And there's a not-so-small CRM company by the name of SAP which will sell a lot more if Siebel did anything to mess with DB2 support.
Actually SAP runs on top of a database. Here at work (I use SAP all the time, hence my nick) we run on top of Oracle even though we have IBM running it all for the client.
So, it makes no difference to SAP which database sits underneath their product. They have connectors which join SAP to the database in a transparent fashion.
I think he is referring not to the fact that the professional developers are not motivated in and of themselves. He is referring more to the environment that professional developers are forced to work in.
E.g. If I stare at the ceiling in my cube for an hour thinking about a problem, my micromanager will roll around and ask me why I am not "working". You see in most professional development environments managers equate typing code with working.
10. If you're updating or modifying code, write your opinion about the original code in the comments. Use nasty words if you can.
Recently my cubemate was modifying some code and came across the following comment "This routine is cunningly named CreateCustomer because it does not create any customers."
Immediately she turned to me and asked if I had made the comment. After looking at the rest of my, admittedly snide, comments she was immediately able to figure out where to jump to for the real correction.
Perhaps I should secure my neighbour's wireless connection for him before Windows automagically connects to it and gets me arrested!"
True story: I recently got broadband installed at home. After the cable guy left, I whipped out the wireless router I had bought, hooked it up and secured it.
I head downstairs to access it from my wife's PC. whoa! Unsecured connection available! I figured I must have screwed up so go ahead and resecure the router with password and all again. 30 seconds later my router pops up on the screen. Oops! I just "secured" my neighbour's router. Time to go and introduce myself and explain some router fundamentals...
Surely it should at least be legal to do anything in your home which involves nothing more than your body (or other consenting adults' bodies) and anything you have bought.
Your enemy isn't the corporate environment. Your enemy arose spontaneously from a poor choice of employers.
Actually my current employer evolved this way over the last twelve months to impress their other clients. I am in the process of looking for another employer already.
I'm not going to say that corporate environments stifle innovation,
OK, I'll go ahead and say it then. By the time I have finished filling out the CMT, CMD SCM, internal monitoring tool, the problem ticket logs and the updates to the functional and technical specs (in two places), then I am all done for. Any enthusiasm for the work at hand has been sucked out of you before you get a chance to write a single line of code.
For anybody that thinks I am kidding - think again. These are actual documents that I have to complete for each change I make. A 1 hour coding change will often have approx 18 hours of paperwork to go with it.
You pay fees on your POTS line (the FCC line charge) to provide for number portability (amoungst other things) in the name of competition.
Yes, and then funny enough when I try to use that capability by wanting to transfer my number from ATT to Vonage then suddenly ATT is incapable of doing this and have been dragging their feet for 2 months already.
It has now reached the point where if ATT became the only phone supplier in the world then I would have to go back to snail mail. Idiots.
Hell, I can guess where I am to that accuracy. I thought GPSs where accurate within 5-8 meters nowadays. And this sounds really useful out in the open ocean, you know, where all those rouge wireless access points hang out.
Do they have to paint the routers red when using them in the ocean or do they transmit the signals in the red light wavelenghts?
More importantly: Is this done to prevent rogue attacks?
Yeah it seems useable. But Google outdone? Day after day on slashdot theres posts on things such as Gmail, google maps, student open source sponsership, AJAX, et al... and from yahoo we get... a slider.
There are also very regular posts about how the top ranked results in Google are pointing to other search engines, junk sites, etc. They have been very sluggish in fixing those complaints. This "slider" directly addresses those complaints.
However, I don't think it will take Google very long to respond to this now that Yahoo's solution is out there.
With the setting bar on the research side you get opinions and reviews. With the settings on the shopping side you are directed to the manufacturers site along with their sales channels.
I am impressed and think that Google has been outdone for the first time in a while.
This could become very useful as the web is steadily getting more and more clogged with idiots wanting to sell you stuff all the time but not wanting to give you useful information on it.
This "free trade" idea only works if all countries are created equal. They are not. Thus there must be some form of compromise, unless you *want* the United States to become like India*?
Countries don't need to be equal. People need to be equal. If some company decides tomorrow that they want to send my job to India by the end of the month then I should be in a position to say that I would like to be working in India by the end of the month as well.
See, at the moment we have half of the free trade system in place and that is bad. For free trade to work it needs to be "free". Right now corporations can slice and dice as they want between countries, but the actual people involved are "hemmed in" by the borders.
I recently sent Google a suggestion on their Search History feature. I would like to be able give each site in my history a thumbs up or down rating. This rating should then appear in future searches. That way at least I can see when a crap site comes up in a search again.
Eventually Google should be able to start aggregating those ratings to find out how the public perceives a site.
Currently most states do not even require proof of U.S. citizenship to obtain a Driver's License.
You don't even need a SSN.
How are we going to secure our borders without a national ID system? A nation without the power to control its own borders isn't really nation.
It's just a hunk of land.
article at fairus.org In the following states, legal residence is not required to apply for a driver's license: Alaska, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oregon, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Washington, and Wisconsin.
Wrong!!! I am sure others can point out similar bills in other states.
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Here is a simplification of the picture found via Google;
Hot this way | Cold this way
-------- (This is a shiny pipe)
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Wow. I found that cleared things up nicely for me.
And there's a not-so-small CRM company by the name of SAP which will sell a lot more if Siebel did anything to mess with DB2 support.
Actually SAP runs on top of a database. Here at work (I use SAP all the time, hence my nick) we run on top of Oracle even though we have IBM running it all for the client.
So, it makes no difference to SAP which database sits underneath their product. They have connectors which join SAP to the database in a transparent fashion.
That doesn't sound like much, but for a small mom-n-pop ISP run by 4 guys and a dog with 2 phone lines, it's awful.
