I'm not sure how your description of life with a private office space cut off from the "cube world" where you can "hardly hear myself think out there" qualifies as giving a little sympathy to the poster who was just moved out of his office into a cube.
That might be true. But the guy said their HR department already had a methodology for conforming to the HIPPA laws. And given the laws apply to their workspaces as they do to HR's, the copmany would probably have more exposure to employee lawsuites for having a double standard internally.
Yet another stupid industry acronym for crappy cobbled together old technology. Wow lookie lookie, we can capture mouse movement events! and hey, we can download more jpg files and move shit around on the screen in those same events. Big freakin deal
Lots of places use photo radar from the front. Tons of stoplights throughout san francisco do. I'd bet it's much more the norm to have a pic of the driver in the frame from the front and I don't completely buy your assertion that police departments are successfully ticketing people for running red lights with just a picture of their rear license plate.
In any event, it's a matter of degree. It's ok to have photo radar take a picture and automatically accuse you of a misdemeanor by sending a ticket to you in the mail. If your face isn't in the picture I bet you can get out of it. And often running a red light is a mistake anyway.
But this issue isn't an accidental (and arguably so) slip through a stoplight costing a 100$ in fines. We're talking about accusing someone of intentionally, willfully doing something illegal over a period of time and attaching consequences to that of in some cases 100's of thousands of dollars; certainly a few thousand dollars just to get out of it.
So I fall back on your my running down a pedestrian analogy. An intentional act where the driver of the car goes to jail, not the owner. You can bet it will take a lot more than a picture of the rear license plate to throw the owner of the car in jail.
The human had permission the use the machine like your friend had permission to use your car. Neither had permission to run down a pedestrian pursuant to that useage. And you wouldn't be charged with manslaughter. The friend you loaned the car to would.
I say he didn't "own the line" with equal authority and relevence to the matter as the guy who started by saying he did "own the line". If we reduce "the line" to "the endpoint", ok, becuase the point occupies no space, we're back to the act itself.
What he said. Yes Firebird is pretty cool. Although on occassion we refer to it as Fireturd when trying to figure out some nuance in it's configuration/use. All DBs have those issues, but only Firebird lends nicely to a mocking name like Fireturd:)
BTW, "embedded" a DB like this is not goot for memory. MSDE eats up 10's of megs of memory over time with just a simple schema. I've seen it at 200mb mem usage for a DB with a 2mb dataset.
For embedded DB work, people should take a look at Firebird.
I have used MSDE in development (for production sql server deploymnet) as an actual production instance for a small website and in an embedded situation (a settop box). MSDE is SQL server stripped down much like this free version of Oracle. Two super important differences between MSDE and Orcale Express (if the Oracle Express description above is accurate): a) MSDE only runs on windows b) MSDE has a connection governor in addition to the other limitations. This "governor" will ON PURPOSE start slowing down queries when you get to like 8 simultaneous queries.
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Is Board Certified Neurologist to you what Microsoft Certified Professional is to us?:)
>>Someone slaps you in the face with one product, why should you help them make money with their other products?
Companies that are otherwise cut throat adversaries are all the time partnering to develop and sell products together. I'm sure Apple and Microsoft partner to sell stuff; while they're *both* slapping each other in the face. Why should one help the other to sell anything? Because it's business.
>>>...I think they, as a company, are completely within reason to pull all the publisher's books from their shelves.
Huh? ALL the books? ok so the issue is this one book is offensive to Jobs and therfore apple. Fine. I don't agree with retaliating, but if you must, simply don't sell that book. But comon, Wiley publishes what, hundreds of books on many subjects from many authors completely unrelated to the author and book in question? You have a quibble with one management book and you're going to muck with the livelihood of dozens of unrelated authors, many of whom research/organize and write about information that your own engineers refer to when developing your software and hardware products?
I bet Steve doesn't have to balls to do this the right way. And that is ban Wiley books from use on Apple campuses. And ban web access to Wiley websites from Apple.
Additionally, I think all Apple engineers should show solidarity with Steve and leave their Wiley manuals at home or if they belong to Apple, stack them in a closet or organize a donation of them to schools. And when you, as an apple engineer, are working on a problem for which information about it is only available from a Wiley book (that used to be on your desk), tell your manager your solving it from the ground up and to add 2 weeks to a month to your ship date. And if he has a problem with it, talk to Steve because that is clearly aligned with his corporate intentions.
>>> what would apple be without steve? >> And what would Jobs have been without Woz?
