Of course, though I am unfamiliar with the exact wording of the law. They might be able to say that they cannot accept any comments which are not in dead tree form/sent via USPS as they are not within the scope of the law.
I expect that the courts will respond in kind: "You must publish the results, as the law requires you to; but We recommend the law be changed."
All the DoJ is saying is that 90%+ of the comments were via email, if they can recieve comments via an electronic medium, why can they not re-publish them via the same electronic medium?
I do not remember if it was calling the phone company, or my car insurance or the local ticket master, but I've had the answering machine ask me to tell it what I wanted. (tickets, sales, I don't remember now)... I replied, thinking that it boded poorly for me actually getting where I wanted to go. Surely enough though it worked great. I've also a tendancy to mumble my words, but it worked fine.
The only thing I could immagine these things being used for is very high storage, very very parrellized problems. Factoring, travelling salesman (otherwise known as airport scheduling), SETI@home and the such.
The OS will never be fully "functional" as OSes are considered today, because people will lie and cheat and steal. IMO (read: opinion removed from ass) the only practical use of this would be the equivalent of making a kernel patch that could have a slice of disk, a slice of memory usage, and a slice of bandwidth, and then it would run SETI@home, or whatever code it was instructed to run from the "master".
If it was not run on public machines I could immagine something akin to Beowulf from the ground up. An OS designed for premeditated clustering. That's not Internet sized though...
I'm not sure about the good land of Oz, but not *everyone* is on the downturn. Network security companies for example are still doing pretty well as in America safety overrules common sense due to 9/11.
Smart companies will take and find the guru coders thatwill now work for $20k less, and hire them. They didn't suddenly become worse workers... The company just has to have the foresight to know that sales still may be lower than average during the downturn. After the downturn (and it will end) those companies will have a great advantage of having a year or two of good work from guru coders who are now very loyal, because the company hired them when few others would.
Thankfully I (and my company) have not been hit hard at all by the downturn, and still have a few dozen job openings. Managers love it because now they can pick and choose.
No its not. If an employee can't act like a professional, you get rid of them. Very, very few projects require people smart enough to put up with a bunch of crap from them.
Absolutely correct.
Yeah, its really hip to have that one guy come in at work at 2pm and work until 9 at night, because he's so damn elite, until you realize that he's unable to interact with all of the _adults_ who have children and real-life responsibilities. Its called a team. "Oh, I don't work well in the morning." Oh, i'm so sorry! Gee, because the rest of us automatically wake up at 6:30am chipper and ready to go!
Note that late hours worked and social ability are not mutually exclusive. In fact those hours probably allow said coder and his wife to actually have a parent home all hours for their child(ren)... They can take care of their "responsibilities" before 2pm, as nothing that REQUIRES people to go to in order to handle "responsibility" (the DMV, the bank, support for Credit Cards, attorneys, accountants, etc.) are open other than 8 to 5.
And unfortunately most sales and marketting droids I know *DO* wake up at 6:30am chipper and ready to go.
Ooh, and lets pamper the programmers with soda and candy and teddy bears and futuristic chairs. Until the rest of the company, who work just as hard as the programmers, begin to get a little pissed off. Soda is 30 cents a can. Suck it up.
Actually the company should pamper everyone with drinks and nice chairs at least. They will keep every employee in the building and working longer for cheap. At the absolute least I think the CO. should provide a vending machine nearby to keep "snack runs" to a minimum. People munch, even suits.
Lets not forget a dress code. Yeah, lets not enforce that, you don't need to look good to program, man. Until that one programmer wearing the 2 sizes too small phantom menace t-shirt with the body odor turns off a potential client. Is wearing a pair of dockers and a shirt that doesn't have a fucking wookie on it going to kill you?
Nice and unbiased an uninflammatory...
And no. You do not need to look good to perform. You need to be comfortable to perform a task that requires nothing other than brains. Wether you influence the ability of those around you to do their jobs is another story, and can be mitigated by simple planning (and letting the coders work hours that customers won't be there!). Personnally I would work much worse if everyone around me was wearing a uniform dockers & tshirt...
Lets have a nerf gun fight! Woopie! Two guys want to fuck around, so the entire floor can't get anything done because two guys are running around screaming. "Oh, please hold Mr. Potential Customer, I have a nerf dart in my fucking eye." Maybe the rest of us _aren't_ working late that night and need to get stuff done. Maybe i'm at your cube, waiting patently for you to get done PLAYING.
So have a breakroom, like EVERY OTHER COMPANY and keep the games there.
I don't particularly think *YOU* should be in management either, as it's patently clear that you despise those who would be under you, like the majority of PHB's in the world. Ranting on about how coders can't/don't do work, while reading slashdot during the say...
Either way there will need to be comprimise. Require coders to be in during certain hours (1-4?) so that meetings and communication can still happen, and the rest of their days are available for production of code.
