So how do you think just being at a public point is going to give you access to put things anywhere you want on the internet? I don't expect many public access points will give you access to a mail or news server
Spammers solved this ages ago: they run their own MTA. Load up your laptop with Sendmail, Postfix, or the SMTP daemon of your choice and start shooting stuff out on port 25. A hotspot with outgoing port 25 blocked would create a constant rumbling of complaints from people bitching that they can't send e-mail through their office mail servers, so many of them leave it open. And even if they blocked port 25, you could still use a selection of carelessly configured proxy servers (operating on port 80, which no hotspot would ever block) to insert messages into other people's outgoing mail queues.
Re:Not only cost, but what about security?
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Has anybody been sued yet for not protecting the customer enough from being hacked?
When you use an open hotspot like this, you're not a customer. You're just some dude who happens to be taking advantage of the fact that they didn't bother locking you out. All the more reason for operators not to create accounts and charge fees (which would create a contractual relationship with the user).
I never said that the "dark side" was a permanent location. It's just as real as the dark side of the earth (which is the Pacific Ocean and surrounding regions at the time of this writing). It just moves constantly (perhaps like your Fairy Kingdom?)
People do spend a lot of time on the dark side of the earth, which is no big deal because it moves so quickly and we're adapted to it. But the manned moon missions all went to the light side (wherever that was at the time) and avoided the dark side, as I said.
And I would be very suprised if a site like this didn't achieve that standard on a fairly regular basis. The lack of accountability in posting reviews ensures that there will be material that passes the first test. The "revenge" motive attracts material passing the second test. And the whole point of the site is for this clearinghouse of information to affect teachers' reputations and employability.
The idea of students reviewing teachers certainly has merit, but this site had "SUE ME" written all over it.
Info on the Russian space program (including these probes) was in most, if not all, of the books I read about space in school.
The books I read as a kid said nothing about the Lunokhods' explorations. But then, except for sci-fi novels, the books I read stuck mostly to describing events that had already happened.
I don't recall hearing a peep about them on the radio or TV at the time.
Apparently the lesson you forgot (after learning several times) was that you can't generalise from a single data point (your school district) to an entire system.
Features on the dark side of the moon are (nearly) invisible. There's no sunlight there. Nobody's ever spent much time there (even roboticly).
The far side of the moon, however, is another story. The Soviet Union was one of the pioneer explorers of that, and they took lots of pictures... during local daylight periods, of course.
I do remember my first PC. It was ~2MHz I think, a single 5.25" floppy, single density 360KiB formatted disks. MSDOS v5 or so, and 128KiB of RAM. Monochrome CGA display. Something along those lines, anyway, don't have exact spec. and I may be wrong about MSDOS version.
You're doing the equivalent of describing a meeting between Elizabeth I, Ben Franklin, George Washington, and Abe Lincoln. You'd have to ratchet the speed up and downgrade that OS dramatically to have components that ever actually coexisted in a single working system. The earliest IBM-type PC ran at a snappy 4.77MHz, and MS-DOS 5.0 (which didn't come along until about 10 years later) wouldn't have run (let alone have room for any apps) in only 128KB of RAM.
Too bad we can't curse our way to saving Hubble. {scowl}
Re:Bill Gates, Hall of Fame Hacker? (P.S. First Po
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what will happen with the screen if I'll type POKE 53280, 0 on a commodore-64?
This is a fuzzy barely-remembered guess, but: it sets the background color (maybe the border) to black.
That was the beauty of micros prior to, well, the IBM PC: they were fully knowable by ordinary geeks. You could learn the entire 64KB address space of a C64, the functions of every processor, the workings of every common peripheral.
These days micros have gotten so complex, with so many variables, that all but the most brilliant have to specialise, and only learn certain parts, relying on others to do the kernel hacking or the printer-driver-writing or the protocol conversions, etc.
An IPO is a quick way to get a lot of money, which can be used to "take it to the next level".
It also converts the "value" of the company from being measured in terms of payables, receivables, and assets, to being measured in terms of stock price, which the owners (who end up holding a bunch of this new stock) might find more favorable.
I'd start by simply asking whether there is any room for negotiation to handle special circumstances, so they aren't surprised when you come in with your (as they'd see it) "demands". Then get a lawyer to help you with the particulars.
The version of the agreement you describe might make the company nervous, because it allows for the possibility that you could pick up all sorts of ideas at work and then use them on your own time on your own equipment.
If you're confident there's no conflict, underscore that.
What might make them more comfortable is including a clause that gives them ownership of anything you create that's related to their business, regardless of where you were and what equipment you were using when you did it, but allows you to keep ownership of anything unrelated (done on your own time, on your own equipment, of course). After all, if you're on salary, there really is no such thing as "your time" vs. "their time", and I know I've done company work on my own equipment when it was more convenient; the only bright line you can hope to draw is "your business" vs. "their business". Offering to sign a "non-compete" agreement might help in that regard, though it could also tie your hands when/if you decide to leave.
Samsung and Siemens are now essentially being asked to license an OS from, and pay fees to, their largest competitor.
