The IT services industry stock will continue to tumble as investors realize a company whose "only asset is its people" has no assets after it has pissed off its people.
The new HP will still only be known for its printers and calculators
Dell will start branding other peripherals not only printers.
Walmart will stop selling Lindows PC's after all of their service lines explode because of an overload of "My AOL CD doesn't install properly" questions
Microsoft will continue to follow the "guidelines" of the federal court judgement, slashdotters will complain, but no-one else will care.
People will continue to make obscure bluetooth devices, but users will only to be able to find bluetooth headphones at any retail outlet.
Tablet PC's will appear, and then fade into the horizon
The Digital Camera Megapixel war will continue, a 11 Megapixel camera will be affordable.
CowboyNeal will appear as all options in a slashdot poll.
Slashdot and X Cringley will have the same article as this one next year and noone will remember this years results.
Now this is something useful. My Microsoft Cordless ball-less mouse is a vampire. It loves its batteries.
What would be nice is a mouse with two slots with electrodes in the slots. Then you could park the mouse over its charger. You could even make the charger flat and tappered so the mouse could "drive" up the ramp, before parking.
Since this site is slashdotted, I guess the AA rechargeables will have to stay.
Once upon a time when GEM was still a competitor to Windows. You could purchase the exact same user guide that was bundled with a legal purchase with Windows at the bookstore for a considerable amountless than Windows.
So if Microsoft really planned on selling windows, then why did they sell the exact same guide a bookstore?
I use it on my linux environment to create a windowed X session to one of my other UNIX boxes. I haven't been ambitious enough to locate another solution to create non ctr-alt F-key session bopping in XFree.
Redhat linux, running win4lin, in less then fullscreen mode. Then launch an Xsession under cygwin to one of my other linux boxes. Tada running multiple UNIX and linux boxes on the same display.
Yup, its an oddball solution, but it works.
A separate computer module contains all of the vehicular identity. It is physically separate from the main ECM in the car. Sharing the diagnostics codes and main engine parameters would in no way effect the theft or lack of it. Usually the modules are at least a foot away fromt he main engine/drivetrain and body control units.
I don't think the reporter understood what the person telling them about the modules was saying.
The Main body computers usually triggers the alarms though, and the ECM will store the captured event. Sharing the schematics of the sensors has a greater chance of increasing theft then sharing the codes. Every helms and chiltons manual include those schematics or a place to purchase them for a bit extra.
This is interesting. As a co-owner of a small independant garage that primarily works on GM, Ford, and Chrysler, I never had difficuly in obtaining error codes and how to pull them. Not only do the manufacturers provided manuals, but so do the aftermarket companies. Even getting a quicky codelist from the dealerships have never been difficult.
Now in the beginning of ECM's, all the sensors had different names, but the SAE has been working hard at even removing these obstacles. Also the auto industry is naturally working at producing standard error codes. Todays mechanics owe no loyatly to a dealership or brand (not a bad thing) Its much easier and cheaper if when another dealership or garage picks up a skilled mechanic they don't need to retrain them on that brands codes.
The automotive manufacturers know this and are migrating to common codes on their own. No need for the government to come in and add an additional expense to a process that is already happening.
What is happening is the liability of working on a car is becoming too expensive for small independant garages. This will be the death of mom and pop shops before nonstandard ecm codes are.
Nine years ago, I accepted a job elsewhere only to have my current employer offer me a nice counter offer, which I then in turn accepted. That decision was one of the toughest of my life, one I don't have any regrets making.
Sometimes management doesn't realize your capability and place you in little niches that restrict compensation and career growth. The approach with a counter offer, may awaken management that you are more capable then the tasks and assignments that you have.
After accepting the counter-offer, my management repositioned me in more challenging and rewarding positions. Tasks that also had higher financial rewards.
Yes the company should have known how to guage people better and determine their skills placement better, but this is the real world. Not all rules are rigid and we are all individuals. Not all decisions are the same, and it is up to us to weight the positives and the negatives.
Yes there are two sides. Yes both are wrong and each is a little right. Yes standards are SOMETHING WE NEED to solve these problems. How are these standards going to develop? Open Source? A third party?
The problem with MS and their monopoly is that it is frighteningly impossible to start something new in the industry. Suppose a group of us form a company that makes X a super media player for an Operating system. What are our options to make X work? Open Source, niche player, Join the MS crew?
If we choose Open Source, we need to have a business model that keeps us fed while we battle the borg of MS. If we choose niche Player, we need to do really well and hope to alley ourselves before we are battling MS. Or we just cash out and sell to MS.
No matter how bad or good Realplayer, Quicktime, etc are, the majority of the software users will choose the free software from MS. The easy software to install, the default heir to the throne. This model will make it extremely difficult for the competitors to succeed, even if their products were good.
That is the battle we need to MS to task for.
Though if we examine history Monoliths like Ms eventually will start failing on their own. This will probably be our only recourse.
Slashdot Mirror
The IT services industry stock will continue to tumble as investors realize a company whose "only asset is its people" has no assets after it has pissed off its people.
