.na - North America.ca - Central America.car - Caribbean.sa - South America.eu - Europe.me - Middle East.ar - Arctic.an - Antarctic.af - Africa.nh - Northern Hemisphere.sh - Southern Hemisphere.eh - Eastern Hemisphere.wh - Western Hemisphere.eq - Equator.tcn - Tropic of Cancer.tcp - Tropic of Capricorn.np - North Pole.sp - South Pole.mn - Magnetic North.pm - Prime Meridian.isl - Miscellaneous Islands
Anything else I'm missing? Why not just start using degrees latitude and longitude in the tlds as well, just because we want as many as possible, right?
Working with PDA's as I have for the last year, the main problem is focus. The device needs to focus on specific functionality. If it is a PDA, it should act to assist in managing scheduling and communications. The one I have noticed that has done this best is the Blackberry.
Why? It focuses on keeping people connected and organized. It can tie seemlessly into organizer software (Outlook/Groupware). It is relatively simple to use. Good battery life. It is reliable in comparison to other devices I have seen.
It does not focus on whiz-bang internet access, audio, or multimedia. In other words it simply works well for it's primary purpose. The rest of the PDA's seem to try to be everything to everyone.
For code previous to the contract. If the contract states that they own everything you've done before, it could be interpreted as overly broad (and thus unenforceable). If it is deemed enforceable and the code is already licensed and published publicly under the GPL, they must honor the previous licensing agreements (if one company buys another company, they must honor all agreements the company they bought made previous).
As for code that was written after the contract (ignoring the oral agreement momentarily). If the contract is clearly defined and you have already published under the GPL, there is no question to it being at minimum breach of contract (excluding all code not written by yourself). Other possible interesting possibilities (again IANAL): theft and fraud. Both of which they must be provided with full control of the code you wrote, if that is not possible, damages and restitution as defined by a court.
Taking into account the oral agreement, it depends on the creedence that it is given. If it is verified and accepted, consider yourself extremely lucky, and get it in writing from now on. If not, I wish you good luck, granted they can only do so much.
In other words, get real legal advice and don't depend on us (IANAL Slashdotters).
I for one, welcome our patent hording overlords...
Hopefully this will lead some people with influence into realizing the patent system needs an overhaul. Probably not though... Has anyone patented the binary numbering system yet? Just imagine how many companies could be sued...
If you want to live between nowhere and bumblef*ck with a bunch of hicks. Also, if you don't care about the steering alignment on your car (pothole heaven). I thought the Tech VC bubble burst and these wacky ideas were on the drop. Guess not.
If they're starting with comparable search technology to their knowledgebase, they have a long way to go... BTW, I can find knowledgebase articles a heck of a lot easier using google then through the knowledgebase site.
First the article says "...has ambitious plans to record live CDs of its shows and sell them to patrons within five minutes after those shows end." Five Minutes, not "moments" as the post suggests. Also, at $15 a pop, I'm pretty sure they could cover the cost of licensing from the record company.
"We are all so caught up in hating RAMBUS, that we fail to realize they rightfully own the patent under U.S. law no matter how many other people violated it
If you made a chip that ran at 10 ghz right now because of your skill with iron-steel-copper interconnecting rails, and patented it in September of 2003, and the following year Intel used the same process, would you like it? No! "
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"In anticipation of the 5 or 6 flames I'll receive claiming it's a different case, it isn't."
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Really? Don't you think it's a slight bit different. The issue is and should be whether Rambus LIED outright to JEDEC. If you made a chip that ran at 10ghz, filed a patent, signed an agreement that said you'd disclose all relating patent claims before helping design another 10ghz processor that would become industry standard, LIE about your patents, disclose patented technology for use in the industry standard, then sue about your patents used in the industry standard, wouldn't that be a slight bit different? Companies didn't just randomly decide to use Rambus' patents out of nowhere.
Were you paying attention to anything in this case?
