The most important thing is having a boss/supervisor who understands
that happy workers are the most productive.
Originally, our project team consisted of a single person working in a
tiny office on the ground floor. This office had a large glass window
facing out onto the corridor, so anyone walking past was able to look
in.
When I joined there was two of us, with two computers on a tiny desk and
harsh lighting and air conditioners that never turned off, even in the
winter (we ended up having to tape over the duct to keep the cold air
out).
When they employed a new manager, we went straight upstairs and begged
for a new workspace.
We now have a large, airy office with good natural light. We have huge
desks, comfortable chairs, lots of shelf space, a Solaris and a Linux
workstation each, a fridge, inflatible furniture, Nerf weaponry, a large
electronic whiteboard, posters. I'm also allowed to steal bandwith and
power for my personal web/mail server.
Now I actually want to come into work, rather than fighting to stay
away. In fact, I spend much of my weekends there too instead of my own
computer room at home (I live alone), because its such a great place to
work.
Get yourself a manager with a clue. You'll like it.
Keeping in mind that I know almost nothing about US law, much less patent law, isn't there something about previous works in the patent process? If I understand it correctly, couldn't we just implement a particular idea, and then when someone tries to patent, we have previous works to show its already been done?
This would alleviate the legal and financial problems that we face trying to get patents granted, while still protecting obvious ideas.
Please don't flame this guy out of existence. He makes some valid points. There are undoubtedly a few who will want to respond, so do it in a clear, constructive manner, please.
The two networks I manage get named after places from a couple of my pastimes, that being playing Battletech and reading Tolkein. So I get names like 'strana-mechty', 'twycross' and 'tukayyid' on one side, and 'rivendell', 'mordor' and 'minas-tirith' on the other.
A also like what a couple of people I work with di with the web proxy farm. We have cow, sheep, pig, donkey and horse.. and they all share their caches via NFS from a machine called 'farmer';)
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No probs at all.. add something like this to your.muttrc
set pgp_gpg="/usr/bin/gpg" set pgp_default_version="gpg" set pgp_receive_version="default" set pgp_key_version="default" set pgp_send_version="default"
I'm on mutt 1.0pre4 and gpg 1.0, and it works flawlessly.
Here in Australia they don't let anyone register a domain in the wrong area. You must be a registered business to get a.com.au, a registered network provider (eg isp) to get a.net.au (and there is someones overlap between the last two), or a registered not-for-profit organisation to get a.org.au.
For individual names, they have.id.au, which is split up further into names like dropbear.id.au, wattle.id.au, and others. Each one of these subdomains has its own policies as to what they allow and disallow. Some charge, some don't.
This system isn't bad, I guess you could do worse.
> But I prefer RedHat because it comes with what I need, and has a standard (RPM) instead of going against the grain (especially since RPM is GPL'd).
dpkg/dselect/apt are all GPL. And they are far nicer than rpm as well.. eg
apt-get install blah
to install a package (and sort out all the dependencies)
apt-get update apt-get upgrade
to update all installed packages.
The closest thing I've seen on Redhat is 'autorpm', which had severe deficiencies.. although I haven't touched Redhat in six months..
> Debian has too late a release schedule for me.
The unstable tree is solid as a rock. And the great thing about using apt is if a package goes into the unstable tree and its broken, it gets flagged and then apt will either ignore it or downgrade the package to a safe version.
> It would be better if Debian used RPM's. Then I could just mix and match them.
Try alien. Converts between Debian/Redhat/Slackware/Stampede packages.
Maybe its just me, but I saw KiB, MiB and GiB and thought 'Kids in Black', 'Men in Black' and 'Geeks in Black'.. a nice analogy for us.. getting smarter (storage capacity?) increased your status..
I just had an interesting thought.. Ok, assuming that the technology exists do to this, would it be possible to take a copy of the brain buy storing the position of every molecule, its energy, etc.. Ok, it would take *huge* amounts of memory, but if it was technologically feasible to do this, would it be possible to use this "copy" to recreate a brain in the state it was recorded in?
Or would you just end up with nice steak for tea?;)
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The most important thing is having a boss/supervisor who understands
that happy workers are the most productive.
Originally, our project team consisted of a single person working in a
tiny office on the ground floor. This office had a large glass window
facing out onto the corridor, so anyone walking past was able to look
in.
When I joined there was two of us, with two computers on a tiny desk and
harsh lighting and air conditioners that never turned off, even in the
winter (we ended up having to tape over the duct to keep the cold air
out).
