Virginia for one. My house is reassessed yearly. In 2012, the assessment dropped 8.2% and since the county has chosen not to increase the mil rate, the property taxes will be going down by the same percentage.
The reason that government users would still be allowed to use the BB network is that one of the provisions of a US Patent is that the government automatically gets the right to use the patented invention royalty-free. This right also devolves to government contractors as it pertains to producing goods and services for the government. There was a similar case involving Lucent using a patented method to produce a fiber optic junction for the Navy. When the patent holder tried to get royalties, Lucent told them to go spit.
While I think that the concept is coming from an ideological position that RMS holds, the method that they are floating to enforce that position contradicts the entire spirit of the GPL. I thought that one of the primary freedoms that the GPL was meant to enshrine was the freedom to modify the software as the licensee saw fit without needing the premission or agreement of the licensor. By making certain sections of the code 'off-limits', for whatever reason, A clause like this would, in my mind, breach that freedom and render the GPL non-free (compared to the GPL v2).
It costs an unbelievable amount of money (millions of dollars) to design and test a curriculum.
I'm not sure where you went to school, but I've never studied or taught anywhere that spent ANY money on designing the curriculum. And testing it? Forget it!
Most professors are left to their own devices to cover what they like in class as long as they hit a few basic points. For instance, compare the syllabi of the same Macroeconomics course as taught by a Keynesian and a Monetarist who studied under Milton Friedman. They will look like completely different courses!
The first course that I ever taught was a core undergraduate Microeconomics course. When I asked the chairman of the department what I should cover, he told me that I should take a look at the last semester's syllabus for ideas, but could really cover anything I wanted.
Sure, I can show you old books. I've got a 1785 edition of Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations" sitting right in front of me on my bookshelf. Right next to it is a copy of "A System of Logic" by J.S. Mill from 1846. Both are much more readable than papers that I wrote in MacWrite just 15 years ago.
When I was in grad school at Columbia, I taught one of the undergrad Microeconomics courses for a few semesters. All of the students griped about the fact that I graded against a B average instead of the B+/A- average that was common in the economics department.
But nothing topped the reaction of one of the students I had given a D to. First he came and pleaded with me. Then, he came and basically threatened me. When I still refused to change his grade, his parents got involved and contacted the head of the department. He refused to overrule me since my grading formula was very objective.
After that, they went to the dean of the school and tried to have me brought before the faculty senate on charges of bias against members of the football team. When that didn't go anywhere, they tried to wear the department down by calling a few times a week to complain. The mother's phone calls became a running joke around the department.
Things finally came to an end when a work-study in the department answered one of her calls and told her "I know your son. He never studies and totally deserved that grade". She was so embarassed that she never called back again!
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I was under the impression that the KJV was a somewhat biased translation because there was a fundamental tension between the anti-papist interpretation espoused by the protestant bishops who had agitated for the new translation and the scholars who were trying to please their new (and Catholic) king. The result is a translation that wavers between Catholic and Protestant dogma throughout the New Testament.
Not that I'm a big bible reader, but I've always liked the approach of the New International Version (NIV). Get a bunch of biblical scholars and secular linguists together with all the accepted original sources and some apocryphal ones and translate everything to see where they agree. Then come to a consensus about how best to translate the parts that don't agree across sources. It seemed to work well given that a bible translated by commitee could end up reading like a poorly-translated motherboard manual.
I loved the original when I first got it for my Mac. It's one of the few games (much less RPGs) that I've played through multiple times. In fact, the only reason I bought a PC was so that I could play Fallout 2.
Ahh, what I wouldn't give for a turdocharged plasma rifle somedays.
Be careful about underestimating the time and costs of creating your own solution. A big CM-like internal project is one of the things that helped sink the last company that I worked for. It definitely had a case of creeping feature-itis.
You might want to take a look at one of the ASP-style CM vendors. The advantage is that you have a solution right away, but since it is an ASP, you don't have to use any capital budget to get it. The costs are all expensed. The one company that I have direct experience with is ATOMZ. One of my clients is using them to rebuild their site of around 4000 pages. It's all web-based (which can be a double-edged sword) and includes workflow functionality, so that content creators can be assigned specific tasks. Their templating language is reasonably easy to learn but does have a few drawbacks such as a dearth of control logic.
