If you hardly ever use your "real" email address, or only to very limited number of recipients, then yes, you are less likely to get spam. But if you use email a lot, even to people you otherwise trust, every time you hit send you are handing them your address - as well as transmitting it to any number of relays along the way. And any of your recipients can be malware infested.
There is some truth to this, but most B2B traffic is already secured - the technologies for this have existed for many years. The odds that someone lets external unauthenticated entities post invoices to their accounting system are pretty low. When they converted off paper/fax they likely put in EDI or some other established system. SOX has also made execs extra paranoid about traceability and non-repudiation. But if the traffic isn't business critical then it is harder to justify turning up the security level (as many other posters have noted) and harder to make it happen.
I agree. What's considered normal and usual differs from country to country. But the UK is on the prudish end of the scale and the US is even farther over on that end. We have nude beaches and the like, but a good many people here are freaked out by any kind of exposure of the body to strangers. And we have as a society gone a bit bonkers over CP, IMO. Personally though I don't really care if my child is scanned at the airport, although whether that's making us all safer is debatable.
You're implying that facebook's privacy settings don't work as they are described
Possibly, but I took the parent poster to mean that you should assume they don't or won't work as described.
Lots of people use the net for sensitive transactions and store private information on it. But a lot of caution is advised. If you're thinking of putting any potentially embarrassing or incriminating material on a public site and relying on site security to shield it, better think about what could happen if it's not really shielded.
First, Oracle gets a substantial portion of its sales outside the US. So shutting down foreign sales would only hurt themselves.
Second, antitrust laws in the US got their origin from gross abuses of monopoly power by large corporations, which harmed both business competitors and consumers. It's not just a fable that this happens.
I don't really have an opinion on whether Oracle should swallow Sun or not, but if they do, then there would be only two big companies in the J2EE middleware business (Oracle and IBM) and only three with a big part of the database market (IBM, Oracle and Microsoft). So that's possibly a problem. But holding up the deal because of MySQL does not make a lot of sense to me. MySQL may compete with Oracle, but IBM DB2 and Microsoft SQL Server are more direct competitors I think. And Oracle really can't kill it, because it's OSS.
Early versions of NetBeans really, really sucked. It has come a long away. But I think it was too long getting there and Eclipse and other IDEs got mindshare and market share. Right now there are virtually zero Oracle customers who are going to defect to someone else because they don't have NetBeans support. There are some that want Eclipse very badly (mostly those that are not pure Oracle shops but use WebSphere too). So it's a no-brainer for them. There's no payback to them supporting 3 IDEs (NetBeans and Eclipse and JDeveloper, until/unless they converge).
There's always been a gap between what the government says and what it does, although I think it reached new depths of duplicity under Bush. We stand for democracy - except when it's convenient to support odious dictators. We don't torture - except when those bad terrorists made us do it to them. We don't eavesdrop on innocent citizens - except we do, and the great unwashed are not to know just how widely we do it, or to question it. And the courts and the Congress have mostly just rolled over for the Executive Branch while all this has been going on.
Yeah, it's not a good deal for employee or employer. Plus, there are a lot of recruiters who don't add any value in terms of finding you a position. They pretend to, but don't, have a better "in" with employers than you have. They troll job boards, company sites, LinkedIn and the like - which you could do just as well, and cut out the middleman. Even better, use your own network - people who know you and your skills. Personally I've never been hired through a headhunter, as employee or contractor. I have worked with them occasionally when I've been on the hiring side - sometimes they do dig up good candidates but usually not.
Well, I found Fawlty Towers unwatchable, while I'm wearing out my Python DVDs. The mix of absurd and funny, and occasionally just weird, in Python is pretty unique.
It's also about the accomplishment, and feeling accomplished.
After a while you realize there's not actually a lot of accomplishment in software.
There's many a stillborn software project that never properly gets off the ground or is killed before it reaches its objectives, for whatever reason. There's software that ships but flops like a dead fish. There's software that ships and is moderately successful but a few years later is obsolete and forgotten. And there's chaos and panic in most projects, even those that get done and deliver.
Personally I've done a few too many project cycles. It would be nice if the industry as a whole showed forward progress but mostly it's still plagued by a fairly high failure rate.
