Far better is to gather as much evidence as possible (dates,times,numbers etc..) and submit it to the appropriate service provider. In all cases, the offending party will more than likely have their service disconnected (nothing like a $100 reconnection charge), and a squad car parked outside their front door for an evening. UK research has shown that people who are bullies at school are more likely to become criminals as adults. Here are a good few web pages which provide professional advice:
Is it worth being a member? I've considered at times, but the only benefit seemed to be some journal, which I wasn't sure if it would be any good.
If you're considering a career in R&D, you will be expected to keep your knowledge up to date by reading such journals. For a Ph.D, you *have* to conduct a literature survey, and demonstrate knowledge of relevant papers in your area of research.
Working in a software development environment, reading such papers will give you a idea of what new techology you will be working with in 12-18 months time. Looking back at the order in which innovations were announced, will give you an idea of what will be announced in the future.
If you don't want a personal subscription, you should see if your employer has a subscription to the ACM and IEEE online libraries.
One thing I'm wondering about, is why there isn't any research on modelling the bonding behaviour of atoms, and using this to predict the behaviour of molecules (There is research on protein folding). Walking past the chemistry department in any university, and you will hundreds of posters describing the research on the interaction betweens pairs of molecules. Surely, these experiments could be simulated by computer?
I "anonymous coward" of no known IP address, being sound in online connectivity, and over the age of credit card ownership,and knowing the uncertainty of dial-up connections and the certainty of disconnection and wishing to dispose of my possessions and belongings both in the real world and in online gaming communities while in health and strength do make this my will.
After the payment of my credit card debts, store cards and porn subscriptions, I hereby bequeath my slashdot username to be auctioned on E-bay and the proceeds donated to the open source community.
That would work... you wouldn't have to tie a heavy-duty cable to the ferret, just a strong piece of string. Once that was across, you could pull any heavy piece of cable across. For really heavy duty cables, just hold onto the string and jump from a stepladder onto the floor.
I knew a guy who gained the nickname of "The human spider". He was once faced with the task of hauling a cable up from the basement to the second floor of a building where several intersecting rooms were locked. His solution? Being short in stature, but with a wiry physique, he actually managed to squeeze himself through the 18" x 12" holes cut in the concrete levels.
I've done that job. Not in New York, but while working as a intern for a telecoms company. We were installing new Ethernet LAN cables in refurbished offices. These were the original thick yellow cables with the vampire taps to $1000 Ethernet cards.
In one office suite, which was on the penthouse level, the cables had be hauled all the away around the eaves of the building just to reach one desk. This required the efforts of two engineers. The first guy had to crawl through the office space, pulling a reel of cable behind him, while the second guy held onto the other end. At another location, the task of replacing old cable with new cable would require one engineer to stand one level jiggling the desired cable up and down, until the second engineer found the matching cable on a different floor.
As officially we were supposed to be management level, all staff had to wear suits and ties at all times.
This sums it up. SCO is suing IBM for breach of contract, nothing more, nothing less. What dows Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman et al have to do with this contract? did they sign it?
Reminds me of a car bumper sticker I once saw:
"Protected by Mafia Insurance - You hit us, we hit you."
Dear OrbDev,
While looking for a suitable place to park, we checked several times but found no parking lines, parking notice or parking meters. we have the photographic evidence to substantiate this claim.
-- NASA
Re:Only 1996 to the Present
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That must have been back around 1989? I remember seeing the first 386's with VGA graphics, and the demos featuring 320x200 256 colour graphics of a castle. By 1990, my paradise card was superceded by a $700 Hercules Graphics Station Card (TMS34010 processor) with came with 1 Megabyte of VRAM (the double-buffering option cost another $300) and four 24-bit colour images; A head-scan, a party-pup (don't even ask!!!), a fashion model and somebody leaning out of a window. I managed to write a SGI image format viewer, and thought viewing SGI's "helping build a better dinosaur" advert was the coolest image in my collection. At this time, Windows 3.1 didn't support 24-bit colour 3D graphics, so the only way to write your own extensions using TIGA.
A rough sequence of the video standards would be:
1981 MDA,Hercules,CGA (IBM)
1983 PCjr (IBM)
1984 EGA (IBM)
1986 TIGA (Texas Instruments), 8514/A (IBM)
1987 MCGA,VGA (IBM)
1990 XGA, XGA-2 (IBM)
1990+ SVGA,XGA,SXGA,UXGA (various manufacturers)
1990+ VESA (manufacturers form consortium)
The early 1990's was probably the time of greatest change, when all the manufacturers were trying to outperform each other on resolution, refresh rate, video memory size, and finally 2D acceleration. The resulting chaos and incompatibility between cards led to the formation of the VESA consortium.
