Seriously, the classes were how to type. That's it. And yes, it's amazing how accurate your results can be when you know enough to modify the app in the first place. Sector editing assembly on an Apple ||++
Ahhhh, never ending meetings where things don't get solved quickly, especially if priorities aren't clear.
If priorities aren't clear, the manner of communications is going to be inefficient regardless.
Personally, I'll take a well drafted email over any live-person-multiple-people meeting any day. The emails in my experience tend to be well laid out and detailed. Meetings, people show up unprepared and empty-handed. Then don't take well enough notes. Then are preoccupied with other things going on (for that day) and... you get an hour or two wasted with people unable to discuss IT department topics that are technically inclined but there is no technical information on the table.
Atleast with an email I can run through it over and over and let my brain digest it, and then come back and reply with complete thoughts to it. I have the ability to pull up relevant documentation, facts, prior projects, prior issue-tracker-issues, etc. I find in meetings, having the time to digest new information, just dropped on you there, with others expecting an answer _there_.... that's not fun.
It could also very well be that meetings such as the ones I'm thinking about were not run well by management, pre-prep wasn't enforced and no guideance for the meeting, nor future meetings, was provided.
I'm not saying all meetings are bad, but from my experience, most are.
After Apple bought NeXT, it's said they kept the Intel version developed behind closed doors for all those years.
If Jobs were a smart man, and I think he is, when they realized they'd block flash on the to-be iOS platform (which was far more ahead of when they announced it), they started work on a graphics app to replace Photoshop. "Just incase" they'd need it.
Not only that, but if the city has any health/life insurance on those fire fighters, coverage may specifically only cover those firefighters on site of those houses that have pre-paid.
If that were the case, I would certainly not expect any of the fire fighters to touch that house, at all. If one of them were to be injured, or worse killed, who's looking after the fire fighter's family afterward?
Certainly, imho, not the guy who chose to save the $75. (There was another discussion somewhere I saw yesterday that I can't find a link to) that said the guy had had received letters, phone calls, and had chosen to not pay it at the time of the call, and someone had googled the guy and they had a farm and were seemingly doing quite well enough to shell out $75.
And I thought Ohio was the only state that had such fucked up sales tax laws. In Ohio, too, you cannot plainly use a zip code to determine sales tax, because the county lines to not abide by them. So you have to factor address, city, county and zip code.
You can find some information from the state of ohio in pdf's and csv's to try and help you sort through it. However, the same information can change depending on the election cycle ( https://thefinder.tax.ohio.gov/StreamlineSalesTaxWeb/ ).
While a prior poster mentioned that surely Amazon is full of intelligent people who can figure all this out, I do not believe they should have to. I cannot imagine having to put together a system that deals with each and every states archaic tax laws that change at any given time. What a pain in the ass that'd be. And how costly that would be to implement, ugh.
The last two developers we've hired: 1 perl developer (mod_perl) happened to be in his 40's. The other, a.Net developer, too, happened to be in his 40's.
And quite honestly, I don't recall either's educational background. But I can tell you were each has worked, what they di, what their references said about them, and theirs skillsets. I'd also venture to say, IMHO, they were hired for capacity and willingness to learn. Not everyone knows everything. But that you *can* and *want to* learn what you need to learn is key.
Besides, if you are paying someone proper $$, if they are older, generally they are more stable then a young pup who's dating and then gets married and needs to relocate because the spouse got a job somewhere else and they can easily do so without kids. The older hires tend to be married with kids, and they're stuck in town. Especially if they're gearing up trying to save for kids that'll be in college in a few years. Less movement and more stability++.
However, most IT people I know are getting bent over with the extra work and projects and BS "to keep the higher ups happy so we don't get let go." That leaves very little time for anything other then work, sleep rinse and repeat.
It's amazing once the job market is announced to have slowed down how management will turn up the screws on the non-hourly.
We saw the Blue men in Boston, and then Columbus OH. Boston's a much better venue for a show. We had a great time, the show is amazing. Some of the music's not that bad too.
