I don't know about the experience from other slashdotters out there, but my boss used to be very suspicious about open software. After we convinced to let us try Tomcat for production use and realizing that it was at least as good as commercial alternatives, he know even asks for a free open source solution for any software solution that we might need. So when it comes to my boss it's the cost saving that is the deciding factor in most cases.
-- I wanted to put a SIG here but my boss said that it would cost too much...
If it runs as slow as their dog-slow antivirus solution, then their anti-spyware solution bundled together with their existing antivirus software would create one of the best anti-spyware/antivirus solutions out on the market.
You don't believe me?
Running both tools on the same box would lead to absolutely no CPU cycles left over for either virus or spyware to run...
How do mp3 players encourage people to buy music online? It's just as easy to download music from p2p services and put that on your mp3 player.
Not all manufacturers of portable digital players support or are affiliated with online music providers, but many of them are. By making MP3 players more expensive to buy using a penalty tax, you're are just providing even more evidence to people who already believe that they are not treated fairly by the record industry. I'm just stating the fact that a tax on all MP3 players just because you CAN put illegaly obtained music on them sends out the wrong message, and how it incorrectly punishes people who actually paid for their music.
It's always great to see how the recording industry penalizes a system that allows people to legally listen to music.
I'm sure that the record industry's copyright collection agencies will hand the money gathered through this tax to needy musicians.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for musicians being able to make a living, but penalizing a system that encourages people to buy music online is just plain stupid.
Many corporate networks only protect the connection between the Internet and the LAN, and it only takes one sales guy to bring in a breached laptop to topple this type of security. I've seen this happen quite often.
I'm pretty sure that they encrypt the data traffic to and from the ATM machine:) , however making it easier for hackers/crackers to listen in to the communication sounds like a really bad idea to me.
Just because you have a safe car, it doesn't meant that you drive it without the safety belt on. It sounds to me that they're almost asking for it.
I'm sure we have security experts here on/. to tell us all about this.
I were in a similar position as the one that you are in right now. If I would go back to school right now I would be able to get a degree, however I think for me personally career wise it would be a bad move. I've been programming for a long time and right now as a programmer I'm on the top of my game. Even though I used to think that I was going stay as a programmer for the rest of my career, I eventually had a change of heart.
Today I no longer feel challenged by learning the next new programming language or technology, there's always a new programming language or a new technology coming up, but to me it's just the same thing all over just in a different cloak, I want to be challenged and to learn something new, not just more of the same thing, hence programming no longer holds the attraction it once did to me. As you get older and if you stay up-to-date on technology you can be a top-notch programmer high up in age. There's definitely discrimination in the IT industry and very often 35 is seen as over the top for a programmer. In my case my manager had to convince the president of the company to let me go as a developer, because in his eyes I held a bigger values as their best programmer.
I now manage other developers and I help them to grow, I work with customers, project schedules, requirements, software architecture, analysis, and help the developers to crack technical issues. I have found the same attraction and interest that I once had about programming as a manager. The main difference is that computers are just so much more consistent than human beings, but that is a part of the challenge.
In your case you really have to make up your mind about what makes you tick. What gives you the juice in life? Life is too short and we spend too much time at work for us to go to job and do work that we don't like. You really have to make a decision on what you want to do right now and where you will be 5-10 years from now.
I can relate to your story about Verizon. Our neighbors had a problem with the landline, so Verizon sent out a technician.
The technician fixed our neighbors line and broke ours. So we called up Verizon using our cell phones to complain, let me tell you, it's very nagging to be put on hold by Verizon while your valuable plan minutes ticks away. After explaining the situation Verizon sends out two guys to fix our line.
On our next phone bill there was a charge for fixing our line. This really upset me and I had to call back again to Verizon to get this issue resolved, it took me 20 minutes to explain and to get Verizon to admit that they screwed up. Verizon got to be the worst phone company I ever dealt with and this wasn't the fist time that I've had problems with them.
We have jabber supporting business services at work, but this turned to not be too great of a solution for us. Many of the MOM (Message Oriented Middleware) features that we need were never implemented in Jabber, due to that the early usage of jabber was in the instant message world. We have been looking primarily at XmlBlaster that seems to be somewhat feature complete, but we have yet to find a really good alternative to a commercial MOM.
