Well basically Windows 7.0 is based on the Vista codebase and they tried to make it more compatible with XP and fix more bugs. So far the beta tests look good, on the other hand the Windows ME beta tests were good and Windows ME RTM was a flop and failed really badly.
I got a good feeling that the Windows 7.0 Pro and above versions XP virtual machine might actually run enough "Legacy Software" in order to beat the Windows Vista disappointment of not running "Legacy Software".
For those running Windows 7.0 Home Premium and under, Microsoft has an option to buy an upgrade to Pro or higher to get that XP virtual machine. An alternative would be to buy an XP Pro license and run VirtualBox, as it supports 128M 3D Video Card support, etc via the virtual machine and XP Virtual Machines only need 512M of RAM to run in of the system RAM.
But if Windows 7.0 tanks like Windows Vista did, Microsoft will have a riot on their hands, and people wanting to downgrade to XP Pro from Windows 7.0. If Microsoft no longer supports XP downgrades, there will be a riot, and people will be wanting their money back and projects like ReactOS will become more popular and the WINE project will attempt to port WINE to Windows Vista and Windows 7.0 to run legacy software if not people will switch to a Linux install with WINE and see if that runs better than Windows 7.0.
Of course my Laptop will dual-boot both Windows 7.0 Pro and Fedora 11, so that if Windows 7.0 fails me, at least I have Fedora 11 to use. I will try to use the Windows XP virtual machine option with 7.0 Pro to run legacy software.
My son has been begging me for Windows 7.0 so I got him a Windows 7.0 Home Premium, I could not afford two 7.0 Pro copies, so I bought him a Home Premium version. If he needs the 7.0 Pro version Microsoft allows an upgrade to 7.0 Pro via the Internet and I can afford that later if needed.
If the XP virtual machine does not work to well, I'll be buying two old copies of XP Pro from pricewatch.com and run them in Sun VirtualBox later. I hope I don't have to do that, but the current Windows XP licenses would be invalid after the upgrade to 7.0.
My son's system uses a wireless adapter that does not have Linux support, and he showed no interest in Linux, most of his games work in Windows XP, and if they don't work in Windows 7.0 I'll look for upgrade patches to work with 7.0 or he'll have to skip playing those games until I can get a virtual machine set up to play his games.
Both systems were Vista boxes, downgraded to Windows XP Pro, so they should run Windows 7.0.
I know I am taking a risk, but I hope to find out what problems friends and relatives will have when they upgrade to Windows 7.0 as they'll be calling me and asking for help. Upgrading from XP requires a reformat and reinstall, and most of my friends and relatives are using XP and some are using Vista.
I preordered before July 11 to qualify for that half off special on upgrade copies. I am not sure if the old XP licenses will still work if Windows 7.0 fails and I have to reinstall XP, or if I have to buy new licenses for XP to switch back to XP.
Anyway I could always buy my son a wireless card that works with Linux and install Fedora 11 with WINE and see if that runs his video games better than Windows 7.0 and save money on XP licenses and virtual machines, and teach him how to use Linux as an alternative. But it is more important that he learn how the Windows upgrade process works and any troubles with it and how to resolve them. Right now to him the Windows 7.0 is cool, but if there are issues and it won't run his video games, he will learn that sometimes newer technology is not always better and even if it looks cool, it might not always do what he wants it to do. Because eventually they will upgrade to Windows 7.0 in his school, too bad they don't support Linux.
as it is up to a court and judge to decide if the "fair use" clause can be used for the artwork.
In many cases artwork is based on pictures, but it is different enough from the picture that it does not violate copyrights. If it was a bit by bit copy you can claim copyright violation, but it is not a 100% match and may be different enough through effects and colors that it may fall under "Fair Use" for parody or works of art, or anything.
It should be noted that the "stupid" DMCA law tries to do away with "Fair Use", and that our founding fathers of the USA would be upset if they read the DMCA to see that "Fair Use" clauses are being removed or limited in ways that others cannot use copyrighted works for parodies, works of art, education, etc under a "Fair Use" clause.
All that was done was figure out which photograph the artwork may have been based on, and that consent was not given by the AP or the photographer; however, "Fair Use" might still apply, and it is up for a judge and court to decide it.
What horrors to learn that even "Fair Use" does not apply anymore, which means our freedom and rights are trumped by Intellectual Property and Copyright laws. Which means we have been cheated out of rights and freedoms promised to us by the US Constitution by those who seek to profit at the expense of others losing their rights and freedoms.
is learn how to learn on your own. Take what you learned in college and learn to do your own research so that you can learn any programming language, data structure, whatever on your own after college is over.
Keep in mind that technologies change almost every three years or so, which means what you know today may be out of date in three years, or more. So even after college you need to keep learning to stay up to date on whatever technology that you use.
Which means you need to learn how to solve problems, work as a team, work with a help desk, work with quality assurance, meet with people to help in the analysis and design of a program, learn important communication skills in person and in email, learn how to document things, how to do project management, how to debug your programs,how to prototype your program and work in a beta test environment, etc. Most of these things you won't learn in college and will have to learn them from a mentor or on your own, or by trial and error and learn from your mistakes.