The mid 1990's were the time in which many of the innovators formed: 3Dfx (1994, from MediaVision),nVidia (1993), and Rendition (1993)
NVidia introduced the NV-1 in May 1995,
3Dfx introduced the Voodoo card in October 1996.
ATI had been around since 1985, but didn't introduce the 3D Rage until September 1996 (but with No Z-buffer).
Matrox introduced the m3D in 1997 (piggybacking onto a VGA card)....
Rendition introduces one of the first MiniGL drivers in 1998.
By 1999, each company was releasing new graphics cards every six months.
Any good gaming web site will give you the product history of each manufacturer.
Are you saying that using a LCD display with a VGA graphics adapter card is the wrong way to read slashdot articles? Perhaps the media (eg. the BBC corporation) should run a series on helping people use their TLA's properly.
Our local bus company has large glass covered panels attached to each bus stop for everyone to read. These panels are large enough for up to six routes to be displayed above each other. This is particularly important for busy stops which serve multiple routes. The panels are usually set between 5 feet and 7 feet in height. If there is any spare space, this is allocated to advertise local tourist bus services. Unfortunately, for single service bus stops this means that the bus route is placed 7 feet up, unreadable to anyone except professional basketball players.
Back in 2000, I used to have an Kodak Advantix camera. It took standard photographs, and I would send the reels of film in for development of prints and a set of images burned onto CD-ROM. Unfortunately, during this year, Kodak allowed National Geographic to use the spare space on the CD-ROM for advertising purposes. So when I placed the CD-ROM expecting to see either a directory or
thumbnails of my photographs, the yellow square would appear instead. Even worse, the application always auto-started on whatever PC was used. Needless to say, I ripped my own photographs off the CD-ROM, burnt them onto a new file, and also bought a digital camera.
What will be next? A digital camera that places adverts between every ten photographs?
Will your TV remote automatically switch channels to an infomercial?
Not my TV, but my cable TV set top box does. Telewest (UK) just upgraded their menu systems. Now, whenever I select the [GameZone] menu option, whichever cable channel I listen to (even the BBC World News radio) is automatically switched over to the FrontRow trailer preview - No negotiation. As soon as I leave the GameZone, the channel is automatically switched back to whatever channel was playing when I started, even if the FrontRow channel is now playing a trailer I want to see.
It's good to see that cable TV system developers really know how to design good user interface.
From the comments I've read, I've always assumed that the Microsoft Word file format is proprietary and undecodable, although unofficial format specifications do exist.
The biggest leverage Microsoft has for forcing new workers to learn Microsoft Office, is the insistance by recruitment agencies and employers that they submit resumes and CV's in Microsoft Word format. That more or less forces everyone to learn Windows, Microsoft Word before anything else.
I've seen the evolution of word processing technology in my high-school. There used to be
one classroom completely full of mechanical typewriters; great big clunky machines that dripped oil and rust. These were replaced by electric typewriters with single LCD line displays, which were in turn replaced by a handful of dedicated monitor/keyboard setups, before the financial resources were finally pooled with the computing department.
This more or less makes it easy for Microsoft to dominate the market. The only way all the other companies would be able to compete against Microsoft Office is to adopt a common document standard, and if possible try and keep the basic interface the same.
It's a cool logo, but it makes me think of A.I. programming techniques, rather than hacking. For some reason, a picture of an ice-pick seems to come to mind quicker.
There are sensors on the top of traffic lights in the UK that respond to headlights.
If an ambulance is approaching lights on red he can flash his full beams a few times and the sequence changes.
I can't wait to go to work tomorrow. It's going to be interesting to see how quickly this piece of information gets passed around, and all the drivers try flashing their lights at the traffic lights.
Of course, they could just be warning everyone else that there's a speed trap up ahead.
A book of Poetry, or cookbook (as mentioned by article), or even technical documentation, if i only need documentation on a small part(s) of a machine, even code samples would be left freely availible by this feature
Nearly all of the cookbooks and many of the reference books that I have seen, have the advantage of having glossy color plates. These usually turn out looking awful using a monochrome laser printer. As another comment points out, the cost of using such a system would probably cost more in toner.
Does anyone remember seeing the Northern lights one night in late December 1991? There were faint blue bands that appeared to travel across the sky from the North pole heading Southwards. At a point in the sky 180 degrees opposite to where the Sun was, there was what appeared to be a + shaped glowing patch in red and green hues.
Anyone else seen this?
Re:Is this book really neccessary??
