My point is that in a smaller company, you hear the side-chatter straight from the horse's ?!@# that goes into the crazy decisions...where in a larger company you only get 2nd or 3rd hand info. It's also fun to note how they never talk rude to each other...only to the "lessers"...
Working at a smaller business now, I'm beginning to realize that Executives can play the game, but tend to be both insulated from reality and clueless. They tend to live in a world where "Their Word" is right or wrong...and things like ethics, laws, honor just get in the way. It's a growing problem I see as I've learned to look for it. Especially the higher ups tend to do what they want, then buy their way out. If they made contract they didn't like...pay a lawyer to get out of it. EPA hounding you...pay the fine and carry on as normal.
It's the cost of "playing the game" of business...sitting around board tables, jet setting to last-minute meetings--it's a drug of "power".
Guys like him start out "at the bottom" in the old boys network. They typically go from newbie to boss in a short time...he's probably never actually researched ANYTHING to do with copyright or patent on his OWN...delegating doesn't count. Guys like him deal in what they WANT...not what's REAL. I find executives as a class get a surprising amount of info from word-of-mouth, Forbes [& such], and CNN...far more often than say..googling for a copy of the LAW, or court cases/common practice to support their claims.
I find they're like the kids in school that don't know the game really well, but can argue the rules 'till everyone is bored and gives up.
RPGs aren't used much over here execept in hollywood...we just build um! True, something like an RPG would cause problems...but then an RPG would have no issue with most commerical aircraft anyway...except maybe some of the stunt planes. If somebody's shooting off an RPG in the US....we've got bigger problems...
As far as the other two, many of the designs are using solid "shells" rather than fabric skin...even "fabric" weighs to much at that scale! Also, a solid shape allows the designers to specify a more controllable shape than just a long cigar. Pop Science did a preview last year and the designs were quite cool...but very expensive...some might get built though.
MySql rules because it runs on both Linux and Windows. I makes it easy to have "a foot" in both worlds before you commit to full-blown Linux [or other OS] Sure, you can run Postgres on windows, but that means installing several other packages...The apache/MySql/PHP setup is usually pre-configured on most OSS distros, and the windows installers for the set work together now for nearly point-n-click.
I happen to think that Postgres IS the technically better DB, but accessability is just as important [installers, admin tools, etc] to its preception and adoption. MySQL grows because it's "good enough", simple, and free...Postgres is just "better" & free.
Cool now that we know your a girl [or that A girl is here!] we can beg you to date us! The guy-girl ratio is like 100:1 here! As a guy I wouldn't say that/. remotely represents female interests beyond what's general; loving Linux, hating MS, robots, etc. Unless you'd say that your interests are accurately reflected as CPUs, [hating MS], guns,[loving Tux], Natalie Portman, [hating ms], SciFi, [searching for Hatalie naked] faster CPUs, and bigger Guns...get the idea!
Yep, but most "geek" guys learn that lesson in Kindergarden! I learned early-on I couldn't just beat-back people...I usually really hurt them, of course getting me in more trouble than the guy who started it! Hence, you learn at an early age to be repressed and just take it so you won't get in trouble for going overboard.
I think that because of being "broken" at an earlier age, most geeks simply can't stand childish kidding...or the petty bullying that goes on because they have personally already outgrown it. It's also a continued source of being picked on because you just don't "get it" like everybody else does...it just comes off as anoying.
I notice my middle kid has many of the same issues I did at his age...but he does get along better. The upside is that he won't be getting in many fights after he's 8 or 9. He'll have outgrown it. The downside it trying to find a constructive way to channel that energy into something useful & validating for him, rather than just letting him become bitter and brooding!
That's normal for the PC industry. After all, somebody does actually do something with all those dell and gateways that corps toss every 2-3 years! I live near the michigan power company's headquarters, and they toss litterally dozens of fully equipt PCs a month! Many people go there to scavange an old 500-600+ for mom-n-dad or Grandpa!