While OpenGL and Oracle are not programming languages, I assume you made a typo. OpenGL is a library and a set of API calls, and it is good to learn that so that you can learn to use other libraries and API calls. Oracle is a database that uses PL/SQL for database queries, but you need to learn other databases as well like MS-SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Firebird, etc because you never know what an employer might use. You need to learn a variety of programming languages, libraries, databases, etc and then learn how to change and adapt to new ones as needed.
This is very complex and goes beyond what college and Comp Sci classes can teach. For example colleges teach how to write small programs, but employers want tens of thousands of lines of code or more for their large programs that are complex and very hard to maintain and need constant changing and adapting.
Speech. At one time it did, but now there are limits to free speech. Both in the UK and USA now.
I guess that means we can send the KKK and Nazi groups in the USA to jail then for distributing hate speech materials. Also track down the "Anonymous" group for hate speech against Scientologists, etc.
You could have made every mistake you can make on that job or project, but as long as you learned from it and can avoid making the same mistakes, you become a better person for it. That is because human beings learn by mistakes.
When a software project is costing more in expenses to support than revenue it brings in, it is usually because of a quality control problem. I know this from experience and I am usually the programmer taking over "legacy projects" and "legacy software" by debugging them so the quality is better and it runs faster and hardly ever crashes due to the higher quality and quality management process I go through. When I went to college and studied programming I was a student worker in a computer lab, and they had a full time debugger to help the students, when she couldn't help the students because the program was a mess or was for a computer language she didn't know they sent it to me to debug. It was one of my many jobs as I tried to learn as many computer languages as I could while in college. I applied that debugging skill to my career and I helped countless coworkers with debugging issues. How did I get to be so good at debugging? I learned from my own mistakes while writing programs for class, and then I learned from other students' mistakes doing debugging for them, and then from coworkers' mistakes in debugging their programs.
Now while I tried to teach coworkers to learn from their mistakes, they often took it the wrong way, and refused to learn from them, leaving me to always having to debug their programs. The few coworkers that did take my advice and learn from their mistakes went on to other jobs later to be promoted to high paying jobs and careers in writing quality code with quality built into the design. Those that didn't, work the same job, for almost the same pay, and keep making the same mistakes until they are fired or laid off, and then work another job making the same mistakes. I hear from them via email, asking me to help them out like I did when I was working for them, but I cannot as their employers would not want me to see the source code they are working on, so for legal reasons I have to turn them down, and then give them a few web links to debugging books or web sites that might be able to help them out.
and not supported by the Mozilla Foundation, but it is a Mozilla 1.3.1 based web browser.
Too bad it does not support the 68K MacOS 7.5.X environment, there are a lot of people running Mac 68K emulators and that is the version of Mac System that Apple allows to be downloaded legally for free.Usually the Basilisk II Mac 68K emulator, which seems to be popular.
At least they try for PowerMac Mac OS 8.6 compatibility, which is good for those PowerMac users who cannot upgrade to Mac OS9.
Small Internet Radio Stations cannot afford the minimum $25,000 a year fee to operate.
This is the RIAA screwing over the small business and non-profit organizations in the music business. Next I suppose they will hit up DJs for a minimum fee for $25,000 a year to play Audio CDs and MP3 files they legally own?
a Petabyte of data is not a material thing, the object that contains the data is what weighs in as far as heavy goes.
A Petabyte of data has no weight, it is a pattern of electrons etc stored on a device, the electrons and device are not part of the data but contain the data.
One day we assume there will be a Petabyte storage device, until then we will keep stacking up storage devices and weighing them until they add up to a Petabyte.
Most of my managers were "classical managers" like Darth Vader, crack that whip, get in the way of developers, don't dole out attaboys but limit what developers can do like no object oriented programming no APIs and no support from management, and are immune from being fired and take it out on the techies.
how a player character could follow the rules of the game, and violate the unwritten rules and social norms that the players had agreed on but did not write down, nor have the game administrators enforce.
He made his character as a loner, who didn't team up too much, and developed a tactic to teleport foes into NPC Robots that shot them to death for getting too close to a safe zone.
I think he violated some ethics as a professor, and may be considered a griefer or jerk to the other players, but he did so in order to show how the other players would violate their own social norms and unwritten rules to use profanity, trying to force him to quit by dirty tricks, etc. In doing so I think he tried to show the other players as hypocrites who gladly violate the unwritten rules, while at the same time accusing his character of violating the same unwritten rules. Meanwhile his character didn't violate any games rules, just social ones the players had agreed to but not written down or enforced.
#1 More pay, most techies have a "salary cap" for their position and can only reach a certain level, managers go all the way to the top aka CEO. Also when the company starts having losses the first ones they downsize are techies.
#2 You already have techie experience which will make you a good IT manager and become VP of IT or the CIO later.
#3 As you age it becomes harder and harder to understand new technical trends. Younger techies will oust you for jobs and promotions. Might as well switch to management and quit the IT ratrace.
#4 Managers have better benefits and the "golden parachute" clause in that if they fire you or lay you off, you get a nice severance package.
#5 Any company that is willing to promote a techie to a management position is a valuable company to work for, that way managers can do their jobs better than a manager without techie experience.
