I own 4 Play:1 and a play boost and I'll be dammed if I give these cock suckers any more of my information.
Also, it appears that they, Sonos, have gotten to Slashdot since I was forced to login to actually post a comment! I'm guessing they want to know who is calling them cock suckers?
It's been a while but if I remember the i4i product allows you to author data in MS Word based on a document type definition (DTD). The use of Word to do so is not new. Another small Ottawa Canada based company, Microstar Software, were first to do so with their product called Near & Far Author for Microsoft Word (http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-16732008.html). This the same company that brought Near & Far view, a graphical view of SGML DTD, to market. They started working on Author around 1994-1995 time frame. I joined MIcrostar's Research Dept. in late 1995, so I can't say for sure when they started. Matt?
Author would take an SGML DTD and create a Word template that embodied the grammar defined by the DTD. This template along with a special plug-in would guide the user through the document creation process. The document's validity was verified using James Clark's SP SGML Parser Tool Kit, which was compiled into the plug-in.
Authoring was part plug-in and part Word Basic, such that when Microsoft switched to VB Script in Word 6, or there about, the product was not ported to the newer version of Word since sales were not as expected and it would have meant investing significant resources, for a small company, to make it compatible with Word 6.
I use subscribed to both Asimov's and Science Fiction and Fantasy for many years, but I dropped them both when they became mostly focused on Fantasy. I'm not a fan of the fantasy genre and prefer space exploration sci. fi. Reading authors like Asimov, Clark, Bova and Heinlein is what drove me into studying the sciences and is why I work in the aerospace industry.
I'm Canadian, I've worked in Canada, mostly Central Canada, but I now live and work in Southern California.
What an employer wants to see depends on the employer. The BFIs (Nortel,...) have very elaborate interviewing and hiring processes, structured interview, background checks, etc. These processes are not geared towards finding the best candidate. They are there to ensure the employer does not get sued.
While smaller employers used whatever process they feel comfortable with. Which could be as little as the initial interview or requesting that you take a programming test. I suggest that you be ready for whatever they could through at you.
Speaking from experience of moving from one country to another, the change in culture is, or was for us more difficult to adapt to. While we had an excellent credit rating in Canada, we unknown to the major credit agencies and as such getting loans for cars or a house was very difficult. We had to purchase our car using cash from the proceeds from the sale of our home. Given that we moved here ~ten years ago and the Canadian dollar was not where it is today, we lost a significant chunk of money due to exchange rates.
Health care. Luckily for you, Canada has universal health care so you won't need to worry on that front. While hear in the U.S. health care is provided by the employer, if and only he feels like offering it. Having come from a country where health care is universal, being so dependent on your employer for health care makes you think twice about changing jobs.
Immigration laws and how they impact your employment is another issue. Given that I'm from Canada I'm not knowledgeable on Canadian immigration rules, but here is the U.S., once you've started the 'Green Card' process with one employer, it is difficult to impossible to transfer that petition to another employer. Our petition took five plus year to complete. And in those five years, my spouse could not work since she was on a dependents visa and I had to endure a very abusive boss. Something I would not have endured if we were back in Canada.
Education. Does the education system in the target country meet your cultural expectations? Here in the U.S. there are a many hot button issue. Namely, Evolution Theory, prayers in school and sex education, to name a few. If you have kids then you may want to find out what they are teaching in the Vancouver schools systems.
Don't under estimate the time and distance traveling between Vancouver and Sydney. I've done the L.A. to Sydney flight and it takes ~14 hours, plus a crossing of the international date line. Which means you'll loose a day, but you get it back on the return trip. Traveling that distance with small children could be difficult. Also, the cost of the trip can only increase with the cost of crude oil. Seeing family and friends will be less frequent since you really need to take two weeks off when traveling such distances.
Climate. Never thought I would miss winter! Southern California has the Fire, mudslide, and earthquake seasons! Vancouver winters are mild but wet.
