Doubt that. WCOM has just now made a major push to fully integrate what's left of uu.net. Basically that means taking all of uu.net and breaking the individual departments up, then placing them under their "twin" within the WCOM structure.
Another problem that I've noticed around here (WCOM) is that of MCI. One of the reasons WCOM was able to buy MCI was because MCI became bloated and fat. They had too many people sitting around doing one person's job. After the buyout, MCI was trimmed, but the bad habits die hard and the fat has only grown.
I've been here for a couple years and feel that I'm in a secure position and department, but that hasn't stopped me from tweaking my resume. I've seen stock options handed out valued at $44.50, but vesting at $21.00, then handed out for the following year at $16 and some odd cents. What's the current street price? Oh, and no raises... not in two years. Being salaried sucks too as several of us typically work at least 20 hours over. Yeah, motivation around here sucks, so does the recognition ("Hey good job, really appreciate it, but can't show it any more than saying 'Great Job'.").
I've enjoyed working here. I'm fortunate to work with a good group of people and a pretty good management chain. I still enjoy what I'm doing, and I get to work with some fairly interesting technology/notions. Just wishing I got more out of it than sore eyes, frustration and stress.
"Maybe I can learn how to be a truck driver. Mav, do you have the number of that truck driving school we saw on TV? 'TruckMaster', I think it is. I might need that..."
I'm wondering how much of this is in relation to AOL/Netscape's partnership with sun IPlanet which will close in a few months. From what I understand, at the end of their contract IPlanet will become part of Sun. This includes the Netscape servers (web, ldap, etc). Unfortunately I can not find a press release related to this, only the customer update email.
International law is a a joke, at best, and US law does not have any jurisdiction in Russia. It's been obvious for a long time now that the Internet is a society within itself, with it's own governings and rules. Stuff like this will make it interesting to see how the Internet evolves as a culture and a society. How do you set up, and what kind of rules and how do you enforce them in what basically is more of an anarchical system? Or is it the ultimate in democracy? Let the people decide. Or mobocracy, let the people react (as opposed to act).
One of the stumbling blocks in the way of all this is conceited ideas like a physical government attempting to rule something that extends beyond it's boundaries. What exactly are the boundaries of the Internet? Theoretically, they can extend as far as you can communicate. Want a terminal connection on Mars? It is almost as if there is a seperate unseen (seen, but unseen) world that envelopes our physical one.
It will be interesting to see how all this evolves and what will happen with it.
Willing to sue? Considering that it appears to originate in Russia, you might be able to file something here in the States, but how would you ever get anything effective out of it? I realize that the US policy towards the internet seems to be misguided at times, but can the situation be any better in Russia? Do you think they honestly have the resources to legally (ie lawsuits, courts, etc) fight spammers like we do here in the US?
Knowing M$'s knack for embracing and extending other company's technologies (so far through acquisition of those companies), what is to stop M$ from e/e the Linux source code into NT 2001?
Is there a fairly easy way for the GPL to be enforced if that were to happen?
Does the GPL cover the entire tree of source code, or would it apply to individual files, or even smaller snippets of code?
Either way, I'd love to be a fly on the wall when the MS engineers begin their testing.
Slashdot Mirror
"They'll move quickly to integrate or to cut."
Doubt that. WCOM has just now made a major push to fully integrate what's left of uu.net. Basically that means taking all of uu.net and breaking the individual departments up, then placing them under their "twin" within the WCOM structure.
Another problem that I've noticed around here (WCOM) is that of MCI. One of the reasons WCOM was able to buy MCI was because MCI became bloated and fat. They had too many people sitting around doing one person's job. After the buyout, MCI was trimmed, but the bad habits die hard and the fat has only grown.
I've been here for a couple years and feel that I'm in a secure position and department, but that hasn't stopped me from tweaking my resume. I've seen stock options handed out valued at $44.50, but vesting at $21.00, then handed out for the following year at $16 and some odd cents. What's the current street price? Oh, and no raises... not in two years. Being salaried sucks too as several of us typically work at least 20 hours over. Yeah, motivation around here sucks, so does the recognition ("Hey good job, really appreciate it, but can't show it any more than saying 'Great Job'.").
I've enjoyed working here. I'm fortunate to work with a good group of people and a pretty good management chain. I still enjoy what I'm doing, and I get to work with some fairly interesting technology/notions. Just wishing I got more out of it than sore eyes, frustration and stress.
"Maybe I can learn how to be a truck driver. Mav, do you have the number of that truck driving school we saw on TV? 'TruckMaster', I think it is. I might need that..."
I'm wondering how much of this is in relation to AOL/Netscape's partnership with sun IPlanet which will close in a few months. From what I understand, at the end of their contract IPlanet will become part of Sun. This includes the Netscape servers (web, ldap, etc). Unfortunately I can not find a press release related to this, only the customer update email.
I may be wrong in this, but doesn't Microsoft now own Lycos?
SO that now means that Microsoft now owns Wired by way of Lycos, correct?
International law is a a joke, at best, and US law does not have any jurisdiction in Russia. It's been obvious for a long time now that the Internet is a society within itself, with it's own governings and rules. Stuff like this will make it interesting to see how the Internet evolves as a culture and a society. How do you set up, and what kind of rules and how do you enforce them in what basically is more of an anarchical system? Or is it the ultimate in democracy? Let the people decide. Or mobocracy, let the people react (as opposed to act).
One of the stumbling blocks in the way of all this is conceited ideas like a physical government attempting to rule something that extends beyond it's boundaries. What exactly are the boundaries of the Internet? Theoretically, they can extend as far as you can communicate. Want a terminal connection on Mars? It is almost as if there is a seperate unseen (seen, but unseen) world that envelopes our physical one.
It will be interesting to see how all this evolves and what will happen with it.
Willing to sue? Considering that it appears to originate in Russia, you might be able to file something here in the States, but how would you ever get anything effective out of it? I realize that the US policy towards the internet seems to be misguided at times, but can the situation be any better in Russia? Do you think they honestly have the resources to legally (ie lawsuits, courts, etc) fight spammers like we do here in the US?
Knowing M$'s knack for embracing and extending other company's technologies (so far through acquisition of those companies), what is to stop M$ from e/e the Linux source code into NT 2001?
Is there a fairly easy way for the GPL to be enforced if that were to happen?
Does the GPL cover the entire tree of source code, or would it apply to individual files, or even smaller snippets of code?
Either way, I'd love to be a fly on the wall when the MS engineers begin their testing.
Gordo
Welcome to Year 2000 pre-release 1.
Gotta love beta software.