With Googles ability to find just about anything I thought that I was in luck, however a search for my car keys at my residential address came up with nothing. Bummer.
I don't think search engine optimization is any different from any other kinds of marketing. You have anything from honest marketing, to really sleezy marketing techniques. Some ads leads to products that lives up to the promise, most ads leads to products that are totally bogus.
The issue today is that you can have a great site that no one will notice unless you at least make some rudimentary attempts to market it i.e. make it known to other people.
My own pet peeve is that I'm tired of searching for information on the web, just to get page after page of information telling me where I can buy a book about it.
When a critical mass of businesses and goverments require file formats that are documented and that doesn't require proprietary software in order to access them, then even Microsoft has to play along. I believe that this is a sign of that even MS has realized that their older paradigms just doesn't work anymore.
This is a scary precedence. If you're responsible for what you link to, what happens to people that links to web sites that certain goverments consider to have illegal information or provides support for terrorism? Would it make you a participant?
No, the reason is that it takes forever in engineering to move up in pay and responsibility, so that's why they top out at age 50.
The article pointed out that there's a decline in the average software engineer salary after 35. I believe that if you want to stay in the field of software engineering for the long haul, you have to make yourself useful in other ways than just being a programmer. You have to add more to your skill set so that you bring more to the table, skills that younger programmers wont have yet. As you age it becomes harder and harder to compete with younger guys that doesn't necessarily have as many family obligations, and in general can put in more hours.
I read an article about engineers and at what age their salary topped out. I wish I'd remember exactly where and when I read this, but I don't. The article however stated that the salary topped out for regular engineers at the age of 50, but for software engineers the equivalent age was 35.
I believe the reason for this to be that the software field is changing so rapidly, what you learn as a new technology today may not be that hot five years later.
I seriously believe that you can continue to be a great programmer toward your 50's since you have gained lot of experience that younger programmers lack. However, I remember that in my 20's I could easily stay up coding 48 hours straight, I can't do that anymore. On the other hand I'm more organized and experienced now, so I still write software faster and produce more.
In my current job I now manage a group of younger engineers. I still write software, but my main responsibilities are to ensure that projects stay on track, design software architecture, provide feedback, code review, and mentoring. This is something that I could stick to for quite a while, however I focus and spend time reading to stay abreast of new technologies. You can't stop because the rest of the world will just leave you behind.
The site seems to be/.ed already. There is a problem with the database that is preventing the site from working.
An email has been sent to the administrator notifying them of the problem. Please try again later.
This administrator is going to get a lot of emails...
-- This SIG will self destroy in 3 seconds... 3.. 2.. 1.. blast!
Re:Study on schools sheds some light on this
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Shared goals and values are easier to get through similar backgrounds and experiences, therefore to me it makes sense a company founded by two people while doing their PhDs would seek people who have also put in a lot of academic time in order to achive shared goals and values.
Agreed, people tend hire people that they perceive to share the same type of values and beliefs. The biggest problem with this is to avoid creating a company with a mono-culture. A divirsified team but with a shared goal and belief system will in general perform better than a mono-culture since its more able to adapt to changing situations.
Study on schools sheds some light on this
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I remember a study on schools that was done about 10 years ago. The study expected to find that students that came from schools where the staff was using certain methodologies, and having better economical resources would almost always outperform other schools. The result instead showed that what really made the difference, was school where the whole staff as a whole bought into their own methodology or culture, and where they together supported the overall goal, to be the most signicant differential factor.
Having star players certainly help, but what is more important is to have a team that have a mental shared picture on goals and values, and having great leadership on all levels.
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I don't know about the experience from other slashdotters out there, but my boss used to be very suspicious about open software. After we convinced to let us try Tomcat for production use and realizing that it was at least as good as commercial alternatives, he know even asks for a free open source solution for any software solution that we might need. So when it comes to my boss it's the cost saving that is the deciding factor in most cases.
-- I wanted to put a SIG here but my boss said that it would cost too much...