The new HP will still only be known for its printers and calculators
Dell will start branding other peripherals not only printers.
Walmart will stop selling Lindows PC's after all of their service lines explode because of an overload of "My AOL CD doesn't install properly" questions
Microsoft will continue to follow the "guidelines" of the federal court judgement, slashdotters will complain, but no-one else will care.
People will continue to make obscure bluetooth devices, but users will only to be able to find bluetooth headphones at any retail outlet.
Tablet PC's will appear, and then fade into the horizon
The Digital Camera Megapixel war will continue, a 11 Megapixel camera will be affordable.
CowboyNeal will appear as all options in a slashdot poll.
Slashdot and X Cringley will have the same article as this one next year and noone will remember this years results.
Now this is something useful. My Microsoft Cordless ball-less mouse is a vampire. It loves its batteries.
What would be nice is a mouse with two slots with electrodes in the slots. Then you could park the mouse over its charger. You could even make the charger flat and tappered so the mouse could "drive" up the ramp, before parking.
Since this site is slashdotted, I guess the AA rechargeables will have to stay.
Anyone want to make rechargable mouse mods?
This is not new.
Once upon a time when GEM was still a competitor to Windows. You could purchase the exact same user guide that was bundled with a legal purchase with Windows at the bookstore for a considerable amountless than Windows.
So if Microsoft really planned on selling windows, then why did they sell the exact same guide a bookstore?
Strange but True
Gotta buy one. I can't be the last geek in Michigan without one.
I use real caves on a daily basis. Looks like I'll try building this one at home to see if it can compare to the ones at work.
The biggest issue I see is having a room long enough to put the projector(s) behind the screen far enough to make it large enough to have fun with.
I use it on my linux environment to create a windowed X session to one of my other UNIX boxes. I haven't been ambitious enough to locate another solution to create non ctr-alt F-key session bopping in XFree. Redhat linux, running win4lin, in less then fullscreen mode. Then launch an Xsession under cygwin to one of my other linux boxes. Tada running multiple UNIX and linux boxes on the same display. Yup, its an oddball solution, but it works.
A separate computer module contains all of the vehicular identity. It is physically separate from the main ECM in the car. Sharing the diagnostics codes and main engine parameters would in no way effect the theft or lack of it. Usually the modules are at least a foot away fromt he main engine/drivetrain and body control units.
I don't think the reporter understood what the person telling them about the modules was saying.
The Main body computers usually triggers the alarms though, and the ECM will store the captured event. Sharing the schematics of the sensors has a greater chance of increasing theft then sharing the codes. Every helms and chiltons manual include those schematics or a place to purchase them for a bit extra.
This is interesting. As a co-owner of a small independant garage that primarily works on GM, Ford, and Chrysler, I never had difficuly in obtaining error codes and how to pull them. Not only do the manufacturers provided manuals, but so do the aftermarket companies. Even getting a quicky codelist from the dealerships have never been difficult.
Now in the beginning of ECM's, all the sensors had different names, but the SAE has been working hard at even removing these obstacles. Also the auto industry is naturally working at producing standard error codes. Todays mechanics owe no loyatly to a dealership or brand (not a bad thing) Its much easier and cheaper if when another dealership or garage picks up a skilled mechanic they don't need to retrain them on that brands codes.
The automotive manufacturers know this and are migrating to common codes on their own. No need for the government to come in and add an additional expense to a process that is already happening.
What is happening is the liability of working on a car is becoming too expensive for small independant garages. This will be the death of mom and pop shops before nonstandard ecm codes are.
Nine years ago, I accepted a job elsewhere only to have my current employer offer me a nice counter offer, which I then in turn accepted. That decision was one of the toughest of my life, one I don't have any regrets making.
Sometimes management doesn't realize your capability and place you in little niches that restrict compensation and career growth. The approach with a counter offer, may awaken management that you are more capable then the tasks and assignments that you have.
After accepting the counter-offer, my management repositioned me in more challenging and rewarding positions. Tasks that also had higher financial rewards.
Yes the company should have known how to guage people better and determine their skills placement better, but this is the real world. Not all rules are rigid and we are all individuals. Not all decisions are the same, and it is up to us to weight the positives and the negatives.
Good Luck.
Yes there are two sides. Yes both are wrong and each is a little right. Yes standards are SOMETHING WE NEED to solve these problems. How are these standards going to develop? Open Source? A third party? The problem with MS and their monopoly is that it is frighteningly impossible to start something new in the industry. Suppose a group of us form a company that makes X a super media player for an Operating system. What are our options to make X work? Open Source, niche player, Join the MS crew? If we choose Open Source, we need to have a business model that keeps us fed while we battle the borg of MS. If we choose niche Player, we need to do really well and hope to alley ourselves before we are battling MS. Or we just cash out and sell to MS. No matter how bad or good Realplayer, Quicktime, etc are, the majority of the software users will choose the free software from MS. The easy software to install, the default heir to the throne. This model will make it extremely difficult for the competitors to succeed, even if their products were good. That is the battle we need to MS to task for. Though if we examine history Monoliths like Ms eventually will start failing on their own. This will probably be our only recourse.