yes. i would be ok. the exact amount depends on your lifestyle after the change. you're entertainment and charging habits should definately be significantly curbed. hell, revolving credit s/b just that, revolving. you charge something you pay the bill.
i have lost my job and have been searching for over 3 months. i'm a newbie on the bench from other accounts i read. the market for software developers is VERY tight these days. both of my neighbors are also umeployed and unable to find work, and neither is in the technology sector.
on a side note. if the job crunch is all about supply and demand, and there's an abundance of supply, then why is the H1-B program still continuing? this program was created to help fill supply for an over demand a few years back specifically in the technology sector.
supply and demand is quite right. in the late 90's tech salaries were increasing at least 10-15% annually. other sectors were not. this is because there was a LARGE demand. there was supply, but the demand at the time was a little larger.
now the demand is lower, so the prices should be adjusted accordingly. i figure ~30% reduction is actually quite fair.
sure, the constant "rent" payment won't go up (at least until you get bored with the first house and want a bigger nicer one), but most people find them selves sinking money into improvements and such that never really amount to much in equity. painting, plumbing repairs, landscaping (beware when the wife starts talking about finishing up the basement!)
making sure a resume is in order and making contacts, yes. jumping ship. not hardly. that's risking severance, vacation payout, and unemploymen t payment.
good theory for 1.5 years ago. these days jobs are not elsewhere. there are lots of people who might gladly take a technically challenging job for 60% of last years salary.
i know i sure as hell would....
the non-technically challenging are the jobs that need to pay 150% of salary (imagine converting long, marketing type ms-word documents to html pages for 40 hrs a week, every week, over and over...)
yes, it does mean they're idiots. The common definition of idiot here defines it as:
1. A foolish or stupid person.
2. A person of profound mental retardation having a mental age below three years and generally being unable to learn connected speech or guard against common dangers. The term belongs to a classification system no longer in use and is now considered offensive.
i'de say completely blowing your middle income salary because: 1) you don't know how to manage money, 2) can't fathom planning for the future, and 3) maybe believe that this awesome internet/technology boom is going to last 4-ever certainly qualifies for the first definition. the second definition is questionable.
gpl only requires that if you distribute binary versions, you also make the sources available. and the recipient of those sources can make and distribute changes to those sources (only under the same license terms).
i don't think it is feasable for all gpl code to be ported to linux (gnucleus, virtualdub, etc).
as noted above, freespace2 license appears to allow modifications to the source, and allows for redistribution. it restricts any commercial profit from the product. this seems to disallow linux distros from including it w/o special licensing.
really, what good does it do to send someone a file that you know they can't use? start a little flame war? most people don't actively choose an office suite. if it's in the workplace, some upper manager decided to get M$ office for everybody, of decided to use something else. unless you're dealing with that decision maker, it's pointless (and even if you are it's still a mute issue).
sure, the M$ office compeditors need to put lots into development to make their products compeditive with M$, but they also need to have the best filters. the linux office applications (or free windows) i use are the ones with the best office import/export functionality. it would be nice if M$ of course opened up their office format, but wouldn't that really lead to a loss in sales? it doesnt' seem like a good business practice that the board of directors would likely go for.
real time apps, that's key. ip is good for static i'll send you a message, and if you want you can send me a message type thing. it's a one way communication model that has been bastardized to being used for real-time application type stuff.
distributed apps are a little different. they're more like, i'll give you a piece of work to do, and you give me the results. if you don't in a certain time, i've got to give it to someone else (because there's no direct communication chain for me to ask you wtf is going on)
i gotta say, that's a lot of freaking time on the phone there. talking for 500 minutes per month, ld on the phone? for personal home use? wow. that's over 8 hours.
i gave up oon long distance after getting slammed by the phone companies (sprint, at&t). i currently have no long distance on the phone, and use a 20$ 500 minute calling card from sam's club to make a long distance phone call. portable minutes too (yeah, yeah, the pay phones jack on additional charges, but it's still portable.)
personally i kinda like using voip to some degree (quick chats to family/friends), but it's a matter of a square peg through a round hole. ip isn't the be all end all. everyone is jumping on some HUGE internet hype and trying to put every service over ip. microsoft might have said it best when they said that IP may not be the best protocol for distributed applications.