From what I experienced with AT&T, I get about a 1 in 4 failure rate. Although I would assume they have a limited period of time they're willing to hold the message if the message cannot be delivered. As such I don't rely on SMS for anything important. I would use wireless E-mail access if it is of ANY importance whatsoever.
Competition is good, whatever you choose to use. Apple has it's own reasons for choosing KHTML, and hopefully this will motivate the mozilla developers to compete directly or develop its own niche.
Truthfully when I heard Apple was coming out with a browser, I wanted to see what it was like. Slight Problem being I don't have a Mac, so pictures will have to do for now. Oh well, hopefully they'll work with the KDE Developers so there'll be a decent Linux version (although apple will probably keep it to themselves).
"Why does bandwidth cost so much money to begin with?"
I could take a stab at this one... Let's see, in order to run communications lines anywhere in the US you have to acquire right-of-way permission from local jurisdictions. In most places this can be extremely costly (you need a PR campaign, lobbying, etc). You need to develop a backbone with equipment and high speed lines (fiber optics are VERY EXPENSIVE) which you need to maintain. You need technicians, customer service reps, administrators, PR reps, marketing reps, lawyers, etc. You need to deal with the FCC and FTC and all their regulations. That's only what I know about it, and I haven't even worked directly in the communications industry. All of that sort of leads to a barrier to entry into the industry (which helps create monopolies) and helps create large costs for communications companies.
they will come... and rip it to shreds as fast as they can in any way possible.
It's the same deal if you have any kind of script that can be compromised. Example: FormMail.pl, if it didn't do strong checking someone could use it maliciously. There are a few ways to combat this, like setting a repetition checker so that if within n seconds if the same thing comes in m times ignore and remove it and/or ignore the ip address(es) it's coming from. You can also set it so it will only work for trusted people and you could have do some small monitoring to make sure none of the trusted people are flooding it. There are many ways to go about preventing the spammers from getting through you just have to think practically (ie: What do spammers do that would be different from your regular users) and do a little coding and your done... They obviously could care less about you, so there's no other way to really deal with them.
If anyone knows how to disable receiving the messages, I'd be very thankful, because from what searching I did I couldn't figure out how to do it. Thanks.
In Windows 2000 you have to disable the "Messenger" Service and change it to Disabled starting. You have to be under the admin account: Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Services. There it a service called "Messenger". Right Click, Click Properties. Under Service Status: Click "Stop" and at the "Startup Type" scroll box go down to "Disabled." You won't have to worry about it again.
They are Associations of recording companies and motion picture companies. The job of the RIAA and MPAA are to: Provide a united front in litigation, lobbying, and public relations for the companies. If you noticed - there is no uniform RIAA music sharing program, there are a few different ones run by different groups of companies... In other words, even the companies that employ the RIAA can't agree on compensation. If you want to get a master list of music and copyright holders - contact the individual music labels, they better have at least some sort of crude list, and compile the master list yourself.
Hey! Don't give them any ideas!
Hopefully the hollywood execs don't read this stuff... If they do, don't be surprised by a similar headline in tomorrows newspapers...
between defamation, libel, disclosing company sensitive information, and true grievances. There was nothing in the article to show that any of these people were airing legitimate greivances. To the contrary they stated that many of the postings were out-right lies. I would spare full comments until I knew the exact circumstances of each case.
MIS= Management Information Systems
CIS= Computer Information Systems
CS= Computer Science
CE= Computer Engineering
Management Information Systems stresses business and the management of information - minimal programming, etc.
Computer Information Systems is essentially business stuff and programming.
Computer Science is considered Science, so you have to go through much more of the fundamentals of computing, programming, etc. Think of it as a Scientific study of Computers.
Computer Engineering is considered Engineering, so you have to figure out how to engineer the computer.
With MIS you will probably get the highest paid job straight off, but you'll have the least possibility for job growth.
With CIS you are a jack of all trades, master of none, if somebody can find a CS or CE grad they would take preference (especially if they've had 1+ years of experience in business).