You just ran accross the "profesionals"...people like that are the ONLY places to get anything more than 3 years old from anymore...I have Dells still under [or just out of] that pricey 3 year waranty that Dell won't even get you parts for anymore! Welcome to the "real" computer world...not the nice shiny things!
considering I used to work for a company that was exclusively gateway and novell! Seriously, the Old-school businesses have only bought 1 upgrade from the likes of Dell...And I haven't been very impressed with trying to get support for out-of-warranty stuff [i.e. parts!] out of them. Gateway has definately got some room to manuver here...mostly, the MS/Intel/Dell triangle has destroyed the corperate PC marketplace! Fortunately there is some compteition left for selling the PC boxen...hence gateway will look for whatever edge they think they can get!
After all, they have mass similar to a 747, but move considerably slower....no 700+ MPH collisions! Also, that much Hydrogen may go up spectacularly, but it burns very fast, cool, and clean. [Hydrogen is not nearly as powerful as jet fuel!] The damage to any modern fire-proof, crash-proof buildings surrounding any accidents would be reletively minor even in a crowded city like NYC. Maybe we can get Homeland Security to chip in a dime for some of these too!
Sure speed is a problem, but why do people take 7 day crusies around a few caribbean islands? Airship travel is definately a cool way to go! Especially in our uber-busy society. I could see airship travel being a great passtime in the US if it got cheap enough. You'd never be far from telcom or internet connections as well as satallite TV. And because they are reletively slow moving, there wouldn't be the need for many of the FAA electronic regulations anyway. Again, You could tour the internals of the US..the great places like the dakotas or Montana...just drifting along. There is minimal landing requirments...anyplace you could land a single engine would do! That would allow you to stop in many remote, isolated places without disturbing the surounding area with busy roads!
Also, Airships can have awosome lifting capacity! Many airships on the drawing table right now are for large scale construction projects...we can see in Iraq just how fickle heilos are...even when professionally piloted. We have massive reserves of liquid hydrogen and helium from the cold war days anyway...the stuff is cheaper that a gallon of milk! Once you build it and fill it up, it doesn't really require power to stay up! That makes it far more effient than an airplane. Most of the new designs still use prop engines...that's how little power they require to move! But they do cost a FORTUNE TO BUILD! Many estimates of new airships for large scale construction or crusing are in the 100's of millions of $$$$.
If it's not a valid DMCA letter then don't follow it --it wasn't legal. In that case, it's not covered under copyright anyway! of course if it's not covered under copyright, then DMCA protections of the communication decency act don't apply to YOU either! You have no recourse for protection from somebody [corperate spy] breaking their NDA contract on your site...it could even be thought that you were a willing [perhaps paying?] accomplice in distrbuting that information. That makes you subject to any civil or criminal liability along with your source!
So slap that baby back up there...show some spine...and wait for the lawyers to be pissed off enough to sue you properly! Of course the protections that following the "letter" give you are a little too good to pass up aren't they! That's why it was down in a hot minute.
I belive what I'm looking for is "taxation without representation" the cry of the early americans. Look at the damage and destruction caused to innocent workers by companies like Enron...the lives of thousands destroyed by actions of a few top players they had no control over. Look at all the invasion of person privacy that corps have pulled lately...yet those rules for email, internet use, phone use, RFID chipping and drug testing typically don't apply to the stock holders [yes, they are members of the company too] or to the top directors that put them in place. To say those rules are not "enFORCED" is silly...companies have far more economic power to weild than the feds wet dream of!
Our "real" Government is playing both sides of the fence with corps and it has to stop soon. The Corps have been hiding behind "personal property" rights for way to long, yet the first "right" to be given up by stockholders is "personal property" when they signed the charter to start a corp-govt! An investor with 10% of the company can't just demand one-in-ten buildings and then go away...so yes, there is a govt built up here. For sake of rights, coprs should be considered govenrments! It would make things so much simpler...telco & internet providers would have to structure usage agreements and protect customer info to include our basic rights...free speech, right to 'assemble' and so on...Copmaines could no longer invasively drug test, phone tap, secretly background check...I've seen the way people in my workplace "handle" that power: They abuse it in so many small ways...and I don't even trust that GB would do the right thing in many cases, let alone my boss! You'll also notice that YOU don't have the same power back! Try asking for a drug test result from the head of the company, or look at a background check from HR [they get to see yours! fair is fair] Those are all things you get when you make corps a govenment...and it dramatically changes the information flow because you can see exactly what they can see! Kinda makes them want to keep their secrets...even if they can't know yours...funny how that works!