Wiley sells book mocking Steve. Steve *is* Apple! Steve bans Wiley books from apple stores! But wait, Woz *is* Steve!
So if Wiley was smart, they would have also mocked Woz in that book so Woz would ban Steve from reading it thereby circuitously allowing the book to remain in Apple stores because Steve-Woz would continue to feel blissfully un-mocked.
>>If Steve believes that this book casts his leadership in a negative way, then it is very easy to believe that it casts the company in the same negative way.
So since steve jobs belives this book casts his leadership in a negative way, he's done something about it that casts his leadership in a negative way. Sweet.
>>Do you honestly think that Apple's online store is responsible for a noticable percentage of Wiley's sales? I've seen their books in almost every English book store I've walked into in the past 5 or 10 years.
Even sweeter, since steve jobs belives this book casts his leadership in a negative way, he's done something about it that both casts his leadership in a negative way *and* is ineffective.
Whew. For a minute there I was getting a little disconcerted that no one would post something saying they were disconcerted that no one posted something about that kind of thing being done many years ago in their posting about that kind of thing being done many years ago.
When your collegue asks "how can company make money writing free software?"
Ask him back, "how can company make money writing software?".
Then look at companies that are making money writing software. Like say, Oracle. They make a lot of money above and beyond charging people for an installation CD.
Or like say, Redhat. They too, make a lot of money above and beyond *not* charging people for an installation CD.
Thank you. Linux and open source leaders have painted a very bleak picture of the closed source economy. RMS was talking about soup lines. And ESR was talking about closed source economics being on the verge of collapse. Yet in the same breath they say that GNU/Linux is rock solid and there's no crisis there. How are you going to work -- you've said you are going to reach out to these people -- how are you going to work with people who seem to have divorced themselves from reality?
My guess would be that it's too much of a coincidence that while they're making systematic changes around SSNs, suddenly, they have a mssive SSN breach. Probably someone working on that project or originated therefrom.
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I'm not sure how your description of life with a private office space cut off from the "cube world" where you can "hardly hear myself think out there" qualifies as giving a little sympathy to the poster who was just moved out of his office into a cube.
That might be true. But the guy said their HR department already had a methodology for conforming to the HIPPA laws. And given the laws apply to their workspaces as they do to HR's, the copmany would probably have more exposure to employee lawsuites for having a double standard internally.
Great. A post suggesting satire and sarcasm are not legitimate uses of humor to make a serious point gets mod'd as insightful.
Yet another stupid industry acronym for crappy cobbled together old technology. Wow lookie lookie, we can capture mouse movement events! and hey, we can download more jpg files and move shit around on the screen in those same events. Big freakin deal
MS singularity? What is that when MS becomes so intelligent it doesn't need human employees anymore?
Hey! don't call my analogy bad :)
Lots of places use photo radar from the front. Tons of stoplights throughout san francisco do. I'd bet it's much more the norm to have a pic of the driver in the frame from the front and I don't completely buy your assertion that police departments are successfully ticketing people for running red lights with just a picture of their rear license plate.
In any event, it's a matter of degree. It's ok to have photo radar take a picture and automatically accuse you of a misdemeanor by sending a ticket to you in the mail. If your face isn't in the picture I bet you can get out of it. And often running a red light is a mistake anyway.
But this issue isn't an accidental (and arguably so) slip through a stoplight costing a 100$ in fines. We're talking about accusing someone of intentionally, willfully doing something illegal over a period of time and attaching consequences to that of in some cases 100's of thousands of dollars; certainly a few thousand dollars just to get out of it.
So I fall back on your my running down a pedestrian analogy. An intentional act where the driver of the car goes to jail, not the owner. You can bet it will take a lot more than a picture of the rear license plate to throw the owner of the car in jail.
The human had permission the use the machine like your friend had permission to use your car. Neither had permission to run down a pedestrian pursuant to that useage. And you wouldn't be charged with manslaughter. The friend you loaned the car to would.
I say he didn't "own the line" with equal authority and relevence to the matter as the guy who started by saying he did "own the line". If we reduce "the line" to "the endpoint", ok, becuase the point occupies no space, we're back to the act itself.
>He owns the line, he's liable for any copyright infringement performed from that line.
He doesn't own the line. And he's not responsible for the bits that enter/leave on that line for example if they came from a worm.
