I doubt companies really think they will be able to stop it but if they did not try that as good as them endorsing stealing their software. At least the remote possibility of punishment keeps most law abiding people in line.
Granted many idividuals sometimes even myself (though I have gotten better lately with academic licensed software and OSS) will have pirated copies of software, notably overpriced commodity software (IE MS windows and Office). I believe MS makes most of their money from business where the potential of loss to due to infractions on EULAs is much greater than to a home user. Also it easier for a business to get caught, just takes one unhappy employee who just lost their job to give the BSA a call.
Most Video game makers have solved the problem of pirated software with online play where each cd or copy of the game uniquely identifies itself and only one copy can play online at once. As a result downloading the game with net play functionality stripped from it is not as good and you will shell out the $40 or so for the game.
I dont keep a blog but i wonder what the implications are of keeping a technical based blog for those of us working under strict NDA's. If I am doing work on new tech xyz i am sure any mention of it in a blog could have serious consequences and since all my work would be focused in this area I wouldnt have much else to blog.
I think a big problem is that elementary school teachers hold these stigmas of math being difficult and focus more time on history, reading and writing (not that these are worthless subjects). The students can sense what subjects a teacher is intrested in and follow their lead. Many people who are very comfortable with math do not become second grade teachers (of course there are exceptions). Most second grade teachers probably had to study their asses off to pass whatever general level math test was thrown at them to pass their credentials.
I wonder how many people send out resumes in word format with changes being tracked. Could be interesting next time your hiring to uh read between the lines.
Also usefull is a website from the chp with traffic incident information (this is what the radio and TV traffic report people are likely reading)
Would be more usefull if I had an easy way to access this information while in the car. But a quick check before heading out on the freeways is always a good idea escpecially as it gets closer to 5pm.
Well here I am 4 (ok 5) years later with 2 kids and suv, and thankfully a wife (not ex) I am graduating this June with my B.S. Computer Engineering. (ok i got the wife, kids, and suv a bit early)
I currently have two offers for engineering posistions from major international tech companies in my area in the range of 55k-60k a year (better benifits from the lower salary). I have to choose and I am still three months out from graduation. So I dont know what all you are complaining about offshoring. If you love what you do work hard you will find something and sometimes something will find you. Also I dont know why you sound so bitter about your kids. I am happy to spend every last dime I have on them.
I must add though that I have been quite happy with half.com for text books, both as a seller and buyer. The shipping price is fixed and resonable. When you are actually shipping something the fee they give you for shipping is never enough but I figure it balances out when I buy books.
Ebay has fallen a long ways i n my book
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I liked ebay when it was just people selling second hand items, businesses selling surplus etc. Ever since the ebay business model sprung to life ebay imho sucks. Sure they let something like a cell phone faceplate go for $2.00 that you would pay $15 for in the mall. ut then they hit you with a $8 to $10 s/h fee, and you get it in an envlope with 0.95 postage marked on it. They are just using the shipping and handling fee to insure their profit. And good luck if something is broken or incorrect when it comes back with these mega sellers of cheap crap, they glady will take the negative feedback point as it will be lost in the thousands of others were they didnt screw up. And the scams are unblievable. Instructions to build your own projection tv, wholesaler list. errr
I do think though that after graduating from a cs/ce program you have enough expereince to at least be a junior member on a java dev team (ok not every cs grad, some are pretty bad). You may not know all the real world aspects but can pick them up real quick. the whole J2EE concept may be foreign also but just need to get your feet wet. And then over time you can become a more seasoned professional.
I believe patents are needed for inovation. Why would you spend millions on R&D when someone can later copy your idea and work and sell for a fraction of the cost?
What i do think is the problem is allowing patents to be granted for ideas that are really just unique premutations of common and patented knowledge. Example:
You should be able to patent a new networking protocool which allows 1Tb transfer speed over phone lines (i know this doesnt exist) but you should not be able to patent using this technology for sending greeting cards.
I know this is a bit extreme of example and in that lies the problem where do you draw the line between new technology and new application of existing tech. But this is seen for example in one click shopping. Well this is just an application of html and some server side programming IMHO not patentable it is just a natural extension of these technologies. However if i came up with a way of allowing people to smell products through their monitor I should be able to patent that. Business plan patents are just a bad idea, and how can you prove its unqiue, like the feedback for ebay. people have been using feedback for ddealing with merchants since the beginning of time, just because its internet based doesnt make it special.
