I'd ask for a different account rep. I've used Voltage for about 10 employees to great results. I've never encountered this professionalism problem you report.
Whether you're outsourcing development central to your line of business, or whether you're outsourcing route work that is not a core competency.
Organizations that outsource core competencies dissolve rather quickly, because essentially the only value they provide is as a virtual organization that resells a service some other firm provides. One of the primary things I learned in B-school is: you never, ever outsource core competencies. But, you're crazy not to look at outsourcing the rest of the work.
Is it just me, but the continuous, crushing global regulation of the Internet both in what content is legal, what our allowed "bandwidths and data caps are", what behaviors or opinions can be freely expressed, and a constant barrage of advertisements are making it as boring as television?
I don't pay for television. I won't pay for the public Internet if this trend doesn't stop.
There's plenty of private alternatives. Grandma can enjoy her walled gardens of Facebook and have her viewing habits sold off ten times over. I'll pass.
But this time, it was the VC's, private equity, and angels who are holding the declining valuations, not the post-IPO institutional and retail investors.
About time they stop tossing hot potatoes to us -- they finally got burned!
Despite the egregious lack of corporate responsibility, perhaps there could be some useful application of the data for traffic safety and road engineering.. for instance, if traffic engineers can see what roads are congested which have too low of a speed limit imposed, they could propose raising them? A pipe dream, but I have to believe someone looking to optimize traffic flows would consider the design upside as well as the police simply considering how to generate revenue.
Wow... this is a great idea! Providing a Tor or I2P channel for free is an awesome way to contribute to onion routing networks and provide a more "secure" way to run an insecure public setup. I'm curious what would have to be done to expose a Freenet node in this way... such that the interfaces for managing the node were blocked, but regular traffic wasn't impeded.
It's absolutely possible and fairly easy these days with out of the box router firmwares, or if yours doesn't support QoS (Quality of Service), then you can potentially put on an open-source firmware -- DD-WRT to provide that ability and much more. QoS lets you designate classes of traffic, such as streaming, gaming, and other protocols, or particular devices on a WAN or plugged into the router itself and set priorities for them. Doing this, you can share your WiFi AP (good for you!), but also get the lions' share of your bandwidth when you are wanting to use it.
The question "Would you trust your government to be your mail provider?" is pretty irrelevant: if they government can subpoena your mail account for any reason, without notification, you know, to prevent any sort of "terrorism" (against the state, content providers, the prevailing political ideology)... then they already are your de facto mail provider.
The company's software appears to be from Scytl, a company based in Barcelona, Spain.
Would anyone consider it a national security issue that public elections be held with technology either openly and freely available for review or at the very least, controlled by entities with not just a domestic presence, but a domestic registration?
I don't think I'd be okay with the 2000 election "hanging chad" ballots being counted in India, because they might have been the more cost-effective solution. Isn't it okay to be a bit nationalistic about the manner in which elections are handled?
Patents are supposed to be a hindrance to new entrances to a makret. They're a reward for R&D, and encourage the development of technology, which reduces the marginal cost of products, and eventually, price to consumers.
I argue patents are important to developed economies (with easy access to capital) that want to continue their leadership roles. They raise a barrier to entry, but I believe they increase competition, not among production, but among idea developers... and that's what really enriches a nation.
I have been one of the advocates for language standardization at our own company, and for the past three years we have slowly gotten everyone on board in C# standard. This was easy to get management's seal of approval, but it has been a very tough sell to some of the programmers in our development department, especially older programmers with with C/C++ backgrounds. Despite this, after three years of being standardized, we don't work any faster or any more efficiently; however, it is much easier for our department to handle staff turnover, because every program in the building (many of which were authored and maintained by a single developer) is written in a syntax understandable by all. Developers in our standardized environment are no more "replaceable" than they were before -- I've always maintained that if all that keeps you at your job is what you know, and not what you can do, you'll be replaced anyway eventually.
Here's a thought for an interesting/scary feature: The ability to search across all public albums for a particular person within a given timeframe, based upon the timestamp of the photograph. So you could say "Find pictures of Sue from Dec 2 to Dec 6". Now maybe Sue was supposed to be 'out of town', but you find her with someone else...
I'm not so sure about that. Think about foreign automobile makers and GM in today's world. GM is arguably a behemoth, and that in itself can be what drives a monopoly out of power. Even though this market is arguably very mature, market share can change fairly rapidly with innovation. Once you conquer enough of the market share, you will have a hard time keeping up with innovation in all the corners that could propel your rival to be serious competition someday.
It's actually not such a bad idea, because it's more hassle than most casual music pirates are willing to tolerate. Anyone serious will just Google the workaround and be done with it.
The scary part to me is the e-mail address... now they can start getting a shortlist of people to look at closer for copyright violation issues. I know I'll let someone else ask for the hack and Google it myself...
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I'd ask for a different account rep. I've used Voltage for about 10 employees to great results. I've never encountered this professionalism problem you report.
Whether you're outsourcing development central to your line of business, or whether you're outsourcing route work that is not a core competency.
Organizations that outsource core competencies dissolve rather quickly, because essentially the only value they provide is as a virtual organization that resells a service some other firm provides. One of the primary things I learned in B-school is: you never, ever outsource core competencies. But, you're crazy not to look at outsourcing the rest of the work.
Reminds me of a similar usage of the DMCA and copyright claim for performance art. Remember the Electric Slide fiasco?