What he said. Yes Firebird is pretty cool. Although on occassion we refer to it as Fireturd when trying to figure out some nuance in it's configuration/use. All DBs have those issues, but only Firebird lends nicely to a mocking name like Fireturd :)
Vewy intwesting. Yeah, here's an MSDE - Express comparison:
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BTW, "embedded" a DB like this is not goot for memory. MSDE eats up 10's of megs of memory over time with just a simple schema. I've seen it at 200mb mem usage for a DB with a 2mb dataset.
For embedded DB work, people should take a look at Firebird.
I have used MSDE in development (for production sql server deploymnet) as an actual production instance for a small website and in an embedded situation (a settop box). MSDE is SQL server stripped down much like this free version of Oracle. Two super important differences between MSDE and Orcale Express (if the Oracle Express description above is accurate): a) MSDE only runs on windows b) MSDE has a connection governor in addition to the other limitations. This "governor" will ON PURPOSE start slowing down queries when you get to like 8 simultaneous queries.
Is Board Certified Neurologist to you what Microsoft Certified Professional is to us? :)
wasn't that goldfinger?
>>Someone slaps you in the face with one product, why should you help them make money with their other products?
Companies that are otherwise cut throat adversaries are all the time partnering to develop and sell products together. I'm sure Apple and Microsoft partner to sell stuff; while they're *both* slapping each other in the face. Why should one help the other to sell anything? Because it's business.
>>>...I think they, as a company, are completely within reason to pull all the publisher's books from their shelves.
Huh? ALL the books? ok so the issue is this one book is offensive to Jobs and therfore apple. Fine. I don't agree with retaliating, but if you must, simply don't sell that book. But comon, Wiley publishes what, hundreds of books on many subjects from many authors completely unrelated to the author and book in question? You have a quibble with one management book and you're going to muck with the livelihood of dozens of unrelated authors, many of whom research/organize and write about information that your own engineers refer to when developing your software and hardware products?
I bet Steve doesn't have to balls to do this the right way. And that is ban Wiley books from use on Apple campuses. And ban web access to Wiley websites from Apple.
Additionally, I think all Apple engineers should show solidarity with Steve and leave their Wiley manuals at home or if they belong to Apple, stack them in a closet or organize a donation of them to schools. And when you, as an apple engineer, are working on a problem for which information about it is only available from a Wiley book (that used to be on your desk), tell your manager your solving it from the ground up and to add 2 weeks to a month to your ship date. And if he has a problem with it, talk to Steve because that is clearly aligned with his corporate intentions.
>>> what would apple be without steve?
>> And what would Jobs have been without Woz?
Wiley sells book mocking Steve.
Steve *is* Apple!
Steve bans Wiley books from apple stores!
But wait, Woz *is* Steve!
So if Wiley was smart, they would have also mocked Woz in that book so Woz would ban Steve from reading it thereby circuitously allowing the book to remain in Apple stores because Steve-Woz would continue to feel blissfully un-mocked.
>>If Steve believes that this book casts his leadership in a negative way, then it is very easy to believe that it casts the company in the same negative way.
So since steve jobs belives this book casts his leadership in a negative way, he's done something about it that casts his leadership in a negative way. Sweet.
>>Do you honestly think that Apple's online store is responsible for a noticable percentage of Wiley's sales? I've seen their books in almost every English book store I've walked into in the past 5 or 10 years.
Even sweeter, since steve jobs belives this book casts his leadership in a negative way, he's done something about it that both casts his leadership in a negative way *and* is ineffective.
>>Steve is also well within his rights to tell the publishers that they'll not sell a damn thing in his bookstores from now on.
*his* bookstores? Where?
Holy SHIT, Batman...
Whew. For a minute there I was getting a little disconcerted that no one would post something saying they were disconcerted that no one posted something about that kind of thing being done many years ago in their posting about that kind of thing being done many years ago.
When your collegue asks "how can company make money writing free software?"
Ask him back, "how can company make money writing software?".
Then look at companies that are making money writing software. Like say, Oracle. They make a lot of money above and beyond charging people for an installation CD.
Or like say, Redhat. They too, make a lot of money above and beyond *not* charging people for an installation CD.
You have a senator?
Thank you. Linux and open source leaders have painted a very bleak picture of the closed source economy. RMS was talking about soup lines. And ESR was talking about closed source economics being on the verge of collapse. Yet in the same breath they say that GNU/Linux is rock solid and there's no crisis there. How are you going to work -- you've said you are going to reach out to these people -- how are you going to work with people who seem to have divorced themselves from reality?
My guess would be that it's too much of a coincidence that while they're making systematic changes around SSNs, suddenly, they have a mssive SSN breach. Probably someone working on that project or originated therefrom.
As in Anti spyware-removal?