As a rule this sort of practice sucks. If the product is good enough, sell it on your own. If the big company wants it, make them pay up front just to see everything, they can afford it. The only defence you have is to contact all of the competitors of the big company and make them aware of what you have and the current situation. Hopefully you can get a bidding war going.
In general make sure you have the CEO of the big company as a signatory on any documents, make sure they are witnessed etc. Make it clear that you will go after the company and the indivdual if you have any problems. You can't win against the CEO but you can drag him through the mud.
'"one place" where things were done *right*... Luckily I'm approaching that middle management age'
I'm sorry to say that this mythical company doesn't exist. There are a number of good companies to work for, trouble is they usually have a stable workforce and very rarely hire:-(
As a middle manager you get to take all the crap from upper management and unless you really are a good manager your staff will think you a jerk. Being something of a similar age, 15+ years in the industry, the last role I want is management. I would like to design/code until I drop.
I'd like to see what they think is the shortest way to finish 501, nine darts is the answer. saw John Lowe do this once:-) Two darts from 101 etc.
I also wonder if the tutor is smart enough to realise that John is crap and should always aim at triple 19s. Clive is playing and it just lights the whole board up as a guide:-) etc
Lastly, whatever happened to KISS, there is more hardware here than they took to the moon:-)
I believe you could do it with a perl or some such script, best with java:-) The runtime environment has equivalents under linux. LDA etc can be simply implemented. DB2 is available under Linux, any RDBMS would work.
In fact the database port would probably be easiest using java/jdbc, I would imagine you could write the code to do this within a week.
On the shell front, I think it would be a neat but pointless thing to port QCMD to Linux, instead of starting bash you would start QCMD:-) OS/400 has other shells as well.
Having been a System/38,AS/400,iSeries developer for ten+ years I have often thought how cool it would be for IBM to supply the RPG/COBOL/CL/DDS compilers on Linux and allow the low end AS/400s to slowly fade. I never bought into companies moving their AS/400 stuff to another vendors platform but an open platform would be just the ticket. If someone is approaching IBM to do this approach the Linux or Java teams not the AS/400 team:-)
Google provides some good links for RPG to COBOL and JAVA. There is also the option of Baby/ISeries. The GNU RPG compiler has been a bit of a disappointment.
My personal preference would be for a convertor to take RPG/COBOL/CL/DDS and spit out either JAVA or C and SQL. Actually I wouldn't mind doing this but I'm not going to do it on my own time, hint:-)
The New Scientist is not a balanced source! it is a lot better than tabloids and such but still it has it's own agenda. The NS reports on what the current majority in scientific thinking is and it does this exteremly well. I subscribe to NS but I still see it as biased.
PS the article you linked to had nothing to do with global warming? Prehaps http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns999 91915http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id= ns99991915
There a very few scientists who have the requiste knowledge and data to comment on global warming. Most scientists can only comment on certain areas.
In the 70s we had a lot of scientists saying we were on the brink of an ice age, in fact a number of these changed their tune. Now we have a lot of scientists saying we are on the brink of a heat wave. Who is accurate?
Goverment funding for an unbiased news source, what hell are you smoking, please re read and understand that there is no unbiased reporting, none. The best you can do is understand what the bias is of your news source.
No the winter here in San Francisco has been fucking freezing, lowest temps etc etc In short it's been bloody miserable. However the summers seem to have been warmer as well.
My belief is that as with most things humans do not have enough accurate historical evidence to say what the temperature is doing and they have even less understanding of how our actions influence that temperature.
Science is not a new religion and the sooner people understand that because a scientist says something does not make it accurate.
In short, the climate is changing as it always has and we do not have a fucking clue why. But a boat load of scientists can pretty much tell where their next round of funding is coming from.
It may be infantile thinking. But there is a great difference between my choosing to fight and my being ordered to fight.
The US has hung people for only following orders and shot others for not following orders. the only difference being on which side the soldier was fighting.
Certain countries have tried peace, Switzerland for instance, Iceland, Eire others? You could also count countries that only use armed forces for defense of it's own borders.
The problem with the US trying peace is that it requires an intelligent, educated and compasionate population, the current population in America is none of the above.
The US also has the problem of all the acts of war it has committed and continues to commit. America is financially built on it's defense industry, look where the current administration is spending it's money.
