As the question was asked in a room full of people that often did not know each other, it was designed to minimize embarrassment. Note that it does not limit the continuation of Lego playing to a maximum age, only that you did not take it up for the first time in life after becoming an adult (whatever that means in your culture).
I used to run a quick poll on people who were wanting to get in to IT (before the dot.com crash) and it ran along the lines of:
Put up your hand if you played with Lego (mechano/etc) as a child, and
Put up your hand if you can appreciate Monty Python (the Goodies / Red Dwarf / etc) humour.
If you put up a hand for both questions then you have the right personality to be able to work in IT, otherwise there are now plenty of jobs around the periphery of IT that might suit you.
I'm yet to find a major exception to the above theory.
Nice to see that there will continue to be Lego alternatives for those anti-Danish interested in developing IT aptitude skills;-)
Ben Smith (one of the authors) is also actively involved in Microsoft's private trainer newsgroups, and has always been a good source of information for security related questions that are way, way out of what "the theory" is normally limited to.
The utility of the book comes from not just spreading the word about security, but having to do so in forums and formats that require it to be relevant, useable and correct.
As a security consultant and trainer myself I can attest to the gap between theory and practice and the need to put security issues in to terms that are able to be applied in the real world.
Comments above that assume that just because someone works for Microsoft, they don't know how things work in reality are generalisations made out of ignorance or jealousy. This book is a good example that the truth about Microsoft employees, like security, is often misunderstood.
Computers play their own championship?
Ultimately this will have to result in stalemate after stalemate won't it?
Kinda like WOPR in 'Wargames' playing tic-tac-toe with itself.
If having a free trade agreement is a good way of getting US legal muscle in to local laws, we should encourage FTAs between the US and Russia, China and all the other spammers.
Maybe we could then enforce the evil bit (RFC3514) world-wide!
Not blaming the lawyers - just that they will derive positive rather than negative economic benefit from the IPR situation.
ie. regardless of how good or bad the laws are, the only consistent winners in any legal conflict (w/o discounting specific exceptions) is the legal profession.
For the same reason, in any political negotiation there will always be winners and losers to various degrees, but there will always be congratulations flying around for the politicians who make them (even if they get voted out down the line for the same thing).
We need to recognise that we operate in a global economy and removal of artificial boundaries by using FTAs just hastens what would happen anyway.
Yes there will be winners and losers and the fine print hasn't all come out in the wash, and I expect that the US will do much better out of the FTA than Australia - but it creates opportunities that would be much, much harder to find if we try and label things as Australian and therefore sacrosanct.
Yes, I'm an Ozzie and proud that we can stick it to the rest of the world in many things that matter, but in the scheme of things - Australian history and US history are but drops in the ocean when compared with the rest of Europe, Asia and Africa.
Forget about Australian IP vs. US IP or mine vs. yours. This is an opportunity to work at right angles to IPR mentality and get on with being inventive. For me it's not worth the time, cost and effort to play silly buggers on legal games [no demeanment meant - there is a real need for the legal process - I just don't like seeing it abused and delayed with trivial cases - trivial things should be left for quiz nights]. I'd rather find other solutions to problems (as MS has done in the Eolas suit), prove my innovativeness and advance technical arts at the same time. If the only way a company sees of making money is by legal means (SCO anyone) then they are going to burn themselves in the long run.
Just my 2c (or USD0.014):-)
The net economic impact is thus likely to be negative.
except for lawyers.
The point of free trade agreements should be to open avenues of exchange, and not just of goods, but of services, ideas and the like.
If the only winners are lawyers and political kudos then it ain't really a unilateral open and honest FTA.
Maybe I just hanker back for the time of cooperation and backscratching that was the early days of the internet instead of the $$make money fast$$ and backstabbing that seems to goes on now.
It will be interesting to see how many Australian companies incorporate separate R&D subsiduaries in New Zealand or Vanuatu etc to protect themselves against the much more matured and voracious legal 'profession' in the US chasing 'possible' IPR infringements (most of which I'd assume would be to financially cripple competition instead of really protecting IPRs).
btw, what, if any, has been the Canadian experience with this - and can any parallels be drawn (or lessons learnt).
always-on always-connected service
urk, what a concept.
couple it with the ability to pick up subvocal sounds from sensors near your voicebox and we'll end up like the Belcerebon people of Kakrafoon (HHGGTG reference)
As if the plagues of mobile phones aren't enough (people talking in restaurants, cinemas, while driving), freed from Telco mobile charges it could become a real social concern if it isn't DOA but merely pining for the fjords.
HHGGTG quote: The Belcerebon people of Kakrafoon used to cause great resentment and insecurity among neighboring races by being one of the most enlightened, accomplished and, above all, quiet civilizations in the Galaxy.
As a punishment for this behavior, which was held to be offensively self-righteous and provocative, a Galactic Tribunal inflicted on them that most cruel of all social diseases, telepathy. Consequently, in order to prevent themselves broadcasting every slightest thought that crosses their minds to everyone within a five-mile radius, they now have to talk very loudly and continuously about the weather, their little aches and pains, the match this afternoon and what a noisy place Kakrafoon has suddenly become.
