http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guild A guild is an association of craftsmen organised in a manner something between a trade union, a cartel, and a secret society.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artisan An artisan is a person engaged in or occupied by the practice of a craft, who may through experience and talent reach the expressive levels of an art in their work and what they create.
Companies hiring contract programmers might baulk at union membership.
A guild of artisans is different, it is a proud group of self employed members, which collectively control the flow of trade for the members.
Hey that's me, my new glasses clear the fog vision but it's not the same as when I was young. I get off the computer when I can't see any more, can't be good. My next device is a paper white Kindle running Linux, so I can take it down to the beach, get off my ass, get out of the office, get out in the sun and build up my vitamin D.
Programming is great fun, but it does get in the way of life, especially contact with real people.
I met a guy from Germany settled on the mid north coast of NSW in Australia to do IT consulting work for global clients. Surf all morning, work all afternoon.
The more points of contact the higher your level of trust and especially by having associations with many different but maybe also interconnected identifiers.
We are well located by our cable connection or ADSL connection which was tested to our house when we moved to this address. If I use a mobile dongle, it is associated with a mobile number which can be located by the provider. Even better if I have a GPS in my phone that I tether to my laptop, or if I was younger I could read my mobile phone.
It is interesting to cross reference your location with neighbours, my postman knows where I live, a few companies have delivered stuff to our home, by bank account statement and my work pay advice is posted to my home.
Using my laptop web cam I could compare my license photo with my face. Holding your palm in front of your web cam could provide another form of biometric identification, iris or finger print scanning.
The OSs can, but can you make the people play nice, probably not.
Have the legal department read the full license agreement(s) for GMail.
Not much experience with Linux eh, well don't tell the boss you can support it if you really can't, unless your budget wants to get blown out hiring gurus.
and there goes your pay rise and flash job title ( which is all you really want by the sound of it )
I tried to apply for a reasonable trade mark, namely 'Big Woody' for wooden surfboards. (the sexual connotation of course) It failed because there is already an internalional TM for 'Woodies', (a wooden toy manufacturer in a land-locked country)
But this rejection was a trigger for IP legal firms to offer their services to get my TM accepted. I feel the whole IP system is just a shonk for legal firms to make money for nothing. A broad enquiry into various IP would find that the only winners are lawyers.
We should tell the lawyers to make their money somewhere else. They can't be beaten in the legal arena and they have too much political sway.
Everywhere violate tiny, stupid patents and make it widely known. Block up the legal system till they stop their foolishness. Write a program today which uses patented methods.
It would be impossible to do without the greedy programmers, mathematicians, network engineers, etc who make it possible. How about the engineers being a lot more responsible with who they give their expertise to. Corporations have no ethics but professionals should.
I have used Star|openoffice since it was first ported to Linux. It used to break constantly, saving every few lines was mandatory. I thank all free and corporate work which has gone into Openoffice and I will now support Libreoffice as Mark Shuttleworth stated at http://www.documentfoundation.org/supporters/ I'm sure Debian will not hesitate to jump on board although they are conspicuously absent.
Sun has years of research, inventions (IP) and acquisitions, a cheap buy at any price, but Oracle bought at a good time. What a good way to get rid of competing (free, libre) products, hands up all the cynics. The corporate side of computing always has been grotesque.
When I wanted to run my own consultancy instead of being employed as a tech. I got MYOB, the 19xx/20xx tax packages, loaded a customer tracking database, (then built one for what I really needed), paid for some adverts, got my name out there. made a little money.
Then got an accountant who gave me lots of business advice, did a small business course, got in touch with a marketing mate, got professional graphics done, registered trade names, built up quality systems.....
Then got the.... out of IT, now I'm building wooden surfboards and having a great time, but of course using computers towards a 'real' end.
Programming feels like becoming part of the machine, you plug yourself in for hours and days and months on end. You know that language, you feel it and talk it, live it.
Yes and the manufacturers are putting dodgy stickers on appliances overstating their efficiency.
How do we sell these gas guzzlers ???