Is it just me, but the continuous, crushing global regulation of the Internet both in what content is legal, what our allowed "bandwidths and data caps are", what behaviors or opinions can be freely expressed, and a constant barrage of advertisements are making it as boring as television?
I don't pay for television. I won't pay for the public Internet if this trend doesn't stop.
There's plenty of private alternatives. Grandma can enjoy her walled gardens of Facebook and have her viewing habits sold off ten times over. I'll pass.
But this time, it was the VC's, private equity, and angels who are holding the declining valuations, not the post-IPO institutional and retail investors.
About time they stop tossing hot potatoes to us -- they finally got burned!
Completely agreed, the suggestion was in jest. :)
How about just create domain names using letters A through F and get creative with IPv6 hexadecimal abbreviated addresses. ;)
No DNS to legally hijack, as long as you can reasonably hold the IP address and scale solely through anycasting.
Great, and the big providers will still cap us to cable speeds from a decade ago and charge for overages!
Despite the egregious lack of corporate responsibility, perhaps there could be some useful application of the data for traffic safety and road engineering.. for instance, if traffic engineers can see what roads are congested which have too low of a speed limit imposed, they could propose raising them? A pipe dream, but I have to believe someone looking to optimize traffic flows would consider the design upside as well as the police simply considering how to generate revenue.
Well, he's done a lot more than just hard-core programming work... this isn't his first time in space: http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/chamitoff.html
Wow... this is a great idea! Providing a Tor or I2P channel for free is an awesome way to contribute to onion routing networks and provide a more "secure" way to run an insecure public setup. I'm curious what would have to be done to expose a Freenet node in this way... such that the interfaces for managing the node were blocked, but regular traffic wasn't impeded.
It's absolutely possible and fairly easy these days with out of the box router firmwares, or if yours doesn't support QoS (Quality of Service), then you can potentially put on an open-source firmware -- DD-WRT to provide that ability and much more. QoS lets you designate classes of traffic, such as streaming, gaming, and other protocols, or particular devices on a WAN or plugged into the router itself and set priorities for them. Doing this, you can share your WiFi AP (good for you!), but also get the lions' share of your bandwidth when you are wanting to use it.
The question "Would you trust your government to be your mail provider?" is pretty irrelevant: if they government can subpoena your mail account for any reason, without notification, you know, to prevent any sort of "terrorism" (against the state, content providers, the prevailing political ideology)... then they already are your de facto mail provider.
The "hard disk sector" consolidates, hmm?
For a moment, I did a double take and thought of Stac.
The company's software appears to be from Scytl, a company based in Barcelona, Spain.
Would anyone consider it a national security issue that public elections be held with technology either openly and freely available for review or at the very least, controlled by entities with not just a domestic presence, but a domestic registration?
I don't think I'd be okay with the 2000 election "hanging chad" ballots being counted in India, because they might have been the more cost-effective solution. Isn't it okay to be a bit nationalistic about the manner in which elections are handled?
Heck yeah, I see someone went back in time to give us the formula for transparent aluminum! :)
Patents are supposed to be a hindrance to new entrances to a makret. They're a reward for R&D, and encourage the development of technology, which reduces the marginal cost of products, and eventually, price to consumers.
I argue patents are important to developed economies (with easy access to capital) that want to continue their leadership roles. They raise a barrier to entry, but I believe they increase competition, not among production, but among idea developers... and that's what really enriches a nation.
It's not just you... the April Fools jokes in years past were much more wittier and subtle. You actually had to think if they were jokes are not.
:P
This year was like like 'sheesh, no reason to read Slashdot today'.
Sadly I'm originally from Tuttle, Oklahoma. It's a backwards little town, with a "good ol' boy" system of city management.
:)
While Mr. Hughes was able to contain himself from forwarding it on to the town's newspaper, I was not.
I have been one of the advocates for language standardization at our own company, and for the past three years we have slowly gotten everyone on board in C# standard. This was easy to get management's seal of approval, but it has been a very tough sell to some of the programmers in our development department, especially older programmers with with C/C++ backgrounds. Despite this, after three years of being standardized, we don't work any faster or any more efficiently; however, it is much easier for our department to handle staff turnover, because every program in the building (many of which were authored and maintained by a single developer) is written in a syntax understandable by all. Developers in our standardized environment are no more "replaceable" than they were before -- I've always maintained that if all that keeps you at your job is what you know, and not what you can do, you'll be replaced anyway eventually.
Here's a thought for an interesting/scary feature: The ability to search across all public albums for a particular person within a given timeframe, based upon the timestamp of the photograph. So you could say "Find pictures of Sue from Dec 2 to Dec 6". Now maybe Sue was supposed to be 'out of town', but you find her with someone else...
;)
This should be fun.
Hehe, so an article comparing Google to MS is akin to a version of Goodwin's Law?
Exactly.
..or is this just the stuff they want you to think they do? ;)
"or is this just the stuff they admit to?"
I'm not so sure about that. Think about foreign automobile makers and GM in today's world. GM is arguably a behemoth, and that in itself can be what drives a monopoly out of power. Even though this market is arguably very mature, market share can change fairly rapidly with innovation. Once you conquer enough of the market share, you will have a hard time keeping up with innovation in all the corners that could propel your rival to be serious competition someday.
It's actually not such a bad idea, because it's more hassle than most casual music pirates are willing to tolerate. Anyone serious will just Google the workaround and be done with it.
The scary part to me is the e-mail address... now they can start getting a shortlist of people to look at closer for copyright violation issues. I know I'll let someone else ask for the hack and Google it myself...