Keeping the content dynamic all the way to the delivery server is one of the big downfalls of most of the expensive CM systems. Most sites tend to need CM to protect themselves from the content creators directly messing with the pages and to speed the implementation of site-wide changes, but very few are so dynamic (but not data feed driven) that they need to be assembled on the fly. What's funnier is that most of the big CM vendors will sell you add-on "cache" servers to improve performance that just take rendered versions of the site and serve them up.
I don't know that we were the traditional dotcom failure. The company was profitable every year in the five years that I was there except the final one. The thing that really killed us was a failed joint venture with two Japanese firms and our two major clients eliminating their Internet budgets (and thus a big portion of our revenue) when the market went south. While we didn't waste money prodigiously (no Aeron chairs or fancy office spaces), we probably did grow faster than was prudent. Luckily, we never brought in any VC money, so we were able to wind up operations slowly and gracefully. Never missed a payroll and everyone who was laid off (including all the execs at the end) got two weeks severance; no more, no less. The only person who got the shaft royally is the president and owner who is facing big financial problems over some of the computer leases and credit lines that he had to personally guarantee early in the company's life.
If you are an executive, you need to show that you didn't get a massive golden parachute or such upon leaving, but other than that you are disqualified.
sorry, meant to say "...other than that you aren't disqualified."
I would call the NYS Department of Labor and appeal your unemployment determination (which you have a right to do). I was the CTO of a web services company and grossed significantly more than $600/week and was still eligible for Unemployment. In fact, every one of our programmers made 60k+ a year and they all got unemployment as well. If you are an executive, you need to show that you didn't get a massive golden parachute or such upon leaving, but other than that you are disqualified. That being said, the benefits top out pretty quickly (the max is $405/week if you earned >45,000+/yr).
While reading the MPAA's press release about the bill I noticed that the points they stress are exactly the same as in the Intel-AOL/TW Joint Statement of Principle. The MPAA press release from this article says:
We believe these activities should focus on three key matters concerning
digital piracy: (1) establishing a "broadcast flag" to prevent
unauthorized Internet redistribution of digital broadcast programming,
the use of which will not affect consumers' "time shifting" of
programming, (2) plugging the "analog hole" that exposes digital
programming to potential widespread theft, and (3) limiting the rising
tide of unauthorized peer-to-peer file distribution of copyrighted
works.
...Significant progress has been made towards a technical solution that would involve a "broadcast flag" to signal that redistribution of digital broadcast content over the Internet is not authorized...
...Beyond digital broadcasting, additional issues exist that require serious private industry and public attention. One is the so-called "analog hole." Video content, even when delivered digitally in a protected manner, must be converted to an unprotected analog format to be viewed using legacy equipment (e.g., the millions of analog television sets already in consumers' homes). Once content is in an unprotected analog form, it may be converted back to a digital form and subjected to widespread, unauthorized redistribution via peer-to-peer as well as more traditional piracy channels. Private industry efforts are underway to select a watermark technology that can embed usage rules in content...
...An even more complicated problem is the phenomenon of unconstrained unauthorized copying and redistribution of copyrighted content over peer-to-peer networks. One contributing factor is the growing variety of increasingly decentralized peer-to-peer networks (e.g., Morpheus, Limewire, etc). Another is that content reaches peer to peer networks from a variety of sources including unprotected distribution, circumvention of protected content, camcording from theater screens, and diversion during production.
Does it worry anyone else that Hollywood is so confident they've figured out a way to protect their digital streams end-to-end that they are starting to focus the debate on preventing analog copies as a means of bypassing DRM?
unless they only allocate one IP address per port, you should only need to get a 100Base-T switch. I've had great luck with Linksys. If they will only allocate one IP per port, then you need something similar to a Cable/DSL router. Given that I've only seen those with 10Base-T WAN ports, you might want to consider building a cheap Linux or BSD box to do the same job.
btw, shouldn't this be in the Ask Slashdot section?
