Most job hunters spend more time on the cover letter/resume than they do one being referred to a potential employer. Big mistake. Here are two scenarios:
l337 d00d looking for job spends a week perfecting the resume. Sends out 100 resumes. Posts to monster. Gets replies that say: nice resume. Interview with HR next week. After interview HR says you need another interview. Three weeks pass Next interviewer says ok, you need to talk to vp. VP says well, I have a hiring freeze in effect until May. Damn, I feel really sorry for you all the time you spent on interviews with HR...
Joe Marketroid looks at job he wants. Asks who do I know that might know hiring manager. Calls person who is willing to contact hiring manager. referral made. Marketroid calls hiring manager and explains "I was not planning on changing jobs, but this opportunity seemed really super-great. My resume's not ready for prime time - but I do have some references you can call." Hiring manager: "send what you got. we'll talk at 4:00pm tomorow." Marketroid gets job after hour interview at local bar. Next day, Marketroid shows up at work. Moves into to corner office and is now your boss. Sucks don't it?
If HR is involved you probably WILL NOT GET THE JOB.
RIAA's problem is that they are trying to use nuclear weapons to solve a problem you need a good hickory stick for. The courts will have little patience for this. Perhaps it's time we start lobbying the government for a "petty infringement" statute that:
* applies to infringements of copyrights that are of a non commercial nature. Say my daughter copying a couple of tracks for her friend as an expample. * Caps damages at say, the cost of a CD for music, the FMV price of a dvd for a movie or the FMV for a software title (yes, if you get caught copying leisure suit larry, it will ding you for $4.00). * Eliminates jail time for non-commercial infringements. * States that only the owner of IP has standing to sue for petty infringement. (This would lock out RIAA but allow artists to recover) * Does not allow for court costs and legal fees to be charged to the defendant under any circumstance.
In other words, take away RIAA's power - they've abused it. This whole witch hunt they've launched is an infringement of our civil rights and is a drag on the entire economy.
hey claim that Open Source threatens "[The US] continued ability to lead the world in technological innovation/[The US] international competitive position in the global software industry".
I'm not sure that the US is the undisputed leader here. It seems that yes, we have contributed quite a bit. To assume we lead discounts the work done by a great number of very smart people all over the world. The US is possibly the best at selling technology, but if we allow idiots like Darl and his buddies at Canopy to continue their takeover of our industry, we will not be the leader for long. These people want to make intellectual property into real estate.
No, the reason I never really liked Star Trek was that other Sci-Fi series and movies were gritty, dirty. Have you ever been on a warship or in an inner city?
LOL. I agree on the lack of dirt being problematic. Then again, on warships you kind of see a pattern:
Operational areas and where officers are likley to be spotted - clean. Areas where enlisted people hang around - semiclean. Areas where no one really hangs - NASTY FILTHY except when there's an inspection...
I also always got a kick out of how they never really had enlisted people (with the exception of OBrien). My experience is that on most ships many enlisted guys have very important jobs:
* They operate, maintain, and repair the power plant. * They drive the boat. * They shoot the guns.
The officers are in charge, but the chiefs run the ship and the senior petty officers are the wheels - they are the guys that get it done. You would likely never see a LCDR like laforge "calibrating the sensors". You would see a second class petty officer doing the work with a team of junior enlisteds.
Fax.com was incredibly stupid. Their business model relied on skirting the law. The lesson in this is that if you are going to build a business it must be legal. The law is a funny thing - if you bet that a law isn't going to be enforced, you might be right. More times, though, you get caught and when you do, you have a very long fall ahead of you.
The primary duty is not to increase the value of the stock, but to maximize shareholder value.
Actually, your first duty is to obey the law. This applies to you, me and the CEO of Buzzhumpatron or even SCO. You don't get to keep building shareholder value if you are in jail, your assets are being siezed, you are taking non-expense losses from fines and so on.
In SCOs case, they may be reducing the value of Unix (as intellectual property) to zero. Talk about destroying shareholder value. The BSD cases diluted the value of Unix substantially. This case would do it in as what SCO is saying to the market (NOT TO THE COURT) is that Linux is so simmilar to Unix that it is the same.