Get a dodgy car salesman who's gone to the Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business to apply some spin. It's always worked in the past. I'll have the car that goes 50 miles, the guy who only goes 20 miles is hitch hiking home.
back in the day, in the dim and distant past.... when testing line and page printers visual basic wasn't fast enough to test the repaired printers completely so I used Forth, easy scripting and fast, easy to send any strings of any description, tasker to handle error states and asynchronous events
Just try some other scripting languages you will find something better than batch scripts
I even used to use a unix shell in dos in the early days for more flexibility in my batch files Dos on steroids!!!
removing Windows viruses is boring hearing from customers the server has gone off line again is boring fixing windows driver problems is boring reinstalling windows is boring teaching people how not to use windows is boring seeing the same users having the same problems is boring I can't find the file is boring it crashed and I can't find half a days work is boring getting out in the sunshine is great going surfing is great
When I was a TA working on teleprinters (remember those?)
I was testing a teleprinter which had an odd tick.
I got a technician to check the problem,
he got the head technician,
he got the engineer,
they all had their heads over the open teleprinter
when 2 large electrolytic caps exploded (reverse polarity).
Bright yellow liquid all over the lot of them,
and yes possibly carcinogenic.
Well you've put a fairly realistic price on the situation
the problem is bulk bandwidth cost fueled by high profit levels.
Bandwidth as a commodity has to become a lot cheaper
and continue getting cheaper on a logarithmic scale.
Maybe pricing by quality/time could be more realistic than quantity.
This might encourage off-peak usage or bursty downloads instead of
live video to fill holes in demand.
Just as you have to justify keeping LAMP they would have to justify changing to.NET What are the arguments they are giving to their managers or directors. Don't defend your established position attack their reasons for wanting change. You have a cost history for your LAMP shop, you know how often you have had real security problems, you are able to build future requirements with current programming staff.
0. I agree, 80 columns is too much. 1.
2. Try forths 16 lines of 64 columns.
3. One screen is 1 KB of text, simple. 4.
5. Room on the 80 col screen
6. for line numbers and border. 7.
8. Factoring out code to shorter lines
9. makes for more readable code. 10.
11. Forth also has a shadow screen
12. of comment for each screen of code.
13. Code and shadow both fit on 132 column. 14.
15. Way too simple for amazing complex code.
I've recently moved to a new home. We are definitely paying for bandwidth
April while on a "cheap" plan the excessive bandwidth cost $AU727.74
May we changed to "unlimited" got shaped on the 15th down to 64K
The problem is the bulk of bandwidth is uploads and we don't file share
I have been monitoring my routers traffic log and our real usage is nowhere
near what they are claiming.
Aren't you glad you don't live in "The Lucky Country" and have Bigpond
Well I've moved to traffic control - you know - a lolly pop man.
Pay is ok, hours are fairly long but can be organised around your life.
Not much hard work - we're paid to watch other people work.
Shuts people up when you get asked what you do at a party.
No more - can you help with this computer problem, just shrug
and say you don't any more.
Do work with free software, free support - just for fun for friends.
Repairing computers for a computer shop often requires
replacing a motherboard, which often means also replacing
cpu and memory, a major overhaul but cheaper than replacing
the computer. If the computer runs Linux just reboot.
But if it has Windblows XP phone the registration and
explain the situation, no problems, just a pain in the butt.
I've even installed OEM on a HP computer and quoted the HP
serial number and they've accepted it.
lifetime or X should be cut down to 5 - 10 years
to encourage the authors to create new content.
It's sad when old rockers replay their tired hits from
40 years ago to pay for their next haemorrhoid operation.
Slashdot Mirror
Just an old fashioned guy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guild
A guild is an association of craftsmen organised in a manner something between a trade union, a cartel, and a secret society.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artisan
An artisan is a person engaged in or occupied by the practice of a craft, who may through experience and talent reach the expressive levels of an art in their work and what they create.
Companies hiring contract programmers might baulk at union membership.
A guild of artisans is different, it is a proud group of self employed members,
which collectively control the flow of trade for the members.
Hey that's me, my new glasses clear the fog vision but it's not the same as when I was young.
I get off the computer when I can't see any more, can't be good.
