Pay up or pay out the nose. True the company
can opt out and not participate but they elude
that they will impose penalties.
I'm all for being legal but extortion is extortion.
Here's a question, if piracy is rampant as MS
suggests regarding its products, why do they
report such a huge profit margin for their
productivity tools?
That's exactly the way it is for us. Some are pulled from other projects due to their experience but the fact that our division is small in head-count creates a number of frustrations. Spreading knowledge definitely helps out tons for us. With recent cut-backs in our training package, it's hard to keep up in my field and really appreciate other team members helping me to keep up.
Interesting you brought this up. I still recall hand entering hex on some of the older personal computers even the Commodore 64 & 128s.
After working in assembler for quite some time
one grows affectionate but not dependant on development environments that work the memory management task.
I'm sure Mano's simple computer design is still taught but I'm curious how many people under
current IDE design influence have seen it discussed.
Some code can be labeled as dead code but that doesn't necessarily make the code non-useful if the parameters and software requirements change. I've placed code (don't flame me too hard) within my own coded creations (with necessary documentation) for future considerations that my clientele may consider at a later date.
It's good to see an outside group looking over
various coding issues in Linux. It gives me
the feeling that most of the community provides some scrutiny over its development which by and large increases support of Linux.
Now that Microsoft has opened up its code (within limitations), I would like to see (as I am sure some of you are) someone check it over.
. . . changes in policy are better. She wasn't standing up there spewing out for her health, she was spewing RIAA's policy.
Their attempt is shallow and transparent or there are deeper issues why she is stepping down.
The industry is at a cross-roads of change. As much as they would like to hang on to the old draconian style of making policies they realize that the winds of change are upon them. Until the policies reveal any direction and innovation, it's nothing to really dwell on or for me to bring any new concern about RIAA.
I'm sure everyone here has seen how much revenue
the gaming industry boasts. It's phenomenal! If MS would
invest so much of its coffers into the X-Box even if it loses
money, then it stands to reason that they would absorb whatever
talent they could to grapple a hold in the market. Common
practice that we have seen over the years.
I'm not pro-MS and I'm not anti-MS but I do develop an opinion
while observing so many business purchases of MS over the
past few years. If they cannot beat the competition, they buy the
competition and brand it. It's not innovation they are offering
me, it's their ability to buy out competition and then sell it
to me again.
There was a URL posted several months back but I
cannot seem to find it. It listed several companies/corporations
and the subsidiaries they owned. Anyone mind posting
if they recall it?
Everyone knows a good developer uses just a simple text editor.;) Just kidding of course.
For me, I see the many aforementioned GUI kits as great tools but it all comes down to what the job demands/dictates. I find myself being cross-trained instead of cross-platform developing. Every contract we take on, we are asked to perform it in the company's chosen dev environment. Anyone else in this predicament?
Does anyone know of a site that tracks various
IDEs that are currently in use?
If your company requires multiple IDEs as mine does, who supplies you with the training to effectively use the tools as well as the languages themselves?
Tell Wal-Mart how you feel. The average user is not going to be bullied because some CEO thinks he doesn't have to follow any kind of etiquette or exhibit some sort of manners.
As some of the resource pool of uncopyrighted material dwindles, they will have to become creative.
You give a man enough rope, he'll hang himself.
The law will change when they suddenly find themselves down
the road heavily restricted and they will plead for
change. Apparently they are too self-engrossed in the
here and now to even think about the implications long-term.
The dollar-sign has them blinded. It will catch up.
Frankly, my kids hate their cartoons and we don't buy Disney and their ilk. We don't go to their over-priced theme parks.
I swear I had a girlfriend that worked just like this.:)
Coming from a former EQ gamer as myself, cancel your account and encourage those that
value
your input to cancel.
Allow me to suggest a game that really beats
Everquest in regards to bang=bucks:
Neverwinter Nights.
The folks at BioWare just released an expansion for free. That's right. For Free.
Not only that, they bundled within the game the tools to make your own modules.
I cannot offer you a total solution to your issues. Just merely an alternative path.
You've done the first step to realizing your addiction. Now act on it.
Have fun and enjoy a better and brighter New Year! Make a resolution to break the addiction and overcome your anger.
--Friendly reminder from Beatnick, your neighborhood drugg^H^H^H^H^H^Hpharmacist
My company promoted some to VP status and then laid off several folks my level to compensate for their increase in pay. Our work level has tripled and our SLAs are really starting to show the strain.
No one wants to bat for us when it comes to raises or discuss the killer schedules. I'm working every weekend until the end of January. My family doesn't understand but are coping.
