I've watched some of the most talented programmers around get fucked over, simply because some hotshot wannabee was a little better than they at self-promotion, and a little less scrupulous about being honest
Welcome to planet earth, if you think it owes you a living think again. If you act like a doormat you will be treated like one. The world isn't fair the world isn't honest and it sure as hell doesn't owe anyone a living. Its all a game, learn the rules and play well and you will succeed. Let other people push you around shuffled from project to project according to the whims of upper management and you aren't in charge of your own destiny.
And as for the idea that Just like the music and movie industries, the computer industry was started by people who sincerely loved their art what a load of rubbish. United Artists anyone ? Just for the love of it ? Rubbish it was about power and control and a recognition that having control means you don't get buggered over. Why did the Beatles found Apple ? To get control. Being the person who gets pushed around has never been the place to be happy. Whether a pleb under the Romans, a serf in the middle ages or a basic coder in the 90s, you are the smallest piece that others will treat as nothing. Sounds harsh but the only way out is to change things yourself. By being someone who seeks to change you become one of the people telling rather than the people being told what to do.
Other non-native imports that have caused problems
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1) Starlings, imported by a nutter who wanted all the birds from Shakespear in the US.
2) The British, Spanish, French, Germans, Irish etc
3) The not so "Native" Americans (2 millions years ago... I think not)
4) Mammals... 200 million years ago
5) The planet, 10 billion years ago it wasn't there.
Good God, George Bush is the ultimate environmental fundamentalist, he wants to return the planet to its original state... dust:-)
First line tech support are mostly fools in call centres, so you'd expect those with the worst customer service to have the lowest opinion of their customers. Possibly the higher the training and morale level the less the customers are seen as, and treated like, idiots.
Getting Tech Support to rate the customers. Which company has the stupidest clients, and is there a relationship between quality of service and the intelligence of the people receiving it.
AOL: We have only made copies to ensure that they we don't lose the originial.
EMI: But they didn't keep it just for themselves they gave it to their parents.
AOL: Well the kids just can't be trusted not to lose this stuff.
EMI: Then the parents shared it with their friends
AOL: No Way, we played it for our own personal use, its not our fault 30 million people were watching.
Judge: Isn't this just what you guys complain about with people copying CDs ?
EMI + AOL: OH NO, that is TOTALLY DIFFERENT, that is ILLEGAL AND PEOPLE SHOULD BE HUNG, this is just verification of a fine point of legal detail.
Judge: Ah right.... lets go have lunch, you guys are buying as you'll bill it to your clients.... to be continued... appealed... and without seeing the relevance to the wider debate.
Its cheaper to launch a sat into space via ESA than NASA. There are other options out there that are cheaper than ESA but insurance isn't too bad now that there have been successful launches since the coding f*ck up.
So it isn't just "oh look we have to do it" its more "shit they charge through the nose for this stuff, we need a cheaper way".
Now I may be as thick as a whale omelet, BUT how will they transport it to the rocket and then launch it and ensure that everything else is clean room ? The Rocket will have to remain sterile inside, the transport to the rocket will have to be sterile.
Surely there is a risk of contamination at lots of these phases ? Especially shifting it from the lab, into transport and transport into rocket.
I'm sure they can do it to a high degree of probability, but how can they do it with even 99.999% certainty
Honestly this get modded up ? Its just flag waving neaderthal rubbish. Do you seriously think that invading countries makes you look anything more than a fool ?
And remember when it comes to those Media execs.... the biggest and baddest of them is Murdoch... and guess where he comes from ?
They'd fit right in, poor language, bad dress sense. Only problem is that like the slots they are miles more intelligent than the punters who play on them.
The US system is based on the power of courts to arbitrate on ownership and validity after the fact. What would you describe as the basic theory behind the EU approach.
How scary is that, they know where you work, they know how much you earn, they know how old you are, they know your gender, they know how many kids you have, they know who your parents are.
This is so scary, and even worse every few years they let you put a poxy "X" on a piece of paper to say you agree with it.
This has to be the biggest non-story of the year, almost every country already does this. You pay taxes, the goverment knows who you are... avoiding taxes then you are a criminal.
If doing this for a living rather than being a sad muppet who thinks its "cool" (Snowboarding is cool, Skydiving is cool, hacking IIS is not cool).
