Big international investment bank. No ties on sight any day of the week (maybe the traders do, sometimes).
I have never ever worn a tie: they are ridiculous, inconvenient (ever tried to fix a PC while wearing one? I haven't!).
Professionalism should not be tied to... err... a tie, but to many other things far more important than the ability to fix a piece of dry cleaned cloth around your neck.
So you decided to pay thousands of dollars in licensing for a closed shop solution where the provider dictates how and when you update your software because you could not be bothered to dedicate 1 month to become reasonable proficient in Linux?
People: the most important asset of a company are yourselves, invest on that. Then choose the best tool to solve the problem.
To dismiss a posible solution just for ignorance is not a good idea, only the companies that are ready to try new things will survive difficult times.
People like both Miguels work in big towns like Mexico City, but Mexico is a very big country and in many communities the chances of finding somebody computer-literate are close to nil (forget about Linux or UNIX, just somebody courageous enough to double click here and there knowing what is going on).
The UNAM (the univeristy you refer to) has more in common with any other University around the world than with the poor neighborhoods and communities that could benefit with the knowledge of people like Miguel de Icaza and others. Thes educated people have difficult choices to make: they either make a living working in a regular job (and keep in mind that salaries in Mexico are low in general) or they devote their time to improve the situation of Mexican schools earning less and as it can be seen, with little moral or political support. Thos guys trying to promote Linux are saints....
In spite of what the media would like you to believe, the Y2K problem was real. I guess I do not need to dwelve too deep in this place to convince of this people that basicaly know that what I am writing is true, I just think that to echo the tidbits of computer-illiterate media in/. is a sad development.
You never know how information about you is going to be used:
The expediency with wich former Chilean dictator A. Pinochet incarcerated his political opponents was astonishing. In a matter of days all the members (big and small) of the Socialist Party and other organizations that supported the democratically elected Socialist presdient, Salvador Allende, were imprisoned.
How did Pinochet's newly born regime achieved this? Easy, he got the record of the memebership of the Socialist Party, so it was a futile excercise of pick and choose.
You never know how information about you is going to be used and by who, thus you should give away as little information about you as possible.
Or they could try what the UK goverment is trying: to tax at 0% online gambling, that way the industry does not move away from the country to fiscal heavens.
Your answer is a pretty good one, but unfotunately you mess up everything with the refernce to LINUX.
Cmmon guys: do you need to say LINUX avery second sentence to make any point about anything?
Linux is not art: it communicates nothing to anybody excluding perhaps the people that care to understand the kernel. Is a piece of human endeavour to be admired for many reason, but not for aesthetic ones, because it has none.
The purpose, intention and objectives of LINUX are utilitarian ones: it either works or does not work. Linus Torvalds didi not write the kernel to elicit any human reponse, he wrote it because he needed something UNIX like that worked for him.
To compare the linux kernel to a self portrait is ridiculous: give the kernel to somebody that knows nothing about linux and see if that person thinks it looks like a self portrait. You are attributing characteristics to a piece of code that it does not have.
I will stand firm here, and I will repeat it again: code is not art.
Bury your perl script, and dig it out in 200 years, it will not elicit any emotion, and the only comment I envision is "what the hell is that?".
Art needs to communicate human emotions to other human beings, regardless of time and culture.
Code completely fails to do so, and if it does not run or compile it is not code anyway, meaning that its only reason to exist is an utilitarian one, which is the exact antithesis of what art is supposed to be.
You are doing nothing. It is either MS or a third party who will do the modifications. I you program and store your own tags that is fair use. If you use other people's smart tags it becomes plagiarism because they are modifying other people's work without asking permission.
You can do whatever you want with your book. Nobody can come and write in your book and modify the content of the original author without asking.
The judge will have a laughter attack thinking how silly MS was, it could not manage to say guilty...
You got it completely backwards: the owner of any content in the Web is the original creator or a publisher with the creator's aproval.
The guy browsing does not own the content, neither do Microsoft.
Thus if a make a site demoting point by point why Windows2000 sucks, the last thing I want modifying my content is an SmartTag to ilovems.com and I dont's see why I should work extra for free just to disable a "feature" I don't want imposed into my content in an unilateral, abusive manner in the first place.