Allow freedom and relaxation, but only where/when it will not be a distraction to others/customers.
And remember always that you're at a business. A business I'd assume is designed to make money. Good coders make money. Productive coders make money. Coders that hate management don't make money. Coders that hate their jobs don't make money. Coders that do not pay attention to the customer do not make money.
Any company that sets itself apart from the field does so by doing something that no other company can do. If you wish to do that technically (imo the easiest route) you will need a coder (or a few even) that can do something no other coder has done. To get that you'll need to make some comprimises...
And just remember, you don't have to look like a professional to act like a professional, and you don't need to act like a professional to look like a professional.
A lot more homemade hardware and wireless access bouncing? I doubt it. At least proportionately to POIS (Plain Old Internet Service).
I think (read: It is my prediction) that internet access gains will be made mostly in smallish towns, non-business/home urban access, in less developed nations' cities, and in China.
areas 2 and 4 do not need this sort of access because they will use traditional wireless if wireless at all. The majority of China's population lies in the riverlands which has very little line of sight problems.
area 3 will likely not need this sort of solution because (afaik) it is still cheaper to string a wire to a nearby place than to get antenna, especially in places where land ownership isn't totally cost prohibitive.
this leaves small hilly towns, which are by far the minority of the world's population.
Ever notice how both "organizations" hide behind that term usually reserved for not-for-profit aid groups, or otherwise innoxious group?
Ever notice how both groups generally exist for the seemingly sole purpose of badgering people with an army of lawyers behind a veil of "good"?
Ever notice the striking similarity between L Ron and Bill Gates?
Coincidence? I think not.
The previous post was meant as humor, and in no way meant liabel towards the BSA, The Church of Scientology, the ghost of L Ron, or Bill Gates' stupid grin (tm). All of my software is legitimate Microsoft(tm) software!
MCSE's are the lowest form of windows life, right after grandma.
Now to information. I had a similar experience doing my first install of linux (SuSe as it were). My install was difficult, as it was a 'from hard drive' install. I eventually got everything but X working.
The best reference I found was on my *other* machine, going to Alta Vista (it was 4 years ago, did not know of google) and searching newbie sites. Admittadly most linux newbie sites are a little *too* sophisticated to handle specific introductory problems. Like telling the user that 'man' will provide help... or hda is the common ide hard drive reference...
It only took a month or so hunting through how-to's for nuggets of useful information, but I eventually got the little SuSe box doing auto-dial natting.
I have actually considered making either a site or book based on the inter-operability notion given that I admin win2k and *nix machines daily. It would not be *too* sophisticated as I've not done *too* much with *nix machines (simple kernel rebuilds in BSD is about my "leet"ness)
The site would have the benefit of allowing users to go from unix to windows and vice versa.
I actually do this now to a degree. I have DSL through PacBell and got the business package instead of residential. I pay $80 a month, but I get 4 static IP's and since I'm a "business" PacBell never gives me shit for web serving, or playing enough games to max out my d/l.
Unfortunately I hear they are a bit more uptight about who gets business DSL these days, which will almost definately move my business to SpeakEasy once I move. (once again, pay a little more for better service)
Why couldn't Joe "The Donut *Machine*" Police Officer just carry one of these around? He might even add a little beeper to go off when his device detects you aren't using ?
You could encrypt things, or password protect them, but then you lose the "everyone shares, everyone gains" core of the thing.
Perhaps "Student" isn't the proper description... As far as I knew he was running Clarkson's tech crew for a while when I arrived my freshman year (6 years ago)
And in an ideal world Oracle should be a boon to Linux, and vice versa... Linux will get many more deployments, Oracle will get more press, and a OS they can tweak to support their systems.
Well, somehow I don't think the common CFO or CEO or even Sales Director browses innocuous web sites. Mainly they want to download their plaintext email from "important people" that contain orders, contact info, product info, and/or generally other delicious tidbits of things they don't want you to know.
True true, though work is usually doing user addition, solving stupid user tricks, and fighting against esoteric hardware. These things don't really exist at home where it's games and coding and machine building.
Though ideally I want it to be that going to work is like never leaving home, rather than home being like I never left work.
At my last job I had to deal with a standard MCSE windows admin (ever notice how invariably people that actually admit to having an MCSE are horrible admins? for another time...) who did not own a computer at his home dispite making near $100,000. I was astounded at 1am when I called him due to server outage, and he had no machine to check on anything. Furthermore his memory wasn't good enough to point me through the problem (I was phone monkey at the time).
When I asked why he didn't have a machine, he replied: "I work with the accursed things all day, why would I want to deal with them when I'm home?"
Now that I'm an admin, with my 5 machines at home (though only 1 windows machine despite being a win2k admin) I still have no clue what he meant. After all, why would you spend 40+ hours a week, and 24/7 on call dealing with something you couldn't thoroughly enjoy?