Anne Quéméré = Anchor Mer (Sea) eh?
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no wonder she's in love with the ocean.
AnneQue sounds like Anchor.
Mer = Sea in french.
I s'pose it is one way to beat the queues at the airport though.
High latency, low bandwidth, low reliability, single packet, connectionless protocol. RFC 1149 spawned another RFC (2549) and had two implementations to take it out of just a draft version, so why not this. Maybe she's hoping that the publicity will encourage another lunat^H^H^H rower to do likewise. (or else she's on the SYN-ACK leg of her first attempt).
I'm sure that there are more nerdly connections we can make when we have too much time on our hands:-)
Next time you might get more for it by advertising it as a hard drive with hidden flash.
BTW, try doing a data recovery on some of the little flash drives that get given out as promos. A few I've seen look like they've been used by the sales staff, before being given out to clients:-)
Hidden performance problems that surface later - like Enron?, or is it just that when the heavy calculations need to be done, the high end chips will say "see you later on" while these low end ones stagger on.
I often use the heat to keep me warm while watching TV during the winter. A lap pad would cut out that benefit. I can play solitaire during the commercials and run SETI@home in the background, and it doesn't obstruct the TV viewing. [pre-empting replies - my wife can keep me warm as well, but without the solitaire, SETI@home and unobstucted view:-)]
Normally I will finish what I start - but:
Highlander.
1 was good.
2 was bad. (I ignored advice on seeing this)
3 made tried to correct 2 and made things worse. (I also ignored advice)
4 - I have avoided seeing - as it apparantly rewrites the ending for 1 to make it more in line with the TV Show (revisionism at its worst!).
for some people I'm sure that the Matrix will be the same. They won't like 3 and as 2 is really just the first half of the reloaded/revolutions double they'll turn the Matrix into another Highlander.
Case in point - how many 'cult' movies have ever **really** succeeded beyond the first in maintaining the cult status. StarWars may be an abherration but I know some SW fanatics that want to stop at "A New Hope", and I know of similar stories re. Alien.
Cult movie examples:
Highlander, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Princess Bride, Spinal Tap, etc.
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Was it really Mr. Shatner's house (well - swimming pool) that featured in the pool party scene in the Wizard of Speed and Time and did he have a screen cameo appearance that got left out because he only wanted to speak Esperanto?
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As the question was asked in a room full of people that often did not know each other, it was designed to minimize embarrassment. Note that it does not limit the continuation of Lego playing to a maximum age, only that you did not take it up for the first time in life after becoming an adult (whatever that means in your culture).
You don't have to like it - you just have to "get" it.
- Put up your hand if you played with Lego (mechano/etc) as a child, and
- Put up your hand if you can appreciate Monty Python (the Goodies / Red Dwarf / etc) humour.
If you put up a hand for both questions then you have the right personality to be able to work in IT, otherwise there are now plenty of jobs around the periphery of IT that might suit you.I'm yet to find a major exception to the above theory.
Nice to see that there will continue to be Lego alternatives for those anti-Danish interested in developing IT aptitude skills
Ben Smith (one of the authors) is also actively involved in Microsoft's private trainer newsgroups, and has always been a good source of information for security related questions that are way, way out of what "the theory" is normally limited to.
The utility of the book comes from not just spreading the word about security, but having to do so in forums and formats that require it to be relevant, useable and correct.
As a security consultant and trainer myself I can attest to the gap between theory and practice and the need to put security issues in to terms that are able to be applied in the real world.
Comments above that assume that just because someone works for Microsoft, they don't know how things work in reality are generalisations made out of ignorance or jealousy. This book is a good example that the truth about Microsoft employees, like security, is often misunderstood.
Computers play their own championship?
Ultimately this will have to result in stalemate after stalemate won't it?
Kinda like WOPR in 'Wargames' playing tic-tac-toe with itself.
have time to grow webbed feet
What's next? beak? flippers?
Is Linus evolving in to Tux?
If having a free trade agreement is a good way of getting US legal muscle in to local laws, we should encourage FTAs between the US and Russia, China and all the other spammers.
Maybe we could then enforce the evil bit (RFC3514) world-wide!
Not blaming the lawyers - just that they will derive positive rather than negative economic benefit from the IPR situation. :-)
ie. regardless of how good or bad the laws are, the only consistent winners in any legal conflict (w/o discounting specific exceptions) is the legal profession.
For the same reason, in any political negotiation there will always be winners and losers to various degrees, but there will always be congratulations flying around for the politicians who make them (even if they get voted out down the line for the same thing).
We need to recognise that we operate in a global economy and removal of artificial boundaries by using FTAs just hastens what would happen anyway.
