why doesn't everyone worry about parenting their own kids *OR* if you don't have any, shut the hell up?
This guy knows his kid a lot better than the rest of us desk jockeys, so he's in a better position to decide what's best in this situation. Why not just help the guy out?
Sounds like a pretty cool dad to me. My folks encouraged, and supported my gaming, and general futzing 'round with machines in my youth (Atari 2600, Trash-80s, AppleIIs, BleedingEdge 8008 boxen) and generally I think that's helped me be where I'm at in my career.
Then God help the company he works for... as a CTO/CIO your *job* is to make the business cases, to help the organization understand where the real value is. Sometimes it isn't easy, but dammit man, that's your freakin' job!
You work with the business users, you work with your peers, you coach the folks that work for you, so everyone is in agreement on where the value for your IT spending is, and then you go do it. You don't just built sh*t for fun and to keep you buried in your IDE for 10 hours day... You have to have good reasons for upgrading your bandwidth. If you can't fully and clearly articulate a good business reason for it (more transactions, better data integrity, better security, more informed business decisions, decreased cost per X) then you probably shouldn't do it. Just writing it off to corporate luddites and ignorance is weak, and it's a cop out.
well if the proof is in the pudding, then your guess is wrong. One of the huge downsides of payola from a listeners standpoing is the lack of choice and diversity.
The choice and diversity on XM is amazing, and in fact they have one channel "Unsigned" that is specifically for bands that aren't with major labels. All bands have to do is mail in a CD, and there's a good chance that if it doesn't suck, it'll get played. I listen to that channel all the time, and it's amazing the quality of the bands and music on there... I've ordered several CDs from bands websites based on things I've heard there. (as an aside, the channel is run by Pat Dinizio formerly of Smithereens fame)
I don't know about all of the channels, especially the ones that play more "Top 40" oriented music, and how they determine their playlists, but I do know that the choice is remarkable.
I agree that there is the potential down the road for these services, should they displace traditional radio, to have a duopoly (or monopoly should they merge or one die) and that could be very bad, but at this point I think Satellite Radio is the cure for payola, not another problem.
Yeah, but the cool potential I see in this is making something like this as an open-source project.
Set up a basic world, and basic character interaction rules, basic item rules, and physics, etc. And then everyone can create their own "country" or whatever metaphor is chosen to represent your own little chunk of the Metaverse/Other Plane (credit where credit is due...)
Then allow folks to go to town developing open source add-ons, or modifying their own real estate. Want to make a public amusement park, a private club, who knows what?
I know that they're planning on taking the Sims to a massively multiplayer platform in the next year or so, but this would be so much cooler with folks from all over the world developing modules, items, and god-knows what. Like anything with enough of a cool factor, this would grow into something that we can't even truly envision right now... Plus you wouldn't have all of the copyright and licensing issues that you'll inevitably have with OnlineSims mods...
Yes, you'll have cheaters, and all kinds of other non expected events, but the community will take care of that too...
of course you can abandon a car or real property(or anything else for that matter).
There may be *implications* if you abandon something, but that doesn't mean you can't abandon it. If someone abandons a piece of real property (I can't remember the exact time lines and they vary by state anyway) then someone else has the right to claim it.
In any event, intellectual property rules differ greatly from real property rules, because of their very nature.
When there is no physical embodiment of the actual property, just a fixation of it in a form, all the rules change.
Yet another example of a poor analogy leading to a poor conclusion...
they're not saying that pre-2001 *hype* will return, just the employment levels... i.e. number of jobs. That doesn't sound unreasonable. Companies will continue invest in IT projects, as there is real return on careful and reasoned investment.
I know you meant this as a joke, but what you'll find is that in practice this is what will happen. Folks will be more and more disillusioned, depressed and generally less willing to put in effort. It's human nature. I was there myself last year with a dying dotcom. You don't give a shit. And it will show in every corner of the organization. Folks will come in late and leave early, surf for jobs on work time, and screw off a whole lot more. the end result will be either they'll find a new job and quit, or get laid off entirely as company productivity plummets even further.
Last thing is that I hate the Corporates assigning a value on a virus. 10 billion done by Melissa. OK. Show me the physical harm done to your computers.
it's not the *physical* harm... it's the freaking man-years of time that is wasted. IT departments are strapped enough as it is, but then lump on top of that all of the time spent chasing crap like this down, and it *is* a strain on resources (bandwidth, server drive space, and the valuable attention it takes to diagnose and resolve a particular problem). The cost is real. Whether it's $10B or not, I have no idea, but it certainly isn't trivial.