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i would love to see some marketing budgets at a few large corporations. sure they're a fruty mac using department, but they get lots of $$ from the company, and somehow they're able to prove their worth. demographic type information shows it's worth.
sales and marketing are number games. the more numbers you have the better you play the game.
i'm not so sure i agree there. most offices/shops are filled with small pentium file/email servers. sometimes IIS servers crep up there and again as well. IMNSHO, this is the market that RH and Linux needs to be targeting. Linux systems, and *nix systems in general, are scalable. such that an email/file server that handles an office of 20, could quickly and easily be migrated to a system that handles 500/1000 users. throw a web server on there. add a database server. first, you're not spending upwords of 10k on software each time you add one, and secondly when an email system outgrows it's quad-xeon box, you can move it to a nice sun or alpha machine and keep it going smoothly. it's the same reason that java is suppose to be attracting people: portability and scalability in an open component based system.
i wasn't really interested in MSFT's venture into the gaming market either, untill i saw them in the stores. the games look awesome. there may be less games, and the console might be less feature rich (do they play dvd's yet?), but from looking at it, it's a high quality gaming machine. awesome graphics! that's what it's all about. the PS2 is outdated, and hardly compares to the now dead dreamcast. dreamcast was a super high quality game machine for its day, and now we have the x-box. since dvd players can be had for 80$, that's not really a feature i want in a gaming machine anyway.
i just tried this, but for some reason i keep getting mozilla crashes when i go to www.flash.com. i was hoping for an answer to my lack of flash on linux... maybe tomorrow.
it's not that it's difficult (after spending hours reading the manuals and figuring out the software packages), it's that it's not quite like: cp -r/dev/dvd1/dev/dvd1 i know cdrw drives don't quite work like that either, but copying an audio/digital cd quite elementary. for me, the 4-5 hours to get a copy of a dvd, isn't quite what i'm after.
point being, that to me it's a pain. i've learned the process, and can do it if i want to, but i think there's some room for process improvement there.
yep, they certainly should. a restaurant is all about ambiance, with some high priced dinners and drink. they're creating or adding to their ambiance by playing those cd's during dinner (after closing hours is a different thing), and they're making a profit from that ambiance. i'm assuming you mean for the cd's they're playing to be standard off the shelf consumer cd's licensed for home private use, right? well that's fine and dandy as long as they're not making a financial profit from the use of it, which the restaurant you mention is certainly doing.
i believe it's ok for them to play public radio channels though, as that's public air, and they're not really playing copyright material, just playing the radio. i know cracker barrel plays public radio channels on their speakers during dinner
if you're displaying it in a manner that is explicitly designed for public consumtion, then it's a public performance. ie, if you stand on a street corner, and jam the boom box with copyrighted material, then it's a public performance. if you're playing music in the kitchen, when the dinning room is cleared, then it's private fair use.
if you're playing copyright material to an office of people, it would most likely be public performance.
you cannot take a projector and a dvd/vcr or whatever and play any movie up on the side a building at night time for anyone to watch. you need permission from the copyright holders to do that.
the peer-to-peer network of distributing the recorded material is a little more "peer"-to-"peer" in that case though. you actually have to take the tape and give it to someone else if you're spreading the recorded material.
those archeic units are still nice for the kids play room where you can pop in a tape for um. VCR tapes don't get all scratched up and all as easy as those DVD's that are a royal pain to backup.
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finally, a great build yourself TIVO setup. i didn't see if there's a project to build a public database of showtimes/channels for people to get. shouldn't be that challenging.
i'm sure a decent setup HDD, video card, and processor is near the price of a tivo, but this lends it self to much much more.
i can't see any DMCA implications, as the intent of the software isn't to distribute copies (that have been unencrypted via breaking a digital encryption method) to other users.
it's nice to examine each line of code (are these former Y2K code monkeys?), but the fundamental design must be examined and secured from that perspective. i really think the process of making software totally secure begings with re-engineering the design, and securly implementing that through code.
are you saying that MSFT operating system upgrades are smooth and flawless for MOST desktop users? A quick usenet search shows otherwise.
a desktop OS (home user, office user, whatever) is ALL about look and feel or rather useability, which includes look and feel. sure win95 wasn't the greatest we've seen, but it was revolutionary at the time. it took the "other" os (win3.1) to a new level. we all threw away those floppies of 3.1 (or put them in storage somewhere). whatever you have against MSFT and their FUD/monopoly practices, etc, win95 became quickly THE standard because it was useable, and looked good (also, MSFT forced all manufactures to pre-install it, but that's for a different day:) )
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yes. i would be ok. the exact amount depends on your lifestyle after the change. you're entertainment and charging habits should definately be significantly curbed. hell, revolving credit s/b just that, revolving. you charge something you pay the bill.
i have lost my job and have been searching for over 3 months. i'm a newbie on the bench from other accounts i read. the market for software developers is VERY tight these days. both of my neighbors are also umeployed and unable to find work, and neither is in the technology sector.
