You know, i really hate this question. You can't be right, if you are to private you are unamerican, if too open, you are against human rights.
No matter what you choose to do with your life, someone will choose to condemn you for it. You can accept that or let them make you miserable. It's your choice. I figure let them say what they will as long as you are free to live your life the way you want to live it.
The part of the question that truly bothers me is the illusion that we must choose between liberty and security. It is a false dicotomy.
For example the hijacking problem has largly reversed itself. Before September 11th the best survival strategy on a hijacked plane was to cooperate and hope for the best. Since 9/11 the rules have changed and so far the passengers have mobbed the would be hijackers. Even assuming the terrorists raise the bar and find a way to overcome the passengers, the government could increase liberty by allowing citizens to carry stun guns and tasers.
Ask yourself a simple question, who stopped Richard Reed? Was it assinine security policies or the passengers on the flight?
The aiport is the perfect example of a place where the honest American is disarmed and left at the mercy of the criminal. It doesn't make a damn bit of sense particularly for non-lethal weapons.
The addtional government interferance has only made conditions worse for the airlines. While the fear mongers of the world seem to think terrorism is stopping people from flying, I tend to think a large part of it is the three hour plus waits and additional hassle. I hope someone repeals these ineffective security laws before they bankrupt any more of the airlines.
If it makes the difference between winning a bid or getting to do a project, I consider it important.
The key element you are missing out of is that CC is government initiated process for determining eligibillity of products for use in enviornments where finely grained acess control is an important and vital part of the work.
I'll grant you that you have a grasp of typical Slashdot logic but it just doesn't work that way. The decision makers are looking at things like initial cost, ongoing maintainence, capabillity, return on investment, manpower requirements, and core requirements. Business people and government types use different criteria than cool technology or slag when making business decisions. Imagine that...
Often to purchase a product in a CC enviornment, it must be available in a CC configuration. The logic goes something along the lines of if a product can be sufficently secured to achieve EAL level X, we can reasonably expect to be able to meet future security requirements we may have.
The logic starts to unravel fast when you look at some of the configurations tested. Many of them are highly stripped down versions of the original product. That said, it carries a lot of weight in some purchasing circles and is a decent sized downturn proof market.
You obviously don't work for law enforcement, the millitary, an intelligence agency or any of the other government contracts where it's important.
The number of products available with CC evaluations, or the even more limited DOE II, makes a valuable market for vendors who go through the process. It might not be as glamorous as the dot.bomb world but good economic times or bad it keeps on rolling.
Much like patchouli wearing hippies or cigar smoking yuppies, I may dislike the activity but that doesn't I should expect or demand either of them to act from my preferences. If you expect people to act as you think would be moral, your in for frequent disappointment.
It's called a license agreement for a reason. Anyone who clicked "I Agree" brought it on themselves. If you don't like the terms, don't install the software.
I think Wolfgang Pree's Design Patterns for Object-Oriented Software Development and to a lesser extent Framework Patterns provides patterns and meta-patterns suitable for complex, dynamic GUI designs. The trouble is that I have never been able to find these books anywhere where I could browse them (being part of of the Addison-Wesley professional series) they struck me as too expensive to purchase site unseen.
That and the contract I was going to leverage them for come to a sudden end.
If anyone wants to offer up their impressions of these books, I'd be interested. At the moment, they rate my someday/maybe list.
I did it with that exact processor and a 56K connection. It even has Gnome and WindowMaker up and running. Sure I did it piece by peice over an extended period of time but it can be done.
The initial setup was a bear but the longest indvidual compile was around 14 hours.
Is it for everyone? Hell no. Am I glad I switched. Hell yeah.