Frankly, I think after 25+ years, the horse is dead. On of the real problems with Trek is that as special effects and the audience's general knowledge of science increases, the viewer is less involved with the show.
* TOS: Fun, good plots, viewer imagination required due to limited budget, effects, cast etc... But was really fun and thought provoking. * TNG: Fun, good plots, some imagination required. Carried on TOS' knack for making viewers think. * DS9: Fun, great plots, arc restores viewer involvement, introduction of new races and so on is interesting. * Voyger: Not fun, some good episodes, combines character driven stories with the use of T&A to draw in male viewers. * Enterprise: Starts fun - but then looses it by looking much more high tech than the other shows set in the future (TOS, TNG) and relying on chintz like shower scenes, female vulcans in heat and the like. Attempts to combine success of DSN9 arc with Voyger T&A strategy. Unwatchable.
At the end of the day, I think Trek's had it's run. I'll still enjoy all the reruns... Let's see something new... No McScifi for a while... Franchises get boring.
Please, stop making comments on what they should price their software until you take some rudimentary economics courses.
That's not nice... Reality is that the original poster is onto something. Pricing is a marketing decision where economics are one little piece of the decision. Other factors:
* Fixed and marginal costs * Competitor positioning * Desired sales levels * Personal pressures from the CEO * Pressure from the board and investors
After reading a few posts here, if you are thinking that Novel's indemnity somehow helps SCO you are very wrong. Here is the situation:
SCO is trying to sell people property that belongs to someone else. If you buy a Linux licence from SCO you are buying a share of swampland in a national park or a share in the Brooklyn Bridge.
Novell and HP are simply playing to the market. Buy from us because we will defend you from the biggest con in the computer industry since... since British Telecom tried to claim they owned the hyperlink. It's a marketing ploy and HP and Novell both know they'll never have to deal with more than one lawsuit.
That Intel has contributed to the fund is HUGE NEWS. I've wondered where Intel's play would be because they seem to be tighter than ever with Microsoft. THat Intel sees Linux as an important enough part of it's market to protect does not bode well for SCO who so far has made most of it's money by selling Oses that run on Intel processors.
Intel sees the value of having more than one way to use their microprocessors. This is a very good vote of confidence!
2) Forbes want SCO to succeed (again all those commies who believe in free things (imagine free, as in : no market, and no need for economic journal
Wrong.
Capitalists don't see "free" as a threat. They don't see open source as communists at all. If anything they are simply confused between two property rights issues - the right to own property and the right to use property.
The threat open source represents to capitalism is the erosion of property rights. Market forces are based on supply and demand - and what must be in demand is either chattels (property) or a service. The benefit of open source is that it allows us to better use the property we already own.
To some of us capitalist types we see computing making a transition from being a property economy (buy the computer, buy the software) to a service model (you already have the computer, we make it work). This transition will take several more decades - if and only if we can prevent intellectual property from becoming real eastate that once purchased, claimed or created is owned by someone for all time.
If you ever have to speak to the business press, keep this in mind: the threat of already owned property losing value is more newsworthy than saving someone a buck. We need to focus on the fact that we preserve the value in existing technology by making it work better, faster, cheaper and most important longer. It's about return on assets wheras the tradiditonal software economy is about return on new investment - and forcing artificial demand for that new investment. A sharp businessperson will always look to get more out of assets that are already owned. A capitalist market should alow a computer owner to do what they want with the computer and to make buying decisions as they see fit - otherwise the demand side of the equation is not fair.
Thinking about DOSemu and DOSbox remind me of an old article in Wired about the Turbo Switch on computers.
Actually, there were a large number of DOS applications that were coded in assembly for a 4.77Mhz PC. Faster computer would make these programs not work - and some were actual business applications and programs that interfaced with hardware that were written this way. The idea that PC archetecture would be around for 20+ years did not even cross the programmer's mind back then! Originally the purpose of the turbo button was to slow your blazing fast 10Mhz 8088 based PCXT clone to 4.77Mhz so you could software written for the stock IBM PC.