I'm not usually one to get to outraged by the goings on here, I typically find it more amusing than anything. And sure, piling on JK is good sport now and then, but this drags all of Slashdot down to a new low...
By allowing one of their own to hawk blatantly unrelated crap (and then have the *nerve* to claim that because it's 'net marketing it *is* related), the d00ds who run this site once again have demonstrated the posers that they are. They want to be journalists... they want to be entrepreneurs... they want to be businessmen... all they are is a bunch of amateurs, and we continue to lap it up.
So the standards are immutable (unless one of the insiders needs them not to be). I get it.
There would be a *huge* culture clash trying to combine these two companies... much more than ever will happen with HPaq.
IBM is a long way off from all white shirts all the time days, I'd suggest that Sun is much more conservative than IBM from a business perspective these days... Sure there are pockets of IBM that are still starched *way* too much, but overall they're quite innovative and nimble.
Sun, while it pushes Java hard, it quite a proprietary company (note that Java is not open source), and IBM on the other hand, is willing to get into about any business that it feels like it can get a foothold in, and see what works out. It's services folks are often implementing all kinds of non-IBM technologies. Sun would *never* do that.
I don't see it working... even if IBM is the acquirer, the culture mishmash would be a disaster.
I can't exactly see how contributions are going to carry the company sustainably. It's a great distro, but the fact that you have to rely on the kindness of others to keep going is shaky at best.
I'm almost always loathe to go the custom development route for something as well-known and covered as web publishing.
I've been through 20-25 projects that have had some sort of CM need or another, from intranets, to public websites to KM systems, and someone always gasps at the license fee for a package and suggests that we could build it in-house for cheaper.
Guess what? out of all those, build over buy was a good decision in one instance. One. That was for a small section that needed to be updated fairly infrequently, and needed nothting else fancy. No multi-page management, no fancy formatting, no related documents, no rich media, yada yada yada.
In almost all of the other instances, we were better off either buying something or grabbing some simple open source code and modifying it to fit our needs, or in the alternative modifying our needs to fit the s/w.
There are plenty of instances where rolling your own is the way to go, but this isn't one of them.
I'm immediately suspicious of anyone who uses the word 'claptrap'. It ranks right up there with 'piffle' and 'balderdash'...
on point, Dvorak himself is not exactly a middle of the road kind of guy, how many times has he berated folks for not thinking like he does? (That's a rhetorical question, for those keeping score)...
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is Jon Katz...
I know it's in vogue to bash JK, but I can't help it here...
What's the point of this? It's a long, rambling, generally pointless survey of the evolution of the Internet.
"The 'net has changed!!!" Oh my God... Stop the Presses! Hide the women and sysadmins! Jon has had a revelation of gargantuan proportions! Thank you for this brilliant insight Jon!
*sigh* I really don't feel like anything I read these days from JK is anything more than a stream of semi-consciousness that fails to do anything more than steal minutes away from my life, and prove once again that he is the quintessential Mr. MOTO (Master Of The... damn... I'm catching Katz Disease.)
I call for a Congressional investigation... stop this Enron non-sense, this is truly a scandal... Someone making money on the Internet without porn or MLM... Something is fishy here.
"I'm hurt, and confused and I don't know what to say... no comment!" --Alfalfa, 3/12/83
This question comes out of sheer ignorance, but how the hell would the Moxi box know if I've got 802.11b (or whatever) in my house or not, unless it's got some sort of sensor for that frequency and protocol??? And if it does, a)why couldn't I shield the unit to the point where it can't pick up the signal and b) how am I guaranteed that it doesn't find another signal and *mistake* it for a wireless data protocol...
"I'm hurt, and confused and I don't know what to say... no comment!" --Alfalfa, 3/12/83
This doesn't prove out the fact that we should restrict crypto export to 40 bits... What it proves is that this guy was an idiot for relying on it. We all know that restricting the export of anything like intellectual property is like trying to catch helium molecules with a screen door. Additionally this policy is so arrogant to assume that the US is the only source for this type of technology... OK, ignorant/arrogant, whatever...
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Damn judgmental lot aren't we?
why doesn't everyone worry about parenting their own kids *OR* if you don't have any, shut the hell up?
This guy knows his kid a lot better than the rest of us desk jockeys, so he's in a better position to decide what's best in this situation. Why not just help the guy out?