They state that I'm too valuable to lose but I cannot take much more of the load. There are some individuals here I would classify as friends but my loyalty in staying is really running thin lately.
You wanted my 2 cents worth and experiences.
. . . intellectual property rights? What kind of
legal havoc are they going to have to wrangle to make this actually happen? I know my company would NOT share any development code with a competitor who is also a MS MVP.
I am curious how much spam he likes receiving? I would be curious how many are tempted to add him up to their distribution lists and send tons of spam to him until his email boxes are overflowing.
It's time to start playing the game with them.
If someone is inclined to stoop to his level, bounce a "few" anonymous junk mails to his boxes for the rest of us. I'm sick of idiots like this.
It's just to win points with DRM advocates. It's an underhanded
means of controlling its "users" from the perspective of the
DRM folks. I would be interested to know if there's been some discussion
between MS and the DRM folks to ensure/track this sort of thing.
And in the balance: security vs control.
Either the villanous attackers are in control/capable of control
OR
Microsoft is in control.
Just keep standing your ground. The more they keep forcing things down the public's throat the more it is going to drive it home to the average user. Eventually people will wake up from their slumber and say they have had enough.
I personally don't buy any MS products nor do I recommend them to family and friends. Their products are below average in capabilities. They do not comply with standards and generally don't play well with others. Reminds me of the little snot-nosed brat who used to live on my street. He always had to be one-up with everybody, always had to have his view/opinion taken as THE view/opinion, etc. I find MS attitude (albeit business) to be aggressive, abusive, subversive and exploitive to competition. By taking down the binaries, they are refusing people's desire for inovation and just plain old fun tinkering around a piece of equipment. MS would have you keep the "blinders" on so-to-speak as they did with mules/horses in times past.
Keep smothering us, MS. You are doing exactly what some of the big guys did back years ago and you see where they are now. Apple is not as competitive as it used to be. They had the processor code locked down to a subset of vendors/developers. IBM locked individuals into long-term expensive tech support (anyone remember the poor description of errors? only their technicians new and charged outrageously).
Meanwhile, I think I will continue to tinker, play and learn. It's, after all, what I enjoy doing. I can't be forced to be a groupie or dumbed-down(out). If I am, then I turn my attention to vendors who do. I know my children play on a SONY box not that cheap retro-fitted PC wannabe. I do my coding on Linux for multiple environments using standard items. Java is doing ok and my customers aren't complaining in regards to their applications.
Look how many sites already exist where we can find snippets of sound or sound/video already well long before the Napsters, etc. Sites like those haven't been "policed" to shutdown. I can name several right off the top of my head that have been up for 4+ years.
I got a philosophy about management . . .
on
Do You Like Your Job?
·
· Score: 2, Insightful
Those who can't do tend to teach/lead.
A corollary to this fact is that if we follow
too close, we all fall into the ditch together.
I don't mind the work I'm given. The processes
we are measured by (ie SLAs, projected dates met
for projects, etc) doesn't accomodate for team
members measurement making them appear as though
they are lazy bums. We lose one person to a
competitor, they give the complimentary 2-week
notice and my management takes 4 to 6 months to
justify even having the position the individual
held. Meanwhile, the SLA is going to hell in
hand-basket with only a few people left in the
team. They are stressed out from going to "pep-
talk" meetings about working smarter . . .
requested to work at 200% with fully documentable
work performed . . . the ever tightening budget
forces us to abandon even the most rudamentary
office supplies: pens and paper. I have become
a clepto stealing pens without even knowing I'm
doing it. My co-worker hordes his supplies in
a 1962 filing cabinet with a makeshift padlock
system (I think I know where he hides the key).
The entire building got recarpeted except . .
you guessed it . . the I.T. dept. Tiles are
coming loose from the floor and our storage
area has the relative temperature of the outdoors.
I swear the critters that share the wonderful
space we call "The Hell Hole" aren't paying
rent. I believe we have some pigeons in the
area by the frequent disgruntled blanket of
poo covering the boxes. I guess that would be
the lack of REAL windows barring the elements
and wild from coming in. Oh, did I fail to
mention that our little storage room houses the
only fire extinguisher for that building? Also,
it has the only access to the breaker panels.
It was a wonderful time to get written up for
several safety violations. Who could miss
the boxes stacked to the ceiling in the hall
causing the fire marshal to frown?
I can't complain, I still got my hair I suppose.
We have complained, written requests and it just
falls on deaf ears.
You know, I should ask the earlier poster about
a job with the garbage crew.
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To me it's almost like random extortion.
Pay up or pay out the nose. True the company
can opt out and not participate but they elude
that they will impose penalties.