Lastly, small creature comforts. Things that you enjoy at home that won't be available at your new place. Doughnuts! Too quote Homer Simpson. Krispy Kremes are no Tim Hortons. Favourite television programs, This Hour has Twenty-Two Minutes, Royal Canadian Airfarce, Saturday Night at The Movies, etc. Watching the Olympics from a different countries perspective! The only time we see Canadian athletes is when there are Americans participating in the event. Also, which of you electronic gadget will you need to replace? TV broadcast signals use NTSC encoding, in North America. Soon to go digital. As such you TV may be useless. Same could be true for any DVD or VCR. Electrical systems. We use 120/240 (110/220) volts. Got adapters?
There is nothing wrong with sports team in high school. While in high school I played on the football, tennis and waterpolo teams and was also a member of the chess club and head photographer for the school yearbook. The group of people that I hung around with were considered book worms (I'm dating myself here), straight 'A's accross the board and together we patried harder than the jocks did (after all, being book worms we know the subject matter cold and had more spare time to party:} ).
All this is to say it'n not what you do, but what you do with it!
I think what the school is doing is great. It's nice to see teachers getting involved with their students, even better if they join in the fun, since it demonstrates to the students that their teachers are real people and when it comes to playing games, they (the students) are most likely better at it (video games) that their teachers are. This can have the positive effect of building better relations between the students and teachers who participate, which may translate to students sharing their fears or problems with them (teachers).
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Regarless of what the intention was, it's wrong for one person in a relationship to spy on the other parter.
I see no difference between a partner installing spyware on your computer and reading your diary, or secretly installing hidden camera throughout your residence.
Time is property, since legally you can be held responsible for DoS attack, even if you only slow the system down and not disable it completely. After all, once the DoS attack is finished, you still have all of your physical resources intact!
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How old is you VAX C compiler?
I remeber DEC releasing a version of their C compiler that tracked the ANSI C Specification (circa 1989). I had to make quit a few changes to some programs I wrote, since the K&R version of the VAX C compiler passed strutures as a pointer, while the ANSI C Standard changed the behavior to pass by value.
Ah, I miss the PDP-11. My first assembly course used the PDP-11 and it was a joy to program... vectored interrupts, memory mapped I/O and general purpose registers. Those were the days.
Don't delude yourself into thinking that corporations are rational entities (they will eat their young if they can make money at it).
Executive are not very good at paying attention to the 'micro' level. They are more interested in short-term gains and really don't care about the long-term impact of their decisions, since they won't be there when the chickens come home to roost.
In larger corporations, advancement at the executive level is based on political moves and aliances, than it is based on actual results. As such, if the execs at AOL/TW feel it's best for them to make RH into something more usefull to them than the O.S. movement, then they will.
That's quite the blanket statement. In a clustering setup, both quantity and speed of the processors on the nodes affect the total run-time.
If for example, you cannot further decompose the dataset, then the only manner to increase the performance of the cluster is to add faster CPUs.
The question of whether a 1.2 vs a 1.4 GHz CPU is a worthwhile investement, depends on the value associated with the increase in performance. If for example, upgrading to slightly faster CPUs allowes you to take on more work, then you can derive a direct monetry gain from the upgrade. If on the other hand, your workload remains constant, then the net effect is that you can process a dataset faster at the cost of increasing you idle time (poor efficiency).
Howerver, I've yet to see an environment that does not grow to consume all available processor cycles!
Having worked with many a Russian programmer, I can attest to their competence as programmer. They do like oderly processes and document their systems to a fault, but the software works as specified (even.0 versions) and if you find a bug, they fix correctly and quickly. Most of the times, they find the problem before we report it.
The ability to have and modify the source code should not be dismissed so lightly.
Many of the Fortune 200/500 companies have systems that are in operation for decades. And what happens in many instances, is that the software or hardware vendor goes out of business or stops supporting that piece of software. This leaves the company in the position of having to pay large sums to either re-write the application from scratch or pay dearly for support from the vendor.
I know this from experience. The system that we're
building using a mix OSS and proprietary software is intended to replace a system for which both the hardware and software are no longer available.
Using OSS software at key locations in the architecture should avoid a repeat of the past.
If think it's time for some action. I suggest that a non-profit organization be setup (by a large endowment from all of you that struck it rich with
Internet IPOs) whose purpose is to help OSS developers defend themselves from this rather odious form of harassment.