My next device is a paper white Kindle running Linux,
so I can take it down to the beach, get off my ass,
get out of the office, get out in the sun and build up my vitamin D.
Programming is great fun, but it does get in the way of life, especially contact with real people.
He might discover the complexities of designing a health department pay system, since IBM screwed up the Queensland system so badly.
Got a pen / pencil set from IEEE both crapped out in under a fortnight.
You don't want an engineers pen, you want a writers pen.
I met a guy from Germany settled on the mid north coast of NSW in Australia to do IT consulting work for global clients. Surf all morning, work all afternoon.
The more points of contact the higher your level of trust and especially by having associations with many different but maybe also interconnected identifiers.
We are well located by our cable connection or ADSL connection which was tested to our house when we moved to this address. If I use a mobile dongle, it is associated with a mobile number which can be located by the provider. Even better if I have a GPS in my phone that I tether to my laptop, or if I was younger I could read my mobile phone.
It is interesting to cross reference your location with neighbours, my postman knows where I live, a few companies have delivered stuff to our home, by bank account statement and my work pay advice is posted to my home.
Using my laptop web cam I could compare my license photo with my face. Holding your palm in front of your web cam could provide another form of biometric identification, iris or finger print scanning.
Missing from the statement is what the preferred format is.
I would expect a Microsoft format from our illustrious leaders.
Reads like a fairly dumb statement which is what I always
expect from our government.
Sounds like a lead up to them locking themselves (us) into
using a proprietary, expensive, unusable system.
Who , me , negative ,
yep
The OSs can, but can you make the people play nice, probably not.
Have the legal department read the full license agreement(s) for GMail.
Not much experience with Linux eh,
well don't tell the boss you can support it if you really can't,
unless your budget wants to get blown out hiring gurus.
and there goes your pay rise and flash job title
( which is all you really want by the sound of it )
upstart
I tried to apply for a reasonable trade mark, namely 'Big Woody' for wooden surfboards.
(the sexual connotation of course)
It failed because there is already an internalional TM for 'Woodies',
(a wooden toy manufacturer in a land-locked country)
But this rejection was a trigger for IP legal firms to offer their services to get my TM accepted.
I feel the whole IP system is just a shonk for legal firms to make money for nothing.
A broad enquiry into various IP would find that the only winners are lawyers.
We should tell the lawyers to make their money somewhere else.
They can't be beaten in the legal arena and they have too much political sway.
Everywhere violate tiny, stupid patents and make it widely known.
Block up the legal system till they stop their foolishness.
Write a program today which uses patented methods.
ANARCHY
It would be impossible to do without the greedy programmers, mathematicians, network engineers, etc who make it possible.
How about the engineers being a lot more responsible with who they give their expertise to.
Corporations have no ethics but professionals should.
I have used Star|openoffice since it was first ported to Linux.
It used to break constantly, saving every few lines was mandatory.
I thank all free and corporate work which has gone into Openoffice
and I will now support Libreoffice as Mark Shuttleworth stated at
http://www.documentfoundation.org/supporters/
I'm sure Debian will not hesitate to jump on board although they are conspicuously absent.
Sun has years of research, inventions (IP) and acquisitions,
a cheap buy at any price, but Oracle bought at a good time.
What a good way to get rid of competing (free, libre) products,
hands up all the cynics.
The corporate side of computing always has been grotesque.
Spread the word about LibreOffice
When I wanted to run my own consultancy instead of being employed as a tech.
I got MYOB, the 19xx/20xx tax packages, loaded a customer tracking database,
(then built one for what I really needed), paid for some adverts, got my name out there. made a little money.
Then got an accountant who gave me lots of business advice, did a small business course,
got in touch with a marketing mate, got professional graphics done, registered trade names,
built up quality systems.....
Then got the .... out of IT, now I'm building wooden surfboards and having a great time,
but of course using computers towards a 'real' end.
Programming feels like becoming part of the machine,
you plug yourself in for hours and days and months on end.
You know that language, you feel it and talk it, live it.
I chose life....
Yes and the manufacturers are putting dodgy stickers on appliances overstating their efficiency.