You'll have to take Darth Vader as a role model, but the "force choke" comes in handy to keep your underlings in line, and your new battle armor will protect you from assassination attempts by your underlings.:)
Yeah funny thing about that, I was playing by D&D rules, and the backstabbing coworkers were playing by another set of rules developed before D&D was designed that allows such things as backstabbing the more talented coworkers in order to gain promotions and other things. Well look at it this way, eventually they'll backstab the managers and work their way up to CEO and have to fight each other for the CEO position.
I worked until I became disabled, and in the D&D world a high level Cleric should be able to cast a major healing spell and cure me of my disability. In the real world no such thing exists, and I have to stay on disability and take medicine from doctors until I finally do die. So all of that hard work, and playing by the rules, and being a good employee and helping out others in a team, lead to miserable failure of disability and being too sick to work for the rest of my life.
That sucks as well. But you are just the DM, you are not here. This is real life and in real life the chaotic evil characters win, and we lawful good characters end up dead or on disability.
No that isn't as reliable as sending them a "scam" email infected with a Trojan Horse program using an exploit in JPG or GIF picture rendering to execute code that installs the Trojan Horse by simply viewing the picture file.
No doubt they made the email look like a bank customer or another employee by faking the email address and using social engineering to fool them into thinking it is legit and click on it to read it.
If they left a USB thum drive, Police could get fingerprints off of that and then they would be caught. The email scam worked the best for other crimes of that nature before. Usually an employee or manager falls for it and gets infected.
When I used to work for some companies, there were always employees who fell for that scam and got virus infected. I'd know it as their email client would send me 8 or more emails with the same name and subject and body of message, and I was too smart to click on it and read it, because I suspected they got infected. One scam criminals tried to use involved greeting cards and clicking on the attached file for the greeting card infected the system with a virus. Once infected the virus uses the email address book (usually Outlook) to send out more infected emails. Most of the time it was a manager or co-worker that was stupid enough to click on the infected email. Me I usually just ignore greeting cards and other email that I suspect of being a virus, and I am right all of the time about that. That is because it does stupid stuff like send the same person 8 copies of the same message, nobody should be stupid enough to click on email that has 8 copies and is virtually the same thing with an attached file or image that looks like some computer program like a virus sent it.
For example the "ILOVEYOU" LoveBug Virus, I didn't fall for that because I knew that coworkers and managers don't send out messages with the title of "I LOVE YOU!" on it multiple times. Others did, and they were stupid enough to read it and click on the attachment.
Name is not always enough, suppose you have two people named John Smith etc you have to include student number or employee number etc to show the difference.
The federal government wanted to do a Real ID program, but privacy activists were against it claiming it would take away the freedom of privacy. Others claim it is the mark of the beast or something. It would be the size of a library card with an RFID chip that contains the "key" code to identify a person, etc.
Most people I played D&D and Traveller with were like me, computer programmers or in another line of work. Never managers with the power to hire people.
Sure I've been nice to people, even hosting games at my own house with a BBQ and free snacks and soda. I've been nice to people at work as well. It never paid off, and many of my coworkers ended up backstabbing me in order for them to get promotions by downgrading me despite me being nice to them and helping them out when they were stuck at something and working as a team. I never did them wrong, and always supported them and did my job to the best of my abilities. But then those coworkers never played in the D&D and other role playing games with me, because I was always getting the group out of trouble and resolving problems and solving mysteries and saving people.
which I selected to not be my social security number.
The State ID number is a random series of letters and numbers and it is harder to guess.
The usual jokes like Ronald Reagan's social security number was 000-00-0002 because he was the second person to file behind FDR, are funny but historically inaccurate.
Illegal Immigrants or Undocumented Workers or whatever you want to call them easily generate fake SSNs, and a bulk of them use the same SSN for the same employer and it is usually a SSN of someone who died, and they got it off a death certificate. The current system of checking SSNs is broken.
What we need is a different system that is harder to guess, one that uses letters and numbers like license plates or software serial numbers. One that Social Security keeps on a secure system that can verify the numbers and tell if the new SSN is stolen or the owner of the SSN is dead and someone else may be using it for fraud.
I just hope the new system isn't abused to take away rights and freedoms, that would be bad.
I remember the colleges I went to use to use our SSN as our student number and it was on grade lists. I requested that I be issued a student number not based on my SSN for privacy reasons and they did issue me a student number different from my SSN. The grade lists would be student name, student number, and then grade issued in class and everyone could see them. The professors listed them by the door for the classroom after finals and midterm grades were calculated. Many other systems used to base employee number etc on SSNs.
You set up cloud computing services with company ABC for $199 a user per year. All of your data is on the virtualized ABC servers.
You find out company XYZ has the same services for $99 a user per year. But Company ABC has your data locked into their virtual servers and they refuse to release the data or allow you to log into them and do the migration yourself. You don't want to lose X years of data, but you want a cheaper rate to save on your expenses.
Not only that but employees at company ABC might have downloaded the virtual server data on a laptop and then it got stolen or they sold the data to scammers, etc.
Suppose you wanted to create your own cloud system, neither ABC or XYZ would allow you to release the data from their virtual servers to your system.
This is a term called Data Hijacking or Hostage Data, that companies use to lock in customers to their products.
