>So you admit that punctuation and capitalization >enhances communication. That's presentation.
Punctuation enhances communication in the same way that speaking and writing standard english (as opposed to using your favorite dialect, whatever that might be) enhances communication. I would replace 'enhances' above with 'allows'.
Your house analogy doesn't really apply, because a house is a long-term structure. Communication is fleeting.
Wait, I understand now! You can't figure out how to turn off HTML in Outlook! That's OK, I can't figure it out either. Good thing I use mutt.
Email is about conversation. HTML is about presentation. Your comment reminds me of the guy on the news last night who had to describe what everyone was wearing at Brad Pitt's wedding. My condolences if People-magazine crap like that is important to you.
I don't care AT ALL about your presentation, as long as it doesn't distract me from the content. Anything beyond breaking your ideas into paragraphs, using some punctuation, and maybe capitalizing where it makes sense is a distraction.
Maybe you don't have any ideas anyone wants to read about without blinking text and multiple fonts? And do you really want to deal with the people who think presentation makes the idea better?
I guess in that context, I'm proud to be a "green-screen luddite'.
And at a really funky baud rate, like 4312. You have to buy the right chipset and set it up just right. If your time has value, look for the manufacturer's diagnostic consoles on ebay or something. It'll be cheaper.
See also www.obd-2.com (if your time has no value and/or you just want to tinker).
A friend of mine who manages many lists and doesn't want to spend too much time at it (since non of the lists are paying him for his time) wrote a script that filters list submissions, stripping free-email footers and rejecting messages that
1. quote too much (e.g. more quoted text than new content) 2. send HTML attachments 3. have a horribly misconfigured mailer (*cough*Outlook*cough*) 4. send large messages or binary attachments
It works very well on one of his lists to which I subscribe. I don't know about the others, but I'd guess he's getting similar results with them also.
You can get decent security with Lucent's WaveLAN Gold cards. If you're cheap (not a good idea where network security is concerned, but not everyone has critical data floating around their networks), check out Freebase; they claim to describe how to replace the WaveLAN Silver card in Apple's Airport with the Gold version for better security.
Check out Signio's list of merchant account sources. A lot of them will accept online applications (to start with; they all want you to sign over your first-born before handing you a merchant account).
I don't think much of this holds if the company is VC-backed. If the VCs are big, and if they've put in enough money, and if management doesn't do a Pointcast, there WILL be an IPO, and it will most likely make you some money.
The most important indicator is how many times the management team has take a company public in the past. More IPOs == higher chance of a big IPO again.
Don't take much of a pay cut, and get some vacation time accrued before you start. Make sure you take that vacation time and unwind; startups can be pretty vicious places to work (been there, done that, got the scars to prove it).
Food is always good (look up news of Google's chef), and posting news of your industry that shows how your product will be a winner works for a while. Control over work environment is great too; look for news of Pocket Science's office layout (maybe on their web site?). One company I worked for had 'cookie time' every afternoon; cookies, coffee, conversation. It usually ended up being about work, but we enjoyed a little break and 'bonded' some.
I was talking with my neighbor, who runs a commercial plumbing business, and he was very concerned that the remedies may involve long-term government intervention or monitoring. I agree with him that this would be a bad thing.
What is the likelihood that the remedies will be structured as a single "whack in the head with a two-by-four", as opposed to the equivalent of having the fat kid sit on Bill's head for the rest of his life?
Lotus Notes is a virus. I've worked with a few people who have caught it, and they feel compelled to introduce it into every company whether it's suited for the job or not.
Domino is an abomination. Do you ever email URLs to people from memory? You'll never do that again if you use Domino. The URLs are usually more than 60 chars of hex. There are ways around that, but they break the 'fully automated, luser-updatable' model.
I am not a Notes admin, so I might have this all wrong. But I've never seen it work any other way. And I'm sorry that I don't have any positive suggestions. I can only advise you to run as fast as you can from Notes and Domino.
I've been playing with computers for money since 1977. I've never had a job longer than 3.5 years, and I actually had three fairly different jobs at that company. Usually I quit because I got burned out, not because I had a better offer. I always ended up making more money at the next job, though.
My dad worked at Rockwell for over twenty years. My father-in-law worked for TWA for 38 years. I just can't imagine that. I need the challenge of learning something completely new every couple years. And being around different people has helped me to see more ways of thinking about problems and their solutions.
I've been stressed in good ways and bad. I've learned how to detect BS without hardly listening. I've developed a cynical but very accurate way of rating executives, and predicting the success or failure of their pet projects. That's stressful because while I'm not underpaid, they are pulling down 2x-3x what I make, and often producing nothing but poor morale and economic losses.
But the other side of it all is that I have enough money to travel, to live in a nice house, to drive a fun car, to spend time with my friends and family. I can even make time to go to the gym once in a while.
The people who really burn out are the ones who can't find enough balance in their lives. Even the deepest wirehead needs to be social in a real-time 3D tactile environment sometimes (i.e. the real world, with real people). The ones who don't acknowledge that and MAKE TIME for it are the ones who have daydreams about moving to a teepee in northern Idaho.
How will the new competitors to NSI gain a competitive advantage by using this data? Sounds like they're promising to spam domain contacts.
Just what I need, more trash in my mailbox.
I do agree that the directory is owned by the public (i.e. taxpayers and domain holders), but I think the basis for the challenge ("but we NEED to spam those people to be competitive!") is laughable.
I'm happy for the UF creator and fans. It's great to be recognized.
OTOH, I'd much rather see O'Reilly publish a collection of Ask Mr. Protocol columns. I think they're funnier, and there's technical content in those articles as well. His column on VR had me rolling on the floor Check out another of his best on The Bazaar, The Agora, and Mr. P.