That is my biggest problem with my motoral T720i. When you press any key there is a very noticable delay before the action takes place. So of course i push the button a million times before it does anything then all the keey presses register and the phone goes bezerk
I am in San Diego, Here there is everything from very rural to downtown urban. San Diego is very very spread out. The north county has lots of country areas, orange groves, avocado groves, and still be under an hour from downtown. Valley Center, fallbrook, parts of escondido and san marcos all have very back country areas. then the suburbs, which can be fairly spaced out, large back yards, then of course theare are the more urban areas with lots of aprartment condo types.
I am sure there are other areas like this and not as expensive as San Diego.
I told my wife i wanted an MP3 player for my birthday. My wife is a die hard sony fan. We have a sony digital camera, sony, digital camcorder, sony projection tv, well you get the picture. Anyways sony makes this network walkman Which is a ATRAC player. Well my wife saw it and loved it, not knowing the diffrence between mp3 and ATRAC. Now when i told her i wanted an mp3 player i was thinking of that $79 one I saw at cosco. Well she got the sony one for me. It is really cool, tiny and has pretty good size built in memory , 256MB. The new ones have 512mb i think. The thing i hate the most is that it requires the magic gate memory stick which is way overpriced for digital media. The sonic stage software is not bad but I dont like being tied down, and what happens down the road when they discontinue this line and i loose the sonic stage cd and need to reinstall?
currently i have sonic stage configured to convert mp3 to ATRAC when i transfer mp3 files to the device. Its kind of slow but i didnt want to convert all my mp3 to atrac and keep 2 copies, and i didnt want to commit my music collection to sony and abandon my mp3's
I do love my sony digital camera As far as quality of the pictures it take its great. The photo album software that came with it sucks majorly. When I installed it after it was done it said "Select another system to boot again" in other words reboot the system. Sony shame on you for including crap with a fairly expensive product. I use photoshop for any photo retouching/editing and the software that came with my hp printer is pretty decent when it comes to just selecting pictures and printing them and making sure the sizes are all good. The sony software had no option to print. Ony allowed you to organize photos into albums. Windows xp explorer is much better for browsing my pictures than that crap.
well i am sure we all have seen this.
People who think the monitor is the computer, the whole computer is the cpu, the hardrive is the box on the floor etc etc. My grandma even thought you had to have paper in the printer to start typing. but its no big deal nod and smile.
Now what gets me is when people have a problem and are asking for help. They say my Microsft windows is broken, what they really mean is that word is misbehaving when printing. I contract for a small office doing tech support/it stuff. It makes it very hard to diagnose what the problems are over the phone. They told me they had a grey screen (turns out the text is kind of greyish, or maybe they are colorblind), when they had a bsod. They tell me they have a blue screen when they see a blank windows desktop (granted it is blue).
office: My computer is not working
me: whats wrong?
office: its not working
me: can you describe whats not working
office: I got a box and i click ok and my windows close
me: what did this box say
office: Umm i dont remember something about ummm i dont know
me: What program were you using when this happend
office: windows
me: well ok what program in windows
office: umm... huh?
me: were you using word? the database? email?
office: oh windows
me: yes but what program
office: you know windows. I was typing a letter and
well my laptop is sans floppy and i cant use the floppy on my desktop because of all the quarters my two year old jammed in there. So i am officaly floppy free.
My two year old also descided to decrotate my keyboard, mouse, case, desk, and a few walls with a green pernamet marker.
on a related note:
just have your company buy you a pager that way you still get your messages and you arnt seen carrying a cell phone by anyone who might feel shafted about losing theirs.
or if your having it sent to an e-mail address like yournumber@yourwirelessprovider.com just change it to an e-mail address where you can have it foward the e-mail to your phone number, and your pager number. That way while at work and you your pager is on, phone is off. Leave work leave the pager (who wants to carry a phone and a pager nowadays) and all messages get sent to your personal phone.
I agree i got the same impression. I am currently writing a naive bayesian filter for an ai algorithms class. Pretty interesting project. Unfourtnatly we are not tying it into any e-mail client.
