Uhm, doesn't this display the lack of privacy in the modern network, hence proving that more of our network traffic should be encrypted?
Unless you call wrapping image data in a TCP/IP bundle and splitting it up into packets encryption. Hmm... Maybe this software is actually a violation of the DMCA.
I agree. But, when a person asks such a general question about something, what can be said?
"nothing too fancy but something that covers all the basics" doesn't explain much.
There is very little information given. As a result, this question is essentially asking us to do the searching for him. Details are important when assessing a system. This post lacks these.
In the end, this person is better off checking out freshmeat, finding 3-5 that he finds look best and trying them.
I do agree the review aspects are definately what slashdot is about.
I think your analogy is a bit skewed. Ask an residential drywall hanger about using a screwgun and he will laugh at you. Ask a commercial hanger and he will say he has no choice.
Sometimes a hammer is better than some fancy new tools.
No way can your business "not afford" $200/mo for internet. If you are a 40k/yr employee that equates to less than 5 hrs of pay (considering an employee generally costs 2x their hourly).
Considering the costs of maintaining an office alone, it seems like a heck of a bargain.
I would poke around for small business going under. One firm I worked for used to install Point Of Sale (POS) systems for just such places. They come with a keyboard wedge that plugs into the keyboard connector. You can get barcode scanners that do just the same thing.
It strikes me that they cost about $75/per when we were buying them. But, those wedges also cost about $50. Not too mention they need a dedicated PC for each one.
I am an American living in NL. I get tons of offers from the England, Ireland, etc with firms willing to handle work permits.
My current firm is a dutch one that took care of all the paperwork and they have quite a few Aussies here also.
Generally, most firms are skittish about it, but many will go for it. There is also a conception over here that they can't compete for americans because of wage. Although my salary is certainly lower here than back home, my lifestyle is the same if not better.
You just have to keep looking until you make an impression. I got rejected by tons of companies ("Have a Dutch passport? No. Work permit? No. Speak dutch? No. Thanks for contacting us, but...") before I met the right one.
Too bad the quality is crap. I was checking one of those things out. I had 50+ cd's stolen while on vacation in South Africa (by the mofo tour bus driver, nonetheless).
Ever since, I have been trying to come up with a decent removable media for hauling my music around the earth. I know a couple people with MD's and the quality is MP3-style and hence not good enough for me. Although, maybe the newer players are better, cause these are a couple year old sony's.
Until then, I am eyeballing a DAT player. Crap part is how inconvenient it is compared to CD/MD for ease of copying and track zipping through. But, 6 hrs on a cassette and it sounds great.
As far as paying for it, my friends in grad school are all on scholarship/research thingies that pick up the tab for schooling plus about a 12k/yr(USD) stipend.
But, I would highly recommend taking a year or two somewhere to work. There are many int'l firms looking for good coders. Currently, my gig is with a banking software firm in NL. As an American, I was looking to come to NL. Most firms would ask 2 questions: Work permit? I need one. Dutch language? A semester in college. "Sorry." Then I found an int'l company.
They did the whole process for me (new speed record in permit turn around too) and pay me a reasonable sum (never enough, but hey).
I would say hit grad school for a couple years, get your masters. Take two to three years and get some practical experience (crucial in the classroom. my university was begging for prof's with real experience) and then return for some phd action with some cash on hand.
Over here we don't get wicked huge salaries (excellent lifestyle by NL standards), but we do get perks from hell.
-28 days/yr vacation, off the bat. I started here June 1 and have already burned my 16.5 days for the year.
-hella perks. I went for an all expense paid corp vacation to South Africa. Spent the whole week drinking corp beer and eating like a king. Oh, and there was the whole safari aspect
-decent working hours. I slog 45 hrs usually. no more, not much less.
I don't get to drive a hot new car as I would back in the US. I also miss my truck, but living is good.
Phil, as usual, has things pretty much right. But, I disagree entirely with his concept of hours. He seems to think that coders should be strapped in for 80+ hrs/week and I think that is nuts. I need my home time to deal with having a life (translation: getting really really drunk because I have no other life). I do vaguely remember having a girlfriend at one point or another, and I do recall not wanting to work all day and night.