When they employed a new manager, we went straight upstairs and begged
for a new workspace.
We now have a large, airy office with good natural light. We have huge
desks, comfortable chairs, lots of shelf space, a Solaris and a Linux
workstation each, a fridge, inflatible furniture, Nerf weaponry, a large
electronic whiteboard, posters. I'm also allowed to steal bandwith and
power for my personal web/mail server.
Now I actually want to come into work, rather than fighting to stay
away. In fact, I spend much of my weekends there too instead of my own
computer room at home (I live alone), because its such a great place to
work.
Get yourself a manager with a clue. You'll like it.
Keeping in mind that I know almost nothing about US law, much less patent law, isn't there something about previous works in the patent process? If I understand it correctly, couldn't we just implement a particular idea, and then when someone tries to patent, we have previous works to show its already been done?
This would alleviate the legal and financial problems that we face trying to get patents granted, while still protecting obvious ideas.
Am I way off track here?
Please don't flame this guy out of existence. He makes some valid points. There are undoubtedly a few who will want to respond, so do it in a clear, constructive manner, please.
Javascript 1.3 is compliant with ECMA-262 (now also ISO-16262). The standard calls it ECMAscript, but its basically the same thing.
More info at http://www.ecma.ch/stand/ecma-262.htm
The two networks I manage get named after places from a couple of my pastimes, that being playing Battletech and reading Tolkein. So I get names like 'strana-mechty', 'twycross' and 'tukayyid' on one side, and 'rivendell', 'mordor' and 'minas-tirith' on the other.
.. and they all share their caches via NFS from a machine called 'farmer' ;)
A also like what a couple of people I work with di with the web proxy farm. We have cow, sheep, pig, donkey and horse
No probs at all .. add something like this to your .muttrc
set pgp_gpg="/usr/bin/gpg"
set pgp_default_version="gpg"
set pgp_receive_version="default"
set pgp_key_version="default"
set pgp_send_version="default"
I'm on mutt 1.0pre4 and gpg 1.0, and it works flawlessly.
Here in Australia they don't let anyone register a domain in the wrong area. You must be a registered business to get a .com.au, a registered network provider (eg isp) to get a .net.au (and there is someones overlap between the last two), or a registered not-for-profit organisation to get a .org.au.
.id.au, which is split up further into names like dropbear.id.au, wattle.id.au, and others. Each one of these subdomains has its own policies as to what they allow and disallow. Some charge, some don't.
For individual names, they have
This system isn't bad, I guess you could do worse.
http://www.id.au/id-au.html for more info.
> But I prefer RedHat because it comes with what I need, and has a standard (RPM) instead of going against the grain (especially since RPM is GPL'd).
.. eg
.. although I haven't touched Redhat in six months ..
dpkg/dselect/apt are all GPL. And they are far nicer than rpm as well
apt-get install blah
to install a package (and sort out all the dependencies)
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
to update all installed packages.
The closest thing I've seen on Redhat is 'autorpm', which had severe deficiencies
> Debian has too late a release schedule for me.
The unstable tree is solid as a rock. And the great thing about using apt is if a package goes into the unstable tree and its broken, it gets flagged and then apt will either ignore it or downgrade the package to a safe version.
> It would be better if Debian used RPM's. Then I could just mix and match them.
Try alien. Converts between Debian/Redhat/Slackware/Stampede packages.
Maybe its just me, but I saw KiB, MiB and GiB and thought 'Kids in Black', 'Men in Black' and 'Geeks in Black' .. a nice analogy for us .. getting smarter (storage capacity?) increased your status ..
Maybe.
Gah .. just remembered the Heisenberg uncertainty principle .. never mind :P
I just had an interesting thought .. Ok, assuming that the technology exists do to this, would it be possible to take a copy of the brain buy storing the position of every molecule, its energy, etc .. Ok, it would take *huge* amounts of memory, but if it was technologically feasible to do this, would it be possible to use this "copy" to recreate a brain in the state it was recorded in?
;)
Or would you just end up with nice steak for tea?
Amiga HAM was 4096 colours, yeh, but it had that stupid three-pixel thing, which made it look crap.
I feel worthy now I have contributed something to this discussion, however off-topic it may be.
I'm only a hacker.
I wanna see the Windows source code! All those stoners at Microsoft have probably loaded the source with all the damn comments it deserves :)
.. no wonder windows is so bloated.
Most likely all those 'comments' are compiled in though
void comment(char *this) { }
comment("This code is fucked");
comment("I am fucked");
comment("Bill is fucked");
Heh, they already did ;)