I guess it's like a blog with more of it, MOre BLOG? or maybe it's a log, but of the activies of a mob? or it mobs you with it's logging? but most logs are pretty constant so that's not worthy of a new name. I don't know who comes up with this stuff, though.
I don't know why the parent was modded "Funny". I seriously didn't know what the heck the post was talking about. One of the comments mentioned that you pay $5 per 500 Megabytes so I'm going to presume the poster meant "music downloads with $/Mb pricing".
I used to consider those Jargon episodes:
Picard: Jordie, what's going on?
Jordie: Well, Captian, I think the jargon is jargoned.
Picard: What can we do about it?
Jordie: Well I think if I jargon the jargoner and infuse it with some jargon particles that should do the trick. But it will take a few hours.
Picard: Make it so.
I know what you mean. Mostly I couldn't resist pointing out that SOMEONE was actually hiring for Linux in this lousy job market!
I had the impression that this phone app would connect you to a physical telephone. If not, anything that isn't an extension of Gaim, Kopete, or Jabber is a waste of time. (not that I'm working on one)
(I'd also just changed my sig and wanted to post something)
> Are countertops designed around a woman's height? Which woman's height? As an architecture school graduate, I can tell you that counter tops are a compromise height. They did the numbers, decided 30 in. is a nice easy to build compromise. I once worked on a custom kitchen where we made 28 in. counters, because the owner was a little on the short side.
> Are doors built to accomodate [sic] pregnant women? Um, if a woman is pregnant three times in her life, she'll have an awkwardly shaped body maybe a total of 15 months in an adult life of some 750 months... not really justification for changing the size of doors.
> Are computers designed to accomodate [sic] women's cultural thought processes? Computers weren't designed to accommodate ANYONE's thought processes. It reflects the thought processes of people who can understand software programming logic and electrical engineering, not because they were men, but because they were nerds.
Well, unlike some professions where your diploma maps to your job, Software Development doesn't seem to be that way. The office I work in has 3 programmers with Computer Science degrees. The rest of the programmers have credentials in: PhD in Particle Physics (1) Geologist/chemist (1) Marine Corps Corporal (1) Restaurateur (1) Architecture (2) Mathematics (1)
We even used to have a guy here with a pre-med bachelors who programmed with us for 3 years then went and got his MD!
I'm one of the guys with the background in Architecture. I'd suggest taking specific classes. Java, some app server, etc. Then get certified. "Sun Certified Java Web Component Developer" plus having the understanding of how to work with people that you must have after so many years as a doctor goes a long way in a job interview.
The Trees and the Axe A MAN came into a forest and asked the Trees to provide him a handle for his axe. The Trees consented to his request and gave him a young ash tree. No sooner had the man fitted a new handle to his axe from it, than he began to use it and quickly felled with his strokes the noblest giants of the forest. An old oak, lamenting when too late the destruction of his companions, said to a neighboring cedar, "The first step has lost us all. If we had not given up the rights of the ash, we might yet have retained our own privileges and have stood for ages."
If I'm an architect and design a house for you, you get to live in the house. But if an architecture magazine publishes an article on it, I get the royalties, not you. And it's my reputation as an architect that is improved.
The actual issue here is, "How much is the client paying for?" Are they buying use of the end product? of course. Are they buying all rights to and use of the design or source? Probably not all rights and use. So, therefore, the challenge is to work out an equitable and profitable distribution of rights and use between the original client and the artist/programmer.
This post is asking, "What are the methods that are established for describing who gets which uses and rights on a piece of software that was part of a custom contract?"
Thanks, Larry, for this elegant description of the harmony of science and religion. It might surprise some of my fellow/.'ers that the Baha'i Faith has been asserting the essential harmony of science and religion for over 150 years.
1) My employer, ScholarOne is an ASP providing an on-line peer-review application for journals and meetings for the last three years. Our ultimate goal is to provide colaborative space, peer review, composition and on-line publishing through one application. Since we're not the lap dog of any of the big publishers, like Cadmus or Elsiver, I'm sure we'd be happy to licence ManuscriptCentral to Brown for his movement. A small part of $20M is still pretty big.