on a side note. if the job crunch is all about supply and demand, and there's an abundance of supply, then why is the H1-B program still continuing? this program was created to help fill supply for an over demand a few years back specifically in the technology sector.
hammer, meet the head of the nail...
supply and demand is quite right. in the late 90's tech salaries were increasing at least 10-15% annually. other sectors were not. this is because there was a LARGE demand. there was supply, but the demand at the time was a little larger.
now the demand is lower, so the prices should be adjusted accordingly. i figure ~30% reduction is actually quite fair.
i don't think a mortgage will stop that problem.
sure, the constant "rent" payment won't go up (at least until you get bored with the first house and want a bigger nicer one), but most people find them selves sinking money into improvements and such that never really amount to much in equity. painting, plumbing repairs, landscaping (beware when the wife starts talking about finishing up the basement!)
making sure a resume is in order and making contacts, yes. jumping ship. not hardly. that's risking severance, vacation payout, and unemploymen t payment.
good theory for 1.5 years ago. these days jobs are not elsewhere. there are lots of people who might gladly take a technically challenging job for 60% of last years salary.
i know i sure as hell would....
the non-technically challenging are the jobs that need to pay 150% of salary (imagine converting long, marketing type ms-word documents to html pages for 40 hrs a week, every week, over and over...)
yes, it does mean they're idiots. The common definition of idiot here defines it as:
1. A foolish or stupid person.
2. A person of profound mental retardation having a mental age below three years and generally being unable to learn connected speech or guard against common dangers. The term belongs to a classification system no longer in use and is now considered offensive.
i'de say completely blowing your middle income salary because: 1) you don't know how to manage money, 2) can't fathom planning for the future, and 3) maybe believe that this awesome internet/technology boom is going to last 4-ever certainly qualifies for the first definition. the second definition is questionable.
gpl only requires that if you distribute binary versions, you also make the sources available. and the recipient of those sources can make and distribute changes to those sources (only under the same license terms).
i don't think it is feasable for all gpl code to be ported to linux (gnucleus, virtualdub, etc).
as noted above, freespace2 license appears to allow modifications to the source, and allows for redistribution. it restricts any commercial profit from the product. this seems to disallow linux distros from including it w/o special licensing.
really, what good does it do to send someone a file that you know they can't use? start a little flame war? most people don't actively choose an office suite. if it's in the workplace, some upper manager decided to get M$ office for everybody, of decided to use something else. unless you're dealing with that decision maker, it's pointless (and even if you are it's still a mute issue).
sure, the M$ office compeditors need to put lots into development to make their products compeditive with M$, but they also need to have the best filters. the linux office applications (or free windows) i use are the ones with the best office import/export functionality. it would be nice if M$ of course opened up their office format, but wouldn't that really lead to a loss in sales? it doesnt' seem like a good business practice that the board of directors would likely go for.
real time apps, that's key. ip is good for static i'll send you a message, and if you want you can send me a message type thing. it's a one way communication model that has been bastardized to being used for real-time application type stuff.
distributed apps are a little different. they're more like, i'll give you a piece of work to do, and you give me the results. if you don't in a certain time, i've got to give it to someone else (because there's no direct communication chain for me to ask you wtf is going on)
i gotta say, that's a lot of freaking time on the phone there. talking for 500 minutes per month, ld on the phone? for personal home use? wow. that's over 8 hours.
i gave up oon long distance after getting slammed by the phone companies (sprint, at&t). i currently have no long distance on the phone, and use a 20$ 500 minute calling card from sam's club to make a long distance phone call. portable minutes too (yeah, yeah, the pay phones jack on additional charges, but it's still portable.)
personally i kinda like using voip to some degree (quick chats to family/friends), but it's a matter of a square peg through a round hole. ip isn't the be all end all. everyone is jumping on some HUGE internet hype and trying to put every service over ip. microsoft might have said it best when they said that IP may not be the best protocol for distributed applications.
i would love to see some marketing budgets at a few large corporations. sure they're a fruty mac using department, but they get lots of $$ from the company, and somehow they're able to prove their worth. demographic type information shows it's worth.
sales and marketing are number games. the more numbers you have the better you play the game.
i'm not so sure i agree there. most offices/shops are filled with small pentium file/email servers. sometimes IIS servers crep up there and again as well. IMNSHO, this is the market that RH and Linux needs to be targeting. Linux systems, and *nix systems in general, are scalable. such that an email/file server that handles an office of 20, could quickly and easily be migrated to a system that handles 500/1000 users. throw a web server on there. add a database server. first, you're not spending upwords of 10k on software each time you add one, and secondly when an email system outgrows it's quad-xeon box, you can move it to a nice sun or alpha machine and keep it going smoothly. it's the same reason that java is suppose to be attracting people: portability and scalability in an open component based system.
i've successfully got it working, though sometimes i still get messages about having the plug-in installed. next to find one for konqueror.