Hopefully they will sue you for sources! After all, that info is under NDA somwhere, someone violated that contract...and you are a business, not a member of the press...you have no "right" to free speech here. After they sue you for sources, they should make YOU & your source pay for new ads with different prices...the ones you reported were not "offically" released, they are under no obligation to honor them under any consumer protection law! Part of the agreement of course would be to never publish Best Buy prices again...which you would willingly sign...should they sue you for the extra liablity or lost sales...lawyers on commission are very good at "numbers"! Sorry to burst your bubble.
Some one somewhere is violating their NDA! It takes time to print all those ads up...the printers are raking the bucks but not enforcing the security of the information they are printing.
Eventually, they will have to get past DMCA's and start suing the releasers directly...lots of work.
The whole "black Friday" thing is a marketing game to get you in the stores. There's only so much time to get in and out of each store...that's the "hook" to the great deals. You have to decide which deals you think are more important and generally plan for only 2-3 major shops for the day..with the long lines and all. That makes you try to get other gifts on your list that AREN'T on sale jsut to get the shopping done! that's how they get the $$$$. Posting everything online weeks ahead of time isn't really fair...but I guess from a marketing standpoint, they really should just deal with it...or stop whining after the ad is released publicly....but the issue right now is that the ad is NOT PUBLIC YET. So they have every right to C&D. Best thing would be to force every single printer to make new adds with different prices 3-4 days beore the holiday...FOR FREE!
For unproven teens that's a great idea. It can still be their computer, but then there is understanding that mon or dad can be looking over my shoulder at any time! THAT limits many questionable actions...without having to be a tyrant about it! Also it limits the amount of "unattended" time they spend on-line...if it becomes too long then you can limit it without "spying" on them.
As a kid, there's not a right to absolute privacy. If you don't think your kids can handle it on their own, then keep their internet access in a "public" place...That Murphy guy has bets that you'll catch them if they get too far out of line!
Isn't it great How most teens would actually make STRICTER RULES than what their parents currently have...and really snap down on enforcing them. I'd say "most" kids are getting about "just enough" internet rules from their parents...and are smart enough to know the don't HAVE to follow even the few rules their parents make...
That's exactly what it takes. You didn't spy or snoop. You set a rule and then checked up on them to see if they would follow it when they didn't think you'd know! And you're right, with 3 teen girls, giving out info on the net IS LIFE OR DEATH. In the same way you'd beat down a toddler for running in the street!
It was definately a reasonable rule , fortunately, my kids aren't old enough to worry about IM...they just want to play games. But I've already made that same rule for my oldest...you had a clever and effective way to enforce it..and scare the bejeebers out of them!
Simply declare corporations to be governements. They have all the characteristics of a government. People banding together and removing their individual rights, the seperation of powers [& representation] of owners & management & workers, and the fact that they are still chartered by the government. Many of our "rights" issues would be simplified by this! Things like Drug testing are patently illegal, but the feds get it thru by demanding companies do it instead...if companies were also secondary to the rights in the constitution, many of these things couldn't happen. As far as "property rights" corps don't have personal property! They gave those rights to their "government" under charter...That they can spy on emails, phone conversations, and the like "because it's company property" is perposterous.
Also, remember that the very same justification was used by King George in england to abuse the American colonies...because the King's pals [the "owners" of the settling corps] approved of the taxes and regulations Britian make that would never have seen the light of day in their own country! We've been there and done this...killed people over it! Now "freedom" is protection corperate oil profits...pretty sad...
It's a third party "itch" to scratch. The high-end sony's all come with integrated bluetooth and a memory stick nowdays anyway. I could have swore that the store already has a sony version "right now" for sale anyway.
The evolution of computer programming is heading into a DNA-like form. Computer programming is evolving into reusable modules and cross platform operation. It's only a matter of time, maybe even already for something like legacy Cobol, before the complexity of software systems is akin to studying DNA.
