Except in sports and music where successful people tend to come from poor or middle class families. Families that can't afford to send their kids down the "safe path" to middle class via college. Some of these kids instead devote their lives to getting good at sports or music. Good enough to get scholarships or even directly to a pro career.
first, Dubai doesn't have that much oil. Not nearly as much as those crazy Canadians.
second, if the Netherlands wants a skating surface (I'll assume you meant rink) outside, it wouldn't take any electricity, unless they used electricity to clean the snow and smooth the surface. The Netherlands is quite far north you know. More north than all of the Great Lakes. (assuming a seasonal rink, which is only logical)
third, if the builders in Dubai pumped water through those pipes and then used that same water for things like showers or laundry (ie. things that _need_ hot water) you could have a net reduction in energy use.
In summary, don't panic, stop hating the places you don't know, don't panic.
You know, a capitalist society would say, "let me pay for what I want to use", and a socialist society would say, "bill everyone the same and give everyone the same opportunity."
I'm surprised American's so dislike free play with micro-transactions and prefer to pay a large monthly fee.
You know, universal health care might work for you guys.
Don't think, "What can I do to/for them?" because that puts you one one side and them on the other. If you are part of the team then they will want to work for you because you are one of them.
Becoming part of the team doesn't mean doing their job. That is their role. Play your own. As a manager you fight for your guys in any discussion with the rest of the organization. And let your team see it. Defend their flexible time, their choice of desk decoration, whatever. Then eat where they eat and generally be around for them.
They will be motivated to work for you if they want you to be a part of their team.
the parent comment is as it should be. so long, and thanks for all the laughs. still today i show people to your books, as i was shown so many years ago. they first look at me funny, then thank me later. you have brought joy to the world, which if you ask me, is all anyone can hope for. thank-you
this is awfuly distressing. I am a long time CT supporter, who was recently bought out by TD. CT has been a long time supporter of new/cool tech and "the right way to do it". for instance, when all the big banks came out with their own software to connect to their "PC Banking", Canada Trust beat them to the market by "PC Banking" over the web. makes sense to me.
anyway, I hope cooler heads at Toronto Doominion pervail, and the merger uses Canada Trust's technology for their web stuff.
sigh. no one (including me likely) looks at the big picture. why, oh why.
slashdot had nothing to do with MS's IP, the poster did. slashdot being the provider. same deal as if google linked to a web site that had copyright. not googles fault. it is the authors.
if now slashdot had removed the article, they would have in essence been saying they are responsible for and capable of monitoring and legalizing comments. not just this comment, but they would then be responsible for every comment ever posted on slashdot. hello censorship.
what slashdot did was right.
and btw: sticking to their ideals means releasing things like slashcode. i would say they are doing an admirable job. their IP rights are freely downloadable under an open source licence i believe.
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Q: why can open source produce software faster and better than closed source? why can't companies paying tonnes of money create far superior software?
A: because in open source, coders are coding because they enjoy it. they contribute what they are good at and interested in. in closed source, coders code what they are paid to. whether they are interested in it or not.
you find me one person out there that can do an _outstanding_ job at any task he isn't totaly interested in. doesn't happen. can't happen.
free that person from their straps and let them create what they want/need. let them itch their itch. THEN you will have great products. (not just software)
now that all said, if we "did away with money" it would create a long "dark" period of wild parties/unproductivity and scarce resources, but once through that (assuming we survive) it would be better.
maybe we'll start that on civilization 2.0 on another planet. heh who knows.
i am not a areospace engineer in anyway, but can't this technology be used to help spacecraft on re-entry? if we only had to worry about the nose burning up, that would seem to be a lot easier.
i don't get it. there seems to be a case presented here that "christians" have used the name for centuries, and the soccer team has for only meere years. somehow that makes it ok for this one guy to own it. he has no claim on the name. the bible may, but no one "owns" that. if you are impling a copyright to the name in the bible, i fail to see how this one guy became the owner of the copyright.
ah Bruce, you have read my comment from a few days ago about GUI design. Re:Form follows function
seems as though the same thing applies here. physical devices, OS's, etc., will fade from the view of "normal" users (read: mom), but will likely get handled roughly the same way by the hardware underneath.
speech. ok, so you have heard that before, but current speech technologies use a monitor... why?
the new gui will all but disappear visually... i will have many many "panels" throughout my house. some on walls, some handheld (but bigger than the palm pilot, some the same size) and some on appliances. my "computer" will be cased in a closet somewhere, and i will walk around the house asking my computer to do things.... like, " computer, please display the current weather sat image on this handheld" and poof.. there it is.
