Hey, it's still possible, if you've got the balls to apply. Good places realize that sometimes a college education really means you knuckle under to the Man easily.
I knew a bunch of people at Apple who were degree-less. They sure were more fun than the degreed ones.
Just research reverse engineers instead
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Hacking a website is the equivalent of breaking copy protection, except over the net. Instead of this, it might be better to get a bunch of wares crackers or reverse engineers in a room, and watch/listen to them work.
The only difference between net-based cracking and reverse engineering is the details...the thought process is the same.
My understanding was that Moto lost around a hundred million on the deal, which back then was (and still is today) a large chunk of cash. It probably nuked a bunch of careers and caused serious ill will.
If you've ever dealt with corps at that level, well, people don't forgive and forget. Upper management are elephants when it comes to stuff like this, and institutional memory preserves the vibe.
Just look at IBM going after Microsoft with Linux. They're loving every minute, and every Linux win is another way to grind Microsoft's face in the dirt.
In fact, the slogan for the Linux BU at IBM should be "Rust Never Sleeps."
Anyway, the point is that once you get to a certain level people don't forget...and they will actively try to screw you. Moto is one such company.
Service Center is terrible...don't bother. Remedy is more like VB on steroids. ServiceCenter is like a straight-jacket - do it SC's way or leave. It's the SAP of CRM.
Remedy is pretty good, because it's core is wrapped around the idea of workflow applications. It's pretty simple to get started, but eventually the amount of customization necessary will overwhelm the non-programmers who administer your Remedy application, and you'll have to get real Remedy developers.
With Remedy you have to (1) use their workflow (Remedy has a bunch of built apps you can license, like Help Desk), (2) customize Remedy to your workflow, or (3) customize their helpdesk app to your workflow.
(1) is what you should do, since it sounds like you actually have no workflow.
(2) is fun, but expensive. The good thing is you'll know exactly how it works, and it's infinitely customizable.
(3) is what a lot of Remedy customers do, but it's a bit harder because to customize you really should know what's going on - and those apps are complicated.
Don't waste your time with Bugzilla or any of the free stuff. Use Remedy. It'll run about $60k for 51 users or so, and unnamed users are free(!).
Years ago I was talking to some of the semi guys, and they were royally pissed at MOTO corporate for screwing them over, funding-wise. The PPC division was always paranoid that they were getting screwed because Moto lost big $$ when Apple shut down the Mac clones way back when.
Basically, they believed Moto corporate was sandbagging the PPC to "screw Apple."
One thing for sure, they definitely need better cooks for the broth. They've seem to forgotten how to make chips.
Why not benchmark against Sun/sparc and rs/6000 systems? That's the real competition right now, not Win32 boxes. I'll bet that a dual G5 has a better price/performance than any of the sparc workstations, and maybe a better one than the low-end rs6k boxes.
The last thing the world needs is more programmers designing user interfaces. Most programmers know they suck at it, and their results are/tend to be pathetic. Nobody knows how many lives have been lost (measured in hours of frustration) by bad programmer-designed interfaces?
Let's face it, an interface is too complicated for most programmers to handle. A UI can be seen as a multidimentional problem (dimension in the real sense of identifying property) that can be viewed from multiple points of view, and each point of view filters out various dimensions of the program underneath it. It also requires you to be able to actually view things from those multiple POVs.
So for those programmers thinking about UI, don't do it! Stick with command-line interfaces, and let other people take your code and wrap it in something like AppleScript studio, or whatever.
Times change, and technology always requires you to keep up to date.
Maybe what you're saying is "why ask on slashdot instead of asking people who know?" That would be a different question:)
The problem is the correlation of data
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While people right now are afraid of RFID for privacy reasons, the main reason there's nothing to fear right now is that it'll be incredibly difficult to process all that data.
Imagine a Wal-Mart. It's got a few million unique items inside it. Each one of those items is read every 25 seconds (or minute, or 2 minutes, whatever resolution you decide). that means you've got a few million data points whacking your server every.
There aren't very many systems that can keep up with that kind of data flow. Plus there are many, many problems with RFID. What happens if one tag is read by multiple readers? What if the tags interfere with each other? What if some tags get corrupted and only return parts of its ID?