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Of course, though I am unfamiliar with the exact wording of the law. They might be able to say that they cannot accept any comments which are not in dead tree form/sent via USPS as they are not within the scope of the law.
I expect that the courts will respond in kind: "You must publish the results, as the law requires you to; but We recommend the law be changed."
All the DoJ is saying is that 90%+ of the comments were via email, if they can recieve comments via an electronic medium, why can they not re-publish them via the same electronic medium?
Pine can view html natively these days... sorry to burst your bubble :[
'cuz pigs are about to fly.
I do not remember if it was calling the phone company, or my car insurance or the local ticket master, but I've had the answering machine ask me to tell it what I wanted. (tickets, sales, I don't remember now)... I replied, thinking that it boded poorly for me actually getting where I wanted to go. Surely enough though it worked great. I've also a tendancy to mumble my words, but it worked fine.
The only thing I could immagine these things being used for is very high storage, very very parrellized problems. Factoring, travelling salesman (otherwise known as airport scheduling), SETI@home and the such.
The OS will never be fully "functional" as OSes are considered today, because people will lie and cheat and steal. IMO (read: opinion removed from ass) the only practical use of this would be the equivalent of making a kernel patch that could have a slice of disk, a slice of memory usage, and a slice of bandwidth, and then it would run SETI@home, or whatever code it was instructed to run from the "master".
If it was not run on public machines I could immagine something akin to Beowulf from the ground up. An OS designed for premeditated clustering. That's not Internet sized though...
I'm not sure about the good land of Oz, but not *everyone* is on the downturn. Network security companies for example are still doing pretty well as in America safety overrules common sense due to 9/11.
Smart companies will take and find the guru coders thatwill now work for $20k less, and hire them. They didn't suddenly become worse workers... The company just has to have the foresight to know that sales still may be lower than average during the downturn. After the downturn (and it will end) those companies will have a great advantage of having a year or two of good work from guru coders who are now very loyal, because the company hired them when few others would.
Thankfully I (and my company) have not been hit hard at all by the downturn, and still have a few dozen job openings. Managers love it because now they can pick and choose.
I mean they *ARE* trying to cut costs, and a guy with an MBA probably expects to get paid more than an equivalent programmer without the Paper...
Absolutely correct.
Note that late hours worked and social ability are not mutually exclusive. In fact those hours probably allow said coder and his wife to actually have a parent home all hours for their child(ren)... They can take care of their "responsibilities" before 2pm, as nothing that REQUIRES people to go to in order to handle "responsibility" (the DMV, the bank, support for Credit Cards, attorneys, accountants, etc.) are open other than 8 to 5.
And unfortunately most sales and marketting droids I know *DO* wake up at 6:30am chipper and ready to go.
Actually the company should pamper everyone with drinks and nice chairs at least. They will keep every employee in the building and working longer for cheap. At the absolute least I think the CO. should provide a vending machine nearby to keep "snack runs" to a minimum. People munch, even suits.
Nice and unbiased an uninflammatory...
And no. You do not need to look good to perform. You need to be comfortable to perform a task that requires nothing other than brains. Wether you influence the ability of those around you to do their jobs is another story, and can be mitigated by simple planning (and letting the coders work hours that customers won't be there!). Personnally I would work much worse if everyone around me was wearing a uniform dockers & tshirt...
So have a breakroom, like EVERY OTHER COMPANY and keep the games there.
I don't particularly think *YOU* should be in management either, as it's patently clear that you despise those who would be under you, like the majority of PHB's in the world. Ranting on about how coders can't/don't do work, while reading slashdot during the say...
Either way there will need to be comprimise. Require coders to be in during certain hours (1-4?) so that meetings and communication can still happen, and the rest of their days are available for production of code.
Allow freedom and relaxation, but only where/when it will not be a distraction to others/customers.
And remember always that you're at a business. A business I'd assume is designed to make money. Good coders make money. Productive coders make money. Coders that hate management don't make money. Coders that hate their jobs don't make money. Coders that do not pay attention to the customer do not make money.
Any company that sets itself apart from the field does so by doing something that no other company can do. If you wish to do that technically (imo the easiest route) you will need a coder (or a few even) that can do something no other coder has done. To get that you'll need to make some comprimises...
And just remember, you don't have to look like a professional to act like a professional, and you don't need to act like a professional to look like a professional.
A lot more of what? Cringely? Surely.
A lot more homemade hardware and wireless access bouncing? I doubt it. At least proportionately to POIS (Plain Old Internet Service).