The reason Granny waits for her webpages is because she still uses dial-up
The reason Granny still uses dial-up is because the broadband providers haven't reached her house yet.
Nope. It's because broadband is typically $30-$50/month.
Dialup can be had for a few dollars each month. Typically $9.99.
It's cheap and it's good enough so that's why older people (typically more budget-minded, too) keep it. And unless you are slinging files around, dialup for email and occasional surfing is suitable for most non-geek people.
I'd love to do nothing and make money from it too. Wouldn't everyone?
Yep:)
It's to make society as a whole richer, and encourage people who create things to make new things.
I agree that once the copyright ends and it's gone to the public domain, yes, that is intended for society's benefit.
I do not believe the copyright is intended "to encourage people to create additional things". I think that may possibly be a byproduct of having the copyright. It's just a benefit of the copyright protection such that their work isn't ripped off. So they aren't discouraged, but instead keep creating.
If you were still creating games, I'd say you deserve to get reimbursed for your work and contribution to society. As it is, you think you should be reimbursed for being a lazy asshole who did some work once, and thinks you should get paid for it forever.
If I'm receiving funds from my copyright'd work and I don't continue making similar works, you deem me lazy?
I don't care WHAT media is created, there should be a limit on the amount of time you can profit from it, and then society gets it, because after all, society is the one who gave you copyright in the first place, and gave you the opportunity to profit from it at all.
I *do* agree with you there. Just not during my lifetime, nor my children's. If my family can benefit from my work, then I would rather see them have that. After all, I could talking about a $50/mo or $50,000/mo. In my mind, the amount is irrelevant, it's the principle that I work to provide for my family, and my product should do so as well. After we're all gone, let everyone benefit (hopefully) from it by it going public domain.
I never said copyright laws are intended to be an inheritance/retirement.
Copyright was intended to give creator of a work authorship rights. If one is able to garner incoming, earnings (ie licensing) or even retirement income from said ownership, then more power to 'em.
the artist loses any incentive to produce more works if the current is a hit.
So what? Who are you to judge the validity of reasoning basis someone has used as to whether they will continue to produce, or not? And if that basis is because they've become rich from the ownership and copyright of their original work, I still ask, so what? I do not see that as any reasonable argument to make the claim that they should lose their copyright on their work just because they got rich and decided not do something similar in their own future.
Every game for the NES should now be out of copyright. 100+ copyright terms for these works is just, simply, unjust.
Would you declare the same if this discussion were about a book someone wrote and published during the NES's heyday timeframe?
What about a poem or musical work, etc? Would you still say the same or are you saying this because the NES games are software?
Coming from the having-written-software for a long time, and having had it ripped off a time or two, and now having kids, if my software were as popular as NES and I could still be getting royalties from it, I sure as hell would love that right now. And I would also love to be able to leave that income to my children when I pass.
But don't worry, sooner, not later, globalization will end these ridiculous restrictions on trade called "copyright" that the western nations are trying to push as beneficial to the rest of the world.
I disagree with you. I think as globalization continues, the only thing that will make it work as a whole, without a world-war3 over it, is Intellectual property and copyright/trademark law.
Without such protections, people's works can easily be ripped off. It quickly becomes not worth it for people to produce. Quickly it's not worth it for advanced education, skills development etc. You have no educated/skilled workers over time.
There are many reason why people say "America can't compete with the Chinese" wrt manufacturing. One of those reasons is that China doesn't have to really abide by the IP laws that most other contries have agreed to.
The US, and their large corporations, has much IP. As other countries gain the cheap manufacturing/cloning ability, the only thing that will continue to bring money into the US is IP fees or war.
Hard drives are cheap. And if you rip it to a smaller format (DIVX, mp4 for iTunes/AppleTV) then you can archive even more crap that you'll rarely ever watch again;)
If there were ever a Slashdot article that needs a poll for it...
Personally I think you should endure and become a more prolific slashdot poster.