They are still partial owners of Symbian. And they've been paying these licensing fees to Nokia, Psion, Ericsson, Panasonic, and each other, all along. Financially speaking the only change here is that that Psion's share is now Nokia's. That's signficant to the other licensee/owners, but it's not as if Nokia had just bought Symbian outright. Financially it makes more sense to license the software from a company you co-own than one you don't.
The main thing the other owners have lost here is the ability to (collectively) veto Nokia in the boardroom and determine the direction of development and licensing terms... also signficicant, but again not the same as a buyout.
Their software is also generally superior to Microsoft's, and more mature. SymbianOS (and its predecessors) was engineered from Day One back in the late 80's to run without failure on highly constrained hardware. So if I were Samsung or Siemens, I'd still see little reason to switch to MS.
...what about the mail/news client? Without another "___bird" to go with, "Thunderbird" seems pretty random (and has the added negative of being associated with low-quality "wine"), so Mozilla is going to need a new identity framework.
Continuing the "___fox" pattern is something of a dead end, without many good choices. But "Fire___" is a promising model. Bugzilla could become "Firebug". "Firefly" would be an obvious option for the mail client, maintaining the "lightweight" metaphor (and delighting fans of the TV show, I'm sure). Other possible trademarks would be "Fireplug" "Firelight" "Firetruck" "Fireproof" "Firealarm" "Firedrill" "Firebomb" "Fireplace" "Firehose" "Firesale" "Firestarter" "Fireman" "Firewalker" "Firewall" "FireEscape" "Firearm" "Fireball" "Firestorm" "Firecracker" "Firebrand" "Fireworks". Oops, the last one's taken by another software package, but "Fire___" is still a fairly rich pool to draw from. It also fits well with good ol' Mozilla, usually depicted as a fire-breathing lizard, giving it some continuity with past branding.
For that, again, you have to have a solid accomplishment history on your resume (articles published, major projects with recognized firms, MSE, MSCS, MBA, etc.) to get my attention. I wouldn't hire a 38 year old who just sat in their cube for the past 15 years.
So you wouldn't hire someone for a technical job who has focused on doing his job, rather than trying to get "recognition", add letters to his name, and "move up" into managerial positions he'd probably be lousy at anyway? Sounds more like a rare combination of competence and wisdom to me. Not everybody wants to make the most money possible, or to work for large corporations or consulting firms. Bigger isn't always better; for some, "enough" is... enough.
Furthermore, by your logic, employment is like a game of music chairs, in which everybody has to keep moving up to higher levels of the chart... but there are fewer chairs at those levels, so whoever's not ambitious and conniving enough to grab one, gets kicked out.
I don't think you need a tin-foil hat to start drawing the dots between Adobe, Jasc, and HP, and coming up with a picture of the government putting pressure on companies to handicap their products like this. It certainly isn't market demand that's motivating them.
Livio squarely debunks the idea that the Golden Ratio is present in many famous paintings and architecture
While he may have a point in suggesting that you can manufacture evidence of this ratio anywhere, it's also true that this ratio does appear in many great paintings and structures, because the creators used it on purpose. It's been taught to designers and artists for generations... and many of us use it.
Whether artists have used it instinctively because of its mathematical elegance, or it's merely a coincidence that works based on this ratio also tend to be visually pleasing, is kind of a causality/synchronicity chicken-and-egg argument. Coincidental or connected, conscious or not, a correlation does exist.
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Spammers solved this ages ago: they run their own MTA. Load up your laptop with Sendmail, Postfix, or the SMTP daemon of your choice and start shooting stuff out on port 25. A hotspot with outgoing port 25 blocked would create a constant rumbling of complaints from people bitching that they can't send e-mail through their office mail servers, so many of them leave it open. And even if they blocked port 25, you could still use a selection of carelessly configured proxy servers (operating on port 80, which no hotspot would ever block) to insert messages into other people's outgoing mail queues.
When you use an open hotspot like this, you're not a customer. You're just some dude who happens to be taking advantage of the fact that they didn't bother locking you out. All the more reason for operators not to create accounts and charge fees (which would create a contractual relationship with the user).
Cameras in every toilet stall?
People do spend a lot of time on the dark side of the earth, which is no big deal because it moves so quickly and we're adapted to it. But the manned moon missions all went to the light side (wherever that was at the time) and avoided the dark side, as I said.
The idea of students reviewing teachers certainly has merit, but this site had "SUE ME" written all over it.
The books I read as a kid said nothing about the Lunokhods' explorations. But then, except for sci-fi novels, the books I read stuck mostly to describing events that had already happened.
I don't recall hearing a peep about them on the radio or TV at the time.
I'd guess pretty much anyone over the age of 35 remembers that. I can only guess that the "Informative" mod came from someone born since then.
Apparently the lesson you forgot (after learning several times) was that you can't generalise from a single data point (your school district) to an entire system.
Features on the dark side of the moon are (nearly) invisible. There's no sunlight there. Nobody's ever spent much time there (even roboticly).
The far side of the moon, however, is another story. The Soviet Union was one of the pioneer explorers of that, and they took lots of pictures... during local daylight periods, of course.
It's an old article.