Yes there will be winners and losers and the fine print hasn't all come out in the wash, and I expect that the US will do much better out of the FTA than Australia - but it creates opportunities that would be much, much harder to find if we try and label things as Australian and therefore sacrosanct.
Yes, I'm an Ozzie and proud that we can stick it to the rest of the world in many things that matter, but in the scheme of things - Australian history and US history are but drops in the ocean when compared with the rest of Europe, Asia and Africa.
Forget about Australian IP vs. US IP or mine vs. yours. This is an opportunity to work at right angles to IPR mentality and get on with being inventive. For me it's not worth the time, cost and effort to play silly buggers on legal games [no demeanment meant - there is a real need for the legal process - I just don't like seeing it abused and delayed with trivial cases - trivial things should be left for quiz nights]. I'd rather find other solutions to problems (as MS has done in the Eolas suit), prove my innovativeness and advance technical arts at the same time. If the only way a company sees of making money is by legal means (SCO anyone) then they are going to burn themselves in the long run.
Just my 2c (or USD0.014)
except for lawyers.
The point of free trade agreements should be to open avenues of exchange, and not just of goods, but of services, ideas and the like.
If the only winners are lawyers and political kudos then it ain't really a unilateral open and honest FTA.
Maybe I just hanker back for the time of cooperation and backscratching that was the early days of the internet instead of the $$make money fast$$ and backstabbing that seems to goes on now.
It will be interesting to see how many Australian companies incorporate separate R&D subsiduaries in New Zealand or Vanuatu etc to protect themselves against the much more matured and voracious legal 'profession' in the US chasing 'possible' IPR infringements (most of which I'd assume would be to financially cripple competition instead of really protecting IPRs).
btw, what, if any, has been the Canadian experience with this - and can any parallels be drawn (or lessons learnt).
urk, what a concept.
couple it with the ability to pick up subvocal sounds from sensors near your voicebox and we'll end up like the Belcerebon people of Kakrafoon (HHGGTG reference)
As if the plagues of mobile phones aren't enough (people talking in restaurants, cinemas, while driving), freed from Telco mobile charges it could become a real social concern if it isn't DOA but merely pining for the fjords.
HHGGTG quote: The Belcerebon people of Kakrafoon used to cause great resentment and insecurity among neighboring races by being one of the most enlightened, accomplished and, above all, quiet civilizations in the Galaxy.
As a punishment for this behavior, which was held to be offensively self-righteous and provocative, a Galactic Tribunal inflicted on them that most cruel of all social diseases, telepathy. Consequently, in order to prevent themselves broadcasting every slightest thought that crosses their minds to everyone within a five-mile radius, they now have to talk very loudly and continuously about the weather, their little aches and pains, the match this afternoon and what a noisy place Kakrafoon has suddenly become.
no wonder she's in love with the ocean.
AnneQue sounds like Anchor.
Mer = Sea in french.
I s'pose it is one way to beat the queues at the airport though.
High latency, low bandwidth, low reliability, single packet, connectionless protocol. RFC 1149 spawned another RFC (2549) and had two implementations to take it out of just a draft version, so why not this. :-)
Maybe she's hoping that the publicity will encourage another lunat^H^H^H rower to do likewise. (or else she's on the SYN-ACK leg of her first attempt).
I'm sure that there are more nerdly connections we can make when we have too much time on our hands
Next time you might get more for it by advertising it as a hard drive with hidden flash. :-)
BTW, try doing a data recovery on some of the little flash drives that get given out as promos. A few I've seen look like they've been used by the sales staff, before being given out to clients
Hidden performance problems that surface later - like Enron?, or is it just that when the heavy calculations need to be done, the high end chips will say "see you later on" while these low end ones stagger on.
If PHP is open source does this make it Open^2GL?
I often use the heat to keep me warm while watching TV during the winter. :-)]
A lap pad would cut out that benefit.
I can play solitaire during the commercials and run SETI@home in the background, and it doesn't obstruct the TV viewing.
[pre-empting replies - my wife can keep me warm as well, but without the solitaire, SETI@home and unobstucted view
Normally I will finish what I start - but: Highlander. 1 was good. 2 was bad. (I ignored advice on seeing this) 3 made tried to correct 2 and made things worse. (I also ignored advice) 4 - I have avoided seeing - as it apparantly rewrites the ending for 1 to make it more in line with the TV Show (revisionism at its worst!). for some people I'm sure that the Matrix will be the same. They won't like 3 and as 2 is really just the first half of the reloaded/revolutions double they'll turn the Matrix into another Highlander. Case in point - how many 'cult' movies have ever **really** succeeded beyond the first in maintaining the cult status. StarWars may be an abherration but I know some SW fanatics that want to stop at "A New Hope", and I know of similar stories re. Alien. Cult movie examples: Highlander, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Princess Bride, Spinal Tap, etc. erucsbo
Was it really Mr. Shatner's house (well - swimming pool) that featured in the pool party scene in the Wizard of Speed and Time and did he have a screen cameo appearance that got left out because he only wanted to speak Esperanto?