In short America is never going to willingly buy into peace. Take a look at some of the comments posted to your comment, hardly full of the milk of human kindness are they?
"Capitalism in it's pure form would require everyone to disclose everything and would result in the greatest loss of privacy since stalin cracked down on political dissidents in his country."
I am all for a complete disclosure of every piece of information. State, Corporation and Individual. This would result in a far more tolerant and civilised society.
I would like to be able to see my neighbours past. Would like to see what my goverment has done in my name. Would like to see who earns what. etc etc etc I would like to have the same access to information that state and corporation have. In return everyone can look at my info, what do I care as long as the info about me is correct?
If you read "Transparent Society by David Brin" it details how the route we're taking at the moment with privacy is nothing but a house of straw. All the pgp and such like is useless.
I'm not foolish enough to think that goverments and corporations would ever willingly give up the power they have. In my eyes I see America as a wondeful failure. It could have been so much and yet it seems destined to implode like so many other attempts at civilisation.
In the present companies want to make money, patents are one means of making money and at the same time hindering the competition.
Companies would still invest the time and money to invent things if patents were removed. It is a fallacy that world needs patents. Companies with stock holders need patents.
I'm not a radical lefty, I agree a lot with Ayn Rand and economist Ludwig von Mises, I do not agree with the current slanted view that most politicians, business crooks and recent college grads seem to have on what capatilism should be.
May I be so bold as to suggest you read http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~shadab/ There you might find that there is a theory that capitalism is supposed to benefit the individual not the corporation. To achieve this there must be no regulation of business, Laissez-faire
What patents do is provide a monoploy, a goverment sanctioned one at that. How can this be in the best interests of anyone but the company holding the patent?
Solaris would not die rather it's best features would become part of the SUN/Linux distro. If Sun was really generous they could release their server extensions to the community.
I have long thought we need a common OS and it looks like Linux is becomming that. Why should I have to learn a new way of doing things purely because I'm using different hardware?
Given the benfits of commodity hardware I feel that SUN will start really hurting unles they go with the flow. IBM will also get hit in the hardware dept. Give it ten years and we will probably have most businesses running on commodity hardware. Moores Law really is a death knell for custom hardware.
There is also the consideration of skilled techs and programmers.
If you have to find Apple techs they're not as common as the intel variety:-)
Also the bulk of beowulf programming is done on intel hardware. This probably means that the same code will execute faster on intel because of the greater level of optimization. The larger a user base the more likely for progress to happen. On this note I think this is why M$ is going to have real problems in the next five years:-)
A number of years ago I spent a long time researching KVMs and came to the conclusion that they're really not that much of a solution in reducing clutter.
I went with another solution VNC it reduced cables etc and allowed me to locate all my hardware except one PC in a machine room.
I had ten windoze PCs, a few Linux boxes, A Sparc Solaris and an Apple Imac all accessable from my Linux desktop.
Of ourse as a software solution the remote machine has to be running but you can login, logout reboot etc
since way back I've always wanted to work on the latest and greatest. So I took a Mech Engineering degree, then they said computers were the greatest so, I just finished my CS degree and they said the hot thing was Biotech, so four years later I have my 'Bio-Informatics' degree then they said Nanotech so four more years and it's now Mechanical engineering.. hey
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ROTFL
:-)
Just like Enron paid for a president
In answer
1) Change the defaults, you do not want to send this letter to people who are not interested, do you?
2) Do not accept/solicit emails from partner sites.
3) Use double opt-in by default.
Given the above it sure sounds like you send unsolicated email to me. What are the problems from doing the above?
GET A GOOD LAWYER NOW.
As a rule this sort of practice sucks. If the product is good enough, sell it on your own. If the big company wants it, make them pay up front just to see everything, they can afford it. The only defence you have is to contact all of the competitors of the big company and make them aware of what you have and the current situation. Hopefully you can get a bidding war going.
In general make sure you have the CEO of the big company as a signatory on any documents, make sure they are witnessed etc. Make it clear that you will go after the company and the indivdual if you have any problems. You can't win against the CEO but you can drag him through the mud.
A beowulf cluster is not limited to Linux, it could run on top of any OS. I believe NASA did the original design work to be OS agnostic.
http://www.windowsclusters.org/projects.htm gives a list of current Windows clusters.