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I own 4 Play:1 and a play boost and I'll be dammed if I give these cock suckers any more of my information.
Also, it appears that they, Sonos, have gotten to Slashdot since I was forced to login to actually post a comment! I'm guessing they want to know who is calling them cock suckers?
It's been a while but if I remember the i4i product allows you to author data in MS Word based on a document type definition (DTD). The use of Word to do so is not new. Another small Ottawa Canada based company, Microstar Software, were first to do so with their product called Near & Far Author for Microsoft Word (http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-16732008.html). This the same company that brought Near & Far view, a graphical view of SGML DTD, to market. They started working on Author around 1994-1995 time frame. I joined MIcrostar's Research Dept. in late 1995, so I can't say for sure when they started. Matt?
Author would take an SGML DTD and create a Word template that embodied the grammar defined by the DTD. This template along with a special plug-in would guide the user through the document creation process. The document's validity was verified using James Clark's SP SGML Parser Tool Kit, which was compiled into the plug-in.
Authoring was part plug-in and part Word Basic, such that when Microsoft switched to VB Script in Word 6, or there about, the product was not ported to the newer version of Word since sales were not as expected and it would have meant investing significant resources, for a small company, to make it compatible with Word 6.
I use subscribed to both Asimov's and Science Fiction and Fantasy for many years, but I dropped them both when they became mostly focused on Fantasy. I'm not a fan of the fantasy genre and prefer space exploration sci. fi. Reading authors like Asimov, Clark, Bova and Heinlein is what drove me into studying the sciences and is why I work in the aerospace industry.
I'm Canadian, I've worked in Canada, mostly Central Canada, but I now live and work in Southern California.
...) have very elaborate interviewing and hiring processes, structured interview, background checks, etc. These processes are not geared towards finding the best candidate. They are there to ensure the employer does not get sued.
What an employer wants to see depends on the employer. The BFIs (Nortel,
While smaller employers used whatever process they feel comfortable with. Which could be as little as the initial interview or requesting that you take a programming test. I suggest that you be ready for whatever they could through at you.
Speaking from experience of moving from one country to another, the change in culture is, or was for us more difficult to adapt to. While we had an excellent credit rating in Canada, we unknown to the major credit agencies and as such getting loans for cars or a house was very difficult. We had to purchase our car using cash from the proceeds from the sale of our home. Given that we moved here ~ten years ago and the Canadian dollar was not where it is today, we lost a significant chunk of money due to exchange rates.
Health care. Luckily for you, Canada has universal health care so you won't need to worry on that front. While hear in the U.S. health care is provided by the employer, if and only he feels like offering it. Having come from a country where health care is universal, being so dependent on your employer for health care makes you think twice about changing jobs.
Immigration laws and how they impact your employment is another issue. Given that I'm from Canada I'm not knowledgeable on Canadian immigration rules, but here is the U.S., once you've started the 'Green Card' process with one employer, it is difficult to impossible to transfer that petition to another employer. Our petition took five plus year to complete. And in those five years, my spouse could not work since she was on a dependents visa and I had to endure a very abusive boss. Something I would not have endured if we were back in Canada.
Education. Does the education system in the target country meet your cultural expectations? Here in the U.S. there are a many hot button issue. Namely, Evolution Theory, prayers in school and sex education, to name a few. If you have kids then you may want to find out what they are teaching in the Vancouver schools systems.
Don't under estimate the time and distance traveling between Vancouver and Sydney. I've done the L.A. to Sydney flight and it takes ~14 hours, plus a crossing of the international date line. Which means you'll loose a day, but you get it back on the return trip. Traveling that distance with small children could be difficult. Also, the cost of the trip can only increase with the cost of crude oil. Seeing family and friends will be less frequent since you really need to take two weeks off when traveling such distances.
Climate. Never thought I would miss winter! Southern California has the Fire, mudslide, and earthquake seasons! Vancouver winters are mild but wet.