It's their (un/wise) choice to run their company as they see fit, and if they want to cut your access so you have to twiddle your thumbs till your time is up then so be it.
And their attitude is "Why do I need a computer?". When they need to do a paper, they use ours. When the want to play games, they use mine. When they want to chat w/ their friends from anywhere, they text them from anywhere on their cellphone.
Once phones come w/ unlimited data plans at reasonable prices w/ a camera on the front and IM/video-chat software built-in, then texting may have some competition.
So what's a typical day for you like? ie When do you wake up? You work from home, yes? Do you eat in most of the time? (you seem to have a non-typical diet from some of your prior comments). How much of your day is spent in front of a computer screen M-F and on weekends?
Do you find working remotely through an IRC/IM Window with fellow staffers easy/difficult/tiring/??? What's the best thing about working like this, and the worst?
Oh most knowledgeable AC, who must know more about something that which I may or may not participate in (ahem, for free) please take it and stuff it. You have no basis to claim I don't know what I'm talking about. And you post anonymously, so your credibility is just overwhelming.
[...]still suffers from the problem of DNS updating -- it doesn't appear to cache entries, and there's no way that I can find to force it to update [...] Try this:
Why would they? What benefit, to them, would they see if they did?
You'd see everyone whining that the API Documentation isn't out yet, or that the provided samples aren't good enough, or simple enough, or advanced enough. Or the API doesn't match what was released w/ the last iPhone bios update. (see rolling-target-at-the-moment, above ^^).
All of that stuff takes resources (ie money) to make it. And time.
They're trying to do a new OS rollout. If you were Steve Jobs, and you had just rolled out the iPhone (which you pulled engineers from the OSX project to the iPhone) and now you want to get the new version of OSX out (along w/ API, XCode, etc) what decision would you make?
Oh, let's announce that we'll be coming out w/ API Docs for the iPhone. Don't know when, because OSX Leopard isn't done yet. And they're not done writing the API yet. But what the heck, let's announce it anyway.
Yeah, right. Without an announcement, they are not beholden to any time table to release anything wrt iPhone/iPodTouch development.
My guess is, if we're lucky and Leopard goes OK, we'll see something in the Jan08 to Jun08 timeframe for iPhone Development. That talk about "Apple said that the public will never be able to develop for the iPhone, because it would break AT&T's network from #20824059 I think is hogwash. Just an excuse for the moment. I think once an API is out, everyone'll forget about all the comments and excuses.
You do realize the iPodTouch seems to be missing applications which the iPhone includes, right?
It'd be nice if the missing icons for the apps were just an oversight from the screenshots/demos, but I don't think that's the case. I think if you want the true 'all in one' you'll have to either hack the iPodTouch or just purchase the iPhone.
Also, if you take a look at the accessories, the video-out cables still say "any iPod" so maybe the video-out has been left on the iPodTouch. But looking at the feature/spec sheet for the touch, it doesn't blatantly say it'll still do it.
I was wondering if the iPodTouch could be used as a mobile-ssh terminal with one of those smallish bluetooth keyboards. That'd save me from having to lug the laptop around all the time.
Most people would get by just fine with a PC that literally costs a fraction of that $1800 iMac. True.
The iMac is priced as a premium computer, and if I'm going to pay premium prices, I don't want cut-rate specs. No, I don't think it is. The 20" iMac is $1,199 (The original parent complained that the baseline 24" version at $1,799 only has 1GB of ram). If you take a Dell Inspiron 530 w/ 22" screen (Core 2 Duo 2.0GHz, 2GB Ram, 320GB drive) it's $1,099. (in the Dell-Home there's a rebate for $150 off, knocking it to $949). So yes, you get a little improvement on the price, twice the ram, 70GB more space and a bigger screan. But you're not getting OSX, and all the "iApps" that come w/ OSX. Total price difference $250. If not for the rebate, price difference is $100.00. The way I see it, Apple's iMac is their middle-tier computer. You're right, most people don't need it. Infact, I'd wager most people could get by with one of these $150 linux laptops or Mac mini. But given the iMac's all-in-one simple approach, it's packaging, and "ooohh it's Apple" most consumers are going to buy it. At-least, the ones that want a Mac:) There will always be those that want a $349 Dell.