"computer, what is the price of ram today at egghead.com" (a voice echos, 15$ per GB, sir)
"computer, please dial mom" (mom says hello through household stereo speakers, only in the room i am in)
"computer, do i have all the ingrediants for 'brian's pizza recipie #4'" (computer answers no, you still need cheese) (ie, it remembered i asked before... arg.. silly me)
"computer, please find which channel is playing the blue jays game, and display it on that wall display" (i point, and the game appears)
see, these are all functions that we can do with computers today, but require a lot of effort on our part. ie, all current groceries in a database, a tv-tuner and tv-out card manually set up. etc, etc.
the "GUI" essentially disappears. as does the manual work.
coming from a guy who owned an ISP, i'll give you some insight. this new deal is quite likely a lot more to do with marketing guys than the accountants. @home promotes fast download speeds. the problem, however, is that to keep your cable modem flowing nicely, you need both ends to keep up. i'll bet they're finding that their network is not the limiting factor in "slow downloads" but instead it is the transport in between. they are just eliminating as much of that transport as possible.
so what you are saying is that it *IS* a PC with no monitor, only everyone will own exactly the same one.
and that doesn't equal less bugs. bugs work on a code : testing ratio. since there will be less hardware difference, it is likely there will be less testing. Therefore, i'll bet just as many bugs get through.
i have read and read many of the comments posted in all the articles. I think someone needs a summary.
most people are in agreement that the posting of the spec in full was illegal. but who cares. we are not lawyers. we have no right to judge what is or what is not legal.
if slashdot claims responsibily for the comment by willingly removing it, they have claimed responsibilty for all comments. BUT, if a court orders them to remove this one comment, the court takes all responsibilty.
i would rather the court stay out of it as much as the next guy, but we didn't bring the court in to this. now that they are here, we must play by those rules.
if microsoft doesn't want a comment here, let them use a court to remove it. let them sue the poster if they like (assuming illegal activity was conducted), but slashdot is NOT responsible.
whether slashdot wins or looses this battle does not matter. as i have read, most of us would rather it not be there as well. whether we win the war matters.
at work we use css, cpma, infoman, and soon remedy and esm. most of these are rare and/or custom built. the one feature i like, however, is an audit trail for updates, with timestamp. a must have.
This is the first of what will me many similar stories. It is important to note, that no credit card customer had to pay a single cent for their stolen cards. Without a signature, all charged transactions could have been reversed.
The thing that gets me, is that this will separate the smart companies from the dumb. Or, perhaps the forward thinking, from the offended.
Here is an 18 year old russian. (perhaps) He is likely unemployed, and has since learned more skills than any single person at CDuniverse.com. He knows how to check security systems, and make systems secure, as well as hide his idenitity. Skilled and experienced beyond 99% of the tech population.
All he is asking for is $100,000. why? just a random number.. that sounds like a lot of money.
What CDuniverse.com did -- nothing.. then call the feds when they called his bluff. -- stupid.
What they should have done -- OFFERED HIM A JOB !!! i am not kidding. this is a good kid. if he was bad, he would have used them for himself. he would have given them out on IRC without telling anyone. if he was bad, or dumb, he would not have gone through the trouble of contacting CDuniverse.com several times to ask them to allow him to fix the hole.
He simply wanted regcongintion of his greatness, and to be paid for it.
CDuniverse.com however was offended... and didn't think some 18 year old russian could hurt their bussiness. Now it is out all over the news, and i'll bet their sales are down.