1) Read everything Nolo provides regarding patents and trade secrets. 2) Patent it yourself. 3) Prepare an iron clad NDA/Trade Secret plan yourself. 4) Have a specalist lawyer bullet proof your NDA/Trade secret plan. 5) Hire a lawyer under your bullet proof trade secret plan 6) Hire someone who knows how to start a company while you help protect your ownership rights to your invention under your bullet proof plan. 7) Sell your super product 8) After you have earned enough money for you and your family, take some of the excess cash and pay lawyers to help you find ways to start a patent sharing scheme that grants people license to use your patent if they grant you rights to the inventions they create based on it. 9) If the company you found turns out to bite you make sure there is a poison pill where you as the inventor can open the invention free to the world without negative consequences.
Most importantly, ASK PHIL ZIMMERMAN FOR HELP EVEN IF YOU MUST BEG HIM OR BRIBE HIM. He's been there, and got screwed. Doubtless he learned something about how he would do it the second time around. You see he knows more about this than us Slashdotters.
BTW, if you are looking to hire an experienced software developer or just getting started at project management type. I need a damn job and you need a Gantt for your project. Just kidding, sorta.
Will it dramatically change the world? What do you think the results of.NET are going to be?
It won't dramaticly change the world but it will certainly have some effects on enterprise web development. It will probably give JBoss and the lower cost J2EE vendors like Macromedia yet another competitor to duke it out with. The myriad of companies doing JSP/Servlet containers will likely be affected as well.
My take is that it will erode the lower end of the server side java market. Sun will eventually give in and certify JBoss as J2EE compatible and it will ease the errosion somewhat.
The CLR concept will become popular in tech circles, unpopular in management circles when people realize what it means for maintainence.
Microsoft's revenue model and customer base will change radicaly. Some will escape higher licensing fees and product deployments with other solutions, some will grumble and pony up the cash, the remainder will continue their lives as Microsoft's lunatic fringe.
IME the "test group" has been something quite different from QA and CM. It may be because my experience largely comes from federal and millitary contract work. QA/CM are more like people side stepping from Project Managment or Business Development with the occasional process guru type rounding out the mix. The lower level folks in QA/CM also sometimes worked their way up from testing or doco.
More than anything else, the living hell bit for me is a matter of clarity. Someone can produce a massive lists of reasons something was rejected but that can be very useful. The magick is if they can clearly articulate why it is unacceptable, suggest an alternate approach that is acceptable, and remain consistant in their evaluations. When your lucky, you get all three, if get none of those qualities, welcome to hell.
BTW, anyone looking for a C++ guy recently recruited into the Java fold? Damn economy.
I think you missed out on the core problem with the parent. Configuration Management, Testing, and Qaulity Assurance are three job descriptions not one. Sometimes the same body fills all three roles but that doesn't make them the same job.
Configuration Managment consists of source control, defect tracking, and change control. Depending on the complexity and sophistication of a particular enviornment, this can rapidly turn into a team. It also can go head to head with project and development managers who are cutting corners, hence it is not often a stepping stone to being a coding geek.
Quality Assurance acts as an oversight and approval group for design, development, testing, and delivery. Some companies require QA "buy in" for a proposal to go out the door. Some QA folks are involved from the beginnings to the end of a project, these folks are not going to be looking to become developers as they are off on another career track entirely and often quite far into it. Sometimes they get cut back to part of the lifecycle, sometimes they are involved more than the parent ever imagines. Check out ISO9001, CMM-SW, and Six Sigma and feel the process joy. These guys can also go toe to toe with project or development managers if they grow enough.
Testing consists of creating, validating, and dispensing requirements testing. Sometimes developers or QA analysts take on part of this burden. In that case the prestige of testing drops with the responsibillity. Testing is probably the folks the parent is slagging. If they need pull with project managers or development managers they often need to get the backing of CM or QA. That said, they can often turn into toolsmiths using automated testing tools, custom scripts, and all kinds of clever techniques.
Any of the poeple good at the above jobs can make your life painless and easy, those who are bad at it can make your life a living hell.
I like the way this woman writes. I don't really know jack about her music, other than what I read on her website, but the articles are amusing and insightful. I particulary likely the Memorable Mistakes article. Overall it looks like some interesting reading.