Computer Science and Engineering give more room for job growth.
it is relatively difficult for you to make a convincing court case (note IANAL). The fundamental assumption of "Innocent until proven guilty" can be hard to surmount and rightly so.
Also, understand that technical ability is not always the highest consideration (I figured that out quite recently). Companies take into consideration: Cost of Employee, Seniority, Number of Dependents, Rehirability, and Social Integration with other employees, etc.
Example: I was hired a short while ago, I proved my technical proficiency above and beyond those required for the position I was in. My immediate manager loved my work (ie: I made his job a lot easier as well as made him look good). I was obviously more technically proficient than the other employees with the same position. I wasn't smug. I treated my senior co-workers with great respect, didn't expect special treatment, etc. They laid me off. Why did they lay me off?
1. I was the person with the shortest amount of time with the company. (ie: Seniority)
2. I had no dependents.
3. I had the greatest probability of future employment (noone else had much education beyond high school). (ie: Rehirability)
4. I had the least amount of ties and time to socialize with other employees. (ie: Seniority)
5. I was ambitious and my proven skills would eventually cost them more than they were willing to pay. (ie: Cost)
6. They had a contract with a previous employee that said they would re-hire them. (ie: Seniority)
Managers are not unaware of social affects of their decisions. While cost was the reason they had to fire someone, technical ability wasn't really considered in who was laid off (except as far as rehirability).
My view is that it's the same as spam. I have absolutely no problem with them sending me the ads, as long as they discriminate about who they send what.
It is reasonable to include an ad about a network security product if someone is looking at an article about network security. This can be done without collecting information about people, etc. Just look at the way/. does their advertising. On occasion I am interested in the ads displayed. Boy, Linux and IT ads on/. who'd of thought.
The thing that annoys me is the completely blatant untargeted advertising. I can refinance the home that doesn't exist. I can buy women's clothing, do they get a lot of guys buying women's clothing? I can get in on a great pyramid scheme. I can get one of those motorized carts for elderly people (it'll come in handy when I'm actually near old enough to require one). I can get a "University Diploma" for a couple hundred bucks even though I've Graduated from an accredited, reasonably ranked, University.
I do not like the obstructive advertising like on zdnet that puts it in the middle of the text your reading, it makes me more likely to avoid the company doing the ad. Although all of this is a testament to how little they actually know about us.
Is to calmly suggest changes, and look for consensus among colleagues(peers).
This is what you want to get across:
1. You are a team player:
a. You want to make everyone you can feel usefull.
b. You are receptive to other people's ideas.
2. You want to be sure of your ideas before you present anything to management:
a. You considered other peoples suggestions, and find reasons to follow or not to follow their suggestions.
b. Research, research, research... Look for solutions to your problems, if you can find and implement simple solutions without consulting management, it will make you look a LOT more valuable.
3. You want to be respectful of management:
a. They didn't just come in off the street and become a manager, whether you agree with their capabilities as a manager or not, somehow they earned their position.
b. If they decide not to follow suggestions, try not to be bitter, and if you want to ask them why they made the decision they did do it one-on-one.
c. (addition to b) Do not "challenge" them, especially in front of colleagues, simply present your case and assume they took it under full consideration. If you do not understand why, ask them in confidence (treat them as though they are a teacher).
This approach has many advantages:
You will look good and thoughtfull.
Everyone else will feel usefull.
Your manager will feel that you want to grow, be usefull to the company, and respect people in higher positions.
At best you will get the changes you want.
At worst it will be a learning experience: you will figure out what can be done or what cannot be done, and you can make a more educated decision on whether you want to remain in the company.