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Software Exorcism
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Is this really the "corporate landscape" for many software engineers? A job so bad where you feel compelled to check for keyloggers, keep paper trails locked in a home safe, etc.?
That would be a fairly extreme situation. When these kind of things happen, it's usually between senior engineers/consultants and management over major issues. Because of the high salaries, the stakes are much higher. The technical staff believe management are sacrificing safety for profits, and management become suspicious that the technical staff might become whistle-blowers. One story that I remember was between a Health Management Organisation manager and a medical consultant. Rather clumsily, the HMO manager tapped the telephone line of a consultant using a tape recorder in a wooden box nailed to the wall of a bathroom cubicle. The consultant became curious one day, opened up the box and found the tape-recorder. Immediately, he called the police and things become very messy for the manager.
With more junior staff, most of the politics occur over learning new skills. For example, you can be working happily in a group on a project. However, towards the end of the project, management announcement that someone is going to have to work on maintenance, while the other engineers will be getting to move onto new projects. Watch the poltical maneuvering as everyone tries to point out how much research they did, how much seniority they have or which qualifications they have, while pointing out how many bugs are in the work developed by other engineers. With intermediate staff, management might decide they want to take on new staff, and
split the work shared between two team leaders into a technical director and project manager. Or simply management want to reduce head count, and let some people go.
Maybe a new piece of hardware or software comes along, and several people wants the opportunity to gain experience in this area, but there's only need for one person to attend training courses.
At the end of the day, what everyone learns is: "Keep your skills up to date. If your not able to do this with your existing employer, find a new employer who will". If you end up in the situation where a more senior member of staff feels that you are trying to invade their domain, you'll end up in a very stressful situation and risk burning out.
Most companies avoid these situations by insisting that any new staff already have the required experience in this area.
From the following quote I got the impression you didn't know about England.
The reason not so many European IT jobs.
The last time I checked, the UK was part of Europe - as much as some of our MP's would like to think differently:)
Slashdot Mirror
+5 Black Dragon Scale Mail, +4 Fireproof boots of levitation +5 Fireproof cloak of magic resistance +5 Rustproof Helm of Brilliance +4 Gauntlets of Dexterity +5 Fireproof Hawaiian T-shirt AC: -28
Far better is to gather as much evidence as possible (dates,times,numbers etc..) and submit it to the appropriate service provider. In all cases, the offending party will more than likely have their service disconnected (nothing like a $100 reconnection charge), and a squad car parked outside their front door for an evening. UK research has shown that people who are bullies at school are more likely to become criminals as adults. Here are a good few web pages which provide professional advice:
Bullying.co.uk
BullyOnline.org
Schoolyard Bullying Goes High Tech
The UK also has a Protection from Harassment Act
Textually
but there's a lot of free software which is neither well written nor well understood, particularly the latter
But at least you have access to the Linux source code to know this. What does the Windows source code look like?
Is it worth being a member? I've considered at times, but the only benefit seemed to be some journal, which I wasn't sure if it would be any good.
If you're considering a career in R&D, you will be expected to keep your knowledge up to date by reading such journals. For a Ph.D, you *have* to conduct a literature survey, and demonstrate knowledge of relevant papers in your area of research.
Working in a software development environment, reading such papers will give you a idea of what new techology you will be working with in 12-18 months time. Looking back at the order in which innovations were announced, will give you an idea of what will be announced in the future.
If you don't want a personal subscription, you should see if your employer has a subscription to the ACM and IEEE online libraries.
One thing I'm wondering about, is why there isn't any research on modelling the bonding behaviour of atoms, and using this to predict the behaviour of molecules (There is research on protein folding). Walking past the chemistry department in any university, and you will hundreds of posters describing the research on the interaction betweens pairs of molecules. Surely, these experiments could be simulated by computer?
I "anonymous coward" of no known IP address, being sound in online connectivity, and over the age of credit card ownership,and knowing the uncertainty of dial-up connections and the certainty of disconnection and wishing to dispose of my possessions and belongings both in the real world and in online gaming communities while in health and strength do make this my will.
After the payment of my credit card debts, store cards and porn subscriptions, I hereby bequeath my slashdot username to be auctioned on E-bay and the proceeds donated to the open source community.
That would work ... you wouldn't have to tie a heavy-duty cable to the ferret, just a strong piece of string. Once that was across, you could pull any heavy piece of cable across. For really heavy duty cables, just hold onto the string and jump from a stepladder onto the floor.
I knew a guy who gained the nickname of "The human spider". He was once faced with the task of hauling a cable up from the basement to the second floor of a building where several intersecting rooms were locked. His solution? Being short in stature, but with a wiry physique, he actually managed to squeeze himself through the 18" x 12" holes cut in the concrete levels.