Poster claims she and her husband were hired by a DM in one D&D game they played a few months in.
Never in all my D&D and role play games career, did I ever get offered a job. Sure I did a lot of problem solving and followed the same business advice in the original article. I even listed role play games as a hobby on my resume. I got my jobs by hard work at other jobs and building up a good reputation by writing reliable source code that optimized memory and ran faster than other programmers, plus I had good debugging skills.
It did not work, eventually management went with "good enough" because computers ran faster than ever and with large hard drives and RAM memory, and then optimized memory and running faster didn't matter, as companies went with the cheaper coders who ran code "good enough" to get work done even if it crashed the system and servers 12 times a day. I got sick, and I learned that getting old and being married are job liabilities because management wants to overwork "salaried" employees up to 60 or 80 hours a week for no extra pay. Being older and married with children means I cannot spend the extra time a younger and single programmer can that does not have kids. Plus IT and Engineering jobs often get offshored to the lowest bidder.
In short D&D and role playing lessons learned did not help me out in my career. The industry changed and turned on me. What jobs I had I got overworked at until I got stressed out and got sick and ended up on disability. Technology keeps changing to the point that even the sloppiest code runs fast enough even if it is a memory hog and crashes the system daily, the people who write the sloppy code agree to work for a low salary and work overtime for no extra pay and stay single with no kids, and people like me cannot compete with them anymore.
My only hope is to start up my own small business of writing software, and hope the banks agree to lend to me to grow my company so I can develop and market my own brand of software. But the economy is really bad and banks refuse to lend to me because I am disabled. But the big companies are "too big to fail" so they get bailouts, but the small companies suffer and go out of business.
when she downloads a song in MP3 format, she is not stealing it from the RIAA so that they don't have a copy of it anymore, she is making a copy of an existing MP3 format. If the RIAA proves that she downloaded the song without paying for it, charge her $1 per song which was the going rate back in 2004. I fail to see how she did $1.92 Million in damages unless she downloaded 1.92 million songs.
I remember when they busted Kevin Mitnick, they tried to charge him for the cost of developing the software he stole, his lawyers claim they couldn't charge him for the entire cost of developing the software as he only stole a copy of it and did not delete the original from the source. I forgot how Mitnick got out of that one, but they tried to make an example out of him by charging the full cost of developing the software he downloaded, instead of the actual cost of buying a license of said software.
Let me put it this way, it is more like stealing a $1 pair of sun glasses from a store, you don't charge the shoplifter for the full price of developing the pair of sunglasses, but the actual price the sunglasses sold for. But it isn't even stealing sun glasses it is more like taking a picture of said sun glasses in the store and then sharing that picture with random strangers on the Internet. In fact this is more like the 1970's and 1980's when people bought an LP and then copied it to a cassette tape for their friends to listen to or recorded songs off FM Radio stations to Cassette tapes and shared them with friends. It is not the original LP they are stealing, but a copy of it or a copy of the recording of the song. This is legally no different than hearing the song on an FM Radio station for free, except she has control over what song plays and for how long. Will the RIAA go after people who listen to FM Radio songs next, or stop libraries from carrying Audio CDs that can be checked out for free, or the Internet Radio programs that play a random MP3 file as well? How can you justify a $1.92M charge, and that much damage was done? The answer is you cannot, because you don't know if the copy of the songs lead anyone to actually buy a legit version of the song after hearing the pirated version and liked it enough to buy a legal copy and other things by the singer or band who made the song they like. In that case a pirated copy of a song is no different than hearing the same song on an FM Radio for free because the FM Radio is sending out a copy of the song to every FM Radio tuned in to that station. This woman did the same thing an FM Radio station would do, beam up copies of the recorded song for free. You'll have to prove that she charged for each song in order to prove piracy and loss of sales, or else it ends up the same legal status as an FM Radio station or Internet Radio Station, etc.
for example Linux Mobile developers can try to port the Mobile version of Linux to the Kindle to replace the default OS and software.
The Linux community could develop a Linux distribution to make a Linux based eBook reader that any company can make the hardware for and sell.
I would recommend the later, I think a Linux based eBook reader would help bring down the costs of eBook readers and make the technology open to all to develop for it.
I think O'Reilly is doing the right thing by adopting open source technology and making their eBooks readable from their web site, rather than pay Microsoft a fee and use a proprietary standard that is limited to only Windows. Reason being that O'Reilly does not just write books about Microsoft technology but Open Source Technology like Linux etc. How can you expect Linux developers to read MSN eBook formats under Linux when Microsoft won't support it? They would have to dual boot to Windows, read the eBook on Linux development, boot back to Linux, when stuck boot back to Windows and read more of the eBook. But if they can read the eBook under Linux it is a lot easier to get work done. Yeah they could run Windows in a virtual machine, but not all Linux developers and users want to do that, and many want a native Linux program to read their eBooks and not even bother with anything Windows based.
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Well basically Windows 7.0 is based on the Vista codebase and they tried to make it more compatible with XP and fix more bugs. So far the beta tests look good, on the other hand the Windows ME beta tests were good and Windows ME RTM was a flop and failed really badly.