I would like to see a slashdot poll on num of hrs we all work. I imagine there already has been one, but nothing better than a rehash.
As funny as I think your response is, this is sadly the actual opinion of far too many Americans. My father is a Dutch immigrant and I am currently living in the Netherlands, as a verdomme buitenlander (damn foreigner).
Americans need to realize that immigrants not only work harder than natives (have you ever met a Hispanic migrant farm worker who works less than 13 hours a day?), but contribute more to society. These people come to the US because they believe they can find something better. They are willing to work for the privelege of the American Dream (TM). Perhaps instead of berating the former engineer from Kenya, you should thank him for being willing to mop your floor, despite the fact he is better trained and more intelligent than you.
Flipside is that rampant immigration can cause problems. California is definately a case for this. Southern Texas has PO box towns where Mexicans receive their Soc Sec checks before returning south of the border. But, in general, these are rare and isolated cases.
Several record companies, including Sony, have been watermarking for years. They buy phone lines that pipe radio stations back to a central office to see what the play rates are. I am not sure, but I think there might even be a couple companies that handle it for them.
I think Libertarianism is the only thing that fits. By nature, geeks want to work on things with freedom to do what they want. Open Source is a libertarianism in the sense that nothing stops you from doing anything you want, provided you follow the simple rules the given license allows.
The solution is to find something that can kill a quick hour to distract you. Preferably done w/ another coder to knock ideas against.
One guy I know was in an honors program in AU, at 4 every day was a mandatory 'tea' where they kicked back, drank some beer, and kicked ideas.
Since my move to the Netherlands, I have lost most of my old methods of solvency. My preferred plan was to grab another person and some firearms, jump in my '78 Ford pickup, barrel through the woods at high speed, and stop along the way to shoot. Great way to deal with stress.
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Uhm, doesn't this display the lack of privacy in the modern network, hence proving that more of our network traffic should be encrypted?
Unless you call wrapping image data in a TCP/IP bundle and splitting it up into packets encryption. Hmm... Maybe this software is actually a violation of the DMCA.
I agree. But, when a person asks such a general question about something, what can be said?
"nothing too fancy but something that covers all the basics" doesn't explain much.
There is very little information given. As a result, this question is essentially asking us to do the searching for him. Details are important when assessing a system. This post lacks these.
In the end, this person is better off checking out freshmeat, finding 3-5 that he finds look best and trying them.
I do agree the review aspects are definately what slashdot is about.
Don't freshmeat and google answer this question already?
I am growing weary of no one doing ANY research on topics and just asking slashdot.
I think your analogy is a bit skewed. Ask an residential drywall hanger about using a screwgun and he will laugh at you. Ask a commercial hanger and he will say he has no choice.
Sometimes a hammer is better than some fancy new tools.
They sell these for pilots. I would think you could find something similar for plantronics gear.
eXceed does some neat things with automagically sending X apps to windows clients. It isn't cheap, but it is a nice X Server.
This is definately the best available, from what I've seen. And is it definately too bad that it is a windows-only program.
Most hackers I know dabble in lots of things, including boats, cars, and other definitively hackable items.
Personally, I have a '78 Ford F100 waiting for restoration/modification.
No way can your business "not afford" $200/mo for internet. If you are a 40k/yr employee that equates to less than 5 hrs of pay (considering an employee generally costs 2x their hourly).
Considering the costs of maintaining an office alone, it seems like a heck of a bargain.
I would poke around for small business going under. One firm I worked for used to install Point Of Sale (POS) systems for just such places. They come with a keyboard wedge that plugs into the keyboard connector. You can get barcode scanners that do just the same thing.
It strikes me that they cost about $75/per when we were buying them. But, those wedges also cost about $50. Not too mention they need a dedicated PC for each one.
This is a sweet story and a lot better than the usual rants. I agree.
I am an American living in NL. I get tons of offers from the England, Ireland, etc with firms willing to handle work permits.
My current firm is a dutch one that took care of all the paperwork and they have quite a few Aussies here also.
Generally, most firms are skittish about it, but many will go for it. There is also a conception over here that they can't compete for americans because of wage. Although my salary is certainly lower here than back home, my lifestyle is the same if not better.