I think this will be laughed out all the way to the court faster than we can say clippy the clip.
What you obviously don't appreciate (in spite of 50000 people mentioning it here) is that in the server side you have to put extra stuff to disable this piece of crap.
It is an stealth M$ tax taken in time of people deploying *any* web server solution.
And then we wonder why the enterteinment industry do with their costumers as they wish. Here we are (not me, mind you), rushing to buy in droves a DVD (region coded, fair use locked out) of a lame movie whose lamest parts are now included and pandered as something of interest.
If there were impresionable not thinking children the ones that were rushing, fair enough. Buth technologicaly minded, educated people rushing to get this crap is unexcusable.
Go and get a VHS version if you need to see this crap again so badly, otherwise refrain please to never ever again to say how evil DVD is, the reality is that most people (as shown by the posts relating to this article) want to be screwed and will pay for the privilege.
How do you know there was no real cause of concern?
Just an example: recently we had a GPLed application that for its particular way of making requests was clogging one of our servers. If it had been Seti@Home we would have been completely lost. Since it was GPLed somebody found the problem, corrected the program and the problem was solved.
You can never tell what is going to happen with an application for which you don't have the source. Period.
From where did you get the idea that to have a computer in your desk entitles you to some freedom about how to use it? That is your wishful thinking, most people would also love to make all their long distance calls at the expense of the company from their office phones.
IT departments are god today in what respects to the IT infrastructure od the company that pays your salary. It is their job to make sure the people that is making possible for you to make a living don't see their profits damaged because employess can't be arsed to comply to some basic common sense rules reagrding computers, specially in today's networked environments.
It is beacuse computers are tools to support users that you should not allow users to break the tool.
If you can get away with bullying your IT people you work in a company that eventually will be biten by security issues.
In most companies I have worked you would have gotten disciplinary actions against you, and if persisted, you would have been dismissed.
You would not last 5 minutes as a SysAdmin in a bank if you applied those same policies (but I guess you know that): they will escort you out of the building and would launch an audit to see if there is the need to press legal charges against you (not a joke).
Each environment has its needs, and as far as I can see TVA is not in the business of either finding ETs or pleasing their employees with useless toys.
Nothing stops those same employees to have Seti@HOME (see, *at home*) to run the program in their own PCs during the day and check results later.
We always complain about how dumb management seems to be, then for once they do something sensible and half of/. (mostly college kids I guess) complain about it.
Yes there is. Go to China, they have scientists and doctors, adn as serious scientists they will tell you that of course is not a cure all magic thing, but something that can be used to treat pain in some circusmtances.
In Mexico there has been investigation in Universities for 150 years and there are many doctors with specialization in homeophaty that provide health care.
The reality is that there are a lot of charlatans out there proclaiming to know about these two techniques that know rat about them.
Both have sound scientific background, but since they are not endorsed or well known they are open to be used by charlatans. The National Politechnical Institute in Mexico (one of the most serious and prestigious institutions of the public education in Mexico, the previous Mexican President studied there) has a National School of Medicine AND Homeopathy.
I tried acupuncture provided by a doctor that trained in China and it does work. If you use either of these the guy applying them MUST be a real doctor first of all, then these will be one of many tools at its disposal.
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I have been using Mozilla 0.7 (yes, I am lazy) since it got out.
I can e-commerce, use my bank's web services, read newspapers, web-email, etc.
Yes, it crashes. So what? It is beta code.
For me it bared fruit. I don't have to deal with constant MS or AOL intrusions that have very little to do with what I want to do: just browsing.
I will be the first one to upgrade to Mozilla 1.0 as soon as it is ready.
I have not opened IE (i think was 5, I don't care) since I installed Mozilla.
Well done guys. Way to go.
If you are going to beg, at least beg properly. What the hell do you do?
Big international investment bank. No ties on sight any day of the week (maybe the traders do, sometimes).
... err... a tie, but to many other things far more important than the ability to fix a piece of dry cleaned cloth around your neck.
I have never ever worn a tie: they are ridiculous, inconvenient (ever tried to fix a PC while wearing one? I haven't!).
Professionalism should not be tied to
Somebody have to explain to the people that put the money for your salary how the service you provide is performing.