How do we sell these gas guzzlers ???
Get a dodgy car salesman who's gone to the Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business to apply some spin.
It's always worked in the past.
I'll have the car that goes 50 miles, the guy who only goes 20 miles is hitch hiking home.
back in the day,
in the dim and distant past....
when testing line and page printers
visual basic wasn't fast enough to test the repaired printers completely
so I used Forth, easy scripting and fast,
easy to send any strings of any description,
tasker to handle error states and asynchronous events
Just try some other scripting languages
you will find something better than batch scripts
I even used to use a unix shell in dos
in the early days for more flexibility in my batch files
Dos on steroids!!!
Jabberwocky was a favourite bedtime story for my kids.
By Lewis Carroll. (from Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There , 1872)
Sometimes used to teach about the use of portmanteau and nonsense words in poetry.
The language influence could help them become ??? programmers, who knows.
removing Windows viruses is boring
hearing from customers the server has gone off line again is boring
fixing windows driver problems is boring
reinstalling windows is boring
teaching people how not to use windows is boring
seeing the same users having the same problems is boring
I can't find the file is boring
it crashed and I can't find half a days work is boring
getting out in the sunshine is great
going surfing is great
When I was a TA working on teleprinters (remember those?)
I was testing a teleprinter which had an odd tick.
I got a technician to check the problem,
he got the head technician,
he got the engineer,
they all had their heads over the open teleprinter
when 2 large electrolytic caps exploded (reverse polarity).
Bright yellow liquid all over the lot of them,
and yes possibly carcinogenic.
Well you've put a fairly realistic price on the situation
the problem is bulk bandwidth cost fueled by high profit levels.
Bandwidth as a commodity has to become a lot cheaper
and continue getting cheaper on a logarithmic scale.
Maybe pricing by quality/time could be more realistic than quantity.
This might encourage off-peak usage or bursty downloads instead of
live video to fill holes in demand.
Just as you have to justify keeping LAMP they would have to justify changing to .NET
What are the arguments they are giving to their managers or directors.
Don't defend your established position attack their reasons for wanting change.
You have a cost history for your LAMP shop, you know how often you have had real security problems, you are able to build future requirements with current programming staff.
0. I agree, 80 columns is too much.
1.
2. Try forths 16 lines of 64 columns.
3. One screen is 1 KB of text, simple.
4.
5. Room on the 80 col screen
6. for line numbers and border.
7.
8. Factoring out code to shorter lines
9. makes for more readable code.
10.
11. Forth also has a shadow screen
12. of comment for each screen of code.
13. Code and shadow both fit on 132 column.
14.
15. Way too simple for amazing complex code.
I've recently moved to a new home. We are definitely paying for bandwidth
April while on a "cheap" plan the excessive bandwidth cost $AU727.74
May we changed to "unlimited" got shaped on the 15th down to 64K
The problem is the bulk of bandwidth is uploads and we don't file share
I have been monitoring my routers traffic log and our real usage is nowhere
near what they are claiming.
Aren't you glad you don't live in "The Lucky Country" and have Bigpond
Well I've moved to traffic control - you know - a lolly pop man.
Pay is ok, hours are fairly long but can be organised around your life.
Not much hard work - we're paid to watch other people work.
Shuts people up when you get asked what you do at a party.
No more - can you help with this computer problem, just shrug
and say you don't any more.
Do work with free software, free support - just for fun for friends.
Repairing computers for a computer shop often requires
replacing a motherboard, which often means also replacing
cpu and memory, a major overhaul but cheaper than replacing
the computer. If the computer runs Linux just reboot.
But if it has Windblows XP phone the registration and
explain the situation, no problems, just a pain in the butt.
I've even installed OEM on a HP computer and quoted the HP
serial number and they've accepted it.
lifetime or X should be cut down to 5 - 10 years
to encourage the authors to create new content.
It's sad when old rockers replay their tired hits from
40 years ago to pay for their next haemorrhoid operation.
How about an icon of Balmer linking to this
r -sells-windows.swf
Steve Balmer selling Windows 1.0
http://www.boreme.com/boreme/media-movies/m-balme