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.na - North America .ca - Central America .car - Caribbean .sa - South America .eu - Europe .me - Middle East .ar - Arctic .an - Antarctic .af - Africa .nh - Northern Hemisphere .sh - Southern Hemisphere .eh - Eastern Hemisphere .wh - Western Hemisphere .eq - Equator .tcn - Tropic of Cancer .tcp - Tropic of Capricorn .np - North Pole .sp - South Pole .mn - Magnetic North .pm - Prime Meridian .isl - Miscellaneous Islands
Anything else I'm missing? Why not just start using degrees latitude and longitude in the tlds as well, just because we want as many as possible, right?
Working with PDA's as I have for the last year, the main problem is focus. The device needs to focus on specific functionality. If it is a PDA, it should act to assist in managing scheduling and communications. The one I have noticed that has done this best is the Blackberry.
Why?
It focuses on keeping people connected and organized.
It can tie seemlessly into organizer software (Outlook/Groupware).
It is relatively simple to use.
Good battery life.
It is reliable in comparison to other devices I have seen.
It does not focus on whiz-bang internet access, audio, or multimedia. In other words it simply works well for it's primary purpose. The rest of the PDA's seem to try to be everything to everyone.
What's wrong with us "Usefull Idiots?" Personally I'd like to know.
(Obligatory IANAL)
There are multiple issues it seems.
For code previous to the contract. If the contract states that they own everything you've done before, it could be interpreted as overly broad (and thus unenforceable). If it is deemed enforceable and the code is already licensed and published publicly under the GPL, they must honor the previous licensing agreements (if one company buys another company, they must honor all agreements the company they bought made previous).
As for code that was written after the contract (ignoring the oral agreement momentarily). If the contract is clearly defined and you have already published under the GPL, there is no question to it being at minimum breach of contract (excluding all code not written by yourself). Other possible interesting possibilities (again IANAL): theft and fraud. Both of which they must be provided with full control of the code you wrote, if that is not possible, damages and restitution as defined by a court.
Taking into account the oral agreement, it depends on the creedence that it is given. If it is verified and accepted, consider yourself extremely lucky, and get it in writing from now on. If not, I wish you good luck, granted they can only do so much.
In other words, get real legal advice and don't depend on us (IANAL Slashdotters).
I for one, welcome our patent hording overlords...
Hopefully this will lead some people with influence into realizing the patent system needs an overhaul. Probably not though... Has anyone patented the binary numbering system yet? Just imagine how many companies could be sued...
If you want to live between nowhere and bumblef*ck with a bunch of hicks. Also, if you don't care about the steering alignment on your car (pothole heaven). I thought the Tech VC bubble burst and these wacky ideas were on the drop. Guess not.
If they're starting with comparable search technology to their knowledgebase, they have a long way to go... BTW, I can find knowledgebase articles a heck of a lot easier using google then through the knowledgebase site.
First the article says "...has ambitious plans to record live CDs of its shows and sell them to patrons within five minutes after those shows end." Five Minutes, not "moments" as the post suggests. Also, at $15 a pop, I'm pretty sure they could cover the cost of licensing from the record company.
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"We are all so caught up in hating RAMBUS, that we fail to realize they rightfully own the patent under U.S. law no matter how many other people violated it
If you made a chip that ran at 10 ghz right now because of your skill with iron-steel-copper interconnecting rails, and patented it in September of 2003, and the following year Intel used the same process, would you like it?
No! "
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"In anticipation of the 5 or 6 flames I'll receive claiming it's a different case, it isn't."
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Really? Don't you think it's a slight bit different. The issue is and should be whether Rambus LIED outright to JEDEC. If you made a chip that ran at 10ghz, filed a patent, signed an agreement that said you'd disclose all relating patent claims before helping design another 10ghz processor that would become industry standard, LIE about your patents, disclose patented technology for use in the industry standard, then sue about your patents used in the industry standard, wouldn't that be a slight bit different? Companies didn't just randomly decide to use Rambus' patents out of nowhere.
Were you paying attention to anything in this case?
From what I experienced with AT&T, I get about a 1 in 4 failure rate. Although I would assume they have a limited period of time they're willing to hold the message if the message cannot be delivered. As such I don't rely on SMS for anything important. I would use wireless E-mail access if it is of ANY importance whatsoever.