That the US Trustee hasn't already seized their ongoing cases is pretty telling
The US Trustee's Office was present in the bankruptcy proceedings but has not up till now been acting as a trustee in charge of SCO's business. Now that the judge has ordered a trustee appointed to oversee the bankruptcy, that trustee will indeed be in charge of the litigation and can determine if it is worth pursuing or not.
IMHO Java is a much better choice than C++ for a beginning level programming student. Java's garbage collection eliminates the confusion introduced by C++ arrays, references and pointers. Built-in array bounds checking is very helpful and helps trap common errors. Java generics are easier to understand than C++ templates. There's a reason it is a common teaching language at the college level. But it's also not just for students: Java is still a powerful language that is used in large-scale production systems.
A lot of crime floats under the radar. If you've been scammed out of a few hundred bucks, you can try getting the police interested but likely they won't be. Better to take the guy to small claims court, if you can find him to lay a summons on him. Eventually if somebody scams enough people out of enough money they may rise out of the general level of scum up to a point where law enforcement will get interested. But it takes a while, and some people manage to avoid consequences for a good long time. It's a little harder if you're a corporation and have to be or look semi-established, but there's still inertia/time lag before you get noticed and somebody decides they have a case against you. Look at ZZZZ Best.
As for business licensing requiring a clean slate - even if this were a good idea, the guys who take your money and give you a license are bureaucrats, not cops. And you don't pay them enough to have them check everybody who comes in the door for past misdeeds.
Well, you get credit for finding a positive side to the fact that the Web is a vast swamp of variable-quality and ever-changing information. But it is still that. Maybe that does help hone your research and thinking skills, but in fact pretty often even smart, careful people can be fooled or misled by online misinformation. And in a court case especially you don't want that. There's a reason why courts bring in expert witnesses and require some evidence that they actually have expertise.
I don't recall ever seeing a site where a layout "feature" was introduced that wasn't an ad but actually obscured the site content. And why is there not a big obvious button in preferences to turn it off?
C++ can indeed be used as a "better C". And some features such as inheritance are best left alone or used very sparingly. It's not a bad choice of language used carefully but it gives the programmer a lot of room to go wrong or over-complicate the solution. Also for a long time many compilers were buggy or failed standards compliance in one way or another - they're better now, but still not 100%.
Your experience with hardware doesn't exactly translate to software. ERP systems are huge, complex, over-engineered beasts. There is often no economy version (SAP actually has a version for small/medium businesses but I assume that's not what the customer is buying here).
Also, the sales guys in this business really only care about their commission check. What happens after the sale is Somebody Else's Problem. Unlike you as a one-person shop, the customer won't be calling sales guy for support. Or suing them (personally) if there's a bigger issue.
Ph.D. is a different deal than a Master's. It does carry some clout in the job market. It's not really worth (in $) the time you'll spend getting it but it could give you a wider range of career choices and might get you slotted into a different level than you'd be at with a B.S. (I speak from some experience, having been on the hiring end of an interview hundreds of times).
It's all relative. Actually one of PeopleSoft's claims to fame in the early days was that it was less bloated than many of its competitors: you could run it on modest hardware, even on a PC, and have it function (function well is another thing). Oracle's own homegrown application software is huge, complex, resource intensive, and lacks any kind of modular architecture. Now after all these acquisitions Oracle has the good (or at least less bad), the bad, and the ugly all together.
Solaris has been a declining percentage of new Oracle deployments for some time. Sun's hardware business has been declining, and while you can run Solaris now on non-Sun hardware, it's not most people's first choice. There are still big customers on Solaris, so it's going to be supported. But I'd be surprised if it went to being the primary platform for Oracle, because that's not where the customer base has been going.
> what would they need a license for? There is nothing innovative in the x86 instruction set Want to be in court trying to prove that? With an army of Intel lawyers on the other side?
the fact that you are getting this offer is a strong sign that you are in a good negotiating position
In my experience, at least in high tech, in a really successful or promising company, you won't get a 10% stake unless you are a founder, key executive, or significant funder. So if you're getting this offer, it's not a good sign: in fact, it's a sign that your ownership stake would have a good chance of being worthless.
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There is truth in that. Nobody on the hiring side likes to see a candidate who can't stay anywhere more than 1-2 years.