Sounds like a pretty cool dad to me. My folks encouraged, and supported my gaming, and general futzing 'round with machines in my youth (Atari 2600, Trash-80s, AppleIIs, BleedingEdge 8008 boxen) and generally I think that's helped me be where I'm at in my career.
Quit casting stones...
It's too bad the Authors don't have an 'Anonymous Idiot' option when they post something.
michael, it's crap propoganda like this that makes it even harder for open source advocates to maintain credibility.
You deserve the Katz'ing that you're getting.
Then God help the company he works for... as a CTO/CIO your *job* is to make the business cases, to help the organization understand where the real value is. Sometimes it isn't easy, but dammit man, that's your freakin' job!
You work with the business users, you work with your peers, you coach the folks that work for you, so everyone is in agreement on where the value for your IT spending is, and then you go do it. You don't just built sh*t for fun and to keep you buried in your IDE for 10 hours day... You have to have good reasons for upgrading your bandwidth. If you can't fully and clearly articulate a good business reason for it (more transactions, better data integrity, better security, more informed business decisions, decreased cost per X) then you probably shouldn't do it. Just writing it off to corporate luddites and ignorance is weak, and it's a cop out.
maybe you should look for another job.
it's times like this I wish moderation scores didn't have an upper limit of 5.
he's not dead... he's resting.
well if the proof is in the pudding, then your guess is wrong. One of the huge downsides of payola from a listeners standpoing is the lack of choice and diversity.
The choice and diversity on XM is amazing, and in fact they have one channel "Unsigned" that is specifically for bands that aren't with major labels. All bands have to do is mail in a CD, and there's a good chance that if it doesn't suck, it'll get played. I listen to that channel all the time, and it's amazing the quality of the bands and music on there... I've ordered several CDs from bands websites based on things I've heard there. (as an aside, the channel is run by Pat Dinizio formerly of Smithereens fame)
I don't know about all of the channels, especially the ones that play more "Top 40" oriented music, and how they determine their playlists, but I do know that the choice is remarkable.
I agree that there is the potential down the road for these services, should they displace traditional radio, to have a duopoly (or monopoly should they merge or one die) and that could be very bad, but at this point I think Satellite Radio is the cure for payola, not another problem.
Yeah, but the cool potential I see in this is making something like this as an open-source project.
Set up a basic world, and basic character interaction rules, basic item rules, and physics, etc. And then everyone can create their own "country" or whatever metaphor is chosen to represent your own little chunk of the Metaverse/Other Plane (credit where credit is due...)
Then allow folks to go to town developing open source add-ons, or modifying their own real estate. Want to make a public amusement park, a private club, who knows what?
I know that they're planning on taking the Sims to a massively multiplayer platform in the next year or so, but this would be so much cooler with folks from all over the world developing modules, items, and god-knows what. Like anything with enough of a cool factor, this would grow into something that we can't even truly envision right now... Plus you wouldn't have all of the copyright and licensing issues that you'll inevitably have with OnlineSims mods...
Yes, you'll have cheaters, and all kinds of other non expected events, but the community will take care of that too...
sounds like fun.
Wow, this is ignorant.
of course you can abandon a car or real property(or anything else for that matter).
There may be *implications* if you abandon something, but that doesn't mean you can't abandon it. If someone abandons a piece of real property (I can't remember the exact time lines and they vary by state anyway) then someone else has the right to claim it.
In any event, intellectual property rules differ greatly from real property rules, because of their very nature.
When there is no physical embodiment of the actual property, just a fixation of it in a form, all the rules change.
Yet another example of a poor analogy leading to a poor conclusion...
I imagine $40B would convince Ralph to change his mind ;)
they're not saying that pre-2001 *hype* will return, just the employment levels... i.e. number of jobs. That doesn't sound unreasonable. Companies will continue invest in IT projects, as there is real return on careful and reasoned investment.
I know you meant this as a joke, but what you'll find is that in practice this is what will happen. Folks will be more and more disillusioned, depressed and generally less willing to put in effort. It's human nature. I was there myself last year with a dying dotcom. You don't give a shit. And it will show in every corner of the organization. Folks will come in late and leave early, surf for jobs on work time, and screw off a whole lot more. the end result will be either they'll find a new job and quit, or get laid off entirely as company productivity plummets even further.
it's not the *physical* harm... it's the freaking man-years of time that is wasted. IT departments are strapped enough as it is, but then lump on top of that all of the time spent chasing crap like this down, and it *is* a strain on resources (bandwidth, server drive space, and the valuable attention it takes to diagnose and resolve a particular problem). The cost is real. Whether it's $10B or not, I have no idea, but it certainly isn't trivial.