The state of DNA research like described in the article are bringing DNA complexity down into the relm of highest end computer sci...and the comp sci guys are more agressive and flexible than biologists in adapting to new changes. They actively seek them out. As this moves down the food chain, you'll see more software start to immitate life.
They don't need copy protection! They have an extremely unique combination of hardware...I believe they are one of the few cell phones or pdas to actually use ATI's imageon 3D pda processor. All they have to do is change the API to remove some of the 3D abstraction, just write to hardware...better games from developers, and the neat side effect of simply not working on other systems.
You're right, that's actually more common than the back seat late at night! After all, most teens get the house to them selves between school and parents home...they don't need no dark backroads.
Now we can find these expensive toys when the kids "loan" it to a friend...or worse sell it for some quarters! The fact that the KID is actually attached seems secondary to most parents.
Now we all have to learn "bianary" DNA language [just 4 letters, 2 combos, a helix, and a final 3D shape...it's actually simpler than most C++ programs]! After all, computer programmers that spend all day working in assembly or binary code could probably kick the pace of virus development up several notches once a sutable sumulator is developed. I'd venture that computer virus writers are more adept at this type of cut-n-paste than most of the skilled biologists!
Now what happens when the tools go public and these people start using the web to transfer files? As soon as a couple cracks get their hands on the code, the potentially could modify it before it gets to the "building" process lab. Then the lab would unknowingly create stuff described in the file that was order-of-maginitude worse than they think they know!
They have lowered the cost to normal users to "free" anyway. I know many users that have a computer from dell with Windows and office and never buy another thing. They download cute stuff and "borrow" from friends... My point is shareware is a joke in the days of OSS. Nobody ever bought it anyway...the goal was always to get gobbled up, not actually sell software.
But you're right, MS gives stuff away for free, only those who can compete with that model of undercutting can survive. If they think that's "communist" then they finally understand what Marx was getting at! Once a company gets so big, and their product so common, they are either a Nobiity, a King, or are relieved by force of their source of power. The EU seeks to remove MS power by force...traditional "communism". OSS seeks to adapt the market to the new rules...and maybe change a few along the way. But OSS does it within the very system that the Monopolist abuses! That makes the damage so much worse...all that money make and power gathered mean nothing! because everyone else left you and went somewhere else!
To look at it another way, pure capitalism and pure communism have the same requirements. All the players must be reletively equal! Henry Ford understood that when he created a class of well-paid workers to drive the economy...Russia had it rammed down their throats when the nobility that owned everything [even the people] was overran by the starving, hungry masses.
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My point is that in a smaller company, you hear the side-chatter straight from the horse's ?!@# that goes into the crazy decisions...where in a larger company you only get 2nd or 3rd hand info. It's also fun to note how they never talk rude to each other...only to the "lessers"...
It's the cost of "playing the game" of business...sitting around board tables, jet setting to last-minute meetings--it's a drug of "power".
Guys like him start out "at the bottom" in the old boys network. They typically go from newbie to boss in a short time...he's probably never actually researched ANYTHING to do with copyright or patent on his OWN...delegating doesn't count. Guys like him deal in what they WANT...not what's REAL. I find executives as a class get a surprising amount of info from word-of-mouth, Forbes [& such], and CNN...far more often than say..googling for a copy of the LAW, or court cases/common practice to support their claims.
I find they're like the kids in school that don't know the game really well, but can argue the rules 'till everyone is bored and gives up.
As far as the other two, many of the designs are using solid "shells" rather than fabric skin...even "fabric" weighs to much at that scale! Also, a solid shape allows the designers to specify a more controllable shape than just a long cigar. Pop Science did a preview last year and the designs were quite cool...but very expensive...some might get built though.
I happen to think that Postgres IS the technically better DB, but accessability is just as important [installers, admin tools, etc] to its preception and adoption. MySQL grows because it's "good enough", simple, and free...Postgres is just "better" & free.