They likely could have paid him $40k a year to work on contract.. but no, they would rather loose.
Companies are afraid of the internet because 18 year old freaks know WAY more than they do... but instead of hiring them, they choose to ignore them... bad decision in my books.
maybe it is just the "open-source, why-doesn't-everyone-just-get-along" attitude in me, but i think we are going about things in the wrong way.
the securites never work properly, and like some other poster said, it will only create black markets for copiers.
black market copiers mean we won't catch the criminals, we will just make their life a little more difficult, while punishing all the law abiding citizens with poorer documents.
--- on another note, i am tired off all the "they are tracking me" debate. i say we either go headlong and track EVERYTHING (i don't have much to hide anyway) or track nothing.
if we track everything all the time, morale will be down, but it will be fair to all. i mean watch us from space if you have to, but i don't want a single second of human evolution un-recorded.
otherwise, tracking is of no use! criminals are the only ones who actually take the time to get around the tracking (making it therefore pointless) and if they don't avoid the track, then they weren't very good criminals anyway, and i seriously doubt they were going to do much harm.
(i mean, why don't we fill up our jails with all the literers, and leave the murderes to run free, right?)
ok, that last statement was a huge exageration, but these new "features" DON'T get the REAL criminals it was intended to catch.
Slashdot Mirror
I am not alone. ahhhhhhhhh
Except in sports and music where successful people tend to come from poor or middle class families. Families that can't afford to send their kids down the "safe path" to middle class via college. Some of these kids instead devote their lives to getting good at sports or music. Good enough to get scholarships or even directly to a pro career.
You are right. It is called Dunbar's Number (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar's_number) or around 150 people.
I for one accuse that man of copyright infringement! Who is with me? Maybe if there are 3 or 4 or us we can get him kicked off the net!
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Need a break? Try Fable Island
first, Dubai doesn't have that much oil. Not nearly as much as those crazy Canadians.
second, if the Netherlands wants a skating surface (I'll assume you meant rink) outside, it wouldn't take any electricity, unless they used electricity to clean the snow and smooth the surface. The Netherlands is quite far north you know. More north than all of the Great Lakes. (assuming a seasonal rink, which is only logical)
third, if the builders in Dubai pumped water through those pipes and then used that same water for things like showers or laundry (ie. things that _need_ hot water) you could have a net reduction in energy use.
In summary, don't panic, stop hating the places you don't know, don't panic.
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Boring conference call? Try Fable Island
You know, a capitalist society would say, "let me pay for what I want to use", and a socialist society would say, "bill everyone the same and give everyone the same opportunity."
I'm surprised American's so dislike free play with micro-transactions and prefer to pay a large monthly fee.
You know, universal health care might work for you guys.
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Boring conference call? Try Fable Island
First, don't approach this backwards.
Don't think, "What can I do to/for them?" because that puts you one one side and them on the other. If you are part of the team then they will want to work for you because you are one of them.
Becoming part of the team doesn't mean doing their job. That is their role. Play your own. As a manager you fight for your guys in any discussion with the rest of the organization. And let your team see it. Defend their flexible time, their choice of desk decoration, whatever. Then eat where they eat and generally be around for them.
They will be motivated to work for you if they want you to be a part of their team.
the parent comment is as it should be. so long, and thanks for all the laughs. still today i show people to your books, as i was shown so many years ago. they first look at me funny, then thank me later. you have brought joy to the world, which if you ask me, is all anyone can hope for. thank-you
i read all the comments (so far) and the general consensus is --- nail the teacher too!