I got a good feeling that the Windows 7.0 Pro and above versions XP virtual machine might actually run enough "Legacy Software" in order to beat the Windows Vista disappointment of not running "Legacy Software".
For those running Windows 7.0 Home Premium and under, Microsoft has an option to buy an upgrade to Pro or higher to get that XP virtual machine. An alternative would be to buy an XP Pro license and run VirtualBox, as it supports 128M 3D Video Card support, etc via the virtual machine and XP Virtual Machines only need 512M of RAM to run in of the system RAM.
But if Windows 7.0 tanks like Windows Vista did, Microsoft will have a riot on their hands, and people wanting to downgrade to XP Pro from Windows 7.0. If Microsoft no longer supports XP downgrades, there will be a riot, and people will be wanting their money back and projects like ReactOS will become more popular and the WINE project will attempt to port WINE to Windows Vista and Windows 7.0 to run legacy software if not people will switch to a Linux install with WINE and see if that runs better than Windows 7.0.
I pre-ordered a copy for myself and my son.
Of course my Laptop will dual-boot both Windows 7.0 Pro and Fedora 11, so that if Windows 7.0 fails me, at least I have Fedora 11 to use. I will try to use the Windows XP virtual machine option with 7.0 Pro to run legacy software.
My son has been begging me for Windows 7.0 so I got him a Windows 7.0 Home Premium, I could not afford two 7.0 Pro copies, so I bought him a Home Premium version. If he needs the 7.0 Pro version Microsoft allows an upgrade to 7.0 Pro via the Internet and I can afford that later if needed.
If the XP virtual machine does not work to well, I'll be buying two old copies of XP Pro from pricewatch.com and run them in Sun VirtualBox later. I hope I don't have to do that, but the current Windows XP licenses would be invalid after the upgrade to 7.0.
My son's system uses a wireless adapter that does not have Linux support, and he showed no interest in Linux, most of his games work in Windows XP, and if they don't work in Windows 7.0 I'll look for upgrade patches to work with 7.0 or he'll have to skip playing those games until I can get a virtual machine set up to play his games.
Both systems were Vista boxes, downgraded to Windows XP Pro, so they should run Windows 7.0.
I know I am taking a risk, but I hope to find out what problems friends and relatives will have when they upgrade to Windows 7.0 as they'll be calling me and asking for help. Upgrading from XP requires a reformat and reinstall, and most of my friends and relatives are using XP and some are using Vista.
I preordered before July 11 to qualify for that half off special on upgrade copies. I am not sure if the old XP licenses will still work if Windows 7.0 fails and I have to reinstall XP, or if I have to buy new licenses for XP to switch back to XP.
Anyway I could always buy my son a wireless card that works with Linux and install Fedora 11 with WINE and see if that runs his video games better than Windows 7.0 and save money on XP licenses and virtual machines, and teach him how to use Linux as an alternative. But it is more important that he learn how the Windows upgrade process works and any troubles with it and how to resolve them. Right now to him the Windows 7.0 is cool, but if there are issues and it won't run his video games, he will learn that sometimes newer technology is not always better and even if it looks cool, it might not always do what he wants it to do. Because eventually they will upgrade to Windows 7.0 in his school, too bad they don't support Linux.
as it is up to a court and judge to decide if the "fair use" clause can be used for the artwork.
In many cases artwork is based on pictures, but it is different enough from the picture that it does not violate copyrights. If it was a bit by bit copy you can claim copyright violation, but it is not a 100% match and may be different enough through effects and colors that it may fall under "Fair Use" for parody or works of art, or anything.
It should be noted that the "stupid" DMCA law tries to do away with "Fair Use", and that our founding fathers of the USA would be upset if they read the DMCA to see that "Fair Use" clauses are being removed or limited in ways that others cannot use copyrighted works for parodies, works of art, education, etc under a "Fair Use" clause.
All that was done was figure out which photograph the artwork may have been based on, and that consent was not given by the AP or the photographer; however, "Fair Use" might still apply, and it is up for a judge and court to decide it.
What horrors to learn that even "Fair Use" does not apply anymore, which means our freedom and rights are trumped by Intellectual Property and Copyright laws. Which means we have been cheated out of rights and freedoms promised to us by the US Constitution by those who seek to profit at the expense of others losing their rights and freedoms.
is learn how to learn on your own. Take what you learned in college and learn to do your own research so that you can learn any programming language, data structure, whatever on your own after college is over.
Keep in mind that technologies change almost every three years or so, which means what you know today may be out of date in three years, or more. So even after college you need to keep learning to stay up to date on whatever technology that you use.
Which means you need to learn how to solve problems, work as a team, work with a help desk, work with quality assurance, meet with people to help in the analysis and design of a program, learn important communication skills in person and in email, learn how to document things, how to do project management, how to debug your programs,how to prototype your program and work in a beta test environment, etc. Most of these things you won't learn in college and will have to learn them from a mentor or on your own, or by trial and error and learn from your mistakes.
While OpenGL and Oracle are not programming languages, I assume you made a typo. OpenGL is a library and a set of API calls, and it is good to learn that so that you can learn to use other libraries and API calls. Oracle is a database that uses PL/SQL for database queries, but you need to learn other databases as well like MS-SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Firebird, etc because you never know what an employer might use. You need to learn a variety of programming languages, libraries, databases, etc and then learn how to change and adapt to new ones as needed.