I've done that job. Not in New York, but while working as a intern for a telecoms company. We were installing new Ethernet LAN cables in refurbished offices. These were the original thick yellow cables with the vampire taps to $1000 Ethernet cards.
In one office suite, which was on the penthouse level, the cables had be hauled all the away around the eaves of the building just to reach one desk. This required the efforts of two engineers. The first guy had to crawl through the office space, pulling a reel of cable behind him, while the second guy held onto the other end. At another location, the task of replacing old cable with new cable would require one engineer to stand one level jiggling the desired cable up and down, until the second engineer found the matching cable on a different floor.
As officially we were supposed to be management level, all staff had to wear suits and ties at all times.
Thank goodness I'm in research now...
And it's got Pan and Zoom ... who needs DVD!!!
This sums it up. SCO is suing IBM for breach of contract, nothing more, nothing less. What dows Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman et al have to do with this contract? did they sign it?
Reminds me of a car bumper sticker I once saw:
"Protected by Mafia Insurance - You hit us, we hit you."
Dear OrbDev, While looking for a suitable place to park, we checked several times but found no parking lines, parking notice or parking meters. we have the photographic evidence to substantiate this claim. -- NASA
That must have been back around 1989? I remember seeing the first 386's with VGA graphics, and the demos featuring 320x200 256 colour graphics of a castle. By 1990, my paradise card was superceded by a $700 Hercules Graphics Station Card (TMS34010 processor) with came with 1 Megabyte of VRAM (the double-buffering option cost another $300) and four 24-bit colour images; A head-scan, a party-pup (don't even ask!!!), a fashion model and somebody leaning out of a window. I managed to write a SGI image format viewer, and thought viewing SGI's "helping build a better dinosaur" advert was the coolest image in my collection. At this time, Windows 3.1 didn't support 24-bit colour 3D graphics, so the only way to write your own extensions using TIGA.
,nVidia (1993), and Rendition (1993)
...
A rough sequence of the video standards would be:
1981 MDA,Hercules,CGA (IBM)
1983 PCjr (IBM)
1984 EGA (IBM)
1986 TIGA (Texas Instruments), 8514/A (IBM)
1987 MCGA,VGA (IBM)
1990 XGA, XGA-2 (IBM)
1990+ SVGA,XGA,SXGA,UXGA (various manufacturers)
1990+ VESA (manufacturers form consortium)
The early 1990's was probably the time of greatest change, when all the manufacturers were trying to outperform each other on resolution, refresh rate, video memory size, and finally 2D acceleration. The resulting chaos and incompatibility between cards led to the formation of the VESA consortium.
The mid 1990's were the time in which many of the innovators formed: 3Dfx (1994, from MediaVision)
NVidia introduced the NV-1 in May 1995,
3Dfx introduced the Voodoo card in October 1996.
ATI had been around since 1985, but didn't introduce the 3D Rage until September 1996 (but with No Z-buffer).
Matrox introduced the m3D in 1997 (piggybacking onto a VGA card).
Rendition introduces one of the first MiniGL drivers in 1998.
By 1999, each company was releasing new graphics cards every six months.
Any good gaming web site will give you the product history of each manufacturer.
Are you saying that using a LCD display with a VGA graphics adapter card is the wrong way to read slashdot articles? Perhaps the media (eg. the BBC corporation) should run a series on helping people use their TLA's properly.
But it is possible to spoof a Caller ID name and number using a fax machine (just program in the header information).
Here's another couple I have encountered:
Our local bus company has large glass covered panels attached to each bus stop for everyone to read. These panels are large enough for up to six routes to be displayed above each other. This is particularly important for busy stops which serve multiple routes. The panels are usually set between 5 feet and 7 feet in height. If there is any spare space, this is allocated to advertise local tourist bus services. Unfortunately, for single service bus stops this means that the bus route is placed 7 feet up, unreadable to anyone except professional basketball players.
Back in 2000, I used to have an Kodak Advantix camera. It took standard photographs, and I would send the reels of film in for development of prints and a set of images burned onto CD-ROM. Unfortunately, during this year, Kodak allowed National Geographic to use the spare space on the CD-ROM for advertising purposes. So when I placed the CD-ROM expecting to see either a directory or thumbnails of my photographs, the yellow square would appear instead. Even worse, the application always auto-started on whatever PC was used. Needless to say, I ripped my own photographs off the CD-ROM, burnt them onto a new file, and also bought a digital camera.
What will be next? A digital camera that places adverts between every ten photographs?
