Dad even splurged on a $600.00 floppy disk drive.
I've told him it was the best money he ever spent. Thirty years in IT -- I have no idea what I would be doing today if I had not convinced him to spend the money on that PC. Thanks, Dad.
Anyone know if this camera has the 'motion' picture like the Apple 6S or the Microsoft 950? A second of video goes with the picture. ( btw, I own a 950. Do NOT buy one). I really like that feature.
Stop being cheap and talk to a trademark lawyer. You're just wasting time sifting through all of the responses, likely looking for sympathy. Hire a lawyer to either find out what you should already have found out, or change the app name (and risk going through this again).
....why go back to a job she has no passion for? There's a lot of tangential work that can be done, or maybe it's time for a navel gaze and something entirely new.
Where do I start with this?
You signed an employee agreement. What rights does it give you?
The company is paying you to develop code, provides the compute infrastructure, provides the business motivation based on their own research and enables you to improve your knowledge and skills. You are unwilling to leave your job, so you don't accept any risk. Yet, you ungratefully want all of the benefits of the code.
You don't even seem willing to share a possible new revenue stream with your company.
You are quite the piece of work.
...and Microsoft gets to pay support people to answer questions from people that never paid for their software. So dumb. Microsoft would be better off to cut these people loose and have them run Macs or Chrome or desktop Android. If someone is willing to run hacked XP or 7 for all this time, they're never going to be paying customers. So why support them? Why have market share if you never get revenue?
No way I'd want to support some a-hole keeping some kind of illegal garbage on my system. Is the company running this idea going to indemnify in all jurisdictions? Is some FBI guy going to kick in my door to grab my drive for the contents of some kind of nastiness?
Just a bad idea.
I originally set it up to reduce bandwidth limitations and then malware delivered through ads. Now, it just reduces clutter, but I have to admit I am part of the problem for sites that I truly do enjoy and appreciate the people who build content and publish. Bad on me.
I did the programmer/manager/director thing ending about 10 years ago when I was in my early forties. Since then, I've been doing the consulting thing, mostly strategic and management consulting into large companies. I'll say one thing: It pays very, very well and if you know how to handle an interviewer, you'll rarely be out of a job.
The hardest thing back in the day was to give up on the hands-on work. It's what I knew, I was very good and passionate about it. That said, kids today ( I mean kids under 30 ) have their own mind set and find it hard to relate to older people in the work place. Bottom line, I prefer working with my peers and by the time I hit 40 I noticed I wasn't really interested in what the kids were doing. So I moved on.
I have never encountered age discrimination because I've always focused on (difficult) work that requires lots of experience and made sure that the interviewer got the sense of my laser-like focus on the statement of work and providing value to the customer.
Every company worth a damn needs an old man. I just hope I'm not too old before I decide to pack away my FORTRAN user guide for good.
"had one of the experimental Windows XP tablet PCs"
Not experimental. They were all pen input devices and worked very well. Just ask Fujitsu and a bunch of others.
High school senior in 1979:
1) Get assignment on Monday
2) Write code on paper.
3) Wait for punch machine to get freed up
4) Type in code
5) Give teacher punch cards on Monday
6) Teacher takes a box full of cards on Friday
7) Teacher picks up cards Sunday night
8) Get paper results and cards at Monday class.
9) Rinse and repeat until it compiles.
I wrote TWO great programs that semester:)
You hire someone and hand over a COPY of the keys. Rule #1 is that you ALWAYS know admin passwords and whatnot. That's not only for your comfort, it's part of due dilligence as your new guy might be hit by a bus on the way home after his first day. Then you step out of the way and do the important job of running the company. If you're not comfortable with this, reexamine your career path. It's time to let it go.
I'm not sure why they would need to do that as a routine task. It's fairly broad and consumes resources. It'd be pretty funny if you mentioned it to their IT Director and he replied with "huh?"
The Association for Computing Machinery wants everyone to code?
I wonder what The Association for Fixing Your Car, Association for Small Repairs Around The Home, The Association for Recognizing and Stopping Child Abuse, The Association for Common Courtesy and The Association for Reasonable Adult Relationships would think.
All worthy, imo.
...say the Grand Canyon was formed last Tuesday, or something like that. Carved out by the Arc, that sat lower in the water because of all the dinosaurs on board. You betcha.
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As a shareholder: No. There's no money in it. Microsoft has to monetize absolutely all it can or it will fuel their demise.
Dad even splurged on a $600.00 floppy disk drive. I've told him it was the best money he ever spent. Thirty years in IT -- I have no idea what I would be doing today if I had not convinced him to spend the money on that PC. Thanks, Dad.