I just got this cusinart coffe maker from costco. Very excellent. I had this coffee/expresso maker from deloghni. stay away. the digital clock and status lights never worked. i bought one for myy parents for christmas and theirs never worked either. for almost $200 i would hope that it would have worked. took it backa nd turned it into a blender and food processor and a coffemaker.
who needs starbukcs, i dont go for those fancy foo foo lates, just give me my coffe straight up, mauybe with a bit of coffemate in it. I had 4 cups after midnight last night pulled another all nighter trying to get my damn compiler working. good knews i was able to compile a tetris game from oberon and it worked at god damn 2:30am
whooo hoooo
My wife had her car stolen. Of course we reported it to the police. A couple days later we get a call they had found the car abandoned on the roadway and the car had been impounded and we had to go pick it up and pay all the impound fees as well as a police service fee of like a hundred dollars. And of course the cd deck, cd changer and all the speakers were gone. I think it would be more worth while to have a cell phone in your car hooked up to gps and just give it a call when your car goes missing and deal with it yourself.
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I doubt companies really think they will be able to stop it but if they did not try that as good as them endorsing stealing their software. At least the remote possibility of punishment keeps most law abiding people in line. Granted many idividuals sometimes even myself (though I have gotten better lately with academic licensed software and OSS) will have pirated copies of software, notably overpriced commodity software (IE MS windows and Office). I believe MS makes most of their money from business where the potential of loss to due to infractions on EULAs is much greater than to a home user. Also it easier for a business to get caught, just takes one unhappy employee who just lost their job to give the BSA a call. Most Video game makers have solved the problem of pirated software with online play where each cd or copy of the game uniquely identifies itself and only one copy can play online at once. As a result downloading the game with net play functionality stripped from it is not as good and you will shell out the $40 or so for the game.
I dont keep a blog but i wonder what the implications are of keeping a technical based blog for those of us working under strict NDA's. If I am doing work on new tech xyz i am sure any mention of it in a blog could have serious consequences and since all my work would be focused in this area I wouldnt have much else to blog.
I think a big problem is that elementary school teachers hold these stigmas of math being difficult and focus more time on history, reading and writing (not that these are worthless subjects). The students can sense what subjects a teacher is intrested in and follow their lead. Many people who are very comfortable with math do not become second grade teachers (of course there are exceptions). Most second grade teachers probably had to study their asses off to pass whatever general level math test was thrown at them to pass their credentials.
I wonder how many people send out resumes in word format with changes being tracked. Could be interesting next time your hiring to uh read between the lines.
Also usefull is a website from the chp with traffic incident information (this is what the radio and TV traffic report people are likely reading)
Would be more usefull if I had an easy way to access this information while in the car. But a quick check before heading out on the freeways is always a good idea escpecially as it gets closer to 5pm.
I currently have two offers for engineering posistions from major international tech companies in my area in the range of 55k-60k a year (better benifits from the lower salary). I have to choose and I am still three months out from graduation. So I dont know what all you are complaining about offshoring. If you love what you do work hard you will find something and sometimes something will find you. Also I dont know why you sound so bitter about your kids. I am happy to spend every last dime I have on them.
We can rebuild him. We have the technology
I must add though that I have been quite happy with half.com for text books, both as a seller and buyer. The shipping price is fixed and resonable. When you are actually shipping something the fee they give you for shipping is never enough but I figure it balances out when I buy books.
I liked ebay when it was just people selling second hand items, businesses selling surplus etc. Ever since the ebay business model sprung to life ebay imho sucks. Sure they let something like a cell phone faceplate go for $2.00 that you would pay $15 for in the mall. ut then they hit you with a $8 to $10 s/h fee, and you get it in an envlope with 0.95 postage marked on it. They are just using the shipping and handling fee to insure their profit. And good luck if something is broken or incorrect when it comes back with these mega sellers of cheap crap, they glady will take the negative feedback point as it will be lost in the thousands of others were they didnt screw up. And the scams are unblievable. Instructions to build your own projection tv, wholesaler list. errr
I do think though that after graduating from a cs/ce program you have enough expereince to at least be a junior member on a java dev team (ok not every cs grad, some are pretty bad). You may not know all the real world aspects but can pick them up real quick. the whole J2EE concept may be foreign also but just need to get your feet wet. And then over time you can become a more seasoned professional.
What i do think is the problem is allowing patents to be granted for ideas that are really just unique premutations of common and patented knowledge. Example:
You should be able to patent a new networking protocool which allows 1Tb transfer speed over phone lines (i know this doesnt exist) but you should not be able to patent using this technology for sending greeting cards.
