right, is this in the same manner that they understand the t.v. remote control. for some reason most view commercial time as an open invitation to flap their gums and not an opportunity to speed through the other 99 worthless channels on the tube...
it is so very common and so disturbing that companies have machines in storage for over a year.
i realize that some companies and some workstations might have sensitive data. REMOVE THE FREAKIN' DRIVES and sell/give them to employees.
the last place i worked had hundreds of decommissioned (sp?) notebooks and dock stations in a closet. there were plenty of desktops as well. sure, nobody wants the crappy 15" monitors, but the machines can be put to use with or without drives.
the fact that employees are able to and do keep company sensitive data locally on their workstations is another issue that i'll try to stay away from.
computer hardware is a quickly depreciating asset and expense. it really really irks me that companies hold onto this stuff that geeks go gaddy over. imagine a beowulf cluster indeed.
uhhh. it sounds like you've already decided who you think is the bigger fool..
a company, contractor, or potential employee is going to do a lot better getting the job by saying that "at my last client, we developed an effective web site for client X which provided them with X functionality" as oppose to "on my last project i used email objects within ASP pages to send an email to someone". when it's all said and done, and honest days work deserves an honest days pay. it seems like lots of folks who stuck to that ideal are still working for an honest days pay.
Work hard, and give the customers a quality product. The customer is #1. Career Development 101
i would think that in a huge metropolitan area, there's lots of resistance to an over lay. businesses may have to upgrade their PBX to allow local dialing in some cases. residential customers really don't like a major overlay in area codes.
businesses don't mind the overlay as much because they're pretty much guaranteed to be able to keep their current number and not have the extra marketing expense.
basically it depends on how hot the issue of an over lay is in a particular area.
CNN Interviewer: Mr. Space Victim, I realize you just returned from a devistating space journey where the faulty rocket boosters kept you and you crew on Planet X for a really long time. How did you feel?
Space Victim: Really Scared.
FOX News Interviewer: I can imagine. How do you think these rocket boosters could be engineered in the future so this type of situation doesn't happen to other Space Explorers?
Space Victim: Um, safer?
FOX News Interviewer: Now on to RIAA-NASA Rocket Booster Lead Systems Engineer. Sir, this was a terrible tradgedy. How can future rocket boosters be designed such that events as this are prevented.
Lead Systems Engineer: Well sir, you see any product design process is extremely long and quite complicated, especially in the rocket booster market. We initially gather our user requirements, then move into prototyping and development. Testing is often our largest scheduled phase, but management tends to cut our testing budget down to pennies. You can clearly see why this might not be so beneficial..
ANSWER: You want to change the legal system, ask a law expert. they'll glaze your eyes with all kinds of process that needs to be completed. You want a FOX News story, ask the victim how he feels.
you'll be tarred and gzipped and perhaps feathered too for using a term such as that 'round these parts. nerdy applies to neither legal nor assistant. i it person who surfs/. using win98 at home for games only while using IE at work because it's the standard while posting duplicate posts about duplicate stories on a day when the other nerdy people are all anxiously waiting the release of the wonderfull kde 3.1 with all its glorious eye-candy so that we can claim to use it at home while we're not gaming of course.
Suzanne Lloyd has spent the last four years refurbishing her legacy: 26 films made by her grandfather, silent film star Harold Lloyd. She has spent millions on digitally restored prints and full orchestrations.
now i'm sure suzzie has worked hard for her digitally remastered films, but just because they were grandpa's films doesn't mean they're hers. it's been said over and over and over again. usefull art and science... to the creator... for limited times... NOT to the creator's grandchildren for decades to come for century old media.
google i'll take, but i think that even amazon has a cachable amount of data. theirs probably changes once every day, though stock on hand could change more often. Vignette takes a similar caching approach, where each dynamic page can be cached on the webserver. you can have certain modules that are always dynamic or have everything static. once it's served up once, it saves the html and can reserve that same page again static.
how else could a buggy system such as Win95 have been inflicted on us all
i'm not quite sure, but it certainly didn't have anything to do with Microsoft forcing vendors into exclusive contracts to install their software on the hardware they sold. big companies didn't drive the O/S, IIRC A big company pretty much forced it there.