This is in a relatively controlled environment doing a relatively simple task: a store that's using RFID for inventory management. It'll be even more difficult if the store wanted to actually do anything exciting with the data, like read item tags that are on your body (a lot of them being partially obscured by your RF shadow) and are moving from reader to reader. If they ever got the data, they'd also have to figure out what to do with it - and given the processing that needs to happen just for simple things, well, it's unlikely that a store would be able to do more than, say, automatically print a coupon for you at the register.
It's good that people are worrying, but a lot of the scenarios people are worrying about are relatively far off.
Today, companies are going to move to RFID because it'll save them money.
I'm sure the author can sue for unlawful termination. He might even get triple damages!
Gotta love those @stake guys. Here's a relevant quote from their website:
"@stake has assembled the best minds in digital security to help you understand and mitigate the security risks inherent in your business model, so that you can maximize the opportunity in front of you. We help you make the hard decisions about what matters most in your business, so that your security investment has the greatest impact. We work in the space where your business and technology meet, because we believe that this is where security is most powerful."
Unless there's some viable commercial or military reason to be in space, those dollars should be spent somewhere else.
If there's a commercial reason, then let industry do it. Lord knows NASA sucks at it. The downside is a possible higher risk of mission failure, due to the higher risk profile that will presumably used by private industry. OTOH, because commercial carriers are actually liable for their failures, risks may decrease.
And as far as anyone can tell, there's no military reason to expand our space presence.
NASA is basically a bunch of space truckers...and a government monopoly. It would be better to turn them into something more akin to the FAA, and let real organizations do the real work.
One problem with geeks is they read, but don't understand.
What Apple is saying is "we don't want to get into that."
The reason Apple is saying that should be obvious to anyone who bothers to think about it. For those of you that don't, the reason is this:
They want to sell you music.
In the legal system, there are fictions that are there so things can get done.
In technical terms, there are hacks in place that everyone knows are skanky, but nobody wants to look to closely at them because they make stuff work. The technical equivalents are things like DNS, SMTP, etc. They suck, but what can you do?
In the same vein, Apple wants to keep selling music. It does this by playing both sides of the fence - negotiating licenses with publishers, and allowing loose licensing by the users.
As long as nobody looks too closely, well, everything's OK.
Users can do whatever the hell they want, but Apple has to play a game, and play it well.
Do you speed on the highway? Do you make tapes of the radio and give them to your friends? Do you make CDs of the CDs you own and give them away? You probably are breaking the law!
It's funny, but there's a longstanding tradition in the US about the law - it's followed when it matches our expectations/norms, but it's not followed when it doesn't.
Just because it's a law doesn't mean that you have to obey it. There may be right reasons or wrong reasons to obey laws, but it's up to the individual to decide (and pay the price, if necessary).
Why doesn't someone look through the CVS logs?
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If someone checked in code that supposedly belonged to SCO, why not just walk the CVS logs to figure out who did it?
In that case, they could sue the author of the checked-in code chunks for violation of copyright.
Has anyone plowed through the CVS logs to take a quick peek if any sco.com minions are embedded there?
That any resemblance to the solar system is just a coincidence, since the people at the time the structure was built only had primitive tools and technology, as well as no notions of astronomy or the higher maths needed to accurately predict planetary motions or distances.
yes, you can connect to yourself
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The problem is that the IP stuff in macosx is normally link-sensitive.
You can, however, create fake IPs using ifconfig.
You can also do what my CTO did, which is wire a RJ connector to connect to itself and plug it in. How about that?
"The Earth is Round, not Flat." "The Lights in the Sky are Suns like Ours." "The Earth Revolves around the Sun." "Heavier than Air Crafts can Fly." "Objects Heavier than Water can Float." "Sickness is caused by Germs that you Can't See."
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Hey, it's still possible, if you've got the balls to apply. Good places realize that sometimes a college education really means you knuckle under to the Man easily.
I knew a bunch of people at Apple who were degree-less. They sure were more fun than the degreed ones.
Hacking a website is the equivalent of breaking copy protection, except over the net. Instead of this, it might be better to get a bunch of wares crackers or reverse engineers in a room, and watch/listen to them work.
The only difference between net-based cracking and reverse engineering is the details...the thought process is the same.
My understanding was that Moto lost around a hundred million on the deal, which back then was (and still is today) a large chunk of cash. It probably nuked a bunch of careers and caused serious ill will.
If you've ever dealt with corps at that level, well, people don't forgive and forget. Upper management are elephants when it comes to stuff like this, and institutional memory preserves the vibe.