Cool now that we know your a girl [or that A girl is here!] we can beg you to date us! The guy-girl ratio is like 100:1 here! As a guy I wouldn't say that /. remotely represents female interests beyond what's general; loving Linux, hating MS, robots, etc. Unless you'd say that your interests are accurately reflected as CPUs, [hating MS], guns,[loving Tux], Natalie Portman, [hating ms], SciFi, [searching for Hatalie naked] faster CPUs, and bigger Guns ...get the idea!
I think that because of being "broken" at an earlier age, most geeks simply can't stand childish kidding...or the petty bullying that goes on because they have personally already outgrown it. It's also a continued source of being picked on because you just don't "get it" like everybody else does...it just comes off as anoying.
I notice my middle kid has many of the same issues I did at his age...but he does get along better. The upside is that he won't be getting in many fights after he's 8 or 9. He'll have outgrown it. The downside it trying to find a constructive way to channel that energy into something useful & validating for him, rather than just letting him become bitter and brooding!
You just ran accross the "profesionals"...people like that are the ONLY places to get anything more than 3 years old from anymore...I have Dells still under [or just out of] that pricey 3 year waranty that Dell won't even get you parts for anymore! Welcome to the "real" computer world...not the nice shiny things!
considering I used to work for a company that was exclusively gateway and novell! Seriously, the Old-school businesses have only bought 1 upgrade from the likes of Dell...And I haven't been very impressed with trying to get support for out-of-warranty stuff [i.e. parts!] out of them. Gateway has definately got some room to manuver here...mostly, the MS/Intel/Dell triangle has destroyed the corperate PC marketplace! Fortunately there is some compteition left for selling the PC boxen...hence gateway will look for whatever edge they think they can get!
After all, they have mass similar to a 747, but move considerably slower....no 700+ MPH collisions! Also, that much Hydrogen may go up spectacularly, but it burns very fast, cool, and clean. [Hydrogen is not nearly as powerful as jet fuel!] The damage to any modern fire-proof, crash-proof buildings surrounding any accidents would be reletively minor even in a crowded city like NYC. Maybe we can get Homeland Security to chip in a dime for some of these too!
Also, Airships can have awosome lifting capacity! Many airships on the drawing table right now are for large scale construction projects...we can see in Iraq just how fickle heilos are...even when professionally piloted. We have massive reserves of liquid hydrogen and helium from the cold war days anyway...the stuff is cheaper that a gallon of milk! Once you build it and fill it up, it doesn't really require power to stay up! That makes it far more effient than an airplane. Most of the new designs still use prop engines...that's how little power they require to move! But they do cost a FORTUNE TO BUILD! Many estimates of new airships for large scale construction or crusing are in the 100's of millions of $$$$.
So slap that baby back up there...show some spine...and wait for the lawyers to be pissed off enough to sue you properly! Of course the protections that following the "letter" give you are a little too good to pass up aren't they! That's why it was down in a hot minute.
Our "real" Government is playing both sides of the fence with corps and it has to stop soon. The Corps have been hiding behind "personal property" rights for way to long, yet the first "right" to be given up by stockholders is "personal property" when they signed the charter to start a corp-govt! An investor with 10% of the company can't just demand one-in-ten buildings and then go away...so yes, there is a govt built up here. For sake of rights, coprs should be considered govenrments! It would make things so much simpler...telco & internet providers would have to structure usage agreements and protect customer info to include our basic rights...free speech, right to 'assemble' and so on...Copmaines could no longer invasively drug test, phone tap, secretly background check...I've seen the way people in my workplace "handle" that power: They abuse it in so many small ways...and I don't even trust that GB would do the right thing in many cases, let alone my boss! You'll also notice that YOU don't have the same power back! Try asking for a drug test result from the head of the company, or look at a background check from HR [they get to see yours! fair is fair] Those are all things you get when you make corps a govenment...and it dramatically changes the information flow because you can see exactly what they can see! Kinda makes them want to keep their secrets...even if they can't know yours...funny how that works!