Okay here is my take on the other way around. At one point I lived in Sri Lanka and eventually I picked up a parasite. It dropped me to 90 pounds and I am 5' 11". In a little over six months, I had built myself up to the low 200s, in a muscular way not chubby. I did it with a 5500 calorie diet and a doctor checking up on me so YMMV. Over the years I have ranged from 90-230 lbs, with 150-225 lbs probably being healthy for my frame.
Find out your BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate) for your target weight, add the number of calories you burn through exorcise, and add another 300-500 calories to find your target intake. You may have to go higher or lower which you'll grok as you get know your body's reactions to diet.
As insane as it sounds 2000ish calories is probably not enough. I wouldn't go much over 5000 without checking with a doctor but you need more. Think dense foods rich in protien and carbs. The healthier nuts (particularly curried/salted soy nuts) are good, homemade protien bars, gluten heavy, whole grain breads, etc. Veggie alernatives, which often have the virtue of being low in fat, include TVP, Setian, Veggie "meat" subsitutes, and soy. Find a cookbook suiting your taste and if you have to make pie or dip out of tofu. For a meat eater, add tuna and chicken.
Try this shake reciepe. Make sure you follow it with a lot of water. The massive protien influx will be hard on the system.
4 Cups of Soy Milk (Pick yer flavor)
1/4 Cup of Whey Protien
1/4 Cup of Egg Beaters (raw, yeah I know dangerous)
2/3 Cup of soy ice cream of matching or complimentary flavor to soy milk
Flavoring if you must
If you fear raw eggs, omit them.
Some aspects of healthy eating stay the same. Water is very important but instead of drinking before meals do so afterwards, it will keep it from curbing your appeitite.
Some tips for gaining. High density foods are the friend of the gainer, just watch out for your overall fat intake. You can afford a greater fat intake than someone most, I'd say keep the percentages the same as USDA for fat in your case, just adjust for the higher intake. Make sure your diet is balanced, add in a generic equivilent to Centrum silver if your not taking it. Be certain you get plenty of sleep. Do not over train. It sounds like that is exactly what you are doing now. Ditch the isolation exorcises and focus on these. Don't lift more than three times a week.
Weight loss is fairly simple. Burn more calories than you consume. Protien and Carbs are your friend, they are easier to burn than fat. By maximizing both of them and minimizing fat, your on the fast track to losing weight. Couple this with a huge glass of water when you get hungry and waiting half an hour before eating and you'll lose some serious weight fast.
Don't buy into too much of the vegitarian diet bad bullshit. Sure if your a junk food vegitarian your going to have problems but that is a product of any junk food. Meat or not. Eat balanced, give soy and lentils a chance, and don't let the bastards get you down. Viva Veg!
I've tried a few different lifting programs with varying results. The second best came from good old Arnold's yellow book mixed with the stock Gold's gym program. The best came from using a life fitness machine five drop sets on each exorcise and three days of rest. I find it amzaing less than three hours a week with this method beats six the other way in terms of gains. I'm too early in the later process to see if it maintains the gains that required moving to a five day with the former.
Here's my diet if I want to drop weight fast. Breakfast, one cup of oats and two huge glasses of water. Lunch egg whites on wheat with all the veggies I can cram on it. Remember bunches of water before meals. Snack on fruit towards the end of the office day. Dinner is either bean/lentil soup or massive plate of rice depedning on if I am craving carbs or protien.
This site, while I admit it looks terrible, has some good advice.
The original idea of the GoF was to publish a collection of the most useful patterns and give a name to each one of them so people could then speak about them in a conversation and be understood.
To my mind this is the major win for DP. The abillity to describe common approaches between a diverse group of programmers and systems in a way which allows them to learn, relate, and discuss approaches decoupled from implamentation in their pet language.
Slashdot Mirror
that is one way to get people to pay cash again.
You know, i really hate this question. You can't be right, if you are to private you are unamerican, if too open, you are against human rights.