Just look at IBM going after Microsoft with Linux. They're loving every minute, and every Linux win is another way to grind Microsoft's face in the dirt.
In fact, the slogan for the Linux BU at IBM should be "Rust Never Sleeps."
Anyway, the point is that once you get to a certain level people don't forget...and they will actively try to screw you. Moto is one such company.
Service Center is terrible...don't bother. Remedy is more like VB on steroids. ServiceCenter is like a straight-jacket - do it SC's way or leave. It's the SAP of CRM.
Remedy is pretty good, because it's core is wrapped around the idea of workflow applications. It's pretty simple to get started, but eventually the amount of customization necessary will overwhelm the non-programmers who administer your Remedy application, and you'll have to get real Remedy developers.
With Remedy you have to (1) use their workflow (Remedy has a bunch of built apps you can license, like Help Desk), (2) customize Remedy to your workflow, or (3) customize their helpdesk app to your workflow.
(1) is what you should do, since it sounds like you actually have no workflow.
(2) is fun, but expensive. The good thing is you'll know exactly how it works, and it's infinitely customizable.
(3) is what a lot of Remedy customers do, but it's a bit harder because to customize you really should know what's going on - and those apps are complicated.
Don't waste your time with Bugzilla or any of the free stuff. Use Remedy. It'll run about $60k for 51 users or so, and unnamed users are free(!).
It sure worked during the late 90s and early 2000s. If Apple hadn't branched out into other stuff, it would have died.
As it is, the other stuff kept Apple going until the hardware side could catch up to the x86 in price/performance.
Years ago I was talking to some of the semi guys, and they were royally pissed at MOTO corporate for screwing them over, funding-wise. The PPC division was always paranoid that they were getting screwed because Moto lost big $$ when Apple shut down the Mac clones way back when.
Basically, they believed Moto corporate was sandbagging the PPC to "screw Apple."
One thing for sure, they definitely need better cooks for the broth. They've seem to forgotten how to make chips.
Why not benchmark against Sun/sparc and rs/6000 systems? That's the real competition right now, not Win32 boxes. I'll bet that a dual G5 has a better price/performance than any of the sparc workstations, and maybe a better one than the low-end rs6k boxes.
The last thing the world needs is more programmers designing user interfaces. Most programmers know they suck at it, and their results are/tend to be pathetic. Nobody knows how many lives have been lost (measured in hours of frustration) by bad programmer-designed interfaces?
Let's face it, an interface is too complicated for most programmers to handle. A UI can be seen as a multidimentional problem (dimension in the real sense of identifying property) that can be viewed from multiple points of view, and each point of view filters out various dimensions of the program underneath it. It also requires you to be able to actually view things from those multiple POVs.
So for those programmers thinking about UI, don't do it! Stick with command-line interfaces, and let other people take your code and wrap it in something like AppleScript studio, or whatever.
Kind of a lame rant, but somewhat amusing.
He forgot:
* expanding your music collection via KaZaa or Furthurnet
* selling your stuff on eBay and becoming a power seller (who knew 13w3 cables were so valuable?)
* Understanding the intricacies of shipping (see above)
* reading every fark.com comment and even participating in photoshop contests
Funny that more people haven't mentioned this. Large grid failures are suppposed to be rare/uncommon, yet this year we've seen a bunch. What is it?
* is someone testing a new weapon?
* why would someone want to take out country-wide power systems?
Maybe the power system failures are a diversion...most security systems stop functioning when the power goes out.
Who knows?
Times change, and technology always requires you to keep up to date.
:)
Maybe what you're saying is "why ask on slashdot instead of asking people who know?" That would be a different question
While people right now are afraid of RFID for privacy reasons, the main reason there's nothing to fear right now is that it'll be incredibly difficult to process all that data.
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Imagine a Wal-Mart. It's got a few million unique items inside it. Each one of those items is read every 25 seconds (or minute, or 2 minutes, whatever resolution you decide). that means you've got a few million data points whacking your server every
There aren't very many systems that can keep up with that kind of data flow. Plus there are many, many problems with RFID. What happens if one tag is read by multiple readers? What if the tags interfere with each other? What if some tags get corrupted and only return parts of its ID?