This is very complex and goes beyond what college and Comp Sci classes can teach. For example colleges teach how to write small programs, but employers want tens of thousands of lines of code or more for their large programs that are complex and very hard to maintain and need constant changing and adapting.
Speech. At one time it did, but now there are limits to free speech. Both in the UK and USA now.
I guess that means we can send the KKK and Nazi groups in the USA to jail then for distributing hate speech materials. Also track down the "Anonymous" group for hate speech against Scientologists, etc.
and a negative into a positive.
You could have made every mistake you can make on that job or project, but as long as you learned from it and can avoid making the same mistakes, you become a better person for it. That is because human beings learn by mistakes.
When a software project is costing more in expenses to support than revenue it brings in, it is usually because of a quality control problem. I know this from experience and I am usually the programmer taking over "legacy projects" and "legacy software" by debugging them so the quality is better and it runs faster and hardly ever crashes due to the higher quality and quality management process I go through. When I went to college and studied programming I was a student worker in a computer lab, and they had a full time debugger to help the students, when she couldn't help the students because the program was a mess or was for a computer language she didn't know they sent it to me to debug. It was one of my many jobs as I tried to learn as many computer languages as I could while in college. I applied that debugging skill to my career and I helped countless coworkers with debugging issues. How did I get to be so good at debugging? I learned from my own mistakes while writing programs for class, and then I learned from other students' mistakes doing debugging for them, and then from coworkers' mistakes in debugging their programs.
Now while I tried to teach coworkers to learn from their mistakes, they often took it the wrong way, and refused to learn from them, leaving me to always having to debug their programs. The few coworkers that did take my advice and learn from their mistakes went on to other jobs later to be promoted to high paying jobs and careers in writing quality code with quality built into the design. Those that didn't, work the same job, for almost the same pay, and keep making the same mistakes until they are fired or laid off, and then work another job making the same mistakes. I hear from them via email, asking me to help them out like I did when I was working for them, but I cannot as their employers would not want me to see the source code they are working on, so for legal reasons I have to turn them down, and then give them a few web links to debugging books or web sites that might be able to help them out.
There is a team working on Amizilla which is the AmigaOS version of Mozilla web browser. But it was last updated in 2006.
The other project is AMozillaX which was announced but no code or web browser was released and it seems to have vanished off the Internet.
and not supported by the Mozilla Foundation, but it is a Mozilla 1.3.1 based web browser.
Too bad it does not support the 68K MacOS 7.5.X environment, there are a lot of people running Mac 68K emulators and that is the version of Mac System that Apple allows to be downloaded legally for free.Usually the Basilisk II Mac 68K emulator, which seems to be popular.
At least they try for PowerMac Mac OS 8.6 compatibility, which is good for those PowerMac users who cannot upgrade to Mac OS9.
Small Internet Radio Stations cannot afford the minimum $25,000 a year fee to operate.
This is the RIAA screwing over the small business and non-profit organizations in the music business. Next I suppose they will hit up DJs for a minimum fee for $25,000 a year to play Audio CDs and MP3 files they legally own?
a Petabyte of data is not a material thing, the object that contains the data is what weighs in as far as heavy goes.
A Petabyte of data has no weight, it is a pattern of electrons etc stored on a device, the electrons and device are not part of the data but contain the data.
One day we assume there will be a Petabyte storage device, until then we will keep stacking up storage devices and weighing them until they add up to a Petabyte.
just pee into the gas tank. Bring your dog or cat with you, and have them pee into the gas tank as well.
Urine powered automobiles for teh win!
I sure wish I worked at companies like that.
Most of my managers were "classical managers" like Darth Vader, crack that whip, get in the way of developers, don't dole out attaboys but limit what developers can do like no object oriented programming no APIs and no support from management, and are immune from being fired and take it out on the techies.
Not always when they can fire most of the IT staff and then offshore the work to India for $200 a month per person in India.
Anyway the wind blows, doesn't really matter to me, to me.
how a player character could follow the rules of the game, and violate the unwritten rules and social norms that the players had agreed on but did not write down, nor have the game administrators enforce.
He made his character as a loner, who didn't team up too much, and developed a tactic to teleport foes into NPC Robots that shot them to death for getting too close to a safe zone.
I think he violated some ethics as a professor, and may be considered a griefer or jerk to the other players, but he did so in order to show how the other players would violate their own social norms and unwritten rules to use profanity, trying to force him to quit by dirty tricks, etc. In doing so I think he tried to show the other players as hypocrites who gladly violate the unwritten rules, while at the same time accusing his character of violating the same unwritten rules. Meanwhile his character didn't violate any games rules, just social ones the players had agreed to but not written down or enforced.
Why?
#1 More pay, most techies have a "salary cap" for their position and can only reach a certain level, managers go all the way to the top aka CEO. Also when the company starts having losses the first ones they downsize are techies.
#2 You already have techie experience which will make you a good IT manager and become VP of IT or the CIO later.
#3 As you age it becomes harder and harder to understand new technical trends. Younger techies will oust you for jobs and promotions. Might as well switch to management and quit the IT ratrace.