No matter what you choose to do with your life, someone will choose to condemn you for it. You can accept that or let them make you miserable. It's your choice. I figure let them say what they will as long as you are free to live your life the way you want to live it.
The part of the question that truly bothers me is the illusion that we must choose between liberty and security. It is a false dicotomy.
For example the hijacking problem has largly reversed itself. Before September 11th the best survival strategy on a hijacked plane was to cooperate and hope for the best. Since 9/11 the rules have changed and so far the passengers have mobbed the would be hijackers. Even assuming the terrorists raise the bar and find a way to overcome the passengers, the government could increase liberty by allowing citizens to carry stun guns and tasers.
Ask yourself a simple question, who stopped Richard Reed? Was it assinine security policies or the passengers on the flight?
The aiport is the perfect example of a place where the honest American is disarmed and left at the mercy of the criminal. It doesn't make a damn bit of sense particularly for non-lethal weapons.
The addtional government interferance has only made conditions worse for the airlines. While the fear mongers of the world seem to think terrorism is stopping people from flying, I tend to think a large part of it is the three hour plus waits and additional hassle. I hope someone repeals these ineffective security laws before they bankrupt any more of the airlines.
Thanks everyone.
It sounds like it is well put together. More than anything else it is horrid reader approaches that scare me off ebooks.
Will anyone who has bought and used the CD version comment on it? I'd be particulary interested in usabillity and the rumored "addtional content".
If it makes the difference between winning a bid or getting to do a project, I consider it important.
The key element you are missing out of is that CC is government initiated process for determining eligibillity of products for use in enviornments where finely grained acess control is an important and vital part of the work.
I'll grant you that you have a grasp of typical Slashdot logic but it just doesn't work that way. The decision makers are looking at things like initial cost, ongoing maintainence, capabillity, return on investment, manpower requirements, and core requirements. Business people and government types use different criteria than cool technology or slag when making business decisions. Imagine that...
I didn't say it was but it provides a hell of lot more functionality than PHP or .NET.
Quite correct but in many cases beside the point.
Often to purchase a product in a CC enviornment, it must be available in a CC configuration. The logic goes something along the lines of if a product can be sufficently secured to achieve EAL level X, we can reasonably expect to be able to meet future security requirements we may have.
The logic starts to unravel fast when you look at some of the configurations tested. Many of them are highly stripped down versions of the original product. That said, it carries a lot of weight in some purchasing circles and is a decent sized downturn proof market.
You obviously don't work for law enforcement, the millitary, an intelligence agency or any of the other government contracts where it's important.
The number of products available with CC evaluations, or the even more limited DOE II, makes a valuable market for vendors who go through the process. It might not be as glamorous as the dot.bomb world but good economic times or bad it keeps on rolling.
Let's see... PHP is free and WebLogic is, well, the exact opposite of free.
So they use Jboss and suddenly it's the same price range. At least compare apples to apples.
Much like patchouli wearing hippies or cigar smoking yuppies, I may dislike the activity but that doesn't I should expect or demand either of them to act from my preferences. If you expect people to act as you think would be moral, your in for frequent disappointment.
It's called a license agreement for a reason. Anyone who clicked "I Agree" brought it on themselves. If you don't like the terms, don't install the software.
Ignorance is not an excuse for stupidity.
I think Wolfgang Pree's Design Patterns for Object-Oriented Software Development and to a lesser extent Framework Patterns provides patterns and meta-patterns suitable for complex, dynamic GUI designs. The trouble is that I have never been able to find these books anywhere where I could browse them (being part of of the Addison-Wesley professional series) they struck me as too expensive to purchase site unseen.
That and the contract I was going to leverage them for come to a sudden end.
If anyone wants to offer up their impressions of these books, I'd be interested. At the moment, they rate my someday/maybe list.
I did it with that exact processor and a 56K connection. It even has Gnome and WindowMaker up and running. Sure I did it piece by peice over an extended period of time but it can be done.
The initial setup was a bear but the longest indvidual compile was around 14 hours.
Is it for everyone? Hell no. Am I glad I switched. Hell yeah.
