whine when the local government steps in to fill the need? The demand is clearly present, or the city fathers wouldn't bother either.
Then add the provisions that apparently hinder public websites for city/county/state government, and you REALLY have to start wondering.
>>Verizon is what used to be GTE and Bell Atlantic
No, it's what used to be Nynex (New England + NY) & Bell Atlantic (Mid-Atlantic). They may have picked up some of the GTE service areas in that region, but it's basically the merger of those two RBOCs.
Lessee, seven RBOCS down to four: Nynex + Bell Atlantic -> Verizon (plus MCI), SWBell + PacBell + Ameritech + SNET -> SBC (plus AT&T), USWest + Qwest -> Qwest, Bellsouth stands alone. They're the only one of the Seven Sisters that hasn't picked up an LD carrier at this point; who's left? Sprint/Nextel?
Visit any of a swarm of sites that track stocks. Also the Yahoo Financial board for CALD (old ticker symbol) regularly posts trading logs so the interested observer can see the ratcheting-up of the price using trades of 100-500 share lots.
>>When [Noorda] takes control of SCO's litigation, he'll drop all of the customer suits right away (I can't see him supporting a policy of suing customers).
Problem at this point is that dropping the suits would open them up to fraud countersuits from all corners.
The only settlement I can think that would suit IBM would involve most of the current SCO management's heads on poles outside the IBM legal department with an inscription on the order of "sic semper morons".
This stock is very narrowly held, for the most part by funds playing the "lawsuit lottery". If you track the trades, they're "laddering" small-lot trades among themselves to make it look like somebody's actually interested in this pile of steaming sewage. There's been a consistent work-up early in the trading day, followed by a slideoff and then flatline in the afternoon.
It fell to $4.00 in pre-open trading, then promptly jumped up to around 4.60 at the opening bell, expect a close around 4.25 today. It's been consistently following this pattern the last coupla weeks.
Ah, but if you're already using the not-MS client, it becomes that much simpler downstream to swap out the backend with Groupwise/Lotus/whatever that uses a straight POP/IMAP + iCal interface without the masses rising up in protest.
Once you pry the MS apps off the desktop (IE -> Firefox, Office -> OO.org, Outlook -> Evolution), migrating the backends becomes simpler by an order of magnitude.
Combining IMAP, LDAP and a calendaring system (Sunbird + WebDAV server?) would do it, but the existing attempts are not nearly as seamless.
Hopefully with more focus on this from the developers, this can become a worthy competitor. Add PDA sync and a way of accessing existing Exchange boxes for the 'OSS outposts' in a Windows-centric business environment and you'd have a winner.
The problem with this is trying to break into the all-important business market. If you can't talk to Exchange, you're DOA. The PHBs will want the same functionality without replacing all the backend servers.
The Connector package for Evolution works nicely, for all that the underlying transport is a bit of a hack (using Outlook Web Access). I suppose it's easier than reverse-engineering the MAPI protocol and hoping MS doesn't break your work with the next Exchange revision.
I'll second the comments about whether Connector code could be re-used into the Lightning codebase here. It would make the product far more acceptable into the business market, and give a much better shot at breaking the Outlook stranglehold.
I know one of the local pubs put in a scanner that supposedly can read all of the various mag-stripe licenses. He said saving the cost/headaches of fines for serving to minors more than covers the cost (approx US$2K).
Don't know how many of the forgers hack up the mag-stripe data as well, but it's probably not a lot.
The suit, as I recall, claimed that even though DC said they hadn't used Unix in seven years, that their response didn't include a list of servers as specified in the License, or what they did with the defunct boxes to ensure protection of the code, or if they'd taken the code and given it to That Evil Penguinista OS.
They didn't refuse to certify, they just refused to answer items outside the terms of the original License ex. Linux-related matters.
If you look at the stats on this dog of a stock, two-thirds of the shares are held by institutions. The common opinion is that there's some "gaming" of the stock price: small blocks traded at a few cents up repeatedly to make the thing look more appealing. This may entice some naive folks to take the shares off the funds' hands before it tanks and the funds have to deal with the loss.
The recent pattern seems to be a hard drop in the early morning when shares are dumped, then 'painting up' in the late afternoon so the closing price stays near the previous day's value. Repeat until divested...
This thing would be ideal for kiosk or net-cafe type usage (low power, minimal moving parts), and in that sort of environment, the writes would be minimal, so I'd expect the flashcard's life expectancy to be fairly good.
(a) The EU is moving away from software patents (b) the majority of nations in Asia don't have them AFAIK (c) many governments are pushing OSS for open, stable file formats and to promote local entrepreneurs in development and support areas.
I suppose with the SCO FUD-fest against Linux imploding, that Ballmer feels the need to spread FUD direct from the source to combat the Penguin Horde advancing on the Gates of Redmond.