Microsoft.NET is Microsoft's platform for XML Web services...XML Web services are invoked over the Internet by means of industry-standard protocols including SOAP; XML; and Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI).
Sounds like.NET (or at least any.NET app that uses the network) is built on SOAP to me.
As for the "stupid idea" part, That's obviously my opinion, but I don't think I'm alone.
True, but SOAP was designed with HTTP as the primary transport so that it would be easy to get through corporate firewalls without having to open up more ports. This is one of the major objections of all the InfoSec folks like Bruce Schneier to web services.
The article is especially funny since.NET is built upon SOAP which uses HTTP as its primary transport. Maybe MS realizes that.NET is a stupid idea and they want to set up HTTP as the scapegoat when it fails miserably
I've got a BS and an MA in Economics. I was working on my PhD in 1997 when I started working for a web services firm as a programmer. As I continued to be promoted and work more hours I realized I was having more fun working with technology than writing my dissertation, so I quit school and started working full time.
In fact, many of the people that I managed came from non-technical educational backgrounds. My Director of Development was a Music major and my help desk manager studied PoliSci.
That being said, there are many HR people (and managers) who use specific degrees to thin the field on candidates. This is especially true these days. Despite the fact that I was the CTO of a 65-person company and managed a group of 18 people I still sometimes have people balk at interviewing me because I don't have a BS in CS or EE. Many HR folks (the weak ones) view the posted job requirements as a checklist that needs to be ticked off to qualify for an interview.
My best advice is to pursue the degree and career that you think will bring you joy. There is nothing worse than sloshing through 4 years (or worse, 10!) of school doing something that you decide you don't love it. Don't pursue a career becuase it seems lucrative. If you do find that you want to do something that follows a different path than your education, keep looking until you find an HR person/manager/company that will look past the words on your degree and decide based upon your character, intelligence, and adaptability whether you'd be an asset.
Earthlink, the poster's new ISP (as well as mine), allows this already. My home email system uses Earthlink's SMTP server as a mail gateway. Rather than contacting destination SMTP servers directly, it forwards everything through Earthlink. Since the connection is coming from an Earthlink IP address, the relay is allowed eventhough the address is from a different domain.
Agreed. The last company I worked for had most of the employees in one large "bullpen". Most of the noise pollution came from phone calls and "normal" business conversation between employees. Almost everyone had a pair of headphones to block out unwanted noise and listen to whatever type of concentration-enhancing music they preferred.
Actually part of the reason that Access has never been ported to the Mac is that a large chunk of the code (at least as late as Access 97) is in x86 assembly. Porting to the Mac would mean a ground-up (literally) rewrite.
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Virginia for one. My house is reassessed yearly. In 2012, the assessment dropped 8.2% and since the county has chosen not to increase the mil rate, the property taxes will be going down by the same percentage.
Riley Martin, is that you?
I'd dig one as well
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The reason that government users would still be allowed to use the BB network is that one of the provisions of a US Patent is that the government automatically gets the right to use the patented invention royalty-free. This right also devolves to government contractors as it pertains to producing goods and services for the government. There was a similar case involving Lucent using a patented method to produce a fiber optic junction for the Navy. When the patent holder tried to get royalties, Lucent told them to go spit.
While I think that the concept is coming from an ideological position that RMS holds, the method that they are floating to enforce that position contradicts the entire spirit of the GPL. I thought that one of the primary freedoms that the GPL was meant to enshrine was the freedom to modify the software as the licensee saw fit without needing the premission or agreement of the licensor. By making certain sections of the code 'off-limits', for whatever reason, A clause like this would, in my mind, breach that freedom and render the GPL non-free (compared to the GPL v2).
I'm not sure where you went to school, but I've never studied or taught anywhere that spent ANY money on designing the curriculum. And testing it? Forget it!
Most professors are left to their own devices to cover what they like in class as long as they hit a few basic points. For instance, compare the syllabi of the same Macroeconomics course as taught by a Keynesian and a Monetarist who studied under Milton Friedman. They will look like completely different courses!