If it runs as slow as their dog-slow antivirus solution, then their anti-spyware solution bundled together with their existing antivirus software would create one of the best anti-spyware/antivirus solutions out on the market.
You don't believe me?
Running both tools on the same box would lead to absolutely no CPU cycles left over for either virus or spyware to run...
I remember reading an article that talked about differenct concrete compounds, for example they had made a spring out of concrete.
-- Error: SIG not found.
That reminds me of my childhood.
...
I used to play around with mercury, before I went on having fun with my melting lead experiments.
-- This SIG needs cooling
How do mp3 players encourage people to buy music online? It's just as easy to download music from p2p services and put that on your mp3 player.
Not all manufacturers of portable digital players support or are affiliated with online music providers, but many of them are. By making MP3 players more expensive to buy using a penalty tax, you're are just providing even more evidence to people who already believe that they are not treated fairly by the record industry. I'm just stating the fact that a tax on all MP3 players just because you CAN put illegaly obtained music on them sends out the wrong message, and how it incorrectly punishes people who actually paid for their music.
This is really great news!
It's always great to see how the recording industry penalizes a system that allows people to legally listen to music.
I'm sure that the record industry's copyright collection agencies will hand the money gathered through this tax to needy musicians.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for musicians being able to make a living, but penalizing a system that encourages people to buy music online is just plain stupid.
Finally! That was the last missing part for my doomsday machine. Thank you guys...
-- This SIG was never meant to be.
I can't wait for these superconducting wires to hit the market. They represent the last missing parts of my doomsday machine.
-- I borrowed this SIG from a friendly neighbor
Many corporate networks only protect the connection between the Internet and the LAN, and it only takes one sales guy to bring in a breached laptop to topple this type of security. I've seen this happen quite often.
-- I bought this SIG on ebay.
I'm pretty sure that they encrypt the data traffic to and from the ATM machine :) , however making it easier for hackers/crackers to listen in to the communication sounds like a really bad idea to me.
/. to tell us all about this.
Just because you have a safe car, it doesn't meant that you drive it without the safety belt on. It sounds to me that they're almost asking for it.
I'm sure we have security experts here on
-- This SIG is encrypted
So if I patent virus can I take Symantec to court for reverse engineering?
-- This Sig has been scanned and is virus free!
I were in a similar position as the one that you are in right now. If I would go back to school right now I would be able to get a degree, however I think for me personally career wise it would be a bad move. I've been programming for a long time and right now as a programmer I'm on the top of my game. Even though I used to think that I was going stay as a programmer for the rest of my career, I eventually had a change of heart.
Today I no longer feel challenged by learning the next new programming language or technology, there's always a new programming language or a new technology coming up, but to me it's just the same thing all over just in a different cloak, I want to be challenged and to learn something new, not just more of the same thing, hence programming no longer holds the attraction it once did to me. As you get older and if you stay up-to-date on technology you can be a top-notch programmer high up in age. There's definitely discrimination in the IT industry and very often 35 is seen as over the top for a programmer. In my case my manager had to convince the president of the company to let me go as a developer, because in his eyes I held a bigger values as their best programmer.
I now manage other developers and I help them to grow, I work with customers, project schedules, requirements, software architecture, analysis, and help the developers to crack technical issues. I have found the same attraction and interest that I once had about programming as a manager. The main difference is that computers are just so much more consistent than human beings, but that is a part of the challenge.
In your case you really have to make up your mind about what makes you tick. What gives you the juice in life? Life is too short and we spend too much time at work for us to go to job and do work that we don't like. You really have to make a decision on what you want to do right now and where you will be 5-10 years from now.
I can relate to your story about Verizon. Our neighbors had a problem with the landline, so Verizon sent out a technician.
The technician fixed our neighbors line and broke ours. So we called up Verizon using our cell phones to complain, let me tell you, it's very nagging to be put on hold by Verizon while your valuable plan minutes ticks away. After explaining the situation Verizon sends out two guys to fix our line.
On our next phone bill there was a charge for fixing our line. This really upset me and I had to call back again to Verizon to get this issue resolved, it took me 20 minutes to explain and to get Verizon to admit that they screwed up. Verizon got to be the worst phone company I ever dealt with and this wasn't the fist time that I've had problems with them.