Hopefully they will sue you for sources! After all, that info is under NDA somwhere, someone violated that contract...and you are a business, not a member of the press...you have no "right" to free speech here. After they sue you for sources, they should make YOU & your source pay for new ads with different prices...the ones you reported were not "offically" released, they are under no obligation to honor them under any consumer protection law! Part of the agreement of course would be to never publish Best Buy prices again...which you would willingly sign...should they sue you for the extra liablity or lost sales...lawyers on commission are very good at "numbers"! Sorry to burst your bubble.
Eventually, they will have to get past DMCA's and start suing the releasers directly...lots of work.
The whole "black Friday" thing is a marketing game to get you in the stores. There's only so much time to get in and out of each store...that's the "hook" to the great deals. You have to decide which deals you think are more important and generally plan for only 2-3 major shops for the day..with the long lines and all. That makes you try to get other gifts on your list that AREN'T on sale jsut to get the shopping done! that's how they get the $$$$. Posting everything online weeks ahead of time isn't really fair...but I guess from a marketing standpoint, they really should just deal with it...or stop whining after the ad is released publicly....but the issue right now is that the ad is NOT PUBLIC YET. So they have every right to C&D. Best thing would be to force every single printer to make new adds with different prices 3-4 days beore the holiday...FOR FREE!
As a kid, there's not a right to absolute privacy. If you don't think your kids can handle it on their own, then keep their internet access in a "public" place...That Murphy guy has bets that you'll catch them if they get too far out of line!
Isn't it great How most teens would actually make STRICTER RULES than what their parents currently have...and really snap down on enforcing them. I'd say "most" kids are getting about "just enough" internet rules from their parents...and are smart enough to know the don't HAVE to follow even the few rules their parents make...
It was definately a reasonable rule , fortunately, my kids aren't old enough to worry about IM...they just want to play games. But I've already made that same rule for my oldest...you had a clever and effective way to enforce it..and scare the bejeebers out of them!
Also, remember that the very same justification was used by King George in england to abuse the American colonies...because the King's pals [the "owners" of the settling corps] approved of the taxes and regulations Britian make that would never have seen the light of day in their own country! We've been there and done this...killed people over it! Now "freedom" is protection corperate oil profits...pretty sad...
It's a third party "itch" to scratch. The high-end sony's all come with integrated bluetooth and a memory stick nowdays anyway. I could have swore that the store already has a sony version "right now" for sale anyway.
The state of DNA research like described in the article are bringing DNA complexity down into the relm of highest end computer sci...and the comp sci guys are more agressive and flexible than biologists in adapting to new changes. They actively seek them out. As this moves down the food chain, you'll see more software start to immitate life.
They don't need copy protection! They have an extremely unique combination of hardware...I believe they are one of the few cell phones or pdas to actually use ATI's imageon 3D pda processor. All they have to do is change the API to remove some of the 3D abstraction, just write to hardware...better games from developers, and the neat side effect of simply not working on other systems.
You're right, that's actually more common than the back seat late at night! After all, most teens get the house to them selves between school and parents home...they don't need no dark backroads.
Now we can find these expensive toys when the kids "loan" it to a friend...or worse sell it for some quarters! The fact that the KID is actually attached seems secondary to most parents.
Now what happens when the tools go public and these people start using the web to transfer files? As soon as a couple cracks get their hands on the code, the potentially could modify it before it gets to the "building" process lab. Then the lab would unknowingly create stuff described in the file that was order-of-maginitude worse than they think they know!
But you're right, MS gives stuff away for free, only those who can compete with that model of undercutting can survive. If they think that's "communist" then they finally understand what Marx was getting at! Once a company gets so big, and their product so common, they are either a Nobiity, a King, or are relieved by force of their source of power. The EU seeks to remove MS power by force...traditional "communism". OSS seeks to adapt the market to the new rules...and maybe change a few along the way. But OSS does it within the very system that the Monopolist abuses! That makes the damage so much worse...all that money make and power gathered mean nothing! because everyone else left you and went somewhere else!
To look at it another way, pure capitalism and pure communism have the same requirements. All the players must be reletively equal! Henry Ford understood that when he created a class of well-paid workers to drive the economy...Russia had it rammed down their throats when the nobility that owned everything [even the people] was overran by the starving, hungry masses.