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Seriously, the classes were how to type. That's it. And yes, it's amazing how accurate your results can be when you know enough to modify the app in the first place. Sector editing assembly on an Apple ||++
Ahhhh, never ending meetings where things don't get solved quickly, especially if priorities aren't clear.
If priorities aren't clear, the manner of communications is going to be inefficient regardless.
Personally, I'll take a well drafted email over any live-person-multiple-people meeting any day. The emails in my experience tend to be well laid out and detailed. Meetings, people show up unprepared and empty-handed. Then don't take well enough notes. Then are preoccupied with other things going on (for that day) and ... you get an hour or two wasted with people unable to discuss IT department topics that are technically inclined but there is no technical information on the table.
Atleast with an email I can run through it over and over and let my brain digest it, and then come back and reply with complete thoughts to it. I have the ability to pull up relevant documentation, facts, prior projects, prior issue-tracker-issues, etc. I find in meetings, having the time to digest new information, just dropped on you there, with others expecting an answer _there_.... that's not fun.
It could also very well be that meetings such as the ones I'm thinking about were not run well by management, pre-prep wasn't enforced and no guideance for the meeting, nor future meetings, was provided.
I'm not saying all meetings are bad, but from my experience, most are.
After Apple bought NeXT, it's said they kept the Intel version developed behind closed doors for all those years.
If Jobs were a smart man, and I think he is, when they realized they'd block flash on the to-be iOS platform (which was far more ahead of when they announced it), they started work on a graphics app to replace Photoshop. "Just incase" they'd need it.
Not only that, but if the city has any health/life insurance on those fire fighters, coverage may specifically only cover those firefighters on site of those houses that have pre-paid.
If that were the case, I would certainly not expect any of the fire fighters to touch that house, at all. If one of them were to be injured, or worse killed, who's looking after the fire fighter's family afterward?
Certainly, imho, not the guy who chose to save the $75. (There was another discussion somewhere I saw yesterday that I can't find a link to) that said the guy had had received letters, phone calls, and had chosen to not pay it at the time of the call, and someone had googled the guy and they had a farm and were seemingly doing quite well enough to shell out $75.
Sad story, regardless.
And I thought Ohio was the only state that had such fucked up sales tax laws. In Ohio, too, you cannot plainly use a zip code to determine sales tax, because the county lines to not abide by them. So you have to factor address, city, county and zip code.
You can find some information from the state of ohio in pdf's and csv's to try and help you sort through it. However, the same information can change depending on the election cycle ( https://thefinder.tax.ohio.gov/StreamlineSalesTaxWeb/ ).
While a prior poster mentioned that surely Amazon is full of intelligent people who can figure all this out, I do not believe they should have to. I cannot imagine having to put together a system that deals with each and every states archaic tax laws that change at any given time. What a pain in the ass that'd be. And how costly that would be to implement, ugh.
One business I'm with uses Open Fire. Another uses OSX Server on an XServe w/ it's built-in Jabber server (attached to MS-AD for user accounts).
Both work extremely well. Throw in Pidgin, iChat or Adium and it's all good.
What a load of crap you just spouted.
The last two developers we've hired: 1 perl developer (mod_perl) happened to be in his 40's. The other, a .Net developer, too, happened to be in his 40's.
And quite honestly, I don't recall either's educational background. But I can tell you were each has worked, what they di, what their references said about them, and theirs skillsets. I'd also venture to say, IMHO, they were hired for capacity and willingness to learn. Not everyone knows everything. But that you *can* and *want to* learn what you need to learn is key.