SCO's charges against Novell aren't breach-of-contract or infringement, it's "slander of title". IA so NAL, but it boils down to (a) you're falsely claiming ownership of something and (b) you're spreading deliberate falsehood that the other party that REALLY owns it doesn't.
Well the judge has said ON THE RECORD that the purchase agreement between Novell and Santa Cruz Operation (which Caldera bought then renamed themselves The SCO Group) doesn't appear to be a valid transfer of copyright, so that shoots down the first part, because the copyright ownership is now questionable.
Now these minutes show that Novell believes they would be retaining the copyrights after the deal. If you think you still own the copyrights, claiming so can't be malicious, so there goes the other argument.
Case closed.
The side-effect is that it throws SCO's claims to the copyrights into limbo, which should give the other folks they've dragged into court ammunition to claim SCO doesn't have the right to sue them.
And SCO starting a new suit vs. Novell to force the transfer at this point would just confirm that and scuttle the rest of their cases.
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I wouldn't have bothered checking the bogus e-commerce site; I'd have checked with my bank for any fraudulent charges, put them in dispute and have them issue me a fresh card # if so, and if anything actually *did* show up at my door, keep it.
And in Thunderbird, the fake addresses on the phishing attempts that get through the spam filters show up when I hover over them. Then I nuke 'em. You're using the wrong mailer...
Actually they'd have to lead with 405: The Movie.
In B5, "Mr. Bester" was the head of the Psi Corps, where all good little telepaths were sent as soon as their abilities manifested. The name was a deliberate homage by J. Michael Straczynski, the series' creator, to the SF writer.
And I'll suspect that you're UK, since "Tiger Tiger" printed in the US as "The Stars My Destination"...
Any assistance your former employer wants after that point is contract work, at going contractor rates, and may not conflict with your new job (repeat: your loyalty at this point is to them). If he's willing to put that in writing, and if you don't mind the extra work, and if the new employer is willing to allow for it (as opposed to All Your Time is Belong To Us), go for it. If he's not willing, well that's probably why you were looking to begin with, true?
You need tall, voluptuous and athletic ("She's built like an AMAZON"...); of the Buffy babes, that's pretty much Charisma Carpenter, but she'd need to hit the gym and get more muscular. Dushku seems too short, Gellar's too petite period. Morena Baccarin from Firefly has the looks, but I don't think she's that tall either.
There's bound to be some relative unknown out there that fits the bill, and would end up typecast as WW the rest of her career. Of course, typecasting as a superhero didn't hurt Christopher Reeve (RIP).
Whedon's enough of a fanboy he's *got* to try and get Carter to do a cameo as the Amazon queen/WW's mother.
Do you have logs documenting that the code existed prior to your employment? If so, I'd take that, the GPL code you leveraged, and a copy of the GPL to the legal department. Suggest they also take a look at Groklaw to give them a clue what happens when you tangle with the Nazgul (aka IBM Legal).
Obviously I'd have my resume ready before doing this, you'll need it.
I'd say that would be an excellent *advanced* course; the basic use here would presumably be the usual application-oriented stuff (edu-games, office suite, HTML, e-mail), the mid-range would be learning to code in Java (Eclipse?), the upper-level course would be the raw-hardware-to-working-system type work you're suggesting.
It's the difference between drivers' ed (how-to-use) & auto shop (how-to-fix) classes. Pushing everyone into the latter track is overkill for the vast majority of students. Let those whose interest is piqued take the additional steps.
If the cable/DSL duopoly isn't interested in serving an area, why should they get to whine when the local government steps in to fill the need? The demand is clearly present, or the city fathers wouldn't bother either.
Then add the provisions that apparently hinder public websites for city/county/state government, and you REALLY have to start wondering.
Of course, given the successful series from J J Abrams on Wednesday nights, the critics would immediately dub it...
(drum roll...)
" 'Lost' in Space ".....
Hmmm, wonder if Bill Mumy's available...
>>Verizon is what used to be GTE and Bell Atlantic
No, it's what used to be Nynex (New England + NY) & Bell Atlantic (Mid-Atlantic). They may have picked up some of the GTE service areas in that region, but it's basically the merger of those two RBOCs.
Lessee, seven RBOCS down to four: Nynex + Bell Atlantic -> Verizon (plus MCI), SWBell + PacBell + Ameritech + SNET -> SBC (plus AT&T), USWest + Qwest -> Qwest, Bellsouth stands alone. They're the only one of the Seven Sisters that hasn't picked up an LD carrier at this point; who's left? Sprint/Nextel?
Visit any of a swarm of sites that track stocks. Also the Yahoo Financial board for CALD (old ticker symbol) regularly posts trading logs so the interested observer can see the ratcheting-up of the price using trades of 100-500 share lots.
>>When [Noorda] takes control of SCO's litigation, he'll drop all of the customer suits right away (I can't see him supporting a policy of suing customers).