I'm not usually one to get to outraged by the goings on here, I typically find it more amusing than anything. And sure, piling on JK is good sport now and then, but this drags all of Slashdot down to a new low...
By allowing one of their own to hawk blatantly unrelated crap (and then have the *nerve* to claim that because it's 'net marketing it *is* related), the d00ds who run this site once again have demonstrated the posers that they are. They want to be journalists... they want to be entrepreneurs... they want to be businessmen... all they are is a bunch of amateurs, and we continue to lap it up.
So the standards are immutable (unless one of the insiders needs them not to be). I get it.
exactly what I was thinking!
more vindication for my theory that the Flintstones is, in fact, a documentary... They can't hide the truth forever.
There would be a *huge* culture clash trying to combine these two companies... much more than ever will happen with HPaq.
IBM is a long way off from all white shirts all the time days, I'd suggest that Sun is much more conservative than IBM from a business perspective these days... Sure there are pockets of IBM that are still starched *way* too much, but overall they're quite innovative and nimble.
Sun, while it pushes Java hard, it quite a proprietary company (note that Java is not open source), and IBM on the other hand, is willing to get into about any business that it feels like it can get a foothold in, and see what works out. It's services folks are often implementing all kinds of non-IBM technologies. Sun would *never* do that.
I don't see it working... even if IBM is the acquirer, the culture mishmash would be a disaster.
"your mount point's off!"
"no it isn't!"
I can't exactly see how contributions are going to carry the company sustainably. It's a great distro, but the fact that you have to rely on the kindness of others to keep going is shaky at best.
Good luck to 'em...
I'm almost always loathe to go the custom development route for something as well-known and covered as web publishing.
I've been through 20-25 projects that have had some sort of CM need or another, from intranets, to public websites to KM systems, and someone always gasps at the license fee for a package and suggests that we could build it in-house for cheaper.
Guess what? out of all those, build over buy was a good decision in one instance. One. That was for a small section that needed to be updated fairly infrequently, and needed nothting else fancy. No multi-page management, no fancy formatting, no related documents, no rich media, yada yada yada.
In almost all of the other instances, we were better off either buying something or grabbing some simple open source code and modifying it to fit our needs, or in the alternative modifying our needs to fit the s/w.
There are plenty of instances where rolling your own is the way to go, but this isn't one of them.
The Soviets pioneered innovative uses of concrete way back in the '80s... though I don't think they were that interested in *counter*-espionage...
I'm immediately suspicious of anyone who uses the word 'claptrap'. It ranks right up there with 'piffle' and 'balderdash'...
on point, Dvorak himself is not exactly a middle of the road kind of guy, how many times has he berated folks for not thinking like he does? (That's a rhetorical question, for those keeping score)...
Here's the author's page, with links to Amazon, and some other reviews of the book...
is Jon Katz...
I know it's in vogue to bash JK, but I can't help it here...
What's the point of this? It's a long, rambling, generally pointless survey of the evolution of the Internet.
"The 'net has changed!!!" Oh my God... Stop the Presses! Hide the women and sysadmins! Jon has had a revelation of gargantuan proportions! Thank you for this brilliant insight Jon!
*sigh* I really don't feel like anything I read these days from JK is anything more than a stream of semi-consciousness that fails to do anything more than steal minutes away from my life, and prove once again that he is the quintessential Mr. MOTO (Master Of The... damn... I'm catching Katz Disease.)
I call for a Congressional investigation... stop this Enron non-sense, this is truly a scandal... Someone making money on the Internet without porn or MLM... Something is fishy here.
"I'm hurt, and confused and I don't know what to say... no comment!" --Alfalfa, 3/12/83
This question comes out of sheer ignorance, but how the hell would the Moxi box know if I've got 802.11b (or whatever) in my house or not, unless it's got some sort of sensor for that frequency and protocol??? And if it does, a)why couldn't I shield the unit to the point where it can't pick up the signal and b) how am I guaranteed that it doesn't find another signal and *mistake* it for a wireless data protocol...
"I'm hurt, and confused and I don't know what to say... no comment!" --Alfalfa, 3/12/83
This doesn't prove out the fact that we should restrict crypto export to 40 bits... What it proves is that this guy was an idiot for relying on it. We all know that restricting the export of anything like intellectual property is like trying to catch helium molecules with a screen door. Additionally this policy is so arrogant to assume that the US is the only source for this type of technology... OK, ignorant/arrogant, whatever...