Besides, if you are paying someone proper $$, if they are older, generally they are more stable then a young pup who's dating and then gets married and needs to relocate because the spouse got a job somewhere else and they can easily do so without kids. The older hires tend to be married with kids, and they're stuck in town. Especially if they're gearing up trying to save for kids that'll be in college in a few years. Less movement and more stability++.
I sincerely hope you are.
However, most IT people I know are getting bent over with the extra work and projects and BS "to keep the higher ups happy so we don't get let go." That leaves very little time for anything other then work, sleep rinse and repeat.
It's amazing once the job market is announced to have slowed down how management will turn up the screws on the non-hourly.
We saw the Blue men in Boston, and then Columbus OH. Boston's a much better venue for a show. We had a great time, the show is amazing. Some of the music's not that bad too.
The reason Granny waits for her webpages is because she still uses dial-up
The reason Granny still uses dial-up is because the broadband providers haven't reached her house yet.
Nope. It's because broadband is typically $30-$50/month.
Dialup can be had for a few dollars each month. Typically $9.99.
It's cheap and it's good enough so that's why older people (typically more budget-minded, too) keep it. And unless you are slinging files around, dialup for email and occasional surfing is suitable for most non-geek people.
I'd love to do nothing and make money from it too. Wouldn't everyone?
Yep :)
It's to make society as a whole richer, and encourage people who create things to make new things.
I agree that once the copyright ends and it's gone to the public domain, yes, that is intended for society's benefit.
I do not believe the copyright is intended "to encourage people to create additional things". I think that may possibly be a byproduct of having the copyright. It's just a benefit of the copyright protection such that their work isn't ripped off. So they aren't discouraged, but instead keep creating.
If you were still creating games, I'd say you deserve to get reimbursed for your work and contribution to society. As it is, you think you should be reimbursed for being a lazy asshole who did some work once, and thinks you should get paid for it forever.
If I'm receiving funds from my copyright'd work and I don't continue making similar works, you deem me lazy?
I don't care WHAT media is created, there should be a limit on the amount of time you can profit from it, and then society gets it, because after all, society is the one who gave you copyright in the first place, and gave you the opportunity to profit from it at all.
I *do* agree with you there. Just not during my lifetime, nor my children's. If my family can benefit from my work, then I would rather see them have that. After all, I could talking about a $50/mo or $50,000/mo. In my mind, the amount is irrelevant, it's the principle that I work to provide for my family, and my product should do so as well. After we're all gone, let everyone benefit (hopefully) from it by it going public domain.
I never said copyright laws are intended to be an inheritance/retirement.
Copyright was intended to give creator of a work authorship rights. If one is able to garner incoming, earnings (ie licensing) or even retirement income from said ownership, then more power to 'em.
the artist loses any incentive to produce more works if the current is a hit.
So what? Who are you to judge the validity of reasoning basis someone has used as to whether they will continue to produce, or not? And if that basis is because they've become rich from the ownership and copyright of their original work, I still ask, so what? I do not see that as any reasonable argument to make the claim that they should lose their copyright on their work just because they got rich and decided not do something similar in their own future.
Every game for the NES should now be out of copyright. 100+ copyright terms for these works is just, simply, unjust.
Would you declare the same if this discussion were about a book someone wrote and published during the NES's heyday timeframe?
What about a poem or musical work, etc? Would you still say the same or are you saying this because the NES games are software?
Coming from the having-written-software for a long time, and having had it ripped off a time or two, and now having kids, if my software were as popular as NES and I could still be getting royalties from it, I sure as hell would love that right now. And I would also love to be able to leave that income to my children when I pass.
But don't worry, sooner, not later, globalization will end these ridiculous restrictions on trade called "copyright" that the western nations are trying to push as beneficial to the rest of the world.
I disagree with you. I think as globalization continues, the only thing that will make it work as a whole, without a world-war3 over it, is Intellectual property and copyright/trademark law.
Without such protections, people's works can easily be ripped off. It quickly becomes not worth it for people to produce. Quickly it's not worth it for advanced education, skills development etc. You have no educated/skilled workers over time.