By the time the 386sx came out, the turbo button had lost it's function and the pinto analogy was appropriate. It was a great way to slow down games, though!
I, for one, don't want to go back to only using fonts that reside in the printer you have currently attached and have everything messed up when the document had to be printed elsewhere.
LOL! How little things have really changed. My current era MS Word, Lotus WordPro and WP 11 all have problems with formatting when I switch from my Lexmark to a Canon ink jet as the Canon supports edge to edge printing where the Lexmark doesn't. WP would have font issues - if a printer wouldn't have a given font in would usually default to 10 Pitch whatever...
Back in the day, as now if you were doing publication ready stuff, you had to use the right tools - and wordprocessors are not and never have been up to the task!
I'm really surprised at the level of anger on this issue. If anyone sues, the courts should prevent Treasury from releasing the emails. Nothing will prevent this in the future, though. When commenting on regulatory action by a Federal agency, your comments including postal address and so on usually becomes part of the public record. I commented on the FCC's regulation changes requiring a copy protection flag for digital content. As a result, I actually had opponents of and advocates of the digital flag contact me.
The price of participating in the public policy is that there is no expectation of privacy. When it comes to rule-making, silence is the price of privacy. Anonymous comments are not of value to regulators (no ability to validate that it is indeed a US citizen or to contact the commentor) who are supposed to use public comment in their decision process (congress has delegated legislative athourity to the agency over a specific area). It's unfortunate that many agencies ignore public comment - but the web has one very positive feature: it's much easier for the public to lear about regulation and much easier for the public to let their voice be heard.
Just don't expect privacy when participating in government!
I think it's interesting that the term "pirates" are being appied to intellectual property robinhoods (BTW - governments and rich people hate robinhoods)
The term "pirates" does not fit - pirates steal, rape and pillage. They commit more than one crime when "pirating". That term may apply to those that hijack media and resell it for profit, but it doesn't fit where someone buys, then shares or gives away a product for free.
Anyone who has owned a Beagle will tell you what a bad idea it was to name the probe "Beagle". Beagles don't come when called and they get on the trail of a critter and will walk 25 miles.
I only wish you could have sent my beagle to mars instead of the probe...
1. Rob Taco Bell right after filling out job appication and interview. Be arrested when cops show up at your address on the application.
2. Send extortion/blackmail emails using MS-Outlook from your normal ISP account. Be busted when FBI sends email using marketing tool like Neighborhood Email or eZine Manager. FBI is too embarassed to admit they used an e-newsletter tool and come up with the "ip address verifier" device.
3. Shoplift naked. Be arrested when cop identifies the incredibly stupid butcher's meat chart tatoo when streaking through campus on a dare.
4. Keep crack pipe, crack and lighter in glove box. Be arrested when you see a billboard advising "Drug checkpoint next exit" and begin throwing crack, lighter and pipe out the window while police are video taping looking for people throwing drugs and paraphanellia out the window.
A black man staring at the camera shaking his hands about making kung fu motions with 100 pounds of gold round his neck doesn't add much on a 50 inch plasma, let alone a 6 inch LCD.
Mod parent up - very funny! Frankly, it doesn't matter what color the guy is with 100 pounds of gold around his neck making kung fu motions - it does not enhance the quality of the music. Portable DVD players are gadgets for people who don't like to or know how to read.
As a responsible adult, I have to say that law-breaking, violent and pornographic games are deplorable. As an irresponsible adult, I say they sure are a lot of fun! The libertarian in me is saying that violent video games are a victimless crime - and therefore something the guvuhmunt should not mess with.
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Someone got a patent for using a computer to store and sort numerical data. I thought that was what these computer things were for...
Most job hunters spend more time on the cover letter/resume than they do one being referred to a potential employer. Big mistake. Here are two scenarios:
l337 d00d looking for job spends a week perfecting the resume. Sends out 100 resumes. Posts to monster. Gets replies that say: nice resume. Interview with HR next week. After interview HR says you need another interview. Three weeks pass Next interviewer says ok, you need to talk to vp. VP says well, I have a hiring freeze in effect until May. Damn, I feel really sorry for you all the time you spent on interviews with HR...