I know this is a bit extreme of example and in that lies the problem where do you draw the line between new technology and new application of existing tech. But this is seen for example in one click shopping. Well this is just an application of html and some server side programming IMHO not patentable it is just a natural extension of these technologies. However if i came up with a way of allowing people to smell products through their monitor I should be able to patent that. Business plan patents are just a bad idea, and how can you prove its unqiue, like the feedback for ebay. people have been using feedback for ddealing with merchants since the beginning of time, just because its internet based doesnt make it special.
That is my biggest problem with my motoral T720i. When you press any key there is a very noticable delay before the action takes place. So of course i push the button a million times before it does anything then all the keey presses register and the phone goes bezerk
I am in San Diego, Here there is everything from very rural to downtown urban. San Diego is very very spread out. The north county has lots of country areas, orange groves, avocado groves, and still be under an hour from downtown. Valley Center, fallbrook, parts of escondido and san marcos all have very back country areas. then the suburbs, which can be fairly spaced out, large back yards, then of course theare are the more urban areas with lots of aprartment condo types. I am sure there are other areas like this and not as expensive as San Diego.
currently i have sonic stage configured to convert mp3 to ATRAC when i transfer mp3 files to the device. Its kind of slow but i didnt want to convert all my mp3 to atrac and keep 2 copies, and i didnt want to commit my music collection to sony and abandon my mp3's
I do love my sony digital camera As far as quality of the pictures it take its great. The photo album software that came with it sucks majorly. When I installed it after it was done it said "Select another system to boot again" in other words reboot the system. Sony shame on you for including crap with a fairly expensive product. I use photoshop for any photo retouching/editing and the software that came with my hp printer is pretty decent when it comes to just selecting pictures and printing them and making sure the sizes are all good. The sony software had no option to print. Ony allowed you to organize photos into albums. Windows xp explorer is much better for browsing my pictures than that crap.
but why do you want to quit the program when you save?
office: My computer is not working
me: whats wrong?
office: its not working
me: can you describe whats not working
office: I got a box and i click ok and my windows close
me: what did this box say
office: Umm i dont remember something about ummm i dont know
me: What program were you using when this happend
office: windows
me: well ok what program in windows
office: umm... huh?
me: were you using word? the database? email?
office: oh windows
me: yes but what program
office: you know windows. I was typing a letter and
well you get the picture
My two year old also descided to decrotate my keyboard, mouse, case, desk, and a few walls with a green pernamet marker.
just have your company buy you a pager that way you still get your messages and you arnt seen carrying a cell phone by anyone who might feel shafted about losing theirs.
or if your having it sent to an e-mail address like yournumber@yourwirelessprovider.com just change it to an e-mail address where you can have it foward the e-mail to your phone number, and your pager number. That way while at work and you your pager is on, phone is off. Leave work leave the pager (who wants to carry a phone and a pager nowadays) and all messages get sent to your personal phone.
I agree i got the same impression. I am currently writing a naive bayesian filter for an ai algorithms class. Pretty interesting project. Unfourtnatly we are not tying it into any e-mail client.
not just me either, at any time if you sit on the back about o third of the class will have laptops out doing spmething obviously not class related
well i am italian and i drink a hell of a lot of coffee so you be damned
yes especially with all the time you will be spending on the toilet if you drink enough, should lose some good wieght
I just got this cusinart coffe maker from costco. Very excellent. I had this coffee/expresso maker from deloghni. stay away. the digital clock and status lights never worked. i bought one for myy parents for christmas and theirs never worked either. for almost $200 i would hope that it would have worked. took it backa nd turned it into a blender and food processor and a coffemaker.
who needs starbukcs, i dont go for those fancy foo foo lates, just give me my coffe straight up, mauybe with a bit of coffemate in it. I had 4 cups after midnight last night pulled another all nighter trying to get my damn compiler working. good knews i was able to compile a tetris game from oberon and it worked at god damn 2:30am whooo hoooo
My wife had her car stolen. Of course we reported it to the police. A couple days later we get a call they had found the car abandoned on the roadway and the car had been impounded and we had to go pick it up and pay all the impound fees as well as a police service fee of like a hundred dollars. And of course the cd deck, cd changer and all the speakers were gone. I think it would be more worth while to have a cell phone in your car hooked up to gps and just give it a call when your car goes missing and deal with it yourself.