Problem at this point is that dropping the suits would open them up to fraud countersuits from all corners.
The only settlement I can think that would suit IBM would involve most of the current SCO management's heads on poles outside the IBM legal department with an inscription on the order of "sic semper morons".
This stock is very narrowly held, for the most part by funds playing the "lawsuit lottery". If you track the trades, they're "laddering" small-lot trades among themselves to make it look like somebody's actually interested in this pile of steaming sewage. There's been a consistent work-up early in the trading day, followed by a slideoff and then flatline in the afternoon.
It fell to $4.00 in pre-open trading, then promptly jumped up to around 4.60 at the opening bell, expect a close around 4.25 today. It's been consistently following this pattern the last coupla weeks.
Ah, but if you're already using the not-MS client, it becomes that much simpler downstream to swap out the backend with Groupwise/Lotus/whatever that uses a straight POP/IMAP + iCal interface without the masses rising up in protest.
Once you pry the MS apps off the desktop (IE -> Firefox, Office -> OO.org, Outlook -> Evolution), migrating the backends becomes simpler by an order of magnitude.
Combining IMAP, LDAP and a calendaring system (Sunbird + WebDAV server?) would do it, but the existing attempts are not nearly as seamless.
Hopefully with more focus on this from the developers, this can become a worthy competitor. Add PDA sync and a way of accessing existing Exchange boxes for the 'OSS outposts' in a Windows-centric business environment and you'd have a winner.
"Thunder is good, thunder is impressive, but it is *lightning* that does the work..."
The problem with this is trying to break into the all-important business market. If you can't talk to Exchange, you're DOA. The PHBs will want the same functionality without replacing all the backend servers.
The Connector package for Evolution works nicely, for all that the underlying transport is a bit of a hack (using Outlook Web Access). I suppose it's easier than reverse-engineering the MAPI protocol and hoping MS doesn't break your work with the next Exchange revision.
I'll second the comments about whether Connector code could be re-used into the Lightning codebase here. It would make the product far more acceptable into the business market, and give a much better shot at breaking the Outlook stranglehold.
I know one of the local pubs put in a scanner that supposedly can read all of the various mag-stripe licenses. He said saving the cost/headaches of fines for serving to minors more than covers the cost (approx US$2K).
Don't know how many of the forgers hack up the mag-stripe data as well, but it's probably not a lot.
The suit, as I recall, claimed that even though DC said they hadn't used Unix in seven years, that their response didn't include a list of servers as specified in the License, or what they did with the defunct boxes to ensure protection of the code, or if they'd taken the code and given it to That Evil Penguinista OS.
They didn't refuse to certify, they just refused to answer items outside the terms of the original License ex. Linux-related matters.
If you look at the stats on this dog of a stock, two-thirds of the shares are held by institutions. The common opinion is that there's some "gaming" of the stock price: small blocks traded at a few cents up repeatedly to make the thing look more appealing. This may entice some naive folks to take the shares off the funds' hands before it tanks and the funds have to deal with the loss.
The recent pattern seems to be a hard drop in the early morning when shares are dumped, then 'painting up' in the late afternoon so the closing price stays near the previous day's value. Repeat until divested...
This thing would be ideal for kiosk or net-cafe type usage (low power, minimal moving parts), and in that sort of environment, the writes would be minimal, so I'd expect the flashcard's life expectancy to be fairly good.
A team-mate here on an H1B is up for renewal, and the announcement went up on the break-room corkboard complete with "prevailing wage" info...
He's getting paid roughly what I am, and well worth it IMHO..
(a) The EU is moving away from software patents (b) the majority of nations in Asia don't have them AFAIK (c) many governments are pushing OSS for open, stable file formats and to promote local entrepreneurs in development and support areas.
I suppose with the SCO FUD-fest against Linux imploding, that Ballmer feels the need to spread FUD direct from the source to combat the Penguin Horde advancing on the Gates of Redmond.
SCO's charges against Novell aren't breach-of-contract or infringement, it's "slander of title". IA so NAL, but it boils down to (a) you're falsely claiming ownership of something and (b) you're spreading deliberate falsehood that the other party that REALLY owns it doesn't.
Well the judge has said ON THE RECORD that the purchase agreement between Novell and Santa Cruz Operation (which Caldera bought then renamed themselves The SCO Group) doesn't appear to be a valid transfer of copyright, so that shoots down the first part, because the copyright ownership is now questionable.
Now these minutes show that Novell believes they would be retaining the copyrights after the deal. If you think you still own the copyrights, claiming so can't be malicious, so there goes the other argument.
Case closed.
The side-effect is that it throws SCO's claims to the copyrights into limbo, which should give the other folks they've dragged into court ammunition to claim SCO doesn't have the right to sue them.
And SCO starting a new suit vs. Novell to force the transfer at this point would just confirm that and scuttle the rest of their cases.