WHY ?
ok, if the kid breaks in and changes his grade and tries to get away with it. nail him.
if the kid breaks in and erases everything. nail him.
if the kid breaks in and then tells the faculty he did and how. praise him !
why the would they want to charge ANYONE?
ah, i am lost...... school sucked.
this is awfuly distressing. I am a long time CT supporter, who was recently bought out by TD. CT has been a long time supporter of new/cool tech and "the right way to do it". for instance, when all the big banks came out with their own software to connect to their "PC Banking", Canada Trust beat them to the market by "PC Banking" over the web. makes sense to me.
anyway, I hope cooler heads at Toronto Doominion pervail, and the merger uses Canada Trust's technology for their web stuff.
wake up guys.
sigh. no one (including me likely) looks at the big picture. why, oh why.
slashdot had nothing to do with MS's IP, the poster did. slashdot being the provider. same deal as if google linked to a web site that had copyright. not googles fault. it is the authors.
if now slashdot had removed the article, they would have in essence been saying they are responsible for and capable of monitoring and legalizing comments. not just this comment, but they would then be responsible for every comment ever posted on slashdot. hello censorship.
what slashdot did was right.
and btw: sticking to their ideals means releasing things like slashcode. i would say they are doing an admirable job. their IP rights are freely downloadable under an open source licence i believe.
who screamed or bitched?
they released slashcode for the sole purpose of allowing others to be able to implement replicas of their site easily.
i could go on, but why. this seems like pretty persuasive evidence.
yup.
--
Q: why can open source produce software faster and better than closed source? why can't companies paying tonnes of money create far superior software?
A: because in open source, coders are coding because they enjoy it. they contribute what they are good at and interested in. in closed source, coders code what they are paid to. whether they are interested in it or not.
you find me one person out there that can do an _outstanding_ job at any task he isn't totaly interested in. doesn't happen. can't happen.
free that person from their straps and let them create what they want/need. let them itch their itch. THEN you will have great products. (not just software)
now that all said, if we "did away with money" it would create a long "dark" period of wild parties/unproductivity and scarce resources, but once through that (assuming we survive) it would be better.
maybe we'll start that on civilization 2.0 on another planet. heh who knows.
i agree. however, the question is:
should being an ass be illegal?
i am not a areospace engineer in anyway, but can't this technology be used to help spacecraft on re-entry? if we only had to worry about the nose burning up, that would seem to be a lot easier.
i don't get it. there seems to be a case presented here that "christians" have used the name for centuries, and the soccer team has for only meere years. somehow that makes it ok for this one guy to own it. he has no claim on the name. the bible may, but no one "owns" that. if you are impling a copyright to the name in the bible, i fail to see how this one guy became the owner of the copyright.
ah Bruce, you have read my comment from a few days ago about GUI design. Re:Form follows function
seems as though the same thing applies here. physical devices, OS's, etc., will fade from the view of "normal" users (read: mom), but will likely get handled roughly the same way by the hardware underneath.
true, very true. and this is how i see it....
speech. ok, so you have heard that before, but current speech technologies use a monitor... why?
the new gui will all but disappear visually... i will have many many "panels" throughout my house. some on walls, some handheld (but bigger than the palm pilot, some the same size) and some on appliances. my "computer" will be cased in a closet somewhere, and i will walk around the house asking my computer to do things.... like, " computer, please display the current weather sat image on this handheld" and poof.. there it is.
"computer, what is the price of ram today at egghead.com" (a voice echos, 15$ per GB, sir)
"computer, please dial mom" (mom says hello through household stereo speakers, only in the room i am in)
"computer, do i have all the ingrediants for 'brian's pizza recipie #4'" (computer answers no, you still need cheese) (ie, it remembered i asked before... arg.. silly me)
"computer, please find which channel is playing the blue jays game, and display it on that wall display" (i point, and the game appears)
see, these are all functions that we can do with computers today, but require a lot of effort on our part. ie, all current groceries in a database, a tv-tuner and tv-out card manually set up. etc, etc.
the "GUI" essentially disappears. as does the manual work.
coming from a guy who owned an ISP, i'll give you some insight. this new deal is quite likely a lot more to do with marketing guys than the accountants. @home promotes fast download speeds. the problem, however, is that to keep your cable modem flowing nicely, you need both ends to keep up. i'll bet they're finding that their network is not the limiting factor in "slow downloads" but instead it is the transport in between. they are just eliminating as much of that transport as possible.
so what you are saying is that it *IS* a PC with no monitor, only everyone will own exactly the same one.
and that doesn't equal less bugs. bugs work on a code : testing ratio. since there will be less hardware difference, it is likely there will be less testing. Therefore, i'll bet just as many bugs get through.
if you like wildly outlandish no basis in proof conspiracy stories....
