I've been known to put in 50-60+ hour weeks when necessary, but I do wonder just how many of those hours were spent "working" by reading personal e-mail, browing websites, reading (eek) Slashdot, and so on...
Still, I'd have to say that my typical work week must contain at least 40 "real" working hours. Even when I'm learning PHP and mySQL on my FreeBSD server, it's still enhancing my knowledge for stuff I do at work, too. And heck, reading Slashdot has been beneficial for work, too -- I just need to figure out why...
Whatever happened to their lawsuit with Amazon Bookstore? Last I heard, Amazon was dishing out some pretty bottom-of-the-barrel tactics in dealing with these people...
Coincidentally, this is one of the books I brought over here to (re)read for my (business) trip here in London this week. It's a good book. I wonder who of the principal characters in the book (outside of the "big name" people) are still alive and what they're doing these days...
It's interesting how the whole open source movement these days really does subscribe to Levy's description of the "Golden Age" of hacking. People get to see the source code of other people's work, modify it so that it's "better," then rerelease it back for everyone else's "consumption." It's kind of like the TMRC, only a much wider group of hackers (ie the whole world) is now involved. It's like it's just another cycle in the history of hacking, just on a much larger scale than ever.
Anyone have any ideas on what the next "cycle" might be?
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This article from Wired states the contrary...
Still, I'd have to say that my typical work week must contain at least 40 "real" working hours. Even when I'm learning PHP and mySQL on my FreeBSD server, it's still enhancing my knowledge for stuff I do at work, too. And heck, reading Slashdot has been beneficial for work, too -- I just need to figure out why...
I hope none of my employers read this...
Color is good. If things works out well, the other non-color Palms will get cheaper, and maybe I'll be able to afford one then...
Whatever happened to their lawsuit with Amazon Bookstore? Last I heard, Amazon was dishing out some pretty bottom-of-the-barrel tactics in dealing with these people...
For those interested in other mentions regarding FreeBSD in the press, you can find pointers at http://www.freebsd.org/news/press.html.
PS: This color scheme is icky.
It's interesting how the whole open source movement these days really does subscribe to Levy's description of the "Golden Age" of hacking. People get to see the source code of other people's work, modify it so that it's "better," then rerelease it back for everyone else's "consumption." It's kind of like the TMRC, only a much wider group of hackers (ie the whole world) is now involved. It's like it's just another cycle in the history of hacking, just on a much larger scale than ever.
Anyone have any ideas on what the next "cycle" might be?
(Yes, I know about the Avant keyboards, but they're $189. People who sell Northgate keyboards on Ebay normally don't have the swappable keys...)