Joe Marketroid looks at job he wants. Asks who do I know that might know hiring manager. Calls person who is willing to contact hiring manager. referral made. Marketroid calls hiring manager and explains "I was not planning on changing jobs, but this opportunity seemed really super-great. My resume's not ready for prime time - but I do have some references you can call." Hiring manager: "send what you got. we'll talk at 4:00pm tomorow." Marketroid gets job after hour interview at local bar. Next day, Marketroid shows up at work. Moves into to corner office and is now your boss. Sucks don't it?
If HR is involved you probably WILL NOT GET THE JOB.
RIAA's problem is that they are trying to use nuclear weapons to solve a problem you need a good hickory stick for. The courts will have little patience for this. Perhaps it's time we start lobbying the government for a "petty infringement" statute that:
* applies to infringements of copyrights that are of a non commercial nature. Say my daughter copying a couple of tracks for her friend as an expample.
* Caps damages at say, the cost of a CD for music, the FMV price of a dvd for a movie or the FMV for a software title (yes, if you get caught copying leisure suit larry, it will ding you for $4.00).
* Eliminates jail time for non-commercial infringements.
* States that only the owner of IP has standing to sue for petty infringement. (This would lock out RIAA but allow artists to recover)
* Does not allow for court costs and legal fees to be charged to the defendant under any circumstance.
In other words, take away RIAA's power - they've abused it. This whole witch hunt they've launched is an infringement of our civil rights and is a drag on the entire economy.
hey claim that Open Source threatens "[The US] continued ability to lead the world in technological innovation/[The US] international competitive position in the global software industry".
I'm not sure that the US is the undisputed leader here. It seems that yes, we have contributed quite a bit. To assume we lead discounts the work done by a great number of very smart people all over the world. The US is possibly the best at selling technology, but if we allow idiots like Darl and his buddies at Canopy to continue their takeover of our industry, we will not be the leader for long. These people want to make intellectual property into real estate.
No, the reason I never really liked Star Trek was that other Sci-Fi series and movies were gritty, dirty. Have you ever been on a warship or in an inner city?
LOL. I agree on the lack of dirt being problematic. Then again, on warships you kind of see a pattern:
Operational areas and where officers are likley to be spotted - clean. Areas where enlisted people hang around - semiclean. Areas where no one really hangs - NASTY FILTHY except when there's an inspection...
I also always got a kick out of how they never really had enlisted people (with the exception of OBrien). My experience is that on most ships many enlisted guys have very important jobs:
* They operate, maintain, and repair the power plant.
* They drive the boat.
* They shoot the guns.
The officers are in charge, but the chiefs run the ship and the senior petty officers are the wheels - they are the guys that get it done. You would likely never see a LCDR like laforge "calibrating the sensors". You would see a second class petty officer doing the work with a team of junior enlisteds.
Fax.com was incredibly stupid. Their business model relied on skirting the law. The lesson in this is that if you are going to build a business it must be legal. The law is a funny thing - if you bet that a law isn't going to be enforced, you might be right. More times, though, you get caught and when you do, you have a very long fall ahead of you.
The primary duty is not to increase the value of the stock, but to maximize shareholder value.
Actually, your first duty is to obey the law. This applies to you, me and the CEO of Buzzhumpatron or even SCO. You don't get to keep building shareholder value if you are in jail, your assets are being siezed, you are taking non-expense losses from fines and so on.
In SCOs case, they may be reducing the value of Unix (as intellectual property) to zero. Talk about destroying shareholder value. The BSD cases diluted the value of Unix substantially. This case would do it in as what SCO is saying to the market (NOT TO THE COURT) is that Linux is so simmilar to Unix that it is the same.
Frankly, I think after 25+ years, the horse is dead. On of the real problems with Trek is that as special effects and the audience's general knowledge of science increases, the viewer is less involved with the show.