You should thank your boss that he takes the chore to do this which allows you to do the work that you enjoy.
Your sentence shows why young people need more than technical ability to join the adult world.
Then a client for Windos is written. Voila!
So you decided to pay thousands of dollars in licensing for a closed shop solution where the provider dictates how and when you update your software because you could not be bothered to dedicate 1 month to become reasonable proficient in Linux?
People: the most important asset of a company are yourselves, invest on that. Then choose the best tool to solve the problem.
To dismiss a posible solution just for ignorance is not a good idea, only the companies that are ready to try new things will survive difficult times.
People like both Miguels work in big towns like Mexico City, but Mexico is a very big country and in many communities the chances of finding somebody computer-literate are close to nil (forget about Linux or UNIX, just somebody courageous enough to double click here and there knowing what is going on).
The UNAM (the univeristy you refer to) has more in common with any other University around the world than with the poor neighborhoods and communities that could benefit with the knowledge of people like Miguel de Icaza and others. Thes educated people have difficult choices to make: they either make a living working in a regular job (and keep in mind that salaries in Mexico are low in general) or they devote their time to improve the situation of Mexican schools earning less and as it can be seen, with little moral or political support. Thos guys trying to promote Linux are saints....
In spite of what the media would like you to believe, the Y2K problem was real. I guess I do not need to dwelve too deep in this place to convince of this people that basicaly know that what I am writing is true, I just think that to echo the tidbits of computer-illiterate media in /. is a sad development.
Er, do you know a thing called roof?
I don't mean to be intrusive, but must roofs I am sure are used for nothing anyway.
You never know how information about you is going to be used:
The expediency with wich former Chilean dictator A. Pinochet incarcerated his political opponents was astonishing. In a matter of days all the members (big and small) of the Socialist Party and other organizations that supported the democratically elected Socialist presdient, Salvador Allende, were imprisoned.
How did Pinochet's newly born regime achieved this? Easy, he got the record of the memebership of the Socialist Party, so it was a futile excercise of pick and choose.
You never know how information about you is going to be used and by who, thus you should give away as little information about you as possible.
If I pay for it, it is spam.
If they pay for it, it is speech.
If it was unsolicited and forced in my mailbox it is spam.
If I get messages that in principle I agreed to receive, it is speech.
If the sender makes itself a nuisance, it is spam.
If the sender is respectful, it is speech.
If the cause is a worthy one that does not change anything.
If somebody goes to yell in front of your house at 3:00AM about human rights abuses in China, I guess you will not be sympatetic.
The problem with spam is the form not the contents.
Simple.
Or they could try what the UK goverment is trying: to tax at 0% online gambling, that way the industry does not move away from the country to fiscal heavens.
Your answer is a pretty good one, but unfotunately you mess up everything with the refernce to LINUX.
Cmmon guys: do you need to say LINUX avery second sentence to make any point about anything?
Linux is not art: it communicates nothing to anybody excluding perhaps the people that care to understand the kernel. Is a piece of human endeavour to be admired for many reason, but not for aesthetic ones, because it has none.
The purpose, intention and objectives of LINUX are utilitarian ones: it either works or does not work. Linus Torvalds didi not write the kernel to elicit any human reponse, he wrote it because he needed something UNIX like that worked for him.
To compare the linux kernel to a self portrait is ridiculous: give the kernel to somebody that knows nothing about linux and see if that person thinks it looks like a self portrait. You are attributing characteristics to a piece of code that it does not have.
I will stand firm here, and I will repeat it again: code is not art.
Bury your perl script, and dig it out in 200 years, it will not elicit any emotion, and the only comment I envision is "what the hell is that?".
Art needs to communicate human emotions to other human beings, regardless of time and culture.
Code completely fails to do so, and if it does not run or compile it is not code anyway, meaning that its only reason to exist is an utilitarian one, which is the exact antithesis of what art is supposed to be.
You are doing nothing. It is either MS or a third party who will do the modifications. I you program and store your own tags that is fair use. If you use other people's smart tags it becomes plagiarism because they are modifying other people's work without asking permission.
You can do whatever you want with your book. Nobody can come and write in your book and modify the content of the original author without asking.
The judge will have a laughter attack thinking how silly MS was, it could not manage to say guilty...