If you hardly ever use your "real" email address, or only to very limited number of recipients, then yes, you are less likely to get spam. But if you use email a lot, even to people you otherwise trust, every time you hit send you are handing them your address - as well as transmitting it to any number of relays along the way. And any of your recipients can be malware infested.
There is some truth to this, but most B2B traffic is already secured - the technologies for this have existed for many years. The odds that someone lets external unauthenticated entities post invoices to their accounting system are pretty low. When they converted off paper/fax they likely put in EDI or some other established system. SOX has also made execs extra paranoid about traceability and non-repudiation. But if the traffic isn't business critical then it is harder to justify turning up the security level (as many other posters have noted) and harder to make it happen.
I agree. What's considered normal and usual differs from country to country. But the UK is on the prudish end of the scale and the US is even farther over on that end. We have nude beaches and the like, but a good many people here are freaked out by any kind of exposure of the body to strangers. And we have as a society gone a bit bonkers over CP, IMO. Personally though I don't really care if my child is scanned at the airport, although whether that's making us all safer is debatable.
You're implying that facebook's privacy settings don't work as they are described
Possibly, but I took the parent poster to mean that you should assume they don't or won't work as described.
Lots of people use the net for sensitive transactions and store private information on it. But a lot of caution is advised. If you're thinking of putting any potentially embarrassing or incriminating material on a public site and relying on site security to shield it, better think about what could happen if it's not really shielded.
First, Oracle gets a substantial portion of its sales outside the US. So shutting down foreign sales would only hurt themselves.
Second, antitrust laws in the US got their origin from gross abuses of monopoly power by large corporations, which harmed both business competitors and consumers. It's not just a fable that this happens.
I don't really have an opinion on whether Oracle should swallow Sun or not, but if they do, then there would be only two big companies in the J2EE middleware business (Oracle and IBM) and only three with a big part of the database market (IBM, Oracle and Microsoft). So that's possibly a problem. But holding up the deal because of MySQL does not make a lot of sense to me. MySQL may compete with Oracle, but IBM DB2 and Microsoft SQL Server are more direct competitors I think. And Oracle really can't kill it, because it's OSS.
Early versions of NetBeans really, really sucked. It has come a long away. But I think it was too long getting there and Eclipse and other IDEs got mindshare and market share. Right now there are virtually zero Oracle customers who are going to defect to someone else because they don't have NetBeans support. There are some that want Eclipse very badly (mostly those that are not pure Oracle shops but use WebSphere too). So it's a no-brainer for them. There's no payback to them supporting 3 IDEs (NetBeans and Eclipse and JDeveloper, until/unless they converge).
There's always been a gap between what the government says and what it does, although I think it reached new depths of duplicity under Bush. We stand for democracy - except when it's convenient to support odious dictators. We don't torture - except when those bad terrorists made us do it to them. We don't eavesdrop on innocent citizens - except we do, and the great unwashed are not to know just how widely we do it, or to question it. And the courts and the Congress have mostly just rolled over for the Executive Branch while all this has been going on.
Their saving grace in that department is Pixar.
Their other and even more saving grace is Miyazaki, whose films they now distribute.
Yeah, it's not a good deal for employee or employer. Plus, there are a lot of recruiters who don't add any value in terms of finding you a position. They pretend to, but don't, have a better "in" with employers than you have. They troll job boards, company sites, LinkedIn and the like - which you could do just as well, and cut out the middleman. Even better, use your own network - people who know you and your skills. Personally I've never been hired through a headhunter, as employee or contractor. I have worked with them occasionally when I've been on the hiring side - sometimes they do dig up good candidates but usually not.
Well, I found Fawlty Towers unwatchable, while I'm wearing out my Python DVDs. The mix of absurd and funny, and occasionally just weird, in Python is pretty unique.
My 14-year-old daughter liked Asimov's "I, Robot" a lot. Easy to read but also very imaginative and thought-provoking.
After a while you realize there's not actually a lot of accomplishment in software.
There's many a stillborn software project that never properly gets off the ground or is killed before it reaches its objectives, for whatever reason. There's software that ships but flops like a dead fish. There's software that ships and is moderately successful but a few years later is obsolete and forgotten. And there's chaos and panic in most projects, even those that get done and deliver.