2) Seems the one thing Brown forgot is that journals pay the copy editors. In my experience working on ManuscriptCentral, we've found that just because you're a brilliant scientist, doesn't mean you know how to write a paper. In fact, many review forms presented to reviewers to fill in about a paper asks them to rate the quality of English! Journals pay flocks of copy editors to turn the papers into something like standard English and format the papers consistently. Now, the formatting could be done through some kind of wizard, but that would require the scientist to also have some level of computer skills. Ususally, these folks have developped their professional skills at the expense of all else, including computer skills and sometimes manners! It'll be a while before a piece of software can correct grammer in a sci-tech paper.
Round about 1982, my older brother and I took a BASIC class for the Atari 400/800 at an electronics store in Pennsylvania. They had a display with an Atari 2400 and some sort of gyroscopic joy-stick. It demo'ed a lousy darts game, and wasn't wireless, but sounds like very similar tech.
Just about anywhere in the world, Technology is for the rich. You can get Internet access in Brazzaville, Congo (arguably one of the least developed nations in the world), but you have to pay a good price for it.
WWW.Malawi.Net will be your ISP for a fair price, assuming you can get the national phone company to install a wire to your house! (my mother-in-law is experiencing this right now...)
Libreville and Port Gentil, Gabon both have several ISP's, but some indexes place Libreville in the top three most expensive cities in the world, so what's a few more bucks?
Slashdot Mirror
I guess it's like a blog with more of it, MOre BLOG?
or maybe it's a log, but of the activies of a mob? or it mobs you with it's logging? but most logs are pretty constant so that's not worthy of a new name.
I don't know who comes up with this stuff, though.
I don't know why the parent was modded "Funny". I seriously didn't know what the heck the post was talking about. One of the comments mentioned that you pay $5 per 500 Megabytes so I'm going to presume the poster meant "music downloads with $/Mb pricing".
Page title is wrong. The date on the message headers say:
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 21:44:36 +1200
The really odd thing is the GMT +1200 time zone stamp... Is that Hawaii?
in financial circles.
Slashdot must also be "News for Financial Nerds..."
Standard non-fiancial-geek prefix and postfix would have been $50M
Perhaps it's actually millimeters (mm) capitalized. So, when you're raising capital that's measured in millimeters, you use MM.
I used to consider those Jargon episodes:
Picard: Jordie, what's going on?
Jordie: Well, Captian, I think the jargon is jargoned.
Picard: What can we do about it?
Jordie: Well I think if I jargon the jargoner and infuse it with some jargon particles that should do the trick. But it will take a few hours.
Picard: Make it so.
Why not exploit the fan movie?? It's early enough, just before Kirk or at the same time. Kirk wasn't the only captain out there.
Exeter home pageI guess you meant irrelevant... :)
I know what you mean. Mostly I couldn't resist pointing out that SOMEONE was actually hiring for Linux in this lousy job market!
I had the impression that this phone app would connect you to a physical telephone. If not, anything that isn't an extension of Gaim, Kopete, or Jabber is a waste of time. (not that I'm working on one)
(I'd also just changed my sig and wanted to post something)
Hey don't rag on them too badly! They are Hiring Linux Developers.
KDEphone here we come!
How shocking that no one put up the link to the inspiration for this article!
http://badgerbadgerbadger.com
Remember on April 1st, the badgers were all zombies...
> Are countertops designed around a woman's height?
Which woman's height? As an architecture school graduate, I can tell you that counter tops are a compromise height. They did the numbers, decided 30 in. is a nice easy to build compromise. I once worked on a custom kitchen where we made 28 in. counters, because the owner was a little on the short side.
> Are doors built to accomodate [sic] pregnant women?
Um, if a woman is pregnant three times in her life, she'll have an awkwardly shaped body maybe a total of 15 months in an adult life of some 750 months... not really justification for changing the size of doors.
