This fall, why not set the clocks back a 1/2 hour, and forget the whole thing?
I know all about the origins of the practice -- let the kids have more daylight, save energy during wartime, etc. IMO, it just isn't worth the hassle or the lost sleep.
I had a NetWare 4.0 server where the hard drive heads would stick to the platter when you shut it off (this was in the days of RLL drives). A swift kick would unstick them, and afterwards the machine would boot just fine.
So, if they scan my face, and I license it for use in commercials (selling cars, personal hygene products, lite beer, etc.), do I get paid for each appearance by my intellectual property? Or is it just a one-time fee, and they're allowed to make "archival copies" and use them however they want in the future?
Yes, it's a doomed project.
But look at it this way, you'll get to spend a month or so in Japan (one of the most expensive places on Earth) with all of it being paid for by someone else. My advice is to leave work early on Fridays, buy a rail pass, and go see the sights.
Just be ready to jump ship the moment they bring you back to the US. This will count as "burning your bridges", career-wise, but is justified, based on what they want you to do.
Chip H.
Write some small part of your SDK documentation -- enough to illustrate various aspects of it. Then hire a senior-year university student for a few days to look at it, and explain it back to you. You'll be amazed at all the assumptions you made, that need to be explained.
Bonus points for good samples. Get the college student to write them, and have one of your senior developers review them.
It's pretty much that simple. Now I work for you, and you pay me a salary. Tomorrow, I don't, and you don't pay me anything.
Like (everyone!) else has said, two weeks is the normal courtesy period in the US (I understand it's much longer in the UK). Afterwards, you can do some consulting after hours for them if you feel like it. I wouldn't gouge them -- charge them the going market rate. It's just business, they'll understand. And if they don't understand, they'll learn soon enough.
Part of my reasoning to use Cocoa# with C# is that I'm new to the Mac world, and I need something familiar to hold onto. Just learning Cocoa is likely to be drinking from a firehose.;-)
I've been a C# developer for a couple of years now, and have been keeping an eye on Mono. Now that I have a Mac mini, the idea of using a language I know vs. having to learn Objective C, combined with the Cocoa# GUI framework, is very attractive.
I'll be doing some serious downloading this weekend!
What if they found illegally downloaded music in his house? Could he be tried for that? Should those records be kept from the first search?
Live your life in a transparent manner, and you have nothing to fear, Citizen.
We're not as bad as the UK currently is -- but America is definitely on the road to becoming the observation nation.
There are two solutions for this: significant cultural change (John Q Public saying "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!"), or live your life as if it were in a glass house, and everyone can see everything you do.
Unless these files are locked up in some with (in)effective DRM, one person can download it and start up an alternative torrent.
This is a good point.
If I'm sharing videos with the world of my cat performing tricks, I don't care who else starts a torrent of it. Go ahead, it doesn't matter to me, and might actually save me bandwidth if it becomes as popular as the dancing baby or the StarWars kid.
But if I'm running a website where I'm selling videos for money, then I care very much if someone starts an alternative torrent with my content.
I figure a good sign that BitTorrent isn't suitable for licensed media is that the porn industry isn't using it.
Hubble has done great things for orbital astronomy. But there are better designs on the drawing-boards, and for the cost of a rescue mission for a 20-year old design (launched in 1990, designed earlier than that), we could have a superior instrument to use for the next 15 years.
If there's a need/desire to put it in the Smithsonian or something, perhaps a booster rocket can be built to dock with it, and push it higher into a parking orbit for later retrieval. A pusher-bot would be a lot easier/cheaper to build and operate than a repair-bot vehicle.
We will have to get the teas and coffees ourselves
This isn't so much of a joke in some countries. I knew a girl in college who had worked in a Japanese office for a while. Even though she was the manager, and supervised 8 or 10 salarymen, she was still the one expected to make the tea.
So, does this mean that IBM is finally out from under the Microsoft joint-development agreement, that dates back to the days of the original PC and PC-XT?
I'm wondering if I should send my resume in for Carly's old position.
I have no executive management experience, so I have no bad habits to un-learn. As an outsider, I have no polical axe to grind, so I can make changes that need to be made without repercussions.
I'm willing to take the job for only two million dollars a year. I'll even pay to relocate myself. The board will love the cost savings!
What I do have is vision -- I want HP to make good products again. No more rebranding, no more crap that breaks just by looking at it. I'd make Compaq it's own division, and transfer all servers to it. I'd get out of the consumer PC business, concentrating instead on business-grade computers & peripherals. I'd invest in the calculator business, because even though it would lose money, it would gain mind share amongst college students, engineers, and techies. The idea is that it would act as a halo (like the iPod does for Apple) and sell other higher margin HP products.
I'd just be happy if MS offered high-availability cluster support in C#. Right now, you have to use the generic resource service, and I'd much rather be able to write custom cluster resource dlls in C#.
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This fall, why not set the clocks back a 1/2 hour, and forget the whole thing?
I know all about the origins of the practice -- let the kids have more daylight, save energy during wartime, etc. IMO, it just isn't worth the hassle or the lost sleep.
Chip H.
Anyone know if it can be run in a virtual machine, such as Virtual PC or VMWare?
Chip H.
I had a NetWare 4.0 server where the hard drive heads would stick to the platter when you shut it off (this was in the days of RLL drives). A swift kick would unstick them, and afterwards the machine would boot just fine.
Chip H.
So you think - until it becomes absolutely mandatory and illegal for you to remove them.