Finally, are you out of your tiny little mind? I wonder why M$ is so keen to help. There is no such thing as a free lunch, espically from M$.
'"one place" where things were done *right*... Luckily I'm approaching that middle management age'
:-(
I'm sorry to say that this mythical company doesn't exist. There are a number of good companies to work for, trouble is they usually have a stable workforce and very rarely hire
As a middle manager you get to take all the crap from upper management and unless you really are a good manager your staff will think you a jerk. Being something of a similar age, 15+ years in the industry, the last role I want is management. I would like to design/code until I drop.
I'd like to see what they think is the shortest way to finish 501, nine darts is the answer. saw John Lowe do this once :-) Two darts from 101 etc.
:-)
I also wonder if the tutor is smart enough to realise that John is crap and should always aim at triple 19s. Clive is playing and it just lights the whole board up as a guide:-) etc
Lastly, whatever happened to KISS, there is more hardware here than they took to the moon
I believe you could do it with a perl or some such script, best with java :-) The runtime environment has equivalents under linux. LDA etc can be simply implemented. DB2 is available under Linux, any RDBMS would work.
:-) OS/400 has other shells as well.
In fact the database port would probably be easiest using java/jdbc, I would imagine you could write the code to do this within a week.
On the shell front, I think it would be a neat but pointless thing to port QCMD to Linux, instead of starting bash you would start QCMD
Having been a System/38,AS/400,iSeries developer for ten+ years I have often thought how cool it would be for IBM to supply the RPG/COBOL/CL/DDS compilers on Linux and allow the low end AS/400s to slowly fade. I never bought into companies moving their AS/400 stuff to another vendors platform but an open platform would be just the ticket. If someone is approaching IBM to do this approach the Linux or Java teams not the AS/400 team :-)
:-)
Google provides some good links for RPG to COBOL and JAVA. There is also the option of Baby/ISeries. The GNU RPG compiler has been a bit of a disappointment.
My personal preference would be for a convertor to take RPG/COBOL/CL/DDS and spit out either JAVA or C and SQL. Actually I wouldn't mind doing this but I'm not going to do it on my own time, hint
Depends wether it was fixed price or time and materials :-)
The New Scientist is not a balanced source! it is a lot better than tabloids and such but still it has it's own agenda. The NS reports on what the current majority in scientific thinking is and it does this exteremly well. I subscribe to NS but I still see it as biased.
9 91915http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id= ns99991915
PS the article you linked to had nothing to do with global warming? Prehaps http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99
There a very few scientists who have the requiste knowledge and data to comment on global warming. Most scientists can only comment on certain areas.
In the 70s we had a lot of scientists saying we were on the brink of an ice age, in fact a number of these changed their tune. Now we have a lot of scientists saying we are on the brink of a heat wave. Who is accurate?
Goverment funding for an unbiased news source, what hell are you smoking, please re read and understand that there is no unbiased reporting, none. The best you can do is understand what the bias is of your news source.
No the winter here in San Francisco has been fucking freezing, lowest temps etc etc In short it's been bloody miserable. However the summers seem to have been warmer as well.
My belief is that as with most things humans do not have enough accurate historical evidence to say what the temperature is doing and they have even less understanding of how our actions influence that temperature.
Science is not a new religion and the sooner people understand that because a scientist says something does not make it accurate.
In short, the climate is changing as it always has and we do not have a fucking clue why. But a boat load of scientists can pretty much tell where their next round of funding is coming from.
It may be infantile thinking. But there is a great difference between my choosing to fight and my being ordered to fight.
The US has hung people for only following orders and shot others for not following orders. the only difference being on which side the soldier was fighting.
A wonderful demonstration in stupidity. You ask a person if military force is appropriate and then you use civilian force.
:-)
I would without hesitation defend myself. I would quite likely use more than necessary force
Certain countries have tried peace, Switzerland for instance, Iceland, Eire others? You could also count countries that only use armed forces for defense of it's own borders.
The problem with the US trying peace is that it requires an intelligent, educated and compasionate population, the current population in America is none of the above.
The US also has the problem of all the acts of war it has committed and continues to commit. America is financially built on it's defense industry, look where the current administration is spending it's money.