> Are computers designed to accomodate [sic] women's cultural thought processes?
Computers weren't designed to accommodate ANYONE's thought processes. It reflects the thought processes of people who can understand software programming logic and electrical engineering, not because they were men, but because they were nerds.
Well, unlike some professions where your diploma maps to your job, Software Development doesn't seem to be that way.
The office I work in has 3 programmers with Computer Science degrees. The rest of the programmers have credentials in:
PhD in Particle Physics (1)
Geologist/chemist (1)
Marine Corps Corporal (1)
Restaurateur (1)
Architecture (2)
Mathematics (1)
We even used to have a guy here with a pre-med bachelors who programmed with us for 3 years then went and got his MD!
I'm one of the guys with the background in Architecture. I'd suggest taking specific classes. Java, some app server, etc. Then get certified. "Sun Certified Java Web Component Developer" plus having the understanding of how to work with people that you must have after so many years as a doctor goes a long way in a job interview.
The world needs more Philosopher/Computer Programmers!
The Trees and the Axe
A MAN came into a forest and asked the Trees to provide him a handle for his axe. The Trees consented to his request and gave him a young ash tree. No sooner had the man fitted a new handle to his axe from it, than he began to use it and quickly felled with his strokes the noblest giants of the forest. An old oak, lamenting when too late the destruction of his companions, said to a neighboring cedar, "The first step has lost us all. If we had not given up the rights of the ash, we might yet have retained our own privileges and have stood for ages."
If I'm an architect and design a house for you, you get to live in the house. But if an architecture magazine publishes an article on it, I get the royalties, not you. And it's my reputation as an architect that is improved.
The actual issue here is, "How much is the client paying for?" Are they buying use of the end product? of course. Are they buying all rights to and use of the design or source? Probably not all rights and use. So, therefore, the challenge is to work out an equitable and profitable distribution of rights and use between the original client and the artist/programmer.
This post is asking, "What are the methods that are established for describing who gets which uses and rights on a piece of software that was part of a custom contract?"
Thanks, Larry, for this elegant description of the harmony of science and religion. It might surprise some of my fellow /.'ers that the Baha'i Faith has been asserting the essential harmony of science and religion for over 150 years.
1) My employer, ScholarOne is an ASP providing an on-line peer-review application for journals and meetings for the last three years. Our ultimate goal is to provide colaborative space, peer review, composition and on-line publishing through one application. Since we're not the lap dog of any of the big publishers, like Cadmus or Elsiver, I'm sure we'd be happy to licence ManuscriptCentral to Brown for his movement. A small part of $20M is still pretty big.
2) Seems the one thing Brown forgot is that journals pay the copy editors. In my experience working on ManuscriptCentral, we've found that just because you're a brilliant scientist, doesn't mean you know how to write a paper. In fact, many review forms presented to reviewers to fill in about a paper asks them to rate the quality of English!
Journals pay flocks of copy editors to turn the papers into something like standard English and format the papers consistently. Now, the formatting could be done through some kind of wizard, but that would require the scientist to also have some level of computer skills. Ususally, these folks have developped their professional skills at the expense of all else, including computer skills and sometimes manners! It'll be a while before a piece of software can correct grammer in a sci-tech paper.
Round about 1982, my older brother and I took a BASIC class for the Atari 400/800 at an electronics store in Pennsylvania. They had a display with an Atari 2400 and some sort of gyroscopic joy-stick. It demo'ed a lousy darts game, and wasn't wireless, but sounds like very similar tech.
Just about anywhere in the world, Technology is for the rich. You can get Internet access in Brazzaville, Congo (arguably one of the least developed nations in the world), but you have to pay a good price for it.
WWW.Malawi.Net will be your ISP for a fair price, assuming you can get the national phone company to install a wire to your house! (my mother-in-law is experiencing this right now...)
Libreville and Port Gentil, Gabon both have several ISP's, but some indexes place Libreville in the top three most expensive cities in the world, so what's a few more bucks?