We have jabber supporting business services at work, but this turned to not be too great of a solution for us. Many of the MOM (Message Oriented Middleware) features that we need were never implemented in Jabber, due to that the early usage of jabber was in the instant message world. We have been looking primarily at XmlBlaster that seems to be somewhat feature complete, but we have yet to find a really good alternative to a commercial MOM.
With Googles ability to find just about anything I thought that I was in luck, however a search for my car keys at my residential address came up with nothing.
Bummer.
I don't think search engine optimization is any different from any other kinds of marketing. You have anything from honest marketing, to really sleezy marketing techniques. Some ads leads to products that lives up to the promise, most ads leads to products that are totally bogus.
The issue today is that you can have a great site that no one will notice unless you at least make some rudimentary attempts to market it i.e. make it known to other people.
My own pet peeve is that I'm tired of searching for information on the web, just to get page after page of information telling me where I can buy a book about it.
As far as I know, the registrars only have access to the data that they collect themselves, and that there is no master list.
When a critical mass of businesses and goverments require file formats that are documented and that doesn't require proprietary software in order to access them, then even Microsoft has to play along. I believe that this is a sign of that even MS has realized that their older paradigms just doesn't work anymore.
This is a scary precedence. If you're responsible for what you link to, what happens to people that links to web sites that certain goverments consider to have illegal information or provides support for terrorism? Would it make you a participant?
No, the reason is that it takes forever in engineering to move up in pay and responsibility, so that's why they top out at age 50.
The article pointed out that there's a decline in the average software engineer salary after 35. I believe that if you want to stay in the field of software engineering for the long haul, you have to make yourself useful in other ways than just being a programmer. You have to add more to your skill set so that you bring more to the table, skills that younger programmers wont have yet. As you age it becomes harder and harder to compete with younger guys that doesn't necessarily have as many family obligations, and in general can put in more hours.
I read an article about engineers and at what age their salary topped out. I wish I'd remember exactly where and when I read this, but I don't. The article however stated that the salary topped out for regular engineers at the age of 50, but for software engineers the equivalent age was 35.
I believe the reason for this to be that the software field is changing so rapidly, what you learn as a new technology today may not be that hot five years later.
I seriously believe that you can continue to be a great programmer toward your 50's since you have gained lot of experience that younger programmers lack. However, I remember that in my 20's I could easily stay up coding 48 hours straight, I can't do that anymore. On the other hand I'm more organized and experienced now, so I still write software faster and produce more.
In my current job I now manage a group of younger engineers. I still write software, but my main responsibilities are to ensure that projects stay on track, design software architecture, provide feedback, code review, and mentoring. This is something that I could stick to for quite a while, however I focus and spend time reading to stay abreast of new technologies. You can't stop because the rest of the world will just leave you behind.
I always wondered what happened to it.
-- I discovered this SIG in the lost and found department.
The site seems to be /.ed already.
There is a problem with the database that is preventing the site from working.
An email has been sent to the administrator notifying them of the problem. Please try again later.
This administrator is going to get a lot of emails...
-- This SIG will self destroy in 3 seconds... 3.. 2.. 1.. blast!
Shared goals and values are easier to get through similar backgrounds and experiences, therefore to me it makes sense a company founded by two people while doing their PhDs would seek people who have also put in a lot of academic time in order to achive shared goals and values.
Agreed, people tend hire people that they perceive to share the same type of values and beliefs. The biggest problem with this is to avoid creating a company with a mono-culture. A divirsified team but with a shared goal and belief system will in general perform better than a mono-culture since its more able to adapt to changing situations.
I remember a study on schools that was done about 10 years ago. The study expected to find that students that came from schools where the staff was using certain methodologies, and having better economical resources would almost always outperform other schools. The result instead showed that what really made the difference, was school where the whole staff as a whole bought into their own methodology or culture, and where they together supported the overall goal, to be the most signicant differential factor.
Having star players certainly help, but what is more important is to have a team that have a mental shared picture on goals and values, and having great leadership on all levels.