Competition is good, whatever you choose to use. Apple has it's own reasons for choosing KHTML, and hopefully this will motivate the mozilla developers to compete directly or develop its own niche.
Truthfully when I heard Apple was coming out with a browser, I wanted to see what it was like. Slight Problem being I don't have a Mac, so pictures will have to do for now. Oh well, hopefully they'll work with the KDE Developers so there'll be a decent Linux version (although apple will probably keep it to themselves).
"Why does bandwidth cost so much money to begin with?"
I could take a stab at this one... Let's see, in order to run communications lines anywhere in the US you have to acquire right-of-way permission from local jurisdictions. In most places this can be extremely costly (you need a PR campaign, lobbying, etc). You need to develop a backbone with equipment and high speed lines (fiber optics are VERY EXPENSIVE) which you need to maintain. You need technicians, customer service reps, administrators, PR reps, marketing reps, lawyers, etc. You need to deal with the FCC and FTC and all their regulations. That's only what I know about it, and I haven't even worked directly in the communications industry. All of that sort of leads to a barrier to entry into the industry (which helps create monopolies) and helps create large costs for communications companies.
they will come... and rip it to shreds as fast as they can in any way possible.
It's the same deal if you have any kind of script that can be compromised. Example: FormMail.pl, if it didn't do strong checking someone could use it maliciously. There are a few ways to combat this, like setting a repetition checker so that if within n seconds if the same thing comes in m times ignore and remove it and/or ignore the ip address(es) it's coming from. You can also set it so it will only work for trusted people and you could have do some small monitoring to make sure none of the trusted people are flooding it. There are many ways to go about preventing the spammers from getting through you just have to think practically (ie: What do spammers do that would be different from your regular users) and do a little coding and your done... They obviously could care less about you, so there's no other way to really deal with them.
If anyone knows how to disable receiving the messages, I'd be very thankful, because from what searching I did I couldn't figure out how to do it. Thanks.
In Windows 2000 you have to disable the "Messenger" Service and change it to Disabled starting. You have to be under the admin account: Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Services. There it a service called "Messenger". Right Click, Click Properties. Under Service Status: Click "Stop" and at the "Startup Type" scroll box go down to "Disabled." You won't have to worry about it again.
not the RIAA or MPAA.
They are Associations of recording companies and motion picture companies. The job of the RIAA and MPAA are to: Provide a united front in litigation, lobbying, and public relations for the companies. If you noticed - there is no uniform RIAA music sharing program, there are a few different ones run by different groups of companies... In other words, even the companies that employ the RIAA can't agree on compensation. If you want to get a master list of music and copyright holders - contact the individual music labels, they better have at least some sort of crude list, and compile the master list yourself.
I wish you luck in your endeavors...
You have a job... Might I suggest starting to send out your resume...
Could they post a working link please?
Hey! Don't give them any ideas!
Hopefully the hollywood execs don't read this stuff... If they do, don't be surprised by a similar headline in tomorrows newspapers...
put it as an advanced option... As long as you give a warning - "This could severly f***-up your computer if you don't know what your doing."
between defamation, libel, disclosing company sensitive information, and true grievances. There was nothing in the article to show that any of these people were airing legitimate greivances. To the contrary they stated that many of the postings were out-right lies. I would spare full comments until I knew the exact circumstances of each case.
Usefull - I am capable of being a productive part of society.
Idiot - I am limited by my human nature.
but this is a bit off topic isn't it...
MIS= Management Information Systems
CIS= Computer Information Systems
CS= Computer Science
CE= Computer Engineering
Management Information Systems stresses business and the management of information - minimal programming, etc.
Computer Information Systems is essentially business stuff and programming.
Computer Science is considered Science, so you have to go through much more of the fundamentals of computing, programming, etc. Think of it as a Scientific study of Computers.