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>So you admit that punctuation and capitalization
>enhances communication. That's presentation.
Punctuation enhances communication in the same way that speaking and writing standard english (as opposed to using your favorite dialect, whatever that might be) enhances communication. I would replace 'enhances' above with 'allows'.
Your house analogy doesn't really apply, because a house is a long-term structure. Communication is fleeting.
Wait, I understand now! You can't figure out how to turn off HTML in Outlook! That's OK, I can't figure it out either. Good thing I use mutt.
Email is about conversation. HTML is about presentation. Your comment reminds me of the guy on the news last night who had to describe what everyone was wearing at Brad Pitt's wedding. My condolences if People-magazine crap like that is important to you.
I don't care AT ALL about your presentation, as long as it doesn't distract me from the content. Anything beyond breaking your ideas into paragraphs, using some punctuation, and maybe capitalizing where it makes sense is a distraction.
Maybe you don't have any ideas anyone wants to read about without blinking text and multiple fonts? And do you really want to deal with the people who think presentation makes the idea better?
I guess in that context, I'm proud to be a "green-screen luddite'.
See also www.obd-2.com (if your time has no value and/or you just want to tinker).
A friend of mine who manages many lists and doesn't want to spend too much time at it (since non of the lists are paying him for his time) wrote a script that filters list submissions, stripping free-email footers and rejecting messages that
1. quote too much (e.g. more quoted text than new content)
2. send HTML attachments
3. have a horribly misconfigured mailer (*cough*Outlook*cough*)
4. send large messages or binary attachments
It works very well on one of his lists to which I subscribe. I don't know about the others, but I'd guess he's getting similar results with them also.
You can get decent security with Lucent's WaveLAN Gold cards. If you're cheap (not a good idea where network security is concerned, but not everyone has critical data floating around their networks), check out Freebase; they claim to describe how to replace the WaveLAN Silver card in Apple's Airport with the Gold version for better security.
Also see MerchantWorkz.
Good call. I just signed up too.
I don't think much of this holds if the company is VC-backed. If the VCs are big, and if they've put in enough money, and if management doesn't do a Pointcast, there WILL be an IPO, and it will most likely make you some money.
The most important indicator is how many times the management team has take a company public in the past. More IPOs == higher chance of a big IPO again.
Don't take much of a pay cut, and get some vacation time accrued before you start. Make sure you take that vacation time and unwind; startups can be pretty vicious places to work (been there, done that, got the scars to prove it).
Good luck!
Food is always good (look up news of Google's chef), and posting news of your industry that shows how your product will be a winner works for a while. Control over work environment is great too; look for news of Pocket Science's office layout (maybe on their web site?). One company I worked for had 'cookie time' every afternoon; cookies, coffee, conversation. It usually ended up being about work, but we enjoyed a little break and 'bonded' some.
Good luck! Let us know what works.
I was talking with my neighbor, who runs a commercial plumbing business, and he was very concerned that the remedies may involve long-term government intervention or monitoring. I agree with him that this would be a bad thing.
What is the likelihood that the remedies will be structured as a single "whack in the head with a two-by-four", as opposed to the equivalent of having the fat kid sit on Bill's head for the rest of his life?
Lotus Notes is a virus. I've worked with a few people who have caught it, and they feel compelled to introduce it into every company whether it's suited for the job or not.
Domino is an abomination. Do you ever email URLs to people from memory? You'll never do that again if you use Domino. The URLs are usually more than 60 chars of hex. There are ways around that, but they break the 'fully automated, luser-updatable' model.
I am not a Notes admin, so I might have this all wrong. But I've never seen it work any other way. And I'm sorry that I don't have any positive suggestions. I can only advise you to run as fast as you can from Notes and Domino.
I've been playing with computers for money since 1977. I've never had a job longer than 3.5 years, and I actually had three fairly different jobs at that company. Usually I quit because I got burned out, not because I had a better offer. I always ended up making more money at the next job, though.
My dad worked at Rockwell for over twenty years. My father-in-law worked for TWA for 38 years. I just can't imagine that. I need the challenge of learning something completely new every couple years. And being around different people has helped me to see more ways of thinking about problems and their solutions.
I've been stressed in good ways and bad. I've learned how to detect BS without hardly listening. I've developed a cynical but very accurate way of rating executives, and predicting the success or failure of their pet projects. That's stressful because while I'm not underpaid, they are pulling down 2x-3x what I make, and often producing nothing but poor morale and economic losses.
But the other side of it all is that I have enough money to travel, to live in a nice house, to drive a fun car, to spend time with my friends and family. I can even make time to go to the gym once in a while.
The people who really burn out are the ones who can't find enough balance in their lives. Even the deepest wirehead needs to be social in a real-time 3D tactile environment sometimes (i.e. the real world, with real people). The ones who don't acknowledge that and MAKE TIME for it are the ones who have daydreams about moving to a teepee in northern Idaho.
Look for 'stunnel' in your favorite search engine. I think I've seen a nice web page about setting it up too. It uses OpenSSL (formerly SSLeay).
Cupertino and Santa Clara both have wired apartment buildings, and I think the new condos in downtown San Jose are wired.
How will the new competitors to NSI gain a competitive advantage by using this data? Sounds like they're promising to spam domain contacts.
Just what I need, more trash in my mailbox.
I do agree that the directory is owned by the public (i.e. taxpayers and domain holders), but I think the basis for the challenge ("but we NEED to spam those people to be competitive!") is laughable.
I'm happy for the UF creator and fans. It's great to be recognized.
OTOH, I'd much rather see O'Reilly publish a collection of Ask Mr. Protocol columns. I think they're funnier, and there's technical content in those articles as well. His column on VR had me rolling on the floor Check out another of his best on The Bazaar, The Agora, and Mr. P.