This is in a relatively controlled environment doing a relatively simple task: a store that's using RFID for inventory management. It'll be even more difficult if the store wanted to actually do anything exciting with the data, like read item tags that are on your body (a lot of them being partially obscured by your RF shadow) and are moving from reader to reader. If they ever got the data, they'd also have to figure out what to do with it - and given the processing that needs to happen just for simple things, well, it's unlikely that a store would be able to do more than, say, automatically print a coupon for you at the register.
It's good that people are worrying, but a lot of the scenarios people are worrying about are relatively far off.
Today, companies are going to move to RFID because it'll save them money.
Gotta love those @stake guys. Here's a relevant quote from their website:
"@stake has assembled the best minds in digital security to help you understand and mitigate the security risks inherent in your business model, so that you can maximize the opportunity in front of you. We help you make the hard decisions about what matters most in your business, so that your security investment has the greatest impact. We work in the space where your business and technology meet, because we believe that this is where security is most powerful."
Talk about blowing it out both ends. You can read their ethical and guiding principles as well.
This is what l0pht has turned into?
If you correlate the human population to the temperature increase, you'll see a somewhat linear relationship.
Conclusion: people cause global warming.
Solution: kill all the people, and global warming will stop.
Simple!
Wow, an IT guy who pretends to understand what his users need! A desktop that works! Whooo!
Unless there's some viable commercial or military reason to be in space, those dollars should be spent somewhere else.
If there's a commercial reason, then let industry do it. Lord knows NASA sucks at it. The downside is a possible higher risk of mission failure, due to the higher risk profile that will presumably used by private industry. OTOH, because commercial carriers are actually liable for their failures, risks may decrease.
And as far as anyone can tell, there's no military reason to expand our space presence.
NASA is basically a bunch of space truckers...and a government monopoly. It would be better to turn them into something more akin to the FAA, and let real organizations do the real work.
Heck, how do they walk the shared folders and see the queries?
That implies that Sharman has given them some kind of license to FastTrack, which is interesting in itself.
One problem with geeks is they read, but don't understand.
What Apple is saying is "we don't want to get into that."
The reason Apple is saying that should be obvious to anyone who bothers to think about it. For those of you that don't, the reason is this:
They want to sell you music.
In the legal system, there are fictions that are there so things can get done.
In technical terms, there are hacks in place that everyone knows are skanky, but nobody wants to look to closely at them because they make stuff work. The technical equivalents are things like DNS, SMTP, etc. They suck, but what can you do?
In the same vein, Apple wants to keep selling music. It does this by playing both sides of the fence - negotiating licenses with publishers, and allowing loose licensing by the users.
As long as nobody looks too closely, well, everything's OK.
Users can do whatever the hell they want, but Apple has to play a game, and play it well.
Remember Bob? Nobody else does either. Even that wasn't invented there, really.
Amusingly enough, Mrs. Bill Gates was the Project Manager (PM) on that one.
I spent all this money on a PC, and all this time learning Linux, and I'm still not cool?
Do you speed on the highway? Do you make tapes of the radio and give them to your friends? Do you make CDs of the CDs you own and give them away? You probably are breaking the law!
It's funny, but there's a longstanding tradition in the US about the law - it's followed when it matches our expectations/norms, but it's not followed when it doesn't.
Just because it's a law doesn't mean that you have to obey it. There may be right reasons or wrong reasons to obey laws, but it's up to the individual to decide (and pay the price, if necessary).
If someone checked in code that supposedly belonged to SCO, why not just walk the CVS logs to figure out who did it?
In that case, they could sue the author of the checked-in code chunks for violation of copyright.
Has anyone plowed through the CVS logs to take a quick peek if any sco.com minions are embedded there?
That any resemblance to the solar system is just a coincidence, since the people at the time the structure was built only had primitive tools and technology, as well as no notions of astronomy or the higher maths needed to accurately predict planetary motions or distances.
The problem is that the IP stuff in macosx is normally link-sensitive.
You can, however, create fake IPs using ifconfig.
You can also do what my CTO did, which is wire a RJ connector to connect to itself and plug it in. How about that?
Well, let's see.
"The Earth is Round, not Flat."
"The Lights in the Sky are Suns like Ours."
"The Earth Revolves around the Sun."
"Heavier than Air Crafts can Fly."
"Objects Heavier than Water can Float."
"Sickness is caused by Germs that you Can't See."
Feel free to fill in more examples!