Ctrl-x-c?
v-i-Enter?
Ctrl-Alt-Insert?
Command-Control-Power?
You're doing the equivalent of describing a meeting between Elizabeth I, Ben Franklin, George Washington, and Abe Lincoln. You'd have to ratchet the speed up and downgrade that OS dramatically to have components that ever actually coexisted in a single working system. The earliest IBM-type PC ran at a snappy 4.77MHz, and MS-DOS 5.0 (which didn't come along until about 10 years later) wouldn't have run (let alone have room for any apps) in only 128KB of RAM.
Too bad we can't curse our way to saving Hubble. {scowl}
This is a fuzzy barely-remembered guess, but: it sets the background color (maybe the border) to black.
That was the beauty of micros prior to, well, the IBM PC: they were fully knowable by ordinary geeks. You could learn the entire 64KB address space of a C64, the functions of every processor, the workings of every common peripheral.
These days micros have gotten so complex, with so many variables, that all but the most brilliant have to specialise, and only learn certain parts, relying on others to do the kernel hacking or the printer-driver-writing or the protocol conversions, etc.
It also converts the "value" of the company from being measured in terms of payables, receivables, and assets, to being measured in terms of stock price, which the owners (who end up holding a bunch of this new stock) might find more favorable.
The version of the agreement you describe might make the company nervous, because it allows for the possibility that you could pick up all sorts of ideas at work and then use them on your own time on your own equipment.
If you're confident there's no conflict, underscore that. What might make them more comfortable is including a clause that gives them ownership of anything you create that's related to their business, regardless of where you were and what equipment you were using when you did it, but allows you to keep ownership of anything unrelated (done on your own time, on your own equipment, of course). After all, if you're on salary, there really is no such thing as "your time" vs. "their time", and I know I've done company work on my own equipment when it was more convenient; the only bright line you can hope to draw is "your business" vs. "their business". Offering to sign a "non-compete" agreement might help in that regard, though it could also tie your hands when/if you decide to leave.
They are still partial owners of Symbian. And they've been paying these licensing fees to Nokia, Psion, Ericsson, Panasonic, and each other, all along. Financially speaking the only change here is that that Psion's share is now Nokia's. That's signficant to the other licensee/owners, but it's not as if Nokia had just bought Symbian outright. Financially it makes more sense to license the software from a company you co-own than one you don't.
The main thing the other owners have lost here is the ability to (collectively) veto Nokia in the boardroom and determine the direction of development and licensing terms... also signficicant, but again not the same as a buyout.
I'm not here to do your research for you, kid. Look it up.
Their software is also generally superior to Microsoft's, and more mature. SymbianOS (and its predecessors) was engineered from Day One back in the late 80's to run without failure on highly constrained hardware. So if I were Samsung or Siemens, I'd still see little reason to switch to MS.
Continuing the "___fox" pattern is something of a dead end, without many good choices. But "Fire___" is a promising model. Bugzilla could become "Firebug". "Firefly" would be an obvious option for the mail client, maintaining the "lightweight" metaphor (and delighting fans of the TV show, I'm sure). Other possible trademarks would be "Fireplug" "Firelight" "Firetruck" "Fireproof" "Firealarm" "Firedrill" "Firebomb" "Fireplace" "Firehose" "Firesale" "Firestarter" "Fireman" "Firewalker" "Firewall" "FireEscape" "Firearm" "Fireball" "Firestorm" "Firecracker" "Firebrand" "Fireworks". Oops, the last one's taken by another software package, but "Fire___" is still a fairly rich pool to draw from. It also fits well with good ol' Mozilla, usually depicted as a fire-breathing lizard, giving it some continuity with past branding.
Disney's Senate Lackeys have ensured that the company will be able to continue indefinitely on the momentum of its intellectual property rights.
And a completely unrelated dream hobby, to pursue in my free time.
And dream vacations that take me away from both for a couple weeks a year.
So you wouldn't hire someone for a technical job who has focused on doing his job, rather than trying to get "recognition", add letters to his name, and "move up" into managerial positions he'd probably be lousy at anyway? Sounds more like a rare combination of competence and wisdom to me. Not everybody wants to make the most money possible, or to work for large corporations or consulting firms. Bigger isn't always better; for some, "enough" is... enough.
Furthermore, by your logic, employment is like a game of music chairs, in which everybody has to keep moving up to higher levels of the chart... but there are fewer chairs at those levels, so whoever's not ambitious and conniving enough to grab one, gets kicked out.
I don't think you need a tin-foil hat to start drawing the dots between Adobe, Jasc, and HP, and coming up with a picture of the government putting pressure on companies to handicap their products like this. It certainly isn't market demand that's motivating them.
While he may have a point in suggesting that you can manufacture evidence of this ratio anywhere, it's also true that this ratio does appear in many great paintings and structures, because the creators used it on purpose. It's been taught to designers and artists for generations... and many of us use it.
Whether artists have used it instinctively because of its mathematical elegance, or it's merely a coincidence that works based on this ratio also tend to be visually pleasing, is kind of a causality/synchronicity chicken-and-egg argument. Coincidental or connected, conscious or not, a correlation does exist.