* TOS: Fun, good plots, viewer imagination required due to limited budget, effects, cast etc... But was really fun and thought provoking.
* TNG: Fun, good plots, some imagination required. Carried on TOS' knack for making viewers think.
* DS9: Fun, great plots, arc restores viewer involvement, introduction of new races and so on is interesting.
* Voyger: Not fun, some good episodes, combines character driven stories with the use of T&A to draw in male viewers.
* Enterprise: Starts fun - but then looses it by looking much more high tech than the other shows set in the future (TOS, TNG) and relying on chintz like shower scenes, female vulcans in heat and the like. Attempts to combine success of DSN9 arc with Voyger T&A strategy. Unwatchable.
At the end of the day, I think Trek's had it's run. I'll still enjoy all the reruns... Let's see something new... No McScifi for a while... Franchises get boring.
The fork knife and spoon icon is appropriate for this one! Lol x 2
Mike
Please, stop making comments on what they should price their software until you take some rudimentary economics courses.
That's not nice... Reality is that the original poster is onto something. Pricing is a marketing decision where economics are one little piece of the decision. Other factors:
* Fixed and marginal costs
* Competitor positioning
* Desired sales levels
* Personal pressures from the CEO
* Pressure from the board and investors
After reading a few posts here, if you are thinking that Novel's indemnity somehow helps SCO you are very wrong. Here is the situation:
SCO is trying to sell people property that belongs to someone else. If you buy a Linux licence from SCO you are buying a share of swampland in a national park or a share in the Brooklyn Bridge.
Novell and HP are simply playing to the market. Buy from us because we will defend you from the biggest con in the computer industry since... since British Telecom tried to claim they owned the hyperlink. It's a marketing ploy and HP and Novell both know they'll never have to deal with more than one lawsuit.
That Intel has contributed to the fund is HUGE NEWS. I've wondered where Intel's play would be because they seem to be tighter than ever with Microsoft. THat Intel sees Linux as an important enough part of it's market to protect does not bode well for SCO who so far has made most of it's money by selling Oses that run on Intel processors.
Intel sees the value of having more than one way to use their microprocessors. This is a very good vote of confidence!
I love it. An article about "low level, intermittent talks". What this could mean is:
Our secretary called theirs and tried to set an appointment.
Our sales rep called their purchasing department and tried to set an appointment.
Our employee ate lunch with their employee.
No news here. Next.
2) Forbes want SCO to succeed (again all those commies who believe in free things (imagine free, as in : no market, and no need for economic journal
Wrong.
Capitalists don't see "free" as a threat. They don't see open source as communists at all. If anything they are simply confused between two property rights issues - the right to own property and the right to use property.
The threat open source represents to capitalism is the erosion of property rights. Market forces are based on supply and demand - and what must be in demand is either chattels (property) or a service. The benefit of open source is that it allows us to better use the property we already own.
To some of us capitalist types we see computing making a transition from being a property economy (buy the computer, buy the software) to a service model (you already have the computer, we make it work). This transition will take several more decades - if and only if we can prevent intellectual property from becoming real eastate that once purchased, claimed or created is owned by someone for all time.
If you ever have to speak to the business press, keep this in mind: the threat of already owned property losing value is more newsworthy than saving someone a buck. We need to focus on the fact that we preserve the value in existing technology by making it work better, faster, cheaper and most important longer. It's about return on assets wheras the tradiditonal software economy is about return on new investment - and forcing artificial demand for that new investment. A sharp businessperson will always look to get more out of assets that are already owned. A capitalist market should alow a computer owner to do what they want with the computer and to make buying decisions as they see fit - otherwise the demand side of the equation is not fair.
Thinking about DOSemu and DOSbox remind me of an old article in Wired about the Turbo Switch on computers.
Actually, there were a large number of DOS applications that were coded in assembly for a 4.77Mhz PC. Faster computer would make these programs not work - and some were actual business applications and programs that interfaced with hardware that were written this way. The idea that PC archetecture would be around for 20+ years did not even cross the programmer's mind back then! Originally the purpose of the turbo button was to slow your blazing fast 10Mhz 8088 based PCXT clone to 4.77Mhz so you could software written for the stock IBM PC.