Personally I've done a few too many project cycles. It would be nice if the industry as a whole showed forward progress but mostly it's still plagued by a fairly high failure rate.
That the US Trustee hasn't already seized their ongoing cases is pretty telling
The US Trustee's Office was present in the bankruptcy proceedings but has not up till now been acting as a trustee in charge of SCO's business. Now that the judge has ordered a trustee appointed to oversee the bankruptcy, that trustee will indeed be in charge of the litigation and can determine if it is worth pursuing or not.
IMHO Java is a much better choice than C++ for a beginning level programming student. Java's garbage collection eliminates the confusion introduced by C++ arrays, references and pointers. Built-in array bounds checking is very helpful and helps trap common errors. Java generics are easier to understand than C++ templates. There's a reason it is a common teaching language at the college level. But it's also not just for students: Java is still a powerful language that is used in large-scale production systems.
A lot of crime floats under the radar. If you've been scammed out of a few hundred bucks, you can try getting the police interested but likely they won't be. Better to take the guy to small claims court, if you can find him to lay a summons on him. Eventually if somebody scams enough people out of enough money they may rise out of the general level of scum up to a point where law enforcement will get interested. But it takes a while, and some people manage to avoid consequences for a good long time. It's a little harder if you're a corporation and have to be or look semi-established, but there's still inertia/time lag before you get noticed and somebody decides they have a case against you. Look at ZZZZ Best.
As for business licensing requiring a clean slate - even if this were a good idea, the guys who take your money and give you a license are bureaucrats, not cops. And you don't pay them enough to have them check everybody who comes in the door for past misdeeds.
Well, you get credit for finding a positive side to the fact that the Web is a vast swamp of variable-quality and ever-changing information. But it is still that. Maybe that does help hone your research and thinking skills, but in fact pretty often even smart, careful people can be fooled or misled by online misinformation. And in a court case especially you don't want that. There's a reason why courts bring in expert witnesses and require some evidence that they actually have expertise.
I don't recall ever seeing a site where a layout "feature" was introduced that wasn't an ad but actually obscured the site content. And why is there not a big obvious button in preferences to turn it off?
C++ can indeed be used as a "better C". And some features such as inheritance are best left alone or used very sparingly. It's not a bad choice of language used carefully but it gives the programmer a lot of room to go wrong or over-complicate the solution. Also for a long time many compilers were buggy or failed standards compliance in one way or another - they're better now, but still not 100%.
Your experience with hardware doesn't exactly translate to software. ERP systems are huge, complex, over-engineered beasts. There is often no economy version (SAP actually has a version for small/medium businesses but I assume that's not what the customer is buying here).
Also, the sales guys in this business really only care about their commission check. What happens after the sale is Somebody Else's Problem. Unlike you as a one-person shop, the customer won't be calling sales guy for support. Or suing them (personally) if there's a bigger issue.
Ph.D. is a different deal than a Master's. It does carry some clout in the job market. It's not really worth (in $) the time you'll spend getting it but it could give you a wider range of career choices and might get you slotted into a different level than you'd be at with a B.S. (I speak from some experience, having been on the hiring end of an interview hundreds of times).
It's all relative. Actually one of PeopleSoft's claims to fame in the early days was that it was less bloated than many of its competitors: you could run it on modest hardware, even on a PC, and have it function (function well is another thing). Oracle's own homegrown application software is huge, complex, resource intensive, and lacks any kind of modular architecture. Now after all these acquisitions Oracle has the good (or at least less bad), the bad, and the ugly all together.
Solaris has been a declining percentage of new Oracle deployments for some time. Sun's hardware business has been declining, and while you can run Solaris now on non-Sun hardware, it's not most people's first choice. There are still big customers on Solaris, so it's going to be supported. But I'd be surprised if it went to being the primary platform for Oracle, because that's not where the customer base has been going.
> what would they need a license for? There is nothing innovative in the x86 instruction set
Want to be in court trying to prove that? With an army of Intel lawyers on the other side?
the fact that you are getting this offer is a strong sign that you are in a good negotiating position
In my experience, at least in high tech, in a really successful or promising company, you won't get a 10% stake unless you are a founder, key executive, or significant funder. So if you're getting this offer, it's not a good sign: in fact, it's a sign that your ownership stake would have a good chance of being worthless.