This guy wants me to work 12 hours a day 7 days a week, but if I complain, he tells me that he is putting much more than. If I add up everything he says he is doing, it's like 36 hours a day, so I think it's fair.
The weirdest thing is that I don't work for him. I just set up some servers he sells. When I get one I normally only take like 2-4 hours to set it up.
So I would say that the first thing to do is to make sure that the "management" knows that 8+7=15, and other complex things like it.
Sony is bringing up a new (and improved) technology. They HAVE the right to protect their IP. If the technology is good, as with DVD, it will catch on. Of course someone will come out with a way around to copy protection just as with DVD's region code. I believe that this is the true right to innovate.
The idea seems very interesting, although I would say that for the project to have any appeal outside of academic or research circles, it would need to based around something MUCH more popular than ADA, FORTH or LISP. Sure...ADA is good...well at least better than a $1,500 US NAVY hammer. Many he is paving the way to something like an OS built directly over C#? (Not C#.Net by the way) That might be a real leap forward.
I work at a medium size company, in a very small country in Central America. They are in the field of real state administration and maintenance. Nothing tech related. If I tell them that we need a $2000 printer, they will consider seriously but will most likely accept. I just asked for a new tape drive, they just told me to get prices, I'll have it in 1-2 most likely, etc. They value the IT department as necesary, same as a lot of other departments here. In fact I get paid better that people in other departmets with a lot more qualifications than I do (up to 3 times more). In fact I'm better paid that friends that work in HUGE datacenters for online gambling. It's not the greatest tech job in the zaziest.com around, but I'm still hanging around.
So basically I would say that YMMV depending on the industry you are in. If you are in the tech related industry, they value you a lot more when things go well, but it can be hell while going downhill. On an "old business" things tend to be much more stable.
I don't consider myself a Microsoft fan, but I think we should be fair. Windows has gone a very long way from Windows 98/ME to Windows 2000. I manage two server at a client, 1 Win 2k Advanced Server and 1 RedHat 7.2. Both servers have been having uptime of 100+ days, interupted only because of power failures. I took quite a while to get Windows to this stage, since the install was done by someone that probably had never installed a Windows Server. Microsoft might not make the best software, but a properly configured Windows 2000 + SP2 server should be about as stable as Linux, excluding the fact that Windows requires more reboots when updating, whatever. If it doesn't, then maybe you need to pay more attention at how you install and configure your servers.
Nice, but still a long way to go
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A very cool toy alright, but a long way from beign able to replace other "larger" appliances. Right now we should be able to carry such a phone instead of a laptop, a PDA, and a normal cell phone. We should be able to work on our way to the office, plug it on the office computer, and continue. You don't need that much power in a mobile device, since we really spend most of our time writting, reading email, surfing, spreadsheet. Pretty much any device now should be able to do those tasks. Voice recognition will probably never catch on, since it lacks the privacy that other input methods provide(the technology is pretty much there, but people don't want to use it actually). Something like this with a stylus and Graffiti or similiar will be closer to a complete mobilie "office". Until we get brain control that is.
And a globilized world cannot translate to widespread anarchy. There must be some rules as to what can be done, and of course means to uphold that. And I don't mean just ways to censor, but also ways to protect our privacy, reduce spam, etc. Whose laws apply on no man's net? Anarchy is good as long as it doesn't harm you. I believe in free speach and freedom, but also the fact that people should be accounted for their acts.
That's a good idea. I'm goin to change my email address to 864687, but in Mayan Numerals.
All I need right now is an ISP that suports Mayan Numerals.
Getting a bit more realistic: I've seen brute force attacks on Hotmail accounts, and it's pretty simple, they will get to you eventually no mater how obscure your email is.
Instead, I say they should improve it! They should also correct all of the mail sent by script kiddies, tHoz tHat tYp LiKe Thiz, to something more logical.
Although some people have trully altruistic motivations to do things for free (such as GPL'd software) everybody requires at least some kind of income in order to survive and have time to develop and offer free software/search engines/whatever...
If you are getting pertinent results, even if they are a bit skewed due to payed "links
, you are still beter off than searching for a site unaided. It hasn't bothered me at all. After all it's a business, just like any other, or would people prefer subscription based search engines?
It's always been the same, and always will
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Microsoft and most other companies have been trying to do this (and many similar things) for decades, and will continue to do them. Sure MS has the money to do this, but there are limits which even Microsoft cannot surpass. Linux is BIG on the server segment, will Intel and AMD lose their stand in this segment (which tends to be more lucrative than desktop procesors) only to please Microsoft? Not likely. Even if they do, other companies will jump in to fill the void (Transmeta, VIA). I don't approve of it nor will I support it, but I don't think this is the beggining of an "1984"-like world.
Just take a look at how long the Win XP authorization scheme remained uncracked
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They did make some improvements like two button mice and .... err, well two button mice. Of course Linux is way ahead with three!
...if the management is putting 36 hours a day.
This guy wants me to work 12 hours a day 7 days a week, but if I complain, he tells me that he is putting much more than. If I add up everything he says he is doing, it's like 36 hours a day, so I think it's fair.