I'm all for being legal but extortion is extortion.
Here's a question, if piracy is rampant as MS
suggests regarding its products, why do they
report such a huge profit margin for their
productivity tools?
And I just sold my VHS to buy a DVD player! :)
That's exactly the way it is for us. Some are pulled
from other projects due to their experience
but the fact that our division is small in head-count
creates a number of frustrations.
Spreading knowledge definitely helps out tons for us.
With recent cut-backs in our training package,
it's hard to keep up in my field and really appreciate
other team members helping me to keep up.
My first OO project in Software Design was a
text editor for X. I still use it from time to time
on some of my development projects.
Interesting you brought this up. I still recall
hand entering hex on some of the older personal computers
even the Commodore 64 & 128s.
After working in assembler for quite some time
one grows affectionate but not dependant on
development environments that work the memory management
task.
I'm sure Mano's simple computer design is still
taught but I'm curious how many people under
current IDE design influence have seen it discussed.
Some code can be labeled as dead code but that
doesn't necessarily make the code non-useful
if the parameters and software requirements change.
I've placed code (don't flame me too hard) within
my own coded creations (with necessary documentation)
for future considerations that my clientele may
consider at a later date.
It's good to see an outside group looking over
various coding issues in Linux. It gives me
the feeling that most of the community provides
some scrutiny over its development which by
and large increases support of Linux.
Now that Microsoft has opened up its code (within limitations),
I would like to see (as I am sure some of you are)
someone check it over.
Just curious.
. . . changes in policy are better. She wasn't
standing up there spewing out for her health,
she was spewing RIAA's policy.
Their attempt is shallow and transparent or there
are deeper issues why she is stepping down.
The industry is at a cross-roads of change.
As much as they would like to hang on to the old
draconian style of making policies they
realize that the winds of change are upon them.
Until the policies reveal any direction and innovation,
it's nothing to really dwell on or for me to bring any
new concern about RIAA.
I'm sure everyone here has seen how much revenue
the gaming industry boasts. It's phenomenal! If MS would
invest so much of its coffers into the X-Box even if it loses
money, then it stands to reason that they would absorb whatever
talent they could to grapple a hold in the market. Common
practice that we have seen over the years.
I'm not pro-MS and I'm not anti-MS but I do develop an opinion
while observing so many business purchases of MS over the
past few years. If they cannot beat the competition, they buy the
competition and brand it. It's not innovation they are offering
me, it's their ability to buy out competition and then sell it
to me again.
There was a URL posted several months back but I
cannot seem to find it. It listed several companies/corporations
and the subsidiaries they owned. Anyone mind posting
if they recall it?
Everyone knows a good developer uses just a ;) Just kidding of course.
simple text editor.
For me, I see the many aforementioned GUI kits
as great tools but it all comes down to what
the job demands/dictates. I find myself being cross-trained
instead of cross-platform developing. Every contract we take on,
we are asked to perform it in the company's chosen dev environment.
Anyone else in this predicament?
Does anyone know of a site that tracks various
IDEs that are currently in use?
If your company requires multiple IDEs as mine does,
who supplies you with the training to effectively
use the tools as well as the languages themselves?
Tell Wal-Mart how you feel. The average user is not going to be bullied because some CEO thinks he doesn't have to follow any kind of etiquette or exhibit some sort of manners.
A Noose.
As some of the resource pool of uncopyrighted
material dwindles, they will have to become creative.
You give a man enough rope, he'll hang himself.
The law will change when they suddenly find themselves down
the road heavily restricted and they will plead for
change. Apparently they are too self-engrossed in the
here and now to even think about the implications long-term.
The dollar-sign has them blinded. It will catch up.
Frankly, my kids hate their cartoons and we don't
buy Disney and their ilk. We don't go
to their over-priced theme parks.
I swear I had a girlfriend that worked just like this. :)
Coming from a former EQ gamer as myself, cancel
your account and encourage those that value
your input to cancel.
Allow me to suggest a game that really beats
Everquest in regards to bang=bucks:
Neverwinter Nights.
The folks at BioWare just released an expansion
for free. That's right. For Free.
Not only that, they bundled within the game the tools
to make your own modules.
I cannot offer you a total solution to your issues.
Just merely an alternative path.
You've done the first step to realizing your addiction.
Now act on it.
Have fun and enjoy a better and brighter New Year!
Make a resolution to break the addiction and overcome your anger.