1) Buy people, rival firm has a product you need to sabotage... well hire their best brains so it turns out shit... and you get the product as well.
2) Have a clipboard, 99% of companies and people in those companies will not query a suit with a clipboard. This gives you the ability to walk into any areas saying you are doing a "Time and motion" study for the new Quality Iniative. Or do an "assets" audit and take away servers for "verification" that aren't on the "official register".
3) Buy the people
4) Have someone join as a graduate, or even as a more senior person. Sure it violates their contract, but just pay them the cash.
5) Supply the network upgrade at low low prices via a subsiduary, then ensure they can be "remotely administered as part of the outsourcing and support deal".
6) Buy the people
7) Walk into PC support, ask for a backup of your server from date X put onto new server Y. Or even better just get the required files burnt onto CD. Sure you have to fake the paper work, but that isn't hard.
All of these will be more effective than hiring script kiddies.
WARNING: Do not try the above at a military base, unless you want to get shot, corporations will normally just have you prosecuted.
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Films are 24Hz, but you don't worry about that, and using an LCD screen means that you don't get the blurring and flashing of a normal monitor.
Ummm and Sony have announced that IBM and Toshiba will be joining up to develop the architecture and processors for the Playstation 3.
The odds on these two pieces of work not being related have to be pretty slim. Its a pretty clear gameplan, XBOX2 is a "Windows Home Gateway", PS3 is a "Multimedia Home Gateway" that happens to be running linux.
Printers are "conveniently located" throughout the country. Postal service works include email delivery as part of their standard round.
Could be worse though, they could have had accountants run it. Then we'd all be told how the value of the network was huge as millions of dollars of Nigerian money was being offered on a daily basis.
Yes and by that "logic" Thomas Paines the "Rights" of Man is also part of DRM. And a course on Time "Management" completes the trio.
Digital TV != DRM, does it mean that DRM is possible, yes but it requires the complicity of the HW and TV operators. But to say that Digital TV is "part" of DRM indicates that you haven't realised what Digital TV is. The BBC broadcast a bunch of "free to air" Digital TV stations, and soon there will be more after their deal with SkyTV. There is Digital TV all over Europe right now and people are recording it onto their Videos just like they always have done.
This was probably due to a poor understanding by the authors of XUL
Why is it a poor understanding for the reviewers ? This is one of the reasons that techies have a bad name the "I know best" attitude that pervades our industry. I like Mozilla, I use Mozilla, I like it because it works and because of the way its navigation works.
BUT if you are used to Windows and not an old school Unix person then it is different to the rest of the windows applications you use so it is a valid comment. Now its not difficult to fix by having the Windows Theme be one of the default installed themes so Mozilla looks the same as the rest of Windows.
Get off your high horse and think about why looking like everything else is good for the majority of users who don't want the power and control that Gecko and Mozilla offer, they just want a Browser that looks like the other applications they use. Minimise the "suprise" factor and maximise the uptake.
Anderson Consulting was spun out of Arthur Anderson the accounting firm, it was set up to take advantage of the "additional" services that they could offer to clients whose books they audited.
So it is actually founded on exactly the mentality that led to Enron et al.
Part of the issue here is that there are a few basic tennets for the wireless industry
1) Open Standards, strange to say but the folks at these three are actively pushing such standards
2) Security and reliability, the operators have to support the hardware so they won't buy that which isn't reliable as it costs them more.
3) Investment, these three have invested huge amounts of cash already, and don't want to see Mr Johnny come lately investing 3c and getting a totally different level of ROI.
4) Fear. Of Microsoft, Of diminising returns, Of competition. This is a tough marketplace and they would prefer to be the last man standing, and so anyone new isn't being blocked out by a cartel, but blocked out by 3 companies who see newcommers as potential allies of their competitors.
For someone to complain that they are blocked out of the "wireless messaging" meetings when they don't manufacture handsets is a bit rich. This is like me complaining that I get cut out of UN Security Council meetings just because I'm not a country and don't have an army.
Big business is often bad, but these aer three companies that act against each other to drive down prices and drive up inovation. Small fry on the side who bitch that $1,000 doesn't buy them the same seat at the table as $1,000,000,000 are just as clueless as the.com "millionaires" who bitched that suppliers wouldn't give them as good a deal as they gave Sears.