If it ever becomes extremely necessary for me to remove an RFID implant, well, I own a pocketknife, and I'll be motivated to use it.
Chip H.
So, if they scan my face, and I license it for use in commercials (selling cars, personal hygene products, lite beer, etc.), do I get paid for each appearance by my intellectual property? Or is it just a one-time fee, and they're allowed to make "archival copies" and use them however they want in the future?
Chip H.
Yes, it's a doomed project. But look at it this way, you'll get to spend a month or so in Japan (one of the most expensive places on Earth) with all of it being paid for by someone else. My advice is to leave work early on Fridays, buy a rail pass, and go see the sights. Just be ready to jump ship the moment they bring you back to the US. This will count as "burning your bridges", career-wise, but is justified, based on what they want you to do. Chip H.
Write some small part of your SDK documentation -- enough to illustrate various aspects of it. Then hire a senior-year university student for a few days to look at it, and explain it back to you. You'll be amazed at all the assumptions you made, that need to be explained.
Bonus points for good samples. Get the college student to write them, and have one of your senior developers review them.
Chip H.
It's pretty much that simple. Now I work for you, and you pay me a salary. Tomorrow, I don't, and you don't pay me anything.
Like (everyone!) else has said, two weeks is the normal courtesy period in the US (I understand it's much longer in the UK). Afterwards, you can do some consulting after hours for them if you feel like it. I wouldn't gouge them -- charge them the going market rate. It's just business, they'll understand. And if they don't understand, they'll learn soon enough.
Chip H.
Novellians attending Brainshare are primarily from the marketing dept. And since when have you known a marketeer to say the sensible thing?
Chip H.
Part of my reasoning to use Cocoa# with C# is that I'm new to the Mac world, and I need something familiar to hold onto. Just learning Cocoa is likely to be drinking from a firehose. ;-)
Thanks for the reply.
Chip H.
I've been a C# developer for a couple of years now, and have been keeping an eye on Mono. Now that I have a Mac mini, the idea of using a language I know vs. having to learn Objective C, combined with the Cocoa# GUI framework, is very attractive.
I'll be doing some serious downloading this weekend!
Chip H.
The COMMTech chip technology used in Star Wars action figures?
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Chip H.
What if they found illegally downloaded music in his house? Could he be tried for that? Should those records be kept from the first search?
Live your life in a transparent manner, and you have nothing to fear, Citizen.
We're not as bad as the UK currently is -- but America is definitely on the road to becoming the observation nation.
There are two solutions for this: significant cultural change (John Q Public saying "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!"), or live your life as if it were in a glass house, and everyone can see everything you do.
Chip H.
That's just not any alien head, it's the alien head from another classic sci-fi series from the 1960's you may have heard of -- Star Trek.
Specifically, it's from the The Corbomite Maneuver episode.
Chip H.
Unless these files are locked up in some with (in)effective DRM, one person can download it and start up an alternative torrent.
This is a good point.
If I'm sharing videos with the world of my cat performing tricks, I don't care who else starts a torrent of it. Go ahead, it doesn't matter to me, and might actually save me bandwidth if it becomes as popular as the dancing baby or the StarWars kid.
But if I'm running a website where I'm selling videos for money, then I care very much if someone starts an alternative torrent with my content.
I figure a good sign that BitTorrent isn't suitable for licensed media is that the porn industry isn't using it.
Chip H.
That's Senator Jar-Jar, thank you very much.
J. Jar Binks Esq.
Hubble has done great things for orbital astronomy. But there are better designs on the drawing-boards, and for the cost of a rescue mission for a 20-year old design (launched in 1990, designed earlier than that), we could have a superior instrument to use for the next 15 years.
If there's a need/desire to put it in the Smithsonian or something, perhaps a booster rocket can be built to dock with it, and push it higher into a parking orbit for later retrieval. A pusher-bot would be a lot easier/cheaper to build and operate than a repair-bot vehicle.
Chip H.
We will have to get the teas and coffees ourselves
This isn't so much of a joke in some countries. I knew a girl in college who had worked in a Japanese office for a while. Even though she was the manager, and supervised 8 or 10 salarymen, she was still the one expected to make the tea.
Chip H.
I am a man, not a number!
Signed, #6
So, does this mean that IBM is finally out from under the Microsoft joint-development agreement, that dates back to the days of the original PC and PC-XT?
Chip H.
Got any links or news reports that show this?
Chip H.
I'm wondering if I should send my resume in for Carly's old position.
I have no executive management experience, so I have no bad habits to un-learn. As an outsider, I have no polical axe to grind, so I can make changes that need to be made without repercussions.
I'm willing to take the job for only two million dollars a year. I'll even pay to relocate myself. The board will love the cost savings!
What I do have is vision -- I want HP to make good products again. No more rebranding, no more crap that breaks just by looking at it. I'd make Compaq it's own division, and transfer all servers to it. I'd get out of the consumer PC business, concentrating instead on business-grade computers & peripherals. I'd invest in the calculator business, because even though it would lose money, it would gain mind share amongst college students, engineers, and techies. The idea is that it would act as a halo (like the iPod does for Apple) and sell other higher margin HP products.
Chip H.
radiating in the infrared spectrum with many hundreds of times more power than our Milky Way galaxy
It's God's remote control.
Chip H.
I'd just be happy if MS offered high-availability cluster support in C#. Right now, you have to use the generic resource service, and I'd much rather be able to write custom cluster resource dlls in C#.
Chip H.
It's not about the computers or the televisions -- it's about the money.
The solution is to lobby your representative and urge them to spend less.
Chip H.