What could go wrong?
I'll be almost dead, but I can hardly wait.
I have a 950. Windows Phone is a disaster. Go one more generation with something else and then come back and take a look at WP if it's still around.
Anyone know if this camera has the 'motion' picture like the Apple 6S or the Microsoft 950? A second of video goes with the picture. ( btw, I own a 950. Do NOT buy one). I really like that feature.
Stop being cheap and talk to a trademark lawyer. You're just wasting time sifting through all of the responses, likely looking for sympathy. Hire a lawyer to either find out what you should already have found out, or change the app name (and risk going through this again).
....why go back to a job she has no passion for? There's a lot of tangential work that can be done, or maybe it's time for a navel gaze and something entirely new.
You beat me to it, parent. I don't know how anyone only has three months of savings after a run like that.
Where do I start with this? You signed an employee agreement. What rights does it give you? The company is paying you to develop code, provides the compute infrastructure, provides the business motivation based on their own research and enables you to improve your knowledge and skills. You are unwilling to leave your job, so you don't accept any risk. Yet, you ungratefully want all of the benefits of the code. You don't even seem willing to share a possible new revenue stream with your company. You are quite the piece of work.
in other news, rain is wet.
Metro is dead. Microsoft is moving forward with Universal apps.
Protect against this hack by placing a hot coffee beside your computer. Only $69.99 per cup of coffee.
...and Microsoft gets to pay support people to answer questions from people that never paid for their software. So dumb. Microsoft would be better off to cut these people loose and have them run Macs or Chrome or desktop Android. If someone is willing to run hacked XP or 7 for all this time, they're never going to be paying customers. So why support them? Why have market share if you never get revenue?
No way I'd want to support some a-hole keeping some kind of illegal garbage on my system. Is the company running this idea going to indemnify in all jurisdictions? Is some FBI guy going to kick in my door to grab my drive for the contents of some kind of nastiness? Just a bad idea.
I originally set it up to reduce bandwidth limitations and then malware delivered through ads. Now, it just reduces clutter, but I have to admit I am part of the problem for sites that I truly do enjoy and appreciate the people who build content and publish. Bad on me.
I did the programmer/manager/director thing ending about 10 years ago when I was in my early forties. Since then, I've been doing the consulting thing, mostly strategic and management consulting into large companies. I'll say one thing: It pays very, very well and if you know how to handle an interviewer, you'll rarely be out of a job. The hardest thing back in the day was to give up on the hands-on work. It's what I knew, I was very good and passionate about it. That said, kids today ( I mean kids under 30 ) have their own mind set and find it hard to relate to older people in the work place. Bottom line, I prefer working with my peers and by the time I hit 40 I noticed I wasn't really interested in what the kids were doing. So I moved on. I have never encountered age discrimination because I've always focused on (difficult) work that requires lots of experience and made sure that the interviewer got the sense of my laser-like focus on the statement of work and providing value to the customer. Every company worth a damn needs an old man. I just hope I'm not too old before I decide to pack away my FORTRAN user guide for good.
"had one of the experimental Windows XP tablet PCs" Not experimental. They were all pen input devices and worked very well. Just ask Fujitsu and a bunch of others.
High school senior in 1979: 1) Get assignment on Monday 2) Write code on paper. 3) Wait for punch machine to get freed up 4) Type in code 5) Give teacher punch cards on Monday 6) Teacher takes a box full of cards on Friday 7) Teacher picks up cards Sunday night 8) Get paper results and cards at Monday class. 9) Rinse and repeat until it compiles. I wrote TWO great programs that semester :)
You hire someone and hand over a COPY of the keys. Rule #1 is that you ALWAYS know admin passwords and whatnot. That's not only for your comfort, it's part of due dilligence as your new guy might be hit by a bus on the way home after his first day. Then you step out of the way and do the important job of running the company. If you're not comfortable with this, reexamine your career path. It's time to let it go.
I'm not sure why they would need to do that as a routine task. It's fairly broad and consumes resources. It'd be pretty funny if you mentioned it to their IT Director and he replied with "huh?"
I have never heard of Whole Foods. If people want to eat some organic stuff, why would I care?
In the middle of the ocean, any kind of 'cops' would be days away.
The Association for Computing Machinery wants everyone to code? I wonder what The Association for Fixing Your Car, Association for Small Repairs Around The Home, The Association for Recognizing and Stopping Child Abuse, The Association for Common Courtesy and The Association for Reasonable Adult Relationships would think. All worthy, imo.
...say the Grand Canyon was formed last Tuesday, or something like that. Carved out by the Arc, that sat lower in the water because of all the dinosaurs on board. You betcha.