I installed it on a 56K dailup. No worries.
/usr/portage/distfiles
If you simply want to download the packages overnight...
emerge -f world
Or...
Download with a fat pipe. Burn it on a CDR and mount the CD as:
or just copy the files...
1) Read everything Nolo provides regarding patents and trade secrets.
2) Patent it yourself.
3) Prepare an iron clad NDA/Trade Secret plan yourself.
4) Have a specalist lawyer bullet proof your NDA/Trade secret plan.
5) Hire a lawyer under your bullet proof trade secret plan
6) Hire someone who knows how to start a company while you help protect your ownership rights to your invention under your bullet proof plan.
7) Sell your super product
8) After you have earned enough money for you and your family, take some of the excess cash and pay lawyers to help you find ways to start a patent sharing scheme that grants people license to use your patent if they grant you rights to the inventions they create based on it.
9) If the company you found turns out to bite you make sure there is a poison pill where you as the inventor can open the invention free to the world without negative consequences.
Most importantly, ASK PHIL ZIMMERMAN FOR HELP EVEN IF YOU MUST BEG HIM OR BRIBE HIM. He's been there, and got screwed. Doubtless he learned something about how he would do it the second time around. You see he knows more about this than us Slashdotters.
BTW, if you are looking to hire an experienced software developer or just getting started at project management type. I need a damn job and you need a Gantt for your project. Just kidding, sorta.
Try this for what.
.NET are going to be?
Will it dramatically change the world? What do you think the results of
It won't dramaticly change the world but it will certainly have some effects on enterprise web development. It will probably give JBoss and the lower cost J2EE vendors like Macromedia yet another competitor to duke it out with. The myriad of companies doing JSP/Servlet containers will likely be affected as well.
My take is that it will erode the lower end of the server side java market. Sun will eventually give in and certify JBoss as J2EE compatible and it will ease the errosion somewhat.
The CLR concept will become popular in tech circles, unpopular in management circles when people realize what it means for maintainence.
Microsoft's revenue model and customer base will change radicaly. Some will escape higher licensing fees and product deployments with other solutions, some will grumble and pony up the cash, the remainder will continue their lives as Microsoft's lunatic fringe.
You might want to read this and this before considering trying to become a lawyer.
Interesting.
IME the "test group" has been something quite different from QA and CM. It may be because my experience largely comes from federal and millitary contract work. QA/CM are more like people side stepping from Project Managment or Business Development with the occasional process guru type rounding out the mix. The lower level folks in QA/CM also sometimes worked their way up from testing or doco.
More than anything else, the living hell bit for me is a matter of clarity. Someone can produce a massive lists of reasons something was rejected but that can be very useful. The magick is if they can clearly articulate why it is unacceptable, suggest an alternate approach that is acceptable, and remain consistant in their evaluations. When your lucky, you get all three, if get none of those qualities, welcome to hell.
BTW, anyone looking for a C++ guy recently recruited into the Java fold? Damn economy.
I think you missed out on the core problem with the parent. Configuration Management, Testing, and Qaulity Assurance are three job descriptions not one. Sometimes the same body fills all three roles but that doesn't make them the same job.
Configuration Managment consists of source control, defect tracking, and change control. Depending on the complexity and sophistication of a particular enviornment, this can rapidly turn into a team. It also can go head to head with project and development managers who are cutting corners, hence it is not often a stepping stone to being a coding geek.
Quality Assurance acts as an oversight and approval group for design, development, testing, and delivery. Some companies require QA "buy in" for a proposal to go out the door. Some QA folks are involved from the beginnings to the end of a project, these folks are not going to be looking to become developers as they are off on another career track entirely and often quite far into it. Sometimes they get cut back to part of the lifecycle, sometimes they are involved more than the parent ever imagines. Check out ISO9001, CMM-SW, and Six Sigma and feel the process joy. These guys can also go toe to toe with project or development managers if they grow enough.