#4 Managers have better benefits and the "golden parachute" clause in that if they fire you or lay you off, you get a nice severance package.
#5 Any company that is willing to promote a techie to a management position is a valuable company to work for, that way managers can do their jobs better than a manager without techie experience.
You'll have to take Darth Vader as a role model, but the "force choke" comes in handy to keep your underlings in line, and your new battle armor will protect you from assassination attempts by your underlings. :)
Yeah funny thing about that, I was playing by D&D rules, and the backstabbing coworkers were playing by another set of rules developed before D&D was designed that allows such things as backstabbing the more talented coworkers in order to gain promotions and other things. Well look at it this way, eventually they'll backstab the managers and work their way up to CEO and have to fight each other for the CEO position.
I worked until I became disabled, and in the D&D world a high level Cleric should be able to cast a major healing spell and cure me of my disability. In the real world no such thing exists, and I have to stay on disability and take medicine from doctors until I finally do die. So all of that hard work, and playing by the rules, and being a good employee and helping out others in a team, lead to miserable failure of disability and being too sick to work for the rest of my life.
That sucks as well. But you are just the DM, you are not here. This is real life and in real life the chaotic evil characters win, and we lawful good characters end up dead or on disability.
No that isn't as reliable as sending them a "scam" email infected with a Trojan Horse program using an exploit in JPG or GIF picture rendering to execute code that installs the Trojan Horse by simply viewing the picture file.
No doubt they made the email look like a bank customer or another employee by faking the email address and using social engineering to fool them into thinking it is legit and click on it to read it.
If they left a USB thum drive, Police could get fingerprints off of that and then they would be caught. The email scam worked the best for other crimes of that nature before. Usually an employee or manager falls for it and gets infected.
When I used to work for some companies, there were always employees who fell for that scam and got virus infected. I'd know it as their email client would send me 8 or more emails with the same name and subject and body of message, and I was too smart to click on it and read it, because I suspected they got infected. One scam criminals tried to use involved greeting cards and clicking on the attached file for the greeting card infected the system with a virus. Once infected the virus uses the email address book (usually Outlook) to send out more infected emails. Most of the time it was a manager or co-worker that was stupid enough to click on the infected email. Me I usually just ignore greeting cards and other email that I suspect of being a virus, and I am right all of the time about that. That is because it does stupid stuff like send the same person 8 copies of the same message, nobody should be stupid enough to click on email that has 8 copies and is virtually the same thing with an attached file or image that looks like some computer program like a virus sent it.
For example the "ILOVEYOU" LoveBug Virus, I didn't fall for that because I knew that coworkers and managers don't send out messages with the title of "I LOVE YOU!" on it multiple times. Others did, and they were stupid enough to read it and click on the attachment.
Name is not always enough, suppose you have two people named John Smith etc you have to include student number or employee number etc to show the difference.
The federal government wanted to do a Real ID program, but privacy activists were against it claiming it would take away the freedom of privacy. Others claim it is the mark of the beast or something. It would be the size of a library card with an RFID chip that contains the "key" code to identify a person, etc.
Most people I played D&D and Traveller with were like me, computer programmers or in another line of work. Never managers with the power to hire people.
Sure I've been nice to people, even hosting games at my own house with a BBQ and free snacks and soda. I've been nice to people at work as well. It never paid off, and many of my coworkers ended up backstabbing me in order for them to get promotions by downgrading me despite me being nice to them and helping them out when they were stuck at something and working as a team. I never did them wrong, and always supported them and did my job to the best of my abilities. But then those coworkers never played in the D&D and other role playing games with me, because I was always getting the group out of trouble and resolving problems and solving mysteries and saving people.
which I selected to not be my social security number.
The State ID number is a random series of letters and numbers and it is harder to guess.
The usual jokes like Ronald Reagan's social security number was 000-00-0002 because he was the second person to file behind FDR, are funny but historically inaccurate.
Illegal Immigrants or Undocumented Workers or whatever you want to call them easily generate fake SSNs, and a bulk of them use the same SSN for the same employer and it is usually a SSN of someone who died, and they got it off a death certificate. The current system of checking SSNs is broken.
What we need is a different system that is harder to guess, one that uses letters and numbers like license plates or software serial numbers. One that Social Security keeps on a secure system that can verify the numbers and tell if the new SSN is stolen or the owner of the SSN is dead and someone else may be using it for fraud.
I just hope the new system isn't abused to take away rights and freedoms, that would be bad.
I remember the colleges I went to use to use our SSN as our student number and it was on grade lists. I requested that I be issued a student number not based on my SSN for privacy reasons and they did issue me a student number different from my SSN. The grade lists would be student name, student number, and then grade issued in class and everyone could see them. The professors listed them by the door for the classroom after finals and midterm grades were calculated. Many other systems used to base employee number etc on SSNs.
OK let me set up this argument.
You set up cloud computing services with company ABC for $199 a user per year. All of your data is on the virtualized ABC servers.
You find out company XYZ has the same services for $99 a user per year. But Company ABC has your data locked into their virtual servers and they refuse to release the data or allow you to log into them and do the migration yourself. You don't want to lose X years of data, but you want a cheaper rate to save on your expenses.