:)
oh yeah, and getting a java plug in that works for mozilla
i wasn't really interested in MSFT's venture into the gaming market either, untill i saw them in the stores. the games look awesome. there may be less games, and the console might be less feature rich (do they play dvd's yet?), but from looking at it, it's a high quality gaming machine. awesome graphics! that's what it's all about. the PS2 is outdated, and hardly compares to the now dead dreamcast. dreamcast was a super high quality game machine for its day, and now we have the x-box. since dvd players can be had for 80$, that's not really a feature i want in a gaming machine anyway.
i just tried this, but for some reason i keep getting mozilla crashes when i go to www.flash.com. i was hoping for an answer to my lack of flash on linux... maybe tomorrow.
me too! me too!
great idea. each song can only be listened to by one person at a time though right?
it's not that it's difficult (after spending hours reading the manuals and figuring out the software packages), it's that it's not quite like: cp -r /dev/dvd1 /dev/dvd1
i know cdrw drives don't quite work like that either, but copying an audio/digital cd quite elementary. for me, the 4-5 hours to get a copy of a dvd, isn't quite what i'm after.
point being, that to me it's a pain. i've learned the process, and can do it if i want to, but i think there's some room for process improvement there.
It would have been okay if all of the music had been purchased by the company :) But I don't know many companies that will buy CDs for their employees.
not now, no, but back in the days of the internet startups, a dedicated mp3 server with corporate bought cd's was a drop in the bucket.
not that i endorse the company doing that and all. but, them there law-yers need to eat you know.
yep, they certainly should. a restaurant is all about ambiance, with some high priced dinners and drink. they're creating or adding to their ambiance by playing those cd's during dinner (after closing hours is a different thing), and they're making a profit from that ambiance. i'm assuming you mean for the cd's they're playing to be standard off the shelf consumer cd's licensed for home private use, right? well that's fine and dandy as long as they're not making a financial profit from the use of it, which the restaurant you mention is certainly doing.
i believe it's ok for them to play public radio channels though, as that's public air, and they're not really playing copyright material, just playing the radio. i know cracker barrel plays public radio channels on their speakers during dinner
if you're displaying it in a manner that is explicitly designed for public consumtion, then it's a public performance. ie, if you stand on a street corner, and jam the boom box with copyrighted material, then it's a public performance. if you're playing music in the kitchen, when the dinning room is cleared, then it's private fair use.
if you're playing copyright material to an office of people, it would most likely be public performance.
you cannot take a projector and a dvd/vcr or whatever and play any movie up on the side a building at night time for anyone to watch. you need permission from the copyright holders to do that.
the peer-to-peer network of distributing the recorded material is a little more "peer"-to-"peer" in that case though. you actually have to take the tape and give it to someone else if you're spreading the recorded material.
those archeic units are still nice for the kids play room where you can pop in a tape for um. VCR tapes don't get all scratched up and all as easy as those DVD's that are a royal pain to backup.
finally, a great build yourself TIVO setup. i didn't see if there's a project to build a public database of showtimes/channels for people to get. shouldn't be that challenging.
i'm sure a decent setup HDD, video card, and processor is near the price of a tivo, but this lends it self to much much more.
i can't see any DMCA implications, as the intent of the software isn't to distribute copies (that have been unencrypted via breaking a digital encryption method) to other users.
i agree the quote is very MSFTish.
it's nice to examine each line of code (are these former Y2K code monkeys?), but the fundamental design must be examined and secured from that perspective. i really think the process of making software totally secure begings with re-engineering the design, and securly implementing that through code.
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are you saying that MSFT operating system upgrades are smooth and flawless for MOST desktop users? A quick usenet search shows otherwise.
a desktop OS (home user, office user, whatever) is ALL about look and feel or rather useability, which includes look and feel. sure win95 wasn't the greatest we've seen, but it was revolutionary at the time. it took the "other" os (win3.1) to a new level. we all threw away those floppies of 3.1 (or put them in storage somewhere). whatever you have against MSFT and their FUD/monopoly practices, etc, win95 became quickly THE standard because it was useable, and looked good (also, MSFT forced all manufactures to pre-install it, but that's for a different day