You got it completely backwards: the owner of any content in the Web is the original creator or a publisher with the creator's aproval.
The guy browsing does not own the content, neither do Microsoft.
Thus if a make a site demoting point by point why Windows2000 sucks, the last thing I want modifying my content is an SmartTag to ilovems.com and I dont's see why I should work extra for free just to disable a "feature" I don't want imposed into my content in an unilateral, abusive manner in the first place.
I think this will be laughed out all the way to the court faster than we can say clippy the clip.
That is at the browser level.
What you obviously don't appreciate (in spite of 50000 people mentioning it here) is that in the server side you have to put extra stuff to disable this piece of crap.
It is an stealth M$ tax taken in time of people deploying *any* web server solution.
And then we wonder why the enterteinment industry do with their costumers as they wish. Here we are (not me, mind you), rushing to buy in droves a DVD (region coded, fair use locked out) of a lame movie whose lamest parts are now included and pandered as something of interest.
If there were impresionable not thinking children the ones that were rushing, fair enough. Buth technologicaly minded, educated people rushing to get this crap is unexcusable.
Go and get a VHS version if you need to see this crap again so badly, otherwise refrain please to never ever again to say how evil DVD is, the reality is that most people (as shown by the posts relating to this article) want to be screwed and will pay for the privilege.
How do you know there was no real cause of concern?
Just an example: recently we had a GPLed application that for its particular way of making requests was clogging one of our servers. If it had been Seti@Home we would have been completely lost. Since it was GPLed somebody found the problem, corrected the program and the problem was solved.
You can never tell what is going to happen with an application for which you don't have the source. Period.
From where did you get the idea that to have a computer in your desk entitles you to some freedom about how to use it? That is your wishful thinking, most people would also love to make all their long distance calls at the expense of the company from their office phones.
IT departments are god today in what respects to the IT infrastructure od the company that pays your salary. It is their job to make sure the people that is making possible for you to make a living don't see their profits damaged because employess can't be arsed to comply to some basic common sense rules reagrding computers, specially in today's networked environments.
It is beacuse computers are tools to support users that you should not allow users to break the tool.
If you can get away with bullying your IT people you work in a company that eventually will be biten by security issues.
In most companies I have worked you would have gotten disciplinary actions against you, and if persisted, you would have been dismissed.
Such a policy is irresponsible and wasteful.
You must be sure nobody, not even wannabe power users, can disrupt other's people work.
In some environemnts you can get away with it, in others you are opening the door to real nightmares.
You are an incompetent admin.
You forgot the floppy drives and CD readers.
;-) (half jockingly dead serious).
You would not last 5 minutes as a SysAdmin in a bank if you applied those same policies (but I guess you know that): they will escort you out of the building and would launch an audit to see if there is the need to press legal charges against you (not a joke).
/. (mostly college kids I guess) complain about it.
Each environment has its needs, and as far as I can see TVA is not in the business of either finding ETs or pleasing their employees with useless toys.
Nothing stops those same employees to have Seti@HOME (see, *at home*) to run the program in their own PCs during the day and check results later.
We always complain about how dumb management seems to be, then for once they do something sensible and half of
?
Yes there is. Go to China, they have scientists and doctors, adn as serious scientists they will tell you that of course is not a cure all magic thing, but something that can be used to treat pain in some circusmtances.
In Mexico there has been investigation in Universities for 150 years and there are many doctors with specialization in homeophaty that provide health care.
The reality is that there are a lot of charlatans out there proclaiming to know about these two techniques that know rat about them.
Both have sound scientific background, but since they are not endorsed or well known they are open to be used by charlatans. The National Politechnical Institute in Mexico (one of the most serious and prestigious institutions of the public education in Mexico, the previous Mexican President studied there) has a National School of Medicine AND Homeopathy.
I tried acupuncture provided by a doctor that trained in China and it does work. If you use either of these the guy applying them MUST be a real doctor first of all, then these will be one of many tools at its disposal.
Califronia, New Mexico, Arizona and who knows what else.
Can we have those back please?
Thanks
Yours: Mexico.
PS: is not true Mexico is conquering back the territoy lost, in other news Muslims were expelled from Spain after 800 years. I guess Mexico can wait.