--Friendly reminder from Beatnick, your neighborhood drugg^H^H^H^H^H^Hpharmacist
My company promoted some to VP status and then laid off several folks my level to compensate for their increase in pay. Our work level has tripled and our SLAs are really starting to show the strain. No one wants to bat for us when it comes to raises or discuss the killer schedules. I'm working every weekend until the end of January. My family doesn't understand but are coping. They state that I'm too valuable to lose but I cannot take much more of the load. There are some individuals here I would classify as friends but my loyalty in staying is really running thin lately. You wanted my 2 cents worth and experiences.
If so, let me keep my WordStar and typewriter.
. . . intellectual property rights? What kind of legal havoc are they going to have to wrangle to make this actually happen? I know my company would NOT share any development code with a competitor who is also a MS MVP.
I am curious how much spam he likes receiving? I would be curious how many are tempted to add him up to their distribution lists and send tons of spam to him until his email boxes are overflowing.
It's time to start playing the game with them.
If someone is inclined to stoop to his level, bounce a "few" anonymous junk mails to his boxes for the rest of us. I'm sick of idiots like this.
It's just to win points with DRM advocates. It's an underhanded means of controlling its "users" from the perspective of the DRM folks. I would be interested to know if there's been some discussion between MS and the DRM folks to ensure/track this sort of thing.
And in the balance: security vs control.
Either the villanous attackers are in control/capable of control
OR
Microsoft is in control.
Geez. It's a lose-lose situation.
Just keep standing your ground. The more they keep forcing things down the public's throat the more it is going to drive it home to the average user. Eventually people will wake up from their slumber and say they have had enough.
I personally don't buy any MS products nor do I recommend them to family and friends. Their products are below average in capabilities. They do not comply with standards and generally don't play well with others. Reminds me of the little snot-nosed brat who used to live on my street. He always had to be one-up with everybody, always had to have his view/opinion taken as THE view/opinion, etc. I find MS attitude (albeit business) to be aggressive, abusive, subversive and exploitive to competition. By taking down the binaries, they are refusing people's desire for inovation and just plain old fun tinkering around a piece of equipment. MS would have you keep the "blinders" on so-to-speak as they did with mules/horses in times past.
Keep smothering us, MS. You are doing exactly what some of the big guys did back years ago and you see where they are now. Apple is not as competitive as it used to be. They had the processor code locked down to a subset of vendors/developers. IBM locked individuals into long-term expensive tech support (anyone remember the poor description of errors? only their technicians new and charged outrageously).
Meanwhile, I think I will continue to tinker, play and learn. It's, after all, what I enjoy doing. I can't be forced to be a groupie or dumbed-down(out). If I am, then I turn my attention to vendors who do. I know my children play on a SONY box not that cheap retro-fitted PC wannabe. I do my coding on Linux for multiple environments using standard items. Java is doing ok and my customers aren't complaining in regards to their applications.
Look how many sites already exist where we can find snippets of sound or sound/video already well long before the Napsters, etc. Sites like those haven't been "policed" to shutdown. I can name several right off the top of my head that have been up for 4+ years.
Those who can't do tend to teach/lead. A corollary to this fact is that if we follow too close, we all fall into the ditch together. I don't mind the work I'm given. The processes we are measured by (ie SLAs, projected dates met for projects, etc) doesn't accomodate for team members measurement making them appear as though they are lazy bums. We lose one person to a competitor, they give the complimentary 2-week notice and my management takes 4 to 6 months to justify even having the position the individual held. Meanwhile, the SLA is going to hell in hand-basket with only a few people left in the team. They are stressed out from going to "pep- talk" meetings about working smarter . . . requested to work at 200% with fully documentable work performed . . . the ever tightening budget forces us to abandon even the most rudamentary office supplies: pens and paper. I have become a clepto stealing pens without even knowing I'm doing it. My co-worker hordes his supplies in a 1962 filing cabinet with a makeshift padlock system (I think I know where he hides the key). The entire building got recarpeted except . . you guessed it . . the I.T. dept. Tiles are coming loose from the floor and our storage area has the relative temperature of the outdoors. I swear the critters that share the wonderful space we call "The Hell Hole" aren't paying rent. I believe we have some pigeons in the area by the frequent disgruntled blanket of poo covering the boxes. I guess that would be the lack of REAL windows barring the elements and wild from coming in. Oh, did I fail to mention that our little storage room houses the only fire extinguisher for that building? Also, it has the only access to the breaker panels. It was a wonderful time to get written up for several safety violations. Who could miss the boxes stacked to the ceiling in the hall causing the fire marshal to frown? I can't complain, I still got my hair I suppose. We have complained, written requests and it just falls on deaf ears. You know, I should ask the earlier poster about a job with the garbage crew.