Java GUI's aren't that popular because their is a very large resource cost involved with them. On the contrary, QT provides a cross platform GUI toolkit and it's snappy. snappy i tell ya. looks nice and is really snappy.
java gui's are still quirky. yes they are portable. i like the fact that netbeans looks the same on linux as it does on windows. i like netbeans itself as a development tool, but it uses resources. if you can't get your manager to spend the 100$ to upgrade your ram because of the red tape that goes with a memory upgrade in an organization, you go with eclipse which uses native widgets.
i've always wanted to find a job over the internet telecommuting, but probably didn't look hard enough.
that said, what makes having an employee take up a 10x10 office space (costing you ~10k year), your face to face interview and all that assure that stuff is going to get done to the best of their abilities, on time and in a legal manner? i'd say give it a shot on a temp basis each time and if it works out, go longer term.
project managers manage projects. they put tasks on a schedule, track issue logs, coordinate things, set status meetings, send out status reports, etc. most often they're former COBOL or C developers who happened to take "that" career path. they have word processing skills and hopefully some people skills (sometimes they actually physically deliver the specs to the developer:) ). they don't have the technical depth anymore to understand why Visual J++ is a bad idea to implement on a project. that's the responsibility of the senior technical staff to know and do. it's also why you have project design reviews with lots of people from other groups attend so someone can speak up and say "so why did you choose Visual J++ over SUN Java?".
there might have been times when Visual J++ could be the right tool for the job, but those days are long gone thankfully!
_most_ places are not running linux in a production environment. those that are, it's either very sparce or it's full blown free software.
_most_ big development shops have SUN boxes, IBM mainframes/mini's perhaps, VMS, Windows NT/2000, Oracle, SQLServer, DB2, etc, etc. all propriatary systems running a mixture of propriatary and inhouse developed systems.
knowing the basics that linux and free software provides helps to understand the concepts.
how many companies are running linux on "big iron"? in a corporate production environment?
so by the same logic, the product which is shipped by RedHat, RedHat Linux is a complete system. It's their choice to tack the kernel name onto it (do they need permission from linus to do that?). The kernel shouldn't need to be called GNU/Linux anymore than PERL needs to be GNU/Perl, or KDE needs to be GNU/KDE. In fact, most people refer to just their distribution by name, RH, drake, gentoo, slack, etc. yes, the term linux is often referred to the general system being used, ie "what flavour of linux are you running?". you're not going to get people to pronounce GNU/Linux in their everyday talk about it. GNU, GNU, GNU. there's just something about that GN that doesn't seem to flow so good. so we say f-it and stick with something we can fairly easily say, linux, kde, kazza, etc.
the page he's put of exercising his free speach really looks childish.
the guys claims that he's invested 50$ per month hosting the site. PCI-SIG is offering to save him money by hosting the information on their site. He still owns the copyright on the database.
go home troll and get yourself that MCSE or whatever cert you want.
this isn't crime any more than a gun show is inciting terrorism, or flying on airplanes is inciting terrorism. it would be really nice if this society could get off this whole terrorism soap box, but i guess GWB will ensure that doesn't happen for a few years.
attempting to crack a box is entertainment for lots of people. some like to spend their saturday afternoon watching the nfl playoffs, some like to try to crack into another's server. it's not like they don't have permission to the box or anything.
i agree that it sould be tough shit for them. i don't have my copy of the DMCA handy today, but it sounds like this could be a violation. it could be interpreted to be electronically circumventing technologicals measures... etc, etc.
here's the first one i found relevant. i don't know if it's the current implementation or not. i don't follow that stuff too much. i just save files and use whatever doesn't fsck every time the system crashes or locks up.
i like the method of releasing specs that implementations are to adhere to. and deviation from that should then be documented. W3C i believe was to accomplish a similar goal, but somehow they weren't too successfull.
but this kernel has been out now since 04-Jan-2001. i know it took them a while to shake out the vm system, but the kernel is now stale. anybody who needs to know the internals of how vm works in the 2.4 kernel already knows. the rest of us just argue on/. about why there wasn't lots of testing done in past releases or about how you don't make big changes in a supposidly stable release series.
i'm sure those who need to know though are full aware of the vm workings of the 2.6 kernel (ibm, redhat, oracle, rik, google, etc).
Linux: the big player everyone likes to root for, but noone wants to put in the lineup.
I'll bet the "skip commercial" button on your VCR remote is worn to a nub.
it sure as hell is! and when i rip/encode dvd's to vcd i don't include any of the previews at all. and when i back up my vhs tapes i skip those too! bad consumer.. bad..
and my linux satelite tv software descrambler ensures that pay-per-view comes across quite nicely:). after all, i didn't ask them to send that signal onto my property!
they have a "print article" button for people to use. I don't think there's an EULA you have to click through to agree that you will actually print the article and not just read it thouroughly to avoid the cumbersome advertisements and even if there were, and it stood up as being legitimite in the highest and most ethical court in the land, does that make it moral?
it won't run out if people stop using it which some believe very likely to happen this century. yes the supply is finite, but noone can accurately determine what that amount is.