Lastly, small creature comforts. Things that you enjoy at home that won't be available at your new place. Doughnuts! Too quote Homer Simpson. Krispy Kremes are no Tim Hortons. Favourite television programs, This Hour has Twenty-Two Minutes, Royal Canadian Airfarce, Saturday Night at The Movies, etc. Watching the Olympics from a different countries perspective! The only time we see Canadian athletes is when there are Americans participating in the event. Also, which of you electronic gadget will you need to replace? TV broadcast signals use NTSC encoding, in North America. Soon to go digital. As such you TV may be useless. Same could be true for any DVD or VCR. Electrical systems. We use 120/240 (110/220) volts. Got adapters?
Thing to think about.
There is nothing wrong with sports team in high school. While in high school I played on the football, tennis and waterpolo teams and was also a member of the chess club and head photographer for the school yearbook. The group of people that I hung around with were considered book worms (I'm dating myself here), straight 'A's accross the board and together we patried harder than the jocks did (after all, being book worms we know the subject matter cold and had more spare time to party :} ).
All this is to say it'n not what you do, but what you do with it!
I think what the school is doing is great. It's nice to see teachers getting involved with their students, even better if they join in the fun, since it demonstrates to the students that their teachers are real people and when it comes to playing games, they (the students) are most likely better at it (video games) that their teachers are. This can have the positive effect of building better relations between the students and teachers who participate, which may translate to students sharing their fears or problems with them (teachers).
keep the stupid users away!!!!!
Regarless of what the intention was, it's wrong for one person in a relationship to spy on the other parter.
I see no difference between a partner installing spyware on your computer and reading your diary, or secretly installing hidden camera throughout your residence.
Time is property, since legally you can be held responsible for DoS attack, even if you only slow the system down and not disable it completely. After all, once the DoS attack is finished, you still have all of your physical resources intact!
How old is you VAX C compiler?
I remeber DEC releasing a version of their C compiler that tracked the ANSI C Specification (circa 1989). I had to make quit a few changes to some programs I wrote, since the K&R version of the VAX C compiler passed strutures as a pointer, while the ANSI C Standard changed the behavior to pass by value.
Ah, I miss the PDP-11. My first assembly course used the PDP-11 and it was a joy to program... vectored interrupts, memory mapped I/O and general purpose registers. Those were the days.
Don't delude yourself into thinking that corporations are rational entities (they will eat their young if they can make money at it).
Executive are not very good at paying attention to the 'micro' level. They are more interested in short-term gains and really don't care about the long-term impact of their decisions, since they won't be there when the chickens come home to roost.
In larger corporations, advancement at the executive level is based on political moves and aliances, than it is based on actual results. As such, if the execs at AOL/TW feel it's best for them to make RH into something more usefull to them than the O.S. movement, then they will.
That's quite the blanket statement. In a clustering setup, both quantity and speed of the processors on the nodes affect the total run-time.
If for example, you cannot further decompose the dataset, then the only manner to increase the performance of the cluster is to add faster CPUs.
The question of whether a 1.2 vs a 1.4 GHz CPU is a worthwhile investement, depends on the value associated with the increase in performance. If for example, upgrading to slightly faster CPUs allowes you to take on more work, then you can derive a direct monetry gain from the upgrade. If on the other hand, your workload remains constant, then the net effect is that you can process a dataset faster at the cost of increasing you idle time (poor efficiency).
Howerver, I've yet to see an environment that does not grow to consume all available processor cycles!Having worked with many a Russian programmer, I can attest to their competence as programmer. They do like oderly processes and document their systems to a fault, but the software works as specified (even .0 versions) and if you find a bug, they fix correctly and quickly. Most of the times, they find the problem before we report it.
The ability to have and modify the source code should not be dismissed so lightly. Many of the Fortune 200/500 companies have systems that are in operation for decades. And what happens in many instances, is that the software or hardware vendor goes out of business or stops supporting that piece of software. This leaves the company in the position of having to pay large sums to either re-write the application from scratch or pay dearly for support from the vendor. I know this from experience. The system that we're building using a mix OSS and proprietary software is intended to replace a system for which both the hardware and software are no longer available. Using OSS software at key locations in the architecture should avoid a repeat of the past.
If think it's time for some action. I suggest that a non-profit organization be setup (by a large endowment from all of you that struck it rich with Internet IPOs) whose purpose is to help OSS developers defend themselves from this rather odious form of harassment.