The weirdest thing is that I don't work for him. I just set up some servers he sells. When I get one I normally only take like 2-4 hours to set it up.
So I would say that the first thing to do is to make sure that the "management" knows that 8+7=15, and other complex things like it.
Sony is bringing up a new (and improved) technology. They HAVE the right to protect their IP. If the technology is good, as with DVD, it will catch on. Of course someone will come out with a way around to copy protection just as with DVD's region code. I believe that this is the true right to innovate.
Ok...
The idea seems very interesting, although I would say that for the project to have any appeal outside of academic or research circles, it would need to based around something MUCH more popular than ADA, FORTH or LISP. Sure...ADA is good...well at least better than a $1,500 US NAVY hammer. Many he is paving the way to something like an OS built directly over C#? (Not C#.Net by the way) That might be a real leap forward.
I work at a medium size company, in a very small country in Central America. They are in the field of real state administration and maintenance. Nothing tech related. If I tell them that we need a $2000 printer, they will consider seriously but will most likely accept. I just asked for a new tape drive, they just told me to get prices, I'll have it in 1-2 most likely, etc. They value the IT department as necesary, same as a lot of other departments here. In fact I get paid better that people in other departmets with a lot more qualifications than I do (up to 3 times more). In fact I'm better paid that friends that work in HUGE datacenters for online gambling. It's not the greatest tech job in the zaziest .com around, but I'm still hanging around.
So basically I would say that YMMV depending on the industry you are in. If you are in the tech related industry, they value you a lot more when things go well, but it can be hell while going downhill. On an "old business" things tend to be much more stable.
I don't consider myself a Microsoft fan, but I think we should be fair. Windows has gone a very long way from Windows 98/ME to Windows 2000. I manage two server at a client, 1 Win 2k Advanced Server and 1 RedHat 7.2. Both servers have been having uptime of 100+ days, interupted only because of power failures. I took quite a while to get Windows to this stage, since the install was done by someone that probably had never installed a Windows Server. Microsoft might not make the best software, but a properly configured Windows 2000 + SP2 server should be about as stable as Linux, excluding the fact that Windows requires more reboots when updating, whatever. If it doesn't, then maybe you need to pay more attention at how you install and configure your servers.
A very cool toy alright, but a long way from beign able to replace other "larger" appliances. Right now we should be able to carry such a phone instead of a laptop, a PDA, and a normal cell phone. We should be able to work on our way to the office, plug it on the office computer, and continue. You don't need that much power in a mobile device, since we really spend most of our time writting, reading email, surfing, spreadsheet. Pretty much any device now should be able to do those tasks. Voice recognition will probably never catch on, since it lacks the privacy that other input methods provide(the technology is pretty much there, but people don't want to use it actually). Something like this with a stylus and Graffiti or similiar will be closer to a complete mobilie "office". Until we get brain control that is.
And a globilized world cannot translate to widespread anarchy. There must be some rules as to what can be done, and of course means to uphold that.
And I don't mean just ways to censor, but also ways to protect our privacy, reduce spam, etc.
Whose laws apply on no man's net? Anarchy is good as long as it doesn't harm you. I believe in free speach and freedom, but also the fact that people should be accounted for their acts.
That's a good idea. I'm goin to change my email address to 864687, but in Mayan Numerals.
All I need right now is an ISP that suports Mayan Numerals.
Getting a bit more realistic: I've seen brute force attacks on Hotmail accounts, and it's pretty simple, they will get to you eventually no mater how obscure your email is.
As far as I know linux is free, as in free speech. That will probably be a national threat to them !! Of course if it was free as in beer,...maybe
http://www.internet.com Specially for Java, JavaScript and everything "web" related (whatever that might mean)
http://www.devshed.com Mostly Everything, PHP, ASP, DHTML, Zope, etc.
Well... Hopefully the docs will improve once the Regex Designer for Visual Studio ships ...
or maybe a regex wizard?
Instead, I say they should improve it!
They should also correct all of the mail sent by script kiddies, tHoz tHat tYp LiKe Thiz, to something more logical.
Although some people have trully altruistic motivations to do things for free (such as GPL'd software) everybody requires at least some kind of income in order to survive and have time to develop and offer free software/search engines/whatever... If you are getting pertinent results, even if they are a bit skewed due to payed "links , you are still beter off than searching for a site unaided. It hasn't bothered me at all. After all it's a business, just like any other, or would people prefer subscription based search engines?
Microsoft and most other companies have been trying to do this (and many similar things) for decades, and will continue to do them. Sure MS has the money to do this, but there are limits which even Microsoft cannot surpass. Linux is BIG on the server segment, will Intel and AMD lose their stand in this segment (which tends to be more lucrative than desktop procesors) only to please Microsoft? Not likely. Even if they do, other companies will jump in to fill the void (Transmeta, VIA). I don't approve of it nor will I support it, but I don't think this is the beggining of an "1984"-like world. Just take a look at how long the Win XP authorization scheme remained uncracked