I think (read: It is my prediction) that internet access gains will be made mostly in smallish towns, non-business/home urban access, in less developed nations' cities, and in China.
areas 2 and 4 do not need this sort of access because they will use traditional wireless if wireless at all. The majority of China's population lies in the riverlands which has very little line of sight problems.
area 3 will likely not need this sort of solution because (afaik) it is still cheaper to string a wire to a nearby place than to get antenna, especially in places where land ownership isn't totally cost prohibitive.
this leaves small hilly towns, which are by far the minority of the world's population.
Ever notice how both "organizations" hide behind that term usually reserved for not-for-profit aid groups, or otherwise innoxious group?
Ever notice how both groups generally exist for the seemingly sole purpose of badgering people with an army of lawyers behind a veil of "good"?
Ever notice the striking similarity between L Ron and Bill Gates?
Coincidence? I think not.
The previous post was meant as humor, and in no way meant liabel towards the BSA, The Church of Scientology, the ghost of L Ron, or Bill Gates' stupid grin (tm). All of my software is legitimate Microsoft(tm) software!
Time how long it will take a global game of Starcraft/Quake/Doom/RocW to develop.
Time how long it will take for a pr0n server to develop.
Time how long it takes one of them to own you monitoring machine.
Time how long it takes your developed language to be deformed into shorthand.
I fear this is likely to end in fire and uselessness... So why not garner information gained from the chaos caused by teens?
NetBSD on the other hand runs on everything under the sun, including sparcs and has a linux and FreeBSD compatability modes.
It is missing SMP in i386 at least, which given their backround, Sun could help greatly with.
MCSE's are the lowest form of windows life, right after grandma.
Now to information. I had a similar experience doing my first install of linux (SuSe as it were). My install was difficult, as it was a 'from hard drive' install. I eventually got everything but X working.
The best reference I found was on my *other* machine, going to Alta Vista (it was 4 years ago, did not know of google) and searching newbie sites. Admittadly most linux newbie sites are a little *too* sophisticated to handle specific introductory problems. Like telling the user that 'man' will provide help... or hda is the common ide hard drive reference...
It only took a month or so hunting through how-to's for nuggets of useful information, but I eventually got the little SuSe box doing auto-dial natting.
I have actually considered making either a site or book based on the inter-operability notion given that I admin win2k and *nix machines daily. It would not be *too* sophisticated as I've not done *too* much with *nix machines (simple kernel rebuilds in BSD is about my "leet"ness)
The site would have the benefit of allowing users to go from unix to windows and vice versa.
I actually do this now to a degree. I have DSL through PacBell and got the business package instead of residential. I pay $80 a month, but I get 4 static IP's and since I'm a "business" PacBell never gives me shit for web serving, or playing enough games to max out my d/l.
Unfortunately I hear they are a bit more uptight about who gets business DSL these days, which will almost definately move my business to SpeakEasy once I move. (once again, pay a little more for better service)
Why couldn't Joe "The Donut *Machine*" Police Officer just carry one of these around? He might even add a little beeper to go off when his device detects you aren't using ?
You could encrypt things, or password protect them, but then you lose the "everyone shares, everyone gains" core of the thing.
Perhaps "Student" isn't the proper description... As far as I knew he was running Clarkson's tech crew for a while when I arrived my freshman year (6 years ago)
And in an ideal world Oracle should be a boon to Linux, and vice versa... Linux will get many more deployments, Oracle will get more press, and a OS they can tweak to support their systems.
But we do not live in an ideal world...
Wasn't Ellison the one who put the big push into 'thin clients' as well? I dunno about you guys, but I've got *tons* of those hanging around.
a metric buttload is divisible by 10?
What's the law?:
"Any hard drive, no matter the size, will be 95% full in 3 months."
Well, somehow I don't think the common CFO or CEO or even Sales Director browses innocuous web sites. Mainly they want to download their plaintext email from "important people" that contain orders, contact info, product info, and/or generally other delicious tidbits of things they don't want you to know.
Does anyone else find it amusing that a Windows codename is a large Cow?
True true, though work is usually doing user addition, solving stupid user tricks, and fighting against esoteric hardware. These things don't really exist at home where it's games and coding and machine building.
Though ideally I want it to be that going to work is like never leaving home, rather than home being like I never left work.
At my last job I had to deal with a standard MCSE windows admin (ever notice how invariably people that actually admit to having an MCSE are horrible admins? for another time...) who did not own a computer at his home dispite making near $100,000. I was astounded at 1am when I called him due to server outage, and he had no machine to check on anything. Furthermore his memory wasn't good enough to point me through the problem (I was phone monkey at the time).
When I asked why he didn't have a machine, he replied: "I work with the accursed things all day, why would I want to deal with them when I'm home?"
Now that I'm an admin, with my 5 machines at home (though only 1 windows machine despite being a win2k admin) I still have no clue what he meant. After all, why would you spend 40+ hours a week, and 24/7 on call dealing with something you couldn't thoroughly enjoy?