Will your TV remote automatically switch channels to an infomercial?
Not my TV, but my cable TV set top box does. Telewest (UK) just upgraded their menu systems. Now, whenever I select the [GameZone] menu option, whichever cable channel I listen to (even the BBC World News radio) is automatically switched over to the FrontRow trailer preview - No negotiation. As soon as I leave the GameZone, the channel is automatically switched back to whatever channel was playing when I started, even if the FrontRow channel is now playing a trailer I want to see.
It's good to see that cable TV system developers really know how to design good user interface.
From the comments I've read, I've always assumed that the Microsoft Word file format is proprietary and undecodable, although unofficial format specifications do exist.
The biggest leverage Microsoft has for forcing new workers to learn Microsoft Office, is the insistance by recruitment agencies and employers that they submit resumes and CV's in Microsoft Word format. That more or less forces everyone to learn Windows, Microsoft Word before anything else.
I've seen the evolution of word processing technology in my high-school. There used to be one classroom completely full of mechanical typewriters; great big clunky machines that dripped oil and rust. These were replaced by electric typewriters with single LCD line displays, which were in turn replaced by a handful of dedicated monitor/keyboard setups, before the financial resources were finally pooled with the computing department.
This more or less makes it easy for Microsoft to dominate the market. The only way all the other companies would be able to compete against Microsoft Office is to adopt a common document standard, and if possible try and keep the basic interface the same.
It's a cool logo, but it makes me think of A.I. programming techniques, rather than hacking. For some reason, a picture of an ice-pick seems to come to mind quicker.
There are sensors on the top of traffic lights in the UK that respond to headlights. If an ambulance is approaching lights on red he can flash his full beams a few times and the sequence changes.
I can't wait to go to work tomorrow. It's going to be interesting to see how quickly this piece of information gets passed around, and all the drivers try flashing their lights at the traffic lights.
Of course, they could just be warning everyone else that there's a speed trap up ahead.
A book of Poetry, or cookbook (as mentioned by article), or even technical documentation, if i only need documentation on a small part(s) of a machine, even code samples would be left freely availible by this feature
Nearly all of the cookbooks and many of the reference books that I have seen, have the advantage of having glossy color plates. These usually turn out looking awful using a monochrome laser printer. As another comment points out, the cost of using such a system would probably cost more in toner.
Does anyone remember seeing the Northern lights one night in late December 1991? There were faint blue bands that appeared to travel across the sky from the North pole heading Southwards. At a point in the sky 180 degrees opposite to where the Sun was, there was what appeared to be a + shaped glowing patch in red and green hues. Anyone else seen this?
Is this really the "corporate landscape" for many software engineers? A job so bad where you feel compelled to check for keyloggers, keep paper trails locked in a home safe, etc.?
That would be a fairly extreme situation. When these kind of things happen, it's usually between senior engineers/consultants and management over major issues. Because of the high salaries, the stakes are much higher. The technical staff believe management are sacrificing safety for profits, and management become suspicious that the technical staff might become whistle-blowers. One story that I remember was between a Health Management Organisation manager and a medical consultant. Rather clumsily, the HMO manager tapped the telephone line of a consultant using a tape recorder in a wooden box nailed to the wall of a bathroom cubicle. The consultant became curious one day, opened up the box and found the tape-recorder. Immediately, he called the police and things become very messy for the manager.
With more junior staff, most of the politics occur over learning new skills. For example, you can be working happily in a group on a project. However, towards the end of the project, management announcement that someone is going to have to work on maintenance, while the other engineers will be getting to move onto new projects. Watch the poltical maneuvering as everyone tries to point out how much research they did, how much seniority they have or which qualifications they have, while pointing out how many bugs are in the work developed by other engineers. With intermediate staff, management might decide they want to take on new staff, and split the work shared between two team leaders into a technical director and project manager. Or simply management want to reduce head count, and let some people go.
Maybe a new piece of hardware or software comes along, and several people wants the opportunity to gain experience in this area, but there's only need for one person to attend training courses.
At the end of the day, what everyone learns is: "Keep your skills up to date. If your not able to do this with your existing employer, find a new employer who will". If you end up in the situation where a more senior member of staff feels that you are trying to invade their domain, you'll end up in a very stressful situation and risk burning out.
Most companies avoid these situations by insisting that any new staff already have the required experience in this area.
Network Error: 0x0BADF00D - Intermediate peer has overflowed buffer and disconnected from network.
From the following quote I got the impression you didn't know about England. :)
The reason not so many European IT jobs.
The last time I checked, the UK was part of Europe - as much as some of our MP's would like to think differently