Fire the dog. Trust me on this. That vicious scoundrel is signing you up for all this. Lose the dog and the problems will go away.
Signed,
the friendly cat association.
Sorry, but I don't want to be on the freeway with someone who needs instructions on how to drive.
Steer clear of the 405 around LA. Oh and the 110 and the 101... Forget it. Just don't drive anywhere in Southern California.
Sorry, I despise Bush as much as the next guy but at a certain point, the "bush sucks" rhetoric gets old.
Actually I think the "next guy" despises Bush more if the rhetoric hasn't gotten old for him yet.
The day I come across an RFID tag on the tin foil at my store is the day I stop shopping there.
I think he is referring not to the fact that the professional developers are not motivated in and of themselves. He is referring more to the environment that professional developers are forced to work in.
E.g. If I stare at the ceiling in my cube for an hour thinking about a problem, my micromanager will roll around and ask me why I am not "working". You see in most professional development environments managers equate typing code with working.
Recently my cubemate was modifying some code and came across the following comment "This routine is cunningly named CreateCustomer because it does not create any customers."
Immediately she turned to me and asked if I had made the comment. After looking at the rest of my, admittedly snide, comments she was immediately able to figure out where to jump to for the real correction.
Perhaps I should secure my neighbour's wireless connection for him before Windows automagically connects to it and gets me arrested!"
True story: I recently got broadband installed at home. After the cable guy left, I whipped out the wireless router I had bought, hooked it up and secured it.
I head downstairs to access it from my wife's PC. whoa! Unsecured connection available! I figured I must have screwed up so go ahead and resecure the router with password and all again. 30 seconds later my router pops up on the screen. Oops! I just "secured" my neighbour's router. Time to go and introduce myself and explain some router fundamentals...
Surely it should at least be legal to do anything in your home which involves nothing more than your body (or other consenting adults' bodies) and anything you have bought.
Your enemy isn't the corporate environment. Your enemy arose spontaneously from a poor choice of employers.
Actually my current employer evolved this way over the last twelve months to impress their other clients. I am in the process of looking for another employer already.
I'm not going to say that corporate environments stifle innovation,
OK, I'll go ahead and say it then. By the time I have finished filling out the CMT, CMD SCM, internal monitoring tool, the problem ticket logs and the updates to the functional and technical specs (in two places), then I am all done for. Any enthusiasm for the work at hand has been sucked out of you before you get a chance to write a single line of code.
For anybody that thinks I am kidding - think again. These are actual documents that I have to complete for each change I make. A 1 hour coding change will often have approx 18 hours of paperwork to go with it.
You pay fees on your POTS line (the FCC line charge) to provide for number portability (amoungst other things) in the name of competition.
Yes, and then funny enough when I try to use that capability by wanting to transfer my number from ATT to Vonage then suddenly ATT is incapable of doing this and have been dragging their feet for 2 months already.
It has now reached the point where if ATT became the only phone supplier in the world then I would have to go back to snail mail. Idiots.
Under the new law it will also be illegal to manufacture a computer keyboard with the forward slash '/' key.
Finally! Microsoft's evil plan to eliminate Linux becomes clear. Go ahead and try to use your Linux box without the '/' key.
Whenever you come up with a theory about america in general, you have to put $ first. And nobody does that better than M$.
I hate to point out the obvious here, but if M$ but $ first as you suggested, then you would in fact be named $M.
So they use Niku at your place as well heh?
Hell, I can guess where I am to that accuracy. I thought GPSs where accurate within 5-8 meters nowadays. And this sounds really useful out in the open ocean, you know, where all those rouge wireless access points hang out.
Do they have to paint the routers red when using them in the ocean or do they transmit the signals in the red light wavelenghts?
More importantly: Is this done to prevent rogue attacks?
That division is the bane of just about every other major tech services provider.
Don't worry. IGS is a bane to themselves as well.
However, I don't think it will take Google very long to respond to this now that Yahoo's solution is out there.
I tried it by plugging "Toyota" in there.
With the setting bar on the research side you get opinions and reviews. With the settings on the shopping side you are directed to the manufacturers site along with their sales channels.
I am impressed and think that Google has been outdone for the first time in a while.
This could become very useful as the web is steadily getting more and more clogged with idiots wanting to sell you stuff all the time but not wanting to give you useful information on it.
This "free trade" idea only works if all countries are created equal. They are not. Thus there must be some form of compromise, unless you *want* the United States to become like India*?
Countries don't need to be equal. People need to be equal. If some company decides tomorrow that they want to send my job to India by the end of the month then I should be in a position to say that I would like to be working in India by the end of the month as well.
See, at the moment we have half of the free trade system in place and that is bad. For free trade to work it needs to be "free". Right now corporations can slice and dice as they want between countries, but the actual people involved are "hemmed in" by the borders.
They would need to create a Google ID for each of their spamming efforts.
After a while, hopefully, some users are "trusted" more than others and we can rank their ratings higher.
Any other suggestions to improve my idea?
I recently sent Google a suggestion on their Search History feature. I would like to be able give each site in my history a thumbs up or down rating. This rating should then appear in future searches. That way at least I can see when a crap site comes up in a search again.
Eventually Google should be able to start aggregating those ratings to find out how the public perceives a site.
It has since been passed. I have the dumbed down "Not to be used for ID purposes" card in my pocket.
Currently most states do not even require proof of U.S. citizenship to obtain a Driver's License. You don't even need a SSN.
How are we going to secure our borders without a national ID system? A nation without the power to control its own borders isn't really nation. It's just a hunk of land.
article at fairus.org In the following states, legal residence is not required to apply for a driver's license: Alaska, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oregon, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Washington, and Wisconsin.
Wrong!!!
I am sure others can point out similar bills in other states.