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they do?
right, is this in the same manner that they understand the t.v. remote control. for some reason most view commercial time as an open invitation to flap their gums and not an opportunity to speed through the other 99 worthless channels on the tube...
it is so very common and so disturbing that companies have machines in storage for over a year.
i realize that some companies and some workstations might have sensitive data. REMOVE THE FREAKIN' DRIVES and sell/give them to employees.
the last place i worked had hundreds of decommissioned (sp?) notebooks and dock stations in a closet. there were plenty of desktops as well. sure, nobody wants the crappy 15" monitors, but the machines can be put to use with or without drives.
the fact that employees are able to and do keep company sensitive data locally on their workstations is another issue that i'll try to stay away from.
computer hardware is a quickly depreciating asset and expense. it really really irks me that companies hold onto this stuff that geeks go gaddy over. imagine a beowulf cluster indeed.
uhhh. it sounds like you've already decided who you think is the bigger fool..
a company, contractor, or potential employee is going to do a lot better getting the job by saying that "at my last client, we developed an effective web site for client X which provided them with X functionality" as oppose to "on my last project i used email objects within ASP pages to send an email to someone". when it's all said and done, and honest days work deserves an honest days pay. it seems like lots of folks who stuck to that ideal are still working for an honest days pay.
Work hard, and give the customers a quality product. The customer is #1. Career Development 101
i would think that in a huge metropolitan area, there's lots of resistance to an over lay. businesses may have to upgrade their PBX to allow local dialing in some cases. residential customers really don't like a major overlay in area codes.
businesses don't mind the overlay as much because they're pretty much guaranteed to be able to keep their current number and not have the extra marketing expense.
basically it depends on how hot the issue of an over lay is in a particular area.
CNN Interviewer: Mr. Space Victim, I realize you just returned from a devistating space journey where the faulty rocket boosters kept you and you crew on Planet X for a really long time. How did you feel?
Space Victim: Really Scared.
FOX News Interviewer: I can imagine. How do you think these rocket boosters could be engineered in the future so this type of situation doesn't happen to other Space Explorers?
Space Victim: Um, safer?
FOX News Interviewer: Now on to RIAA-NASA Rocket Booster Lead Systems Engineer. Sir, this was a terrible tradgedy. How can future rocket boosters be designed such that events as this are prevented.
Lead Systems Engineer: Well sir, you see any product design process is extremely long and quite complicated, especially in the rocket booster market. We initially gather our user requirements, then move into prototyping and development. Testing is often our largest scheduled phase, but management tends to cut our testing budget down to pennies. You can clearly see why this might not be so beneficial..
ANSWER: You want to change the legal system, ask a law expert. they'll glaze your eyes with all kinds of process that needs to be completed. You want a FOX News story, ask the victim how he feels.
nerdy Legal Assistant
/. using win98 at home for games only while using IE at work because it's the standard while posting duplicate posts about duplicate stories on a day when the other nerdy people are all anxiously waiting the release of the wonderfull kde 3.1 with all its glorious eye-candy so that we can claim to use it at home while we're not gaming of course.
you'll be tarred and gzipped and perhaps feathered too for using a term such as that 'round these parts. nerdy applies to neither legal nor assistant. i it person who surfs
you're not trying to say that cable TV has changed for the better in this decade are you?
Suzanne Lloyd has spent the last four years refurbishing her legacy: 26 films made by her grandfather, silent film star Harold Lloyd. She has spent millions on digitally restored prints and full orchestrations.
now i'm sure suzzie has worked hard for her digitally remastered films, but just because they were grandpa's films doesn't mean they're hers. it's been said over and over and over again. usefull art and science... to the creator... for limited times... NOT to the creator's grandchildren for decades to come for century old media.
google i'll take, but i think that even amazon has a cachable amount of data. theirs probably changes once every day, though stock on hand could change more often. Vignette takes a similar caching approach, where each dynamic page can be cached on the webserver. you can have certain modules that are always dynamic or have everything static. once it's served up once, it saves the html and can reserve that same page again static.
yeah but the blink tag was right around the corner! didn't over load server much, but ensured the clints had a swell time viewing.
how else could a buggy system such as Win95 have been inflicted on us all
i'm not quite sure, but it certainly didn't have anything to do with Microsoft forcing vendors into exclusive contracts to install their software on the hardware they sold. big companies didn't drive the O/S, IIRC A big company pretty much forced it there.