There are many reason why people say "America can't compete with the Chinese" wrt manufacturing. One of those reasons is that China doesn't have to really abide by the IP laws that most other contries have agreed to.
The US, and their large corporations, has much IP. As other countries gain the cheap manufacturing/cloning ability, the only thing that will continue to bring money into the US is IP fees or war.
Hard drives are cheap. And if you rip it to a smaller format (DIVX, mp4 for iTunes/AppleTV) then you can archive even more crap that you'll rarely ever watch again ;)
If there were ever a Slashdot article that needs a poll for it...
Personally I think you should endure and become a more prolific slashdot poster.
It's their (un/wise) choice to run their company as they see fit, and if they want to cut your access so you have to twiddle your thumbs till your time is up then so be it.
Same with my kids. It's IM w/o a computer or pda.
And their attitude is "Why do I need a computer?". When they need to do a paper, they use ours. When the want to play games, they use mine. When they want to chat w/ their friends from anywhere, they text them from anywhere on their cellphone.
Once phones come w/ unlimited data plans at reasonable prices w/ a camera on the front and IM/video-chat software built-in, then texting may have some competition.
So what's a typical day for you like? ie When do you wake up? You work from home, yes? Do you eat in most of the time? (you seem to have a non-typical diet from some of your prior comments). How much of your day is spent in front of a computer screen M-F and on weekends?
Do you find working remotely through an IRC/IM Window with fellow staffers easy/difficult/tiring/??? What's the best thing about working like this, and the worst?
Oh most knowledgeable AC, who must know more about something that which I may or may not participate in (ahem, for free) please take it and stuff it. You have no basis to claim I don't know what I'm talking about. And you post anonymously, so your credibility is just overwhelming.
You have to pay to be able to participate in the program
Wrong-o!! You absolutely do not have to pay anything to involved in the Appleseed program.
[...] Try this: In 10.4 it was
Why would they? What benefit, to them, would they see if they did?
You'd see everyone whining that the API Documentation isn't out yet, or that the provided samples aren't good enough, or simple enough, or advanced enough. Or the API doesn't match what was released w/ the last iPhone bios update. (see rolling-target-at-the-moment, above ^^).
All of that stuff takes resources (ie money) to make it. And time.
They're trying to do a new OS rollout. If you were Steve Jobs, and you had just rolled out the iPhone (which you pulled engineers from the OSX project to the iPhone) and now you want to get the new version of OSX out (along w/ API, XCode, etc) what decision would you make?
Oh, let's announce that we'll be coming out w/ API Docs for the iPhone. Don't know when, because OSX Leopard isn't done yet. And they're not done writing the API yet. But what the heck, let's announce it anyway.
Yeah, right. Without an announcement, they are not beholden to any time table to release anything wrt iPhone/iPodTouch development.
My guess is, if we're lucky and Leopard goes OK, we'll see something in the Jan08 to Jun08 timeframe for iPhone Development. That talk about "Apple said that the public will never be able to develop for the iPhone, because it would break AT&T's network from #20824059 I think is hogwash. Just an excuse for the moment. I think once an API is out, everyone'll forget about all the comments and excuses.
You do realize the iPodTouch seems to be missing applications which the iPhone includes, right?
It'd be nice if the missing icons for the apps were just an oversight from the screenshots/demos, but I don't think that's the case. I think if you want the true 'all in one' you'll have to either hack the iPodTouch or just purchase the iPhone.
Nope, no speaker. No bluetooth, either. And apparently removed some apps that the iPhone has, too.
http://www.apple.com/ipodtouch/specs.html
Also, if you take a look at the accessories, the video-out cables still say "any iPod" so maybe the video-out has been left on the iPodTouch. But looking at the feature/spec sheet for the touch, it doesn't blatantly say it'll still do it.
I was wondering if the iPodTouch could be used as a mobile-ssh terminal with one of those smallish bluetooth keyboards. That'd save me from having to lug the laptop around all the time.