The first course that I ever taught was a core undergraduate Microeconomics course. When I asked the chairman of the department what I should cover, he told me that I should take a look at the last semester's syllabus for ideas, but could really cover anything I wanted.
Sure, I can show you old books. I've got a 1785 edition of Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations" sitting right in front of me on my bookshelf. Right next to it is a copy of "A System of Logic" by J.S. Mill from 1846. Both are much more readable than papers that I wrote in MacWrite just 15 years ago.
When I was in grad school at Columbia, I taught one of the undergrad Microeconomics courses for a few semesters. All of the students griped about the fact that I graded against a B average instead of the B+/A- average that was common in the economics department.
But nothing topped the reaction of one of the students I had given a D to. First he came and pleaded with me. Then, he came and basically threatened me. When I still refused to change his grade, his parents got involved and contacted the head of the department. He refused to overrule me since my grading formula was very objective.
After that, they went to the dean of the school and tried to have me brought before the faculty senate on charges of bias against members of the football team. When that didn't go anywhere, they tried to wear the department down by calling a few times a week to complain. The mother's phone calls became a running joke around the department.
Things finally came to an end when a work-study in the department answered one of her calls and told her "I know your son. He never studies and totally deserved that grade". She was so embarassed that she never called back again!
I was under the impression that the KJV was a somewhat biased translation because there was a fundamental tension between the anti-papist interpretation espoused by the protestant bishops who had agitated for the new translation and the scholars who were trying to please their new (and Catholic) king. The result is a translation that wavers between Catholic and Protestant dogma throughout the New Testament.
Not that I'm a big bible reader, but I've always liked the approach of the New International Version (NIV). Get a bunch of biblical scholars and secular linguists together with all the accepted original sources and some apocryphal ones and translate everything to see where they agree. Then come to a consensus about how best to translate the parts that don't agree across sources. It seemed to work well given that a bible translated by commitee could end up reading like a poorly-translated motherboard manual.
I loved the original when I first got it for my Mac. It's one of the few games (much less RPGs) that I've played through multiple times. In fact, the only reason I bought a PC was so that I could play Fallout 2.
Ahh, what I wouldn't give for a turdocharged plasma rifle somedays.
You might want to take a look at one of the ASP-style CM vendors. The advantage is that you have a solution right away, but since it is an ASP, you don't have to use any capital budget to get it. The costs are all expensed. The one company that I have direct experience with is ATOMZ. One of my clients is using them to rebuild their site of around 4000 pages. It's all web-based (which can be a double-edged sword) and includes workflow functionality, so that content creators can be assigned specific tasks. Their templating language is reasonably easy to learn but does have a few drawbacks such as a dearth of control logic.
Keeping the content dynamic all the way to the delivery server is one of the big downfalls of most of the expensive CM systems. Most sites tend to need CM to protect themselves from the content creators directly messing with the pages and to speed the implementation of site-wide changes, but very few are so dynamic (but not data feed driven) that they need to be assembled on the fly. What's funnier is that most of the big CM vendors will sell you add-on "cache" servers to improve performance that just take rendered versions of the site and serve them up.
I don't know that we were the traditional dotcom failure. The company was profitable every year in the five years that I was there except the final one. The thing that really killed us was a failed joint venture with two Japanese firms and our two major clients eliminating their Internet budgets (and thus a big portion of our revenue) when the market went south. While we didn't waste money prodigiously (no Aeron chairs or fancy office spaces), we probably did grow faster than was prudent. Luckily, we never brought in any VC money, so we were able to wind up operations slowly and gracefully. Never missed a payroll and everyone who was laid off (including all the execs at the end) got two weeks severance; no more, no less. The only person who got the shaft royally is the president and owner who is facing big financial problems over some of the computer leases and credit lines that he had to personally guarantee early in the company's life.
sorry, meant to say "...other than that you aren't disqualified."