Welcome to capitalism, if you don't like it... become an accountant.
You: I have to go to a conference on dynamic fluid-driven next generation systems. Its called the "LBW" which means "Leading Business through Webvolution".
Boss: What benefits will we see ?
You: Our servers will run quicker (note to self: disable SMP on the servers before I go), we'll be better prepared for Webservices (note to self: install the Apache Webservices stuff, ask someone in the pub which one to use). And of course we will be seen as leaders within this technical and business community
Boss: If its business why are you going ?
You: Remember at my last appraisal where you said I didn't understand the business drivers, I've learnt from your behaviour (Note: Vendor paid for Golf days) and think this would help me develop as you wanted me to.
Boss: How much is it
You: I've got a complimentary ticket, I just need the expenses signed off (Note: Can I pay for the admin in beer?)
Boss: How come its compilmentary ?
You: Because of the articles I've been writing on Webvolution (Note: Slashdot log counts doesn't it?)
Boss: Oh, wow, I'll set a limit of (Note to self from Boss: Umm I'd blow 2k in a week, so..) £500.
You: (Note to self: Ryanair, car hire, hotels, beer.. thats too little) Sure and I'll book the hotel via the department (Note: Therefore it will be on the massive budget sheet with all of your jollies)
But remember to buy some naff toys and claim they are vendor gifts.
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I've watched some of the most talented programmers around get fucked over, simply because some hotshot wannabee was a little better than they at self-promotion, and a little less scrupulous about being honest
Welcome to planet earth, if you think it owes you a living think again. If you act like a doormat you will be treated like one. The world isn't fair the world isn't honest and it sure as hell doesn't owe anyone a living. Its all a game, learn the rules and play well and you will succeed. Let other people push you around shuffled from project to project according to the whims of upper management and you aren't in charge of your own destiny.
And as for the idea that Just like the music and movie industries, the computer industry was started by people who sincerely loved their art what a load of rubbish. United Artists anyone ? Just for the love of it ? Rubbish it was about power and control and a recognition that having control means you don't get buggered over. Why did the Beatles found Apple ? To get control. Being the person who gets pushed around has never been the place to be happy. Whether a pleb under the Romans, a serf in the middle ages or a basic coder in the 90s, you are the smallest piece that others will treat as nothing. Sounds harsh but the only way out is to change things yourself. By being someone who seeks to change you become one of the people telling rather than the people being told what to do.
1) Starlings, imported by a nutter who wanted all the birds from Shakespear in the US.
:-)
2) The British, Spanish, French, Germans, Irish etc
3) The not so "Native" Americans (2 millions years ago... I think not)
4) Mammals... 200 million years ago
5) The planet, 10 billion years ago it wasn't there.
Good God, George Bush is the ultimate environmental fundamentalist, he wants to return the planet to its original state... dust
First line tech support are mostly fools in call centres, so you'd expect those with the worst customer service to have the lowest opinion of their customers. Possibly the higher the training and morale level the less the customers are seen as, and treated like, idiots.
Getting Tech Support to rate the customers. Which company has the stupidest clients, and is there a relationship between quality of service and the intelligence of the people receiving it.
EMI: We gave them personal use only
AOL: We have only made copies to ensure that they we don't lose the originial.
EMI: But they didn't keep it just for themselves they gave it to their parents.
AOL: Well the kids just can't be trusted not to lose this stuff.
EMI: Then the parents shared it with their friends
AOL: No Way, we played it for our own personal use, its not our fault 30 million people were watching.
Judge: Isn't this just what you guys complain about with people copying CDs ?
EMI + AOL: OH NO, that is TOTALLY DIFFERENT, that is ILLEGAL AND PEOPLE SHOULD BE HUNG, this is just verification of a fine point of legal detail.
Judge: Ah right.... lets go have lunch, you guys are buying as you'll bill it to your clients.
Its cheaper to launch a sat into space via ESA than NASA. There are other options out there that are cheaper than ESA but insurance isn't too bad now that there have been successful launches since the coding f*ck up.
So it isn't just "oh look we have to do it" its more "shit they charge through the nose for this stuff, we need a cheaper way".