In short America is never going to willingly buy into peace. Take a look at some of the comments posted to your comment, hardly full of the milk of human kindness are they?
"Capitalism in it's pure form would require everyone to disclose everything and would result in the greatest loss of privacy since stalin cracked down on political dissidents in his country."
I am all for a complete disclosure of every piece of information. State, Corporation and Individual. This would result in a far more tolerant and civilised society.
I would like to be able to see my neighbours past. Would like to see what my goverment has done in my name. Would like to see who earns what. etc etc etc I would like to have the same access to information that state and corporation have. In return everyone can look at my info, what do I care as long as the info about me is correct?
If you read "Transparent Society by David Brin" it details how the route we're taking at the moment with privacy is nothing but a house of straw. All the pgp and such like is useless.
I'm not foolish enough to think that goverments and corporations would ever willingly give up the power they have. In my eyes I see America as a wondeful failure. It could have been so much and yet it seems destined to implode like so many other attempts at civilisation.
In the present companies want to make money, patents are one means of making money and at the same time hindering the competition.
Companies would still invest the time and money to invent things if patents were removed. It is a fallacy that world needs patents. Companies with stock holders need patents.
I'm not a radical lefty, I agree a lot with Ayn Rand and economist Ludwig von Mises, I do not agree with the current slanted view that most politicians, business crooks and recent college grads seem to have on what capatilism should be.
May I be so bold as to suggest you read http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~shadab/ There you might find that there is a theory that capitalism is supposed to benefit the individual not the corporation. To achieve this there must be no regulation of business, Laissez-faire
What patents do is provide a monoploy, a goverment sanctioned one at that. How can this be in the best interests of anyone but the company holding the patent?
I used to have a three monitor set up at work, pretty neat although the window manager needed some work to make it perfect.
I've been thinking about doing this at home. But I want accelerated digital 3D $$$
So do we have multi AGP ports on any mother boards?
Is the PCI bus ever going to get increased bandwidth?
To me the bandwidth limitations of the pci bus would seem to be a limit on futre expansion.
Way back in the day, about 1986 :-) I worked for a company that used to share one PC between four people using this method.
It worked a treat, it kept costs down, it kept heat and noise down and most users didn't know they were sharing their PC with their co-workers.
The company eventually went full networked Xterms which is a better solution if you have the bandwidth and the server horsepower.
The three books and MSDN that this post mentions are all that you need if your using c++.
Ohh a question just at the right level for an ask /.
And why, pray tell are those modes capped?
Might it be that the cables could reach capacity if everyone ran full bore.
So would this _new stuff_ either allow 10x the users or 10x the speed for exisiting users?
Sun could do worse than to embrace Linux!
Solaris would not die rather it's best features would become part of the SUN/Linux distro. If Sun was really generous they could release their server extensions to the community.
I have long thought we need a common OS and it looks like Linux is becomming that. Why should I have to learn a new way of doing things purely because I'm using different hardware?
Given the benfits of commodity hardware I feel that SUN will start really hurting unles they go with the flow. IBM will also get hit in the hardware dept. Give it ten years and we will probably have most businesses running on commodity hardware. Moores Law really is a death knell for custom hardware.
There is also the consideration of skilled techs and programmers.
:-)
:-)
If you have to find Apple techs they're not as common as the intel variety
Also the bulk of beowulf programming is done on intel hardware. This probably means that the same code will execute faster on intel because of the greater level of optimization. The larger a user base the more likely for progress to happen. On this note I think this is why M$ is going to have real problems in the next five years
A number of years ago I spent a long time researching KVMs and came to the conclusion that they're really not that much of a solution in reducing clutter.
I went with another solution VNC it reduced cables etc and allowed me to locate all my hardware except one PC in a machine room.
I had ten windoze PCs, a few Linux boxes, A Sparc Solaris and an Apple Imac all accessable from my Linux desktop.
Of ourse as a software solution the remote machine has to be running but you can login, logout reboot etc
since way back I've always wanted to work on the latest and greatest. So I took a Mech Engineering degree, then they said computers were the greatest so, I just finished my CS degree and they said the hot thing was Biotech, so four years later I have my 'Bio-Informatics' degree then they said Nanotech so four more years and it's now Mechanical engineering.. hey