I would call the NYS Department of Labor and appeal your unemployment determination (which you have a right to do). I was the CTO of a web services company and grossed significantly more than $600/week and was still eligible for Unemployment. In fact, every one of our programmers made 60k+ a year and they all got unemployment as well. If you are an executive, you need to show that you didn't get a massive golden parachute or such upon leaving, but other than that you are disqualified. That being said, the benefits top out pretty quickly (the max is $405/week if you earned >45,000+/yr).
We believe these activities should focus on three key matters concerning digital piracy: (1) establishing a "broadcast flag" to prevent unauthorized Internet redistribution of digital broadcast programming, the use of which will not affect consumers' "time shifting" of programming, (2) plugging the "analog hole" that exposes digital programming to potential widespread theft, and (3) limiting the rising tide of unauthorized peer-to-peer file distribution of copyrighted works.
while the Intel-AOL statement posted yesterday talks about:
Does it worry anyone else that Hollywood is so confident they've figured out a way to protect their digital streams end-to-end that they are starting to focus the debate on preventing analog copies as a means of bypassing DRM?
Next time I should look more closely before shooting my mouth off.
unless they only allocate one IP address per port, you should only need to get a 100Base-T switch. I've had great luck with Linksys. If they will only allocate one IP per port, then you need something similar to a Cable/DSL router. Given that I've only seen those with 10Base-T WAN ports, you might want to consider building a cheap Linux or BSD box to do the same job.
btw, shouldn't this be in the Ask Slashdot section?
Microsoft .NET is Microsoft's platform for XML Web services...XML Web services are invoked over the Internet by means of industry-standard protocols including SOAP; XML; and Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI).
Sounds like .NET (or at least any .NET app that uses the network) is built on SOAP to me.
As for the "stupid idea" part, That's obviously my opinion, but I don't think I'm alone.
True, but SOAP was designed with HTTP as the primary transport so that it would be easy to get through corporate firewalls without having to open up more ports. This is one of the major objections of all the InfoSec folks like Bruce Schneier to web services.
The article is especially funny since .NET is built upon SOAP which uses HTTP as its primary transport. Maybe MS realizes that .NET is a stupid idea and they want to set up HTTP as the scapegoat when it fails miserably
I've got a BS and an MA in Economics. I was working on my PhD in 1997 when I started working for a web services firm as a programmer. As I continued to be promoted and work more hours I realized I was having more fun working with technology than writing my dissertation, so I quit school and started working full time.
In fact, many of the people that I managed came from non-technical educational backgrounds. My Director of Development was a Music major and my help desk manager studied PoliSci.
That being said, there are many HR people (and managers) who use specific degrees to thin the field on candidates. This is especially true these days. Despite the fact that I was the CTO of a 65-person company and managed a group of 18 people I still sometimes have people balk at interviewing me because I don't have a BS in CS or EE. Many HR folks (the weak ones) view the posted job requirements as a checklist that needs to be ticked off to qualify for an interview.
My best advice is to pursue the degree and career that you think will bring you joy. There is nothing worse than sloshing through 4 years (or worse, 10!) of school doing something that you decide you don't love it. Don't pursue a career becuase it seems lucrative. If you do find that you want to do something that follows a different path than your education, keep looking until you find an HR person/manager/company that will look past the words on your degree and decide based upon your character, intelligence, and adaptability whether you'd be an asset.
Earthlink, the poster's new ISP (as well as mine), allows this already. My home email system uses Earthlink's SMTP server as a mail gateway. Rather than contacting destination SMTP servers directly, it forwards everything through Earthlink. Since the connection is coming from an Earthlink IP address, the relay is allowed eventhough the address is from a different domain.
Agreed. The last company I worked for had most of the employees in one large "bullpen". Most of the noise pollution came from phone calls and "normal" business conversation between employees. Almost everyone had a pair of headphones to block out unwanted noise and listen to whatever type of concentration-enhancing music they preferred.
Actually part of the reason that Access has never been ported to the Mac is that a large chunk of the code (at least as late as Access 97) is in x86 assembly. Porting to the Mac would mean a ground-up (literally) rewrite.