Not only that but employees at company ABC might have downloaded the virtual server data on a laptop and then it got stolen or they sold the data to scammers, etc.
Suppose you wanted to create your own cloud system, neither ABC or XYZ would allow you to release the data from their virtual servers to your system.
This is a term called Data Hijacking or Hostage Data, that companies use to lock in customers to their products.
Poster claims she and her husband were hired by a DM in one D&D game they played a few months in.
Never in all my D&D and role play games career, did I ever get offered a job. Sure I did a lot of problem solving and followed the same business advice in the original article. I even listed role play games as a hobby on my resume. I got my jobs by hard work at other jobs and building up a good reputation by writing reliable source code that optimized memory and ran faster than other programmers, plus I had good debugging skills.
It did not work, eventually management went with "good enough" because computers ran faster than ever and with large hard drives and RAM memory, and then optimized memory and running faster didn't matter, as companies went with the cheaper coders who ran code "good enough" to get work done even if it crashed the system and servers 12 times a day. I got sick, and I learned that getting old and being married are job liabilities because management wants to overwork "salaried" employees up to 60 or 80 hours a week for no extra pay. Being older and married with children means I cannot spend the extra time a younger and single programmer can that does not have kids. Plus IT and Engineering jobs often get offshored to the lowest bidder.
In short D&D and role playing lessons learned did not help me out in my career. The industry changed and turned on me. What jobs I had I got overworked at until I got stressed out and got sick and ended up on disability. Technology keeps changing to the point that even the sloppiest code runs fast enough even if it is a memory hog and crashes the system daily, the people who write the sloppy code agree to work for a low salary and work overtime for no extra pay and stay single with no kids, and people like me cannot compete with them anymore.
My only hope is to start up my own small business of writing software, and hope the banks agree to lend to me to grow my company so I can develop and market my own brand of software. But the economy is really bad and banks refuse to lend to me because I am disabled. But the big companies are "too big to fail" so they get bailouts, but the small companies suffer and go out of business.
when she downloads a song in MP3 format, she is not stealing it from the RIAA so that they don't have a copy of it anymore, she is making a copy of an existing MP3 format. If the RIAA proves that she downloaded the song without paying for it, charge her $1 per song which was the going rate back in 2004. I fail to see how she did $1.92 Million in damages unless she downloaded 1.92 million songs.
I remember when they busted Kevin Mitnick, they tried to charge him for the cost of developing the software he stole, his lawyers claim they couldn't charge him for the entire cost of developing the software as he only stole a copy of it and did not delete the original from the source. I forgot how Mitnick got out of that one, but they tried to make an example out of him by charging the full cost of developing the software he downloaded, instead of the actual cost of buying a license of said software.
Let me put it this way, it is more like stealing a $1 pair of sun glasses from a store, you don't charge the shoplifter for the full price of developing the pair of sunglasses, but the actual price the sunglasses sold for. But it isn't even stealing sun glasses it is more like taking a picture of said sun glasses in the store and then sharing that picture with random strangers on the Internet. In fact this is more like the 1970's and 1980's when people bought an LP and then copied it to a cassette tape for their friends to listen to or recorded songs off FM Radio stations to Cassette tapes and shared them with friends. It is not the original LP they are stealing, but a copy of it or a copy of the recording of the song. This is legally no different than hearing the song on an FM Radio station for free, except she has control over what song plays and for how long. Will the RIAA go after people who listen to FM Radio songs next, or stop libraries from carrying Audio CDs that can be checked out for free, or the Internet Radio programs that play a random MP3 file as well? How can you justify a $1.92M charge, and that much damage was done? The answer is you cannot, because you don't know if the copy of the songs lead anyone to actually buy a legit version of the song after hearing the pirated version and liked it enough to buy a legal copy and other things by the singer or band who made the song they like. In that case a pirated copy of a song is no different than hearing the same song on an FM Radio for free because the FM Radio is sending out a copy of the song to every FM Radio tuned in to that station. This woman did the same thing an FM Radio station would do, beam up copies of the recorded song for free. You'll have to prove that she charged for each song in order to prove piracy and loss of sales, or else it ends up the same legal status as an FM Radio station or Internet Radio Station, etc.
for example Linux Mobile developers can try to port the Mobile version of Linux to the Kindle to replace the default OS and software.
The Linux community could develop a Linux distribution to make a Linux based eBook reader that any company can make the hardware for and sell.
I would recommend the later, I think a Linux based eBook reader would help bring down the costs of eBook readers and make the technology open to all to develop for it.
I think O'Reilly is doing the right thing by adopting open source technology and making their eBooks readable from their web site, rather than pay Microsoft a fee and use a proprietary standard that is limited to only Windows. Reason being that O'Reilly does not just write books about Microsoft technology but Open Source Technology like Linux etc. How can you expect Linux developers to read MSN eBook formats under Linux when Microsoft won't support it? They would have to dual boot to Windows, read the eBook on Linux development, boot back to Linux, when stuck boot back to Windows and read more of the eBook. But if they can read the eBook under Linux it is a lot easier to get work done. Yeah they could run Windows in a virtual machine, but not all Linux developers and users want to do that, and many want a native Linux program to read their eBooks and not even bother with anything Windows based.