Java GUI's aren't that popular because their is a very large resource cost involved with them. On the contrary, QT provides a cross platform GUI toolkit and it's snappy. snappy i tell ya. looks nice and is really snappy.
java gui's are still quirky. yes they are portable. i like the fact that netbeans looks the same on linux as it does on windows. i like netbeans itself as a development tool, but it uses resources. if you can't get your manager to spend the 100$ to upgrade your ram because of the red tape that goes with a memory upgrade in an organization, you go with eclipse which uses native widgets.
i've always wanted to find a job over the internet telecommuting, but probably didn't look hard enough.
that said, what makes having an employee take up a 10x10 office space (costing you ~10k year), your face to face interview and all that assure that stuff is going to get done to the best of their abilities, on time and in a legal manner? i'd say give it a shot on a temp basis each time and if it works out, go longer term.
project managers manage projects. they put tasks on a schedule, track issue logs, coordinate things, set status meetings, send out status reports, etc. most often they're former COBOL or C developers who happened to take "that" career path. they have word processing skills and hopefully some people skills (sometimes they actually physically deliver the specs to the developer :) ). they don't have the technical depth anymore to understand why Visual J++ is a bad idea to implement on a project. that's the responsibility of the senior technical staff to know and do. it's also why you have project design reviews with lots of people from other groups attend so someone can speak up and say "so why did you choose Visual J++ over SUN Java?".
there might have been times when Visual J++ could be the right tool for the job, but those days are long gone thankfully!
_most_ places are not running linux in a production environment. those that are, it's either very sparce or it's full blown free software.
_most_ big development shops have SUN boxes, IBM mainframes/mini's perhaps, VMS, Windows NT/2000, Oracle, SQLServer, DB2, etc, etc. all propriatary systems running a mixture of propriatary and inhouse developed systems.
knowing the basics that linux and free software provides helps to understand the concepts.
how many companies are running linux on "big iron"? in a corporate production environment?
so by the same logic, the product which is shipped by RedHat, RedHat Linux is a complete system. It's their choice to tack the kernel name onto it (do they need permission from linus to do that?). The kernel shouldn't need to be called GNU/Linux anymore than PERL needs to be GNU/Perl, or KDE needs to be GNU/KDE. In fact, most people refer to just their distribution by name, RH, drake, gentoo, slack, etc. yes, the term linux is often referred to the general system being used, ie "what flavour of linux are you running?". you're not going to get people to pronounce GNU/Linux in their everyday talk about it. GNU, GNU, GNU. there's just something about that GN that doesn't seem to flow so good. so we say f-it and stick with something we can fairly easily say, linux, kde, kazza, etc.
the page he's put of exercising his free speach really looks childish.
the guys claims that he's invested 50$ per month hosting the site. PCI-SIG is offering to save him money by hosting the information on their site. He still owns the copyright on the database.
go home troll and get yourself that MCSE or whatever cert you want.
this isn't crime any more than a gun show is inciting terrorism, or flying on airplanes is inciting terrorism. it would be really nice if this society could get off this whole terrorism soap box, but i guess GWB will ensure that doesn't happen for a few years.
attempting to crack a box is entertainment for lots of people. some like to spend their saturday afternoon watching the nfl playoffs, some like to try to crack into another's server. it's not like they don't have permission to the box or anything.
trolling, trolling, trolling..
or maybe they just pay him really really good. and have a nice vacation plan.
i agree that it sould be tough shit for them. i don't have my copy of the DMCA handy today, but it sounds like this could be a violation. it could be interpreted to be electronically circumventing technologicals measures... etc, etc.
interesting
http://www-124.ibm.com/developerworks/oss/jfs/
here's the first one i found relevant. i don't know if it's the current implementation or not. i don't follow that stuff too much. i just save files and use whatever doesn't fsck every time the system crashes or locks up.
i like the method of releasing specs that implementations are to adhere to. and deviation from that should then be documented. W3C i believe was to accomplish a similar goal, but somehow they weren't too successfull.
but this kernel has been out now since 04-Jan-2001. i know it took them a while to shake out the vm system, but the kernel is now stale. anybody who needs to know the internals of how vm works in the 2.4 kernel already knows. the rest of us just argue on /. about why there wasn't lots of testing done in past releases or about how you don't make big changes in a supposidly stable release series.
i'm sure those who need to know though are full aware of the vm workings of the 2.6 kernel (ibm, redhat, oracle, rik, google, etc).
Linux: the big player everyone likes to root for, but noone wants to put in the lineup.
I'll bet the "skip commercial" button on your VCR remote is worn to a nub.
:). after all, i didn't ask them to send that signal onto my property!
it sure as hell is! and when i rip/encode dvd's to vcd i don't include any of the previews at all. and when i back up my vhs tapes i skip those too! bad consumer.. bad..
and my linux satelite tv software descrambler ensures that pay-per-view comes across quite nicely
they have a "print article" button for people to use. I don't think there's an EULA you have to click through to agree that you will actually print the article and not just read it thouroughly to avoid the cumbersome advertisements and even if there were, and it stood up as being legitimite in the highest and most ethical court in the land, does that make it moral?
it won't run out if people stop using it which some believe very likely to happen this century. yes the supply is finite, but noone can accurately determine what that amount is.