Now I may be as thick as a whale omelet, BUT how will they transport it to the rocket and then launch it and ensure that everything else is clean room ? The Rocket will have to remain sterile inside, the transport to the rocket will have to be sterile.
Surely there is a risk of contamination at lots of these phases ? Especially shifting it from the lab, into transport and transport into rocket.
I'm sure they can do it to a high degree of probability, but how can they do it with even 99.999% certainty
Honestly this get modded up ? Its just flag waving neaderthal rubbish. Do you seriously think that invading countries makes you look anything more than a fool ?
And remember when it comes to those Media execs.... the biggest and baddest of them is Murdoch... and guess where he comes from ?
They'd fit right in, poor language, bad dress sense. Only problem is that like the slots they are miles more intelligent than the punters who play on them.
The US system is based on the power of courts to arbitrate on ownership and validity after the fact. What would you describe as the basic theory behind the EU approach.
The GOVERMENT WILL KNOW WHERE YOU LIVE!
How scary is that, they know where you work, they know how much you earn, they know how old you are, they know your gender, they know how many kids you have, they know who your parents are.
This is so scary, and even worse every few years they let you put a poxy "X" on a piece of paper to say you agree with it.
This has to be the biggest non-story of the year, almost every country already does this. You pay taxes, the goverment knows who you are... avoiding taxes then you are a criminal.
If doing this for a living rather than being a sad muppet who thinks its "cool" (Snowboarding is cool, Skydiving is cool, hacking IIS is not cool).
1) Buy people, rival firm has a product you need to sabotage... well hire their best brains so it turns out shit... and you get the product as well.
2) Have a clipboard, 99% of companies and people in those companies will not query a suit with a clipboard. This gives you the ability to walk into any areas saying you are doing a "Time and motion" study for the new Quality Iniative. Or do an "assets" audit and take away servers for "verification" that aren't on the "official register".
3) Buy the people
4) Have someone join as a graduate, or even as a more senior person. Sure it violates their contract, but just pay them the cash.
5) Supply the network upgrade at low low prices via a subsiduary, then ensure they can be "remotely administered as part of the outsourcing and support deal".
6) Buy the people
7) Walk into PC support, ask for a backup of your server from date X put onto new server Y. Or even better just get the required files burnt onto CD. Sure you have to fake the paper work, but that isn't hard.
All of these will be more effective than hiring script kiddies.
WARNING: Do not try the above at a military base, unless you want to get shot, corporations will normally just have you prosecuted.
Films are 24Hz, but you don't worry about that, and using an LCD screen means that you don't get the blurring and flashing of a normal monitor.
Ummm and Sony have announced that IBM and Toshiba will be joining up to develop the architecture and processors for the Playstation 3.
The odds on these two pieces of work not being related have to be pretty slim. Its a pretty clear gameplan, XBOX2 is a "Windows Home Gateway", PS3 is a "Multimedia Home Gateway" that happens to be running linux.
For pities sake this is just plain sad. If there was one more hour in the day 60% of people would sit in front of a monitor ?
This would mean 365 hours extra coding, no "I'd meet up with friends", "go to club", "get a girlfriend", "have a bath".
Given an extra hour in the day I'd spend an extra hour with my wife and daughter.
For pities sake people, Mozart shagged his way around Austria and Germany while composing. Artists are famed for going out and getting laid.
Folks get your priorities straight, have a bath, get a girlfriend, get laid. And spend any extra hours repeating the last step.
Process..
Email addresses are in the form
Name@Address@Town@State@Country
Printers are "conveniently located" throughout the country. Postal service works include email delivery as part of their standard round.
Could be worse though, they could have had accountants run it. Then we'd all be told how the value of the network was huge as millions of dollars of Nigerian money was being offered on a daily basis.
Yes and by that "logic" Thomas Paines the "Rights" of Man is also part of DRM. And a course on Time "Management" completes the trio.
Digital TV != DRM, does it mean that DRM is possible, yes but it requires the complicity of the HW and TV operators. But to say that Digital TV is "part" of DRM indicates that you haven't realised what Digital TV is. The BBC broadcast a bunch of "free to air" Digital TV stations, and soon there will be more after their deal with SkyTV. There is Digital TV all over Europe right now and people are recording it onto their Videos just like they always have done.