Computer Engineering is considered Engineering, so you have to figure out how to engineer the computer.
With MIS you will probably get the highest paid job straight off, but you'll have the least possibility for job growth.
With CIS you are a jack of all trades, master of none, if somebody can find a CS or CE grad they would take preference (especially if they've had 1+ years of experience in business).
Computer Science and Engineering give more room for job growth.
it is relatively difficult for you to make a convincing court case (note IANAL). The fundamental assumption of "Innocent until proven guilty" can be hard to surmount and rightly so.
Also, understand that technical ability is not always the highest consideration (I figured that out quite recently). Companies take into consideration: Cost of Employee, Seniority, Number of Dependents, Rehirability, and Social Integration with other employees, etc.
Example: I was hired a short while ago, I proved my technical proficiency above and beyond those required for the position I was in. My immediate manager loved my work (ie: I made his job a lot easier as well as made him look good). I was obviously more technically proficient than the other employees with the same position. I wasn't smug. I treated my senior co-workers with great respect, didn't expect special treatment, etc. They laid me off. Why did they lay me off?
1. I was the person with the shortest amount of time with the company. (ie: Seniority)
2. I had no dependents.
3. I had the greatest probability of future employment (noone else had much education beyond high school). (ie: Rehirability)
4. I had the least amount of ties and time to socialize with other employees. (ie: Seniority)
5. I was ambitious and my proven skills would eventually cost them more than they were willing to pay. (ie: Cost)
6. They had a contract with a previous employee that said they would re-hire them. (ie: Seniority)
Managers are not unaware of social affects of their decisions. While cost was the reason they had to fire someone, technical ability wasn't really considered in who was laid off (except as far as rehirability).
My view is that it's the same as spam. I have absolutely no problem with them sending me the ads, as long as they discriminate about who they send what.
/. does their advertising. On occasion I am interested in the ads displayed. Boy, Linux and IT ads on /. who'd of thought.
It is reasonable to include an ad about a network security product if someone is looking at an article about network security. This can be done without collecting information about people, etc. Just look at the way
The thing that annoys me is the completely blatant untargeted advertising. I can refinance the home that doesn't exist. I can buy women's clothing, do they get a lot of guys buying women's clothing? I can get in on a great pyramid scheme. I can get one of those motorized carts for elderly people (it'll come in handy when I'm actually near old enough to require one). I can get a "University Diploma" for a couple hundred bucks even though I've Graduated from an accredited, reasonably ranked, University.
I do not like the obstructive advertising like on zdnet that puts it in the middle of the text your reading, it makes me more likely to avoid the company doing the ad. Although all of this is a testament to how little they actually know about us.
Is to calmly suggest changes, and look for consensus among colleagues(peers).
This is what you want to get across:
1. You are a team player:
a. You want to make everyone you can feel usefull.
b. You are receptive to other people's ideas.
2. You want to be sure of your ideas before you present anything to management:
a. You considered other peoples suggestions, and find reasons to follow or not to follow their suggestions.
b. Research, research, research... Look for solutions to your problems, if you can find and implement simple solutions without consulting management, it will make you look a LOT more valuable.
3. You want to be respectful of management:
a. They didn't just come in off the street and become a manager, whether you agree with their capabilities as a manager or not, somehow they earned their position.
b. If they decide not to follow suggestions, try not to be bitter, and if you want to ask them why they made the decision they did do it one-on-one.
c. (addition to b) Do not "challenge" them, especially in front of colleagues, simply present your case and assume they took it under full consideration. If you do not understand why, ask them in confidence (treat them as though they are a teacher).
This approach has many advantages:
You will look good and thoughtfull.
Everyone else will feel usefull.
Your manager will feel that you want to grow, be usefull to the company, and respect people in higher positions.
At best you will get the changes you want.
At worst it will be a learning experience: you will figure out what can be done or what cannot be done, and you can make a more educated decision on whether you want to remain in the company.