The big thing Postgres still lacks is a licensing scheme so complex and obfuscated that you will always be breaking some rule, allowing the vendor to extort you into selling something new.
Anyone that has dealt with Oracle will know what I mean....
Actually recreating the earths magnetosphere seemed so obvious, that the fact that they weren't doing this so far gave me the impression that there was something blocking this or nearly impossible.
I own a (very small) company specialised in testing. The thing is, the craft itself is very much in development. There are methods such as ISTQB and TMAP. These are however under heavy debate by the concept driven test 'school' as too commercial and outdated. So what would you teach them? Perhaps BBST?
Regardless, the motto of my company is that you can teach a technically trained/educated person how to test. But it is much harder to teach someone trained in testing to be a technician. And there is a big demand for technical testers.
I would advocate a class in testing, but for an undergraduate major in my view there needs to be more consensus on what good testing is. Such a class would be a good addition especially if you don't want to be a tester. It is good to realize it is not just 'trying if it works' or if you can break it. But in all fairness, the basic ideas behind things like the V-model, testing techniques (as debatable as they are) should be enough for those who do not want to be tester. If well educated person decides to become a tester the rest can be done via courses and following and participating in the debate on what professional testing really is.
Those are probably not from Linkedin. Spammers are sending mail that looks linkedin in now as well. Gmail seems very good in separating real Linkedin and spam looking like Linkedin.
My issue with Linkedin is that I keep on getting spam from them with an offer for a free month of premium access. Note to Linkedin: if I have to supply credit card details: IT AIN'T FREE!!
On top of that, for coders just the fact that anyone can see your code is usually reason enough to think twice about introducing crappy or even malicious code.
When companies open source code that used to be proprietary, usually they have to go over it carefully to see if it won't be embarrassing too much. There is often profanity in the comments, or comments like 'this bit of code is crap, but....' etc.
Point being: if you know everyone can see your code, you'll be careful to begin with.
to overcome this we worked for a while on Tagnlock
It is supposed to do the following: - allow you to easy label/tag documents - gui way of defining tags, if they are free form or not, compulsorary etc. - encrypt and then store via method of choice (email included)
I am afraid that it currently is abondonware...
You can also: Find some way to tag and use duplicity to make encrypted incremental backups to a cloud service. That's what I do now. I simply use duplicity to duplicate (and encrypt) to the same drive and use the dropbox deamon to sync the encrypted copy to my dropbox
I believe that NASA needs to be a 'trillionaire'. No offence to NASA, but I believe that with the right idea and a smaller organisation it might actually be possible for much less money.
- just voice and text (and maybe temperature/weather) - phone build in! not a little me connected to another phone - waterproof, not so much for diving but at the beach you'd rather not leave it behind when swimming - Look like a normal watch, maybe just a one line old fashioned lcd for scrolling through a text message etc. - Input text method by i.e. using a ring (like on divers watches) that you rotate and press down to select a character - possibly an earpiece with expanding foam so that you can keep it in your watch (compressed) where it charges and when put in your ear expands to stay there - remote key for my car. Why carry around a key when your watch can double as a key. - be from a decent watch brand - maybe email... just maybe
The problem is that in the cost for fossil fuels, the cost for the damage it does is not taken into account. Granted it is very hard to determine those cost, but usually people that point out that solar energy is not cost effective ignore the cost that we do have, but is not paid via the energy bill
Actually, like I stated unless there is a specific reason. And to me it seems your example is an example of such a specific reason: The control the Telco's in North America had on the handsets that were on offer. And as far as that goes, RIM does not seem to be able to leverage this in their advantage in the USA.
To some extend though it does exist even in Europe, subsidizing handsets by Telco's is done very heavily here as well, however it seems to have less of an impact on the choice in handsets.
I'm not from North America, but if RIM is dead there, it will be dead later in the rest of the world. Like it or not, what happens in especially the US, usually happens in the rest of at least Western Europe sometime later. Especially for things like this.
It is certainly possible for a company to do well on business only outside of North America. But for an electronics company? There has to be a specific reason why their devices are not popular in North America whilst remaining popular somewhere else. Something like being the only phone that can use Whatsapp or Facebook in those countries.
In my opionion it is just a matter of time before RIM starts loosing everywhere else, unless RIM manages to start doing well again in North America.
Slashdot Mirror
The big thing Postgres still lacks is a licensing scheme so complex and obfuscated that you will always be breaking some rule, allowing the vendor to extort you into selling something new.
Anyone that has dealt with Oracle will know what I mean....
Why not stamp the text into copper or aluminum tablets? .
I stamp text into my tablet every day, all it leaves behind is fingerprints.....
You get phone calls on that thing? As in I have to talk to people?
eww, don't want one
Actually recreating the earths magnetosphere seemed so obvious, that the fact that they weren't doing this so far gave me the impression that there was something blocking this or nearly impossible.
6) Pay $100 to $500 and see a results-oriented career counselor instead of asking Slashdot.
Anyone can post their thoughts on /.