By the time the 386sx came out, the turbo button had lost it's function and the pinto analogy was appropriate. It was a great way to slow down games, though!
I, for one, don't want to go back to only using fonts that reside in the printer you have currently attached and have everything messed up when the document had to be printed elsewhere.
LOL! How little things have really changed. My current era MS Word, Lotus WordPro and WP 11 all have problems with formatting when I switch from my Lexmark to a Canon ink jet as the Canon supports edge to edge printing where the Lexmark doesn't. WP would have font issues - if a printer wouldn't have a given font in would usually default to 10 Pitch whatever...
Back in the day, as now if you were doing publication ready stuff, you had to use the right tools - and wordprocessors are not and never have been up to the task!
I'm really surprised at the level of anger on this issue. If anyone sues, the courts should prevent Treasury from releasing the emails. Nothing will prevent this in the future, though. When commenting on regulatory action by a Federal agency, your comments including postal address and so on usually becomes part of the public record. I commented on the FCC's regulation changes requiring a copy protection flag for digital content. As a result, I actually had opponents of and advocates of the digital flag contact me.
The price of participating in the public policy is that there is no expectation of privacy. When it comes to rule-making, silence is the price of privacy. Anonymous comments are not of value to regulators (no ability to validate that it is indeed a US citizen or to contact the commentor) who are supposed to use public comment in their decision process (congress has delegated legislative athourity to the agency over a specific area). It's unfortunate that many agencies ignore public comment - but the web has one very positive feature: it's much easier for the public to lear about regulation and much easier for the public to let their voice be heard.
Just don't expect privacy when participating in government!
Sorry... I'm in marketing :)
I think it's interesting that the term "pirates" are being appied to intellectual property robinhoods (BTW - governments and rich people hate robinhoods)
The term "pirates" does not fit - pirates steal, rape and pillage. They commit more than one crime when "pirating". That term may apply to those that hijack media and resell it for profit, but it doesn't fit where someone buys, then shares or gives away a product for free.
Anyone who has owned a Beagle will tell you what a bad idea it was to name the probe "Beagle". Beagles don't come when called and they get on the trail of a critter and will walk 25 miles.
I only wish you could have sent my beagle to mars instead of the probe...
Here are three ways to get on America's Dumbest:
1. Rob Taco Bell right after filling out job appication and interview. Be arrested when cops show up at your address on the application.
2. Send extortion/blackmail emails using MS-Outlook from your normal ISP account. Be busted when FBI sends email using marketing tool like Neighborhood Email or eZine Manager. FBI is too embarassed to admit they used an e-newsletter tool and come up with the "ip address verifier" device.
3. Shoplift naked. Be arrested when cop identifies the incredibly stupid butcher's meat chart tatoo when streaking through campus on a dare.
4. Keep crack pipe, crack and lighter in glove box. Be arrested when you see a billboard advising "Drug checkpoint next exit" and begin throwing crack, lighter and pipe out the window while police are video taping looking for people throwing drugs and paraphanellia out the window.
Unless you are using an exchange server...
A black man staring at the camera shaking his hands about making kung fu motions with 100 pounds of gold round his neck doesn't add much on a 50 inch plasma, let alone a 6 inch LCD.
Mod parent up - very funny! Frankly, it doesn't matter what color the guy is with 100 pounds of gold around his neck making kung fu motions - it does not enhance the quality of the music. Portable DVD players are gadgets for people who don't like to or know how to read.
As a responsible adult, I have to say that law-breaking, violent and pornographic games are deplorable. As an irresponsible adult, I say they sure are a lot of fun! The libertarian in me is saying that violent video games are a victimless crime - and therefore something the guvuhmunt should not mess with.
That abomination wasn't a business! It was a two-way charity:
* Give cuecat to user
* Have customers errrr investors give money to company.
No money was being made. It wasn't a business.