You just have to keep looking until you make an impression. I got rejected by tons of companies ("Have a Dutch passport? No. Work permit? No. Speak dutch? No. Thanks for contacting us, but...") before I met the right one.
Too bad the quality is crap. I was checking one of those things out. I had 50+ cd's stolen while on vacation in South Africa (by the mofo tour bus driver, nonetheless).
Ever since, I have been trying to come up with a decent removable media for hauling my music around the earth. I know a couple people with MD's and the quality is MP3-style and hence not good enough for me. Although, maybe the newer players are better, cause these are a couple year old sony's.
Until then, I am eyeballing a DAT player. Crap part is how inconvenient it is compared to CD/MD for ease of copying and track zipping through. But, 6 hrs on a cassette and it sounds great.
As far as paying for it, my friends in grad school are all on scholarship/research thingies that pick up the tab for schooling plus about a 12k/yr(USD) stipend.
But, I would highly recommend taking a year or two somewhere to work. There are many int'l firms looking for good coders. Currently, my gig is with a banking software firm in NL. As an American, I was looking to come to NL. Most firms would ask 2 questions: Work permit? I need one. Dutch language? A semester in college. "Sorry." Then I found an int'l company.
They did the whole process for me (new speed record in permit turn around too) and pay me a reasonable sum (never enough, but hey).
I would say hit grad school for a couple years, get your masters. Take two to three years and get some practical experience (crucial in the classroom. my university was begging for prof's with real experience) and then return for some phd action with some cash on hand.
I want to know why this post managed a rating of 2.
Over here we don't get wicked huge salaries (excellent lifestyle by NL standards), but we do get perks from hell.
-28 days/yr vacation, off the bat. I started here June 1 and have already burned my 16.5 days for the year.
-hella perks. I went for an all expense paid corp vacation to South Africa. Spent the whole week drinking corp beer and eating like a king. Oh, and there was the whole safari aspect
-decent working hours. I slog 45 hrs usually. no more, not much less.
I don't get to drive a hot new car as I would back in the US. I also miss my truck, but living is good.
Phil, as usual, has things pretty much right. But, I disagree entirely with his concept of hours. He seems to think that coders should be strapped in for 80+ hrs/week and I think that is nuts. I need my home time to deal with having a life (translation: getting really really drunk because I have no other life). I do vaguely remember having a girlfriend at one point or another, and I do recall not wanting to work all day and night.
I would like to see a slashdot poll on num of hrs we all work. I imagine there already has been one, but nothing better than a rehash.
doh. didn't like the spaceship operator.
while (<investor>) {
should have been the line.
#!/usr/bin/perl
while (){
live;
announce_death;
}
die "Screaming heap";
It is quite easy. Student visas are numerous and plentiful. Plus, you get a year of working in the US when you graduate from college.
Americans need to realize that immigrants not only work harder than natives (have you ever met a Hispanic migrant farm worker who works less than 13 hours a day?), but contribute more to society. These people come to the US because they believe they can find something better. They are willing to work for the privelege of the American Dream (TM). Perhaps instead of berating the former engineer from Kenya, you should thank him for being willing to mop your floor, despite the fact he is better trained and more intelligent than you.
Flipside is that rampant immigration can cause problems. California is definately a case for this. Southern Texas has PO box towns where Mexicans receive their Soc Sec checks before returning south of the border. But, in general, these are rare and isolated cases.
Several record companies, including Sony, have been watermarking for years. They buy phone lines that pipe radio stations back to a central office to see what the play rates are. I am not sure, but I think there might even be a couple companies that handle it for them.
or at least seems to be.
Not too mention, I am a gun nut.
The solution is to find something that can kill a quick hour to distract you. Preferably done w/ another coder to knock ideas against.
One guy I know was in an honors program in AU, at 4 every day was a mandatory 'tea' where they kicked back, drank some beer, and kicked ideas.
Since my move to the Netherlands, I have lost most of my old methods of solvency. My preferred plan was to grab another person and some firearms, jump in my '78 Ford pickup, barrel through the woods at high speed, and stop along the way to shoot. Great way to deal with stress.