Go to person whose advice is good enough to be PAID for it.
aha, and make sure that person has the right certifications and degrees. Anyone can ask money for giving advice.......
maybe they'll go after Parker Brothers/Hasbro next
I own a (very small) company specialised in testing. The thing is, the craft itself is very much in development. There are methods such as ISTQB and TMAP. These are however under heavy debate by the concept driven test 'school' as too commercial and outdated. So what would you teach them? Perhaps BBST?
Regardless, the motto of my company is that you can teach a technically trained/educated person how to test. But it is much harder to teach someone trained in testing to be a technician. And there is a big demand for technical testers.
I would advocate a class in testing, but for an undergraduate major in my view there needs to be more consensus on what good testing is. Such a class would be a good addition especially if you don't want to be a tester. It is good to realize it is not just 'trying if it works' or if you can break it. But in all fairness, the basic ideas behind things like the V-model, testing techniques (as debatable as they are) should be enough for those who do not want to be tester. If well educated person decides to become a tester the rest can be done via courses and following and participating in the debate on what professional testing really is.
pecunia non olet
What the hell does the UK government have against porn? This is the second time they've tried to ban it.
They want to keep it all for themselves
Those are probably not from Linkedin. Spammers are sending mail that looks linkedin in now as well. Gmail seems very good in separating real Linkedin and spam looking like Linkedin.
My issue with Linkedin is that I keep on getting spam from them with an offer for a free month of premium access. Note to Linkedin: if I have to supply credit card details: IT AIN'T FREE!!
They do so without honking and swearing at the git too.
So they're not quite there yet?
Fully agree. I wrote two books which I (self) published at Amazon in Lyx. Exporting to HTML and then use Calibre works, but can be tedious.
On top of that, for coders just the fact that anyone can see your code is usually reason enough to think twice about introducing crappy or even malicious code.
When companies open source code that used to be proprietary, usually they have to go over it carefully to see if it won't be embarrassing too much. There is often profanity in the comments, or comments like 'this bit of code is crap, but....' etc.
Point being: if you know everyone can see your code, you'll be careful to begin with.
to overcome this we worked for a while on Tagnlock
It is supposed to do the following: /tag documents
- allow you to easy label
- gui way of defining tags, if they are free form or not, compulsorary etc.
- encrypt and then store via method of choice (email included)
I am afraid that it currently is abondonware...
You can also:
Find some way to tag and use duplicity to make encrypted incremental backups to a cloud service. That's what I do now. I simply use duplicity to duplicate (and encrypt) to the same drive and use the dropbox deamon to sync the encrypted copy to my dropbox
If I was a CS grad.. I'd make an app that blocks Slashdot for me each April 1st....
Yes I'm getting old.
I believe that NASA needs to be a 'trillionaire'. No offence to NASA, but I believe that with the right idea and a smaller organisation it might actually be possible for much less money.
I'd say for me:
- just voice and text (and maybe temperature/weather)
- phone build in! not a little me connected to another phone
- waterproof, not so much for diving but at the beach you'd rather not leave it behind when swimming
- Look like a normal watch, maybe just a one line old fashioned lcd for scrolling through a text message etc.
- Input text method by i.e. using a ring (like on divers watches) that you rotate and press down to select a character
- possibly an earpiece with expanding foam so that you can keep it in your watch (compressed) where it charges and when put in your ear expands to stay there
- remote key for my car. Why carry around a key when your watch can double as a key.
- be from a decent watch brand
- maybe email... just maybe
The problem is that in the cost for fossil fuels, the cost for the damage it does is not taken into account. Granted it is very hard to determine those cost, but usually people that point out that solar energy is not cost effective ignore the cost that we do have, but is not paid via the energy bill
Here I am, brain the size of a mars rover, and they tell me to text 'OMG grl, wassup'....
that means I was years ahead of Alan Cox! Maybe he'll follow in a few years to Mint.....
Actually, like I stated unless there is a specific reason. And to me it seems your example is an example of such a specific reason: The control the Telco's in North America had on the handsets that were on offer.
And as far as that goes, RIM does not seem to be able to leverage this in their advantage in the USA.
To some extend though it does exist even in Europe, subsidizing handsets by Telco's is done very heavily here as well, however it seems to have less of an impact on the choice in handsets.
I'm not from North America, but if RIM is dead there, it will be dead later in the rest of the world. Like it or not, what happens in especially the US, usually happens in the rest of at least Western Europe sometime later. Especially for things like this.
It is certainly possible for a company to do well on business only outside of North America. But for an electronics company? There has to be a specific reason why their devices are not popular in North America whilst remaining popular somewhere else. Something like being the only phone that can use Whatsapp or Facebook in those countries.
In my opionion it is just a matter of time before RIM starts loosing everywhere else, unless RIM manages to start doing well again in North America.
The Swedes are such a cold people. Even the Danes consider them distant and formal (not to mention a bit condescending).
Maybe, but many of the women have really hot bodies!
I'm sure in a storm Steve would reroute all power to the reality distortion field and it would be all Sunny and a flat sea for them.
Isn't Darwin further up north?
not according to Apple