Promoting Frontpage as an advantage is similar to saying that Volkswagen would never sell in East Germany because they have the Trabant.
Frontpage is to web design what chocolate is to teapots.
This was probably due to a poor understanding by the authors of XUL Why is it a poor understanding for the reviewers ? This is one of the reasons that techies have a bad name the "I know best" attitude that pervades our industry. I like Mozilla, I use Mozilla, I like it because it works and because of the way its navigation works. BUT if you are used to Windows and not an old school Unix person then it is different to the rest of the windows applications you use so it is a valid comment. Now its not difficult to fix by having the Windows Theme be one of the default installed themes so Mozilla looks the same as the rest of Windows. Get off your high horse and think about why looking like everything else is good for the majority of users who don't want the power and control that Gecko and Mozilla offer, they just want a Browser that looks like the other applications they use. Minimise the "suprise" factor and maximise the uptake.
Anderson Consulting was spun out of Arthur Anderson the accounting firm, it was set up to take advantage of the "additional" services that they could offer to clients whose books they audited.
So it is actually founded on exactly the mentality that led to Enron et al.
Students too poor to buy Ferraris, Burma goverment rules "okay to steal for educational purposes".
Schools short of top quality teachers, Kansas rules "okay to kidnap teachers from other States"
Microsoft operating as a monopoly and using its position to squash competition, fine says George W Bush as long as I get the campaign contribution.
Already is free for non-commercial use check out their download page for details.
Its an interesting point but Maya is an example of a company that has already thought of this....
Not invented by the big three, hyped and failed.
.com "millionaires" who bitched that suppliers wouldn't give them as good a deal as they gave Sears.
Part of the issue here is that there are a few basic tennets for the wireless industry
1) Open Standards, strange to say but the folks at these three are actively pushing such standards
2) Security and reliability, the operators have to support the hardware so they won't buy that which isn't reliable as it costs them more.
3) Investment, these three have invested huge amounts of cash already, and don't want to see Mr Johnny come lately investing 3c and getting a totally different level of ROI.
4) Fear. Of Microsoft, Of diminising returns, Of competition. This is a tough marketplace and they would prefer to be the last man standing, and so anyone new isn't being blocked out by a cartel, but blocked out by 3 companies who see newcommers as potential allies of their competitors.
For someone to complain that they are blocked out of the "wireless messaging" meetings when they don't manufacture handsets is a bit rich. This is like me complaining that I get cut out of UN Security Council meetings just because I'm not a country and don't have an army.
Big business is often bad, but these aer three companies that act against each other to drive down prices and drive up inovation. Small fry on the side who bitch that $1,000 doesn't buy them the same seat at the table as $1,000,000,000 are just as clueless as the
Welcome to capitalism, if you don't like it... become an accountant.
You: I have to go to a conference on dynamic fluid-driven next generation systems. Its called the "LBW" which means "Leading Business through Webvolution".
Boss: What benefits will we see ?
You: Our servers will run quicker (note to self: disable SMP on the servers before I go), we'll be better prepared for Webservices (note to self: install the Apache Webservices stuff, ask someone in the pub which one to use). And of course we will be seen as leaders within this technical and business community
Boss: If its business why are you going ?
You: Remember at my last appraisal where you said I didn't understand the business drivers, I've learnt from your behaviour (Note: Vendor paid for Golf days) and think this would help me develop as you wanted me to.
Boss: How much is it
You: I've got a complimentary ticket, I just need the expenses signed off (Note: Can I pay for the admin in beer?)
Boss: How come its compilmentary ?
You: Because of the articles I've been writing on Webvolution (Note: Slashdot log counts doesn't it?)
Boss: Oh, wow, I'll set a limit of (Note to self from Boss: Umm I'd blow 2k in a week, so..) £500.
You: (Note to self: Ryanair, car hire, hotels, beer.. thats too little) Sure and I'll book the hotel via the department (Note: Therefore it will be on the massive budget sheet with all of your jollies)
But remember to buy some naff toys and claim they are vendor gifts.
Then went over to Company X and offered the person who oversaw their Linux shift a large paypacket to switch.
Its the cheapest way to steal IP, just steal the people.