:-)
microsoft paid someone to post the spec in full on to slashdot.
try that one on for size
i have read and read many of the comments posted in all the articles. I think someone needs a summary.
most people are in agreement that the posting of the spec in full was illegal. but who cares. we are not lawyers. we have no right to judge what is or what is not legal.
if slashdot claims responsibily for the comment by willingly removing it, they have claimed responsibilty for all comments. BUT, if a court orders them to remove this one comment, the court takes all responsibilty.
i would rather the court stay out of it as much as the next guy, but we didn't bring the court in to this. now that they are here, we must play by those rules.
if microsoft doesn't want a comment here, let them use a court to remove it. let them sue the poster if they like (assuming illegal activity was conducted), but slashdot is NOT responsible.
whether slashdot wins or looses this battle does not matter. as i have read, most of us would rather it not be there as well. whether we win the war matters.
i believe this is the page you are looking for. http://www.iac.honeywell.com/Pub/Tech/CM/PMTools.h tml#FreeTools.
There are reviews of many commercial and free apps.
at work we use css, cpma, infoman, and soon remedy and esm. most of these are rare and/or custom built. the one feature i like, however, is an audit trail for updates, with timestamp. a must have.
This is the first of what will me many similar stories.
It is important to note, that no credit card customer had to pay a single cent for their stolen cards. Without a signature, all charged transactions could have
been reversed.
The thing that gets me, is that this will separate the smart companies from the dumb.
Or, perhaps the forward thinking, from the offended.
Here is an 18 year old russian. (perhaps)
He is likely unemployed, and has since learned more skills than any single person at CDuniverse.com. He knows how to check security systems, and
make systems secure, as well as hide his idenitity. Skilled and experienced beyond 99% of the tech population.
All he is asking for is $100,000. why? just a random number.. that sounds like a lot of money.
What CDuniverse.com did -- nothing.. then call the feds when they called his bluff. -- stupid.
What they should have done -- OFFERED HIM A JOB !!!
i am not kidding. this is a good kid. if he was bad, he would have used them for himself.
he would have given them out on IRC without telling anyone.
if he was bad, or dumb, he would not have gone through the trouble of contacting CDuniverse.com several times to ask them to allow him to fix the hole.
He simply wanted regcongintion of his greatness, and to be paid for it.
CDuniverse.com however was offended... and didn't think some 18 year old russian could hurt their bussiness. Now it is out all over the news, and i'll bet
their sales are down.
They likely could have paid him $40k a year to work on contract.. but no, they would rather loose.
Companies are afraid of the internet because 18 year old freaks know WAY more than they do... but instead of hiring them, they choose to ignore them...
bad decision in my books.
your opinion?
maybe it is just the "open-source, why-doesn't-everyone-just-get-along" attitude in me, but i think we are going about things in the wrong way.
the securites never work properly, and like some other poster said, it will only create black markets for copiers.
black market copiers mean we won't catch the criminals, we will just make their life a little more difficult, while punishing all the law abiding citizens with poorer documents.
---
on another note, i am tired off all the "they are tracking me" debate. i say we either go headlong and track EVERYTHING (i don't have much to hide anyway) or track nothing.
if we track everything all the time, morale will be down, but it will be fair to all. i mean watch us from space if you have to, but i don't want a single second of human evolution un-recorded.
otherwise, tracking is of no use! criminals are the only ones who actually take the time to get around the tracking (making it therefore pointless) and if they don't avoid the track, then they weren't very good criminals anyway, and i seriously doubt they were going to do much harm.
(i mean, why don't we fill up our jails with all the literers, and leave the murderes to run free, right?)
ok, that last statement was a huge exageration, but these new "features" DON'T get the REAL criminals it was intended to catch.