Testing consists of creating, validating, and dispensing requirements testing. Sometimes developers or QA analysts take on part of this burden. In that case the prestige of testing drops with the responsibillity. Testing is probably the folks the parent is slagging. If they need pull with project managers or development managers they often need to get the backing of CM or QA. That said, they can often turn into toolsmiths using automated testing tools, custom scripts, and all kinds of clever techniques.
Any of the poeple good at the above jobs can make your life painless and easy, those who are bad at it can make your life a living hell.
Freshmeat lists the Win32 projects by popularity and by rating. You can probably find more download sites that let you filter by license.
I like the way this woman writes. I don't really know jack about her music, other than what I read on her website, but the articles are amusing and insightful. I particulary likely the Memorable Mistakes article. Overall it looks like some interesting reading.
Find out your BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate) for your target weight, add the number of calories you burn through exorcise, and add another 300-500 calories to find your target intake. You may have to go higher or lower which you'll grok as you get know your body's reactions to diet.
As insane as it sounds 2000ish calories is probably not enough. I wouldn't go much over 5000 without checking with a doctor but you need more. Think dense foods rich in protien and carbs. The healthier nuts (particularly curried/salted soy nuts) are good, homemade protien bars, gluten heavy, whole grain breads, etc. Veggie alernatives, which often have the virtue of being low in fat, include TVP, Setian, Veggie "meat" subsitutes, and soy. Find a cookbook suiting your taste and if you have to make pie or dip out of tofu. For a meat eater, add tuna and chicken.
Try this shake reciepe. Make sure you follow it with a lot of water. The massive protien influx will be hard on the system.
If you fear raw eggs, omit them.
Some aspects of healthy eating stay the same. Water is very important but instead of drinking before meals do so afterwards, it will keep it from curbing your appeitite.
Some tips for gaining. High density foods are the friend of the gainer, just watch out for your overall fat intake. You can afford a greater fat intake than someone most, I'd say keep the percentages the same as USDA for fat in your case, just adjust for the higher intake. Make sure your diet is balanced, add in a generic equivilent to Centrum silver if your not taking it. Be certain you get plenty of sleep. Do not over train. It sounds like that is exactly what you are doing now. Ditch the isolation exorcises and focus on these. Don't lift more than three times a week.
I want Java Card support everywhere coupled with a single PIN.
You have some good info there.
Weight loss is fairly simple. Burn more calories than you consume. Protien and Carbs are your friend, they are easier to burn than fat. By maximizing both of them and minimizing fat, your on the fast track to losing weight. Couple this with a huge glass of water when you get hungry and waiting half an hour before eating and you'll lose some serious weight fast.
Don't buy into too much of the vegitarian diet bad bullshit. Sure if your a junk food vegitarian your going to have problems but that is a product of any junk food. Meat or not. Eat balanced, give soy and lentils a chance, and don't let the bastards get you down. Viva Veg!
I've tried a few different lifting programs with varying results. The second best came from good old Arnold's yellow book mixed with the stock Gold's gym program. The best came from using a life fitness machine five drop sets on each exorcise and three days of rest. I find it amzaing less than three hours a week with this method beats six the other way in terms of gains. I'm too early in the later process to see if it maintains the gains that required moving to a five day with the former.
Here's my diet if I want to drop weight fast. Breakfast, one cup of oats and two huge glasses of water. Lunch egg whites on wheat with all the veggies I can cram on it. Remember bunches of water before meals. Snack on fruit towards the end of the office day. Dinner is either bean/lentil soup or massive plate of rice depedning on if I am craving carbs or protien.
This site, while I admit it looks terrible, has some good advice.
The original idea of the GoF was to publish a collection of the most useful patterns and give a name to each one of them so people could then speak about them in a conversation and be understood.
To my mind this is the major win for DP. The abillity to describe common approaches between a diverse group of programmers and systems in a way which allows them to learn, relate, and discuss approaches decoupled from implamentation in their pet language.
Your describes someone who is emotionaly maladjusted rather than someone who is angry.