You know, love Sun microsystems...but if one company has consistently been the victim of an idea whose time has not yet come, and won't come for another 10 years...it's got to be sun. Smart cards, JINI, SunRays...all brilliant...all dead because of being ahead of their time IMHO. They've seriously gotta start hiring some dumber people...I here you can find them in Redmond.
true...it was a work of fiction...but considering it was written from the point of view of an author who had lived through 3 totalitarian regimes, and been involved in positions of authority/militarization on both sides of the debate over his life, I'm fairly certain that he's writing from a place of fact. I mean, it's not like a guy living in Seattle in the 1990s decided to write a fiction about interrogation and oppression...Georgle Orwell was involved in oppression as an instigator and administrator, an observer and later, a victim. I don't think his work can be dropped squarly in the 'fiction' category.
And even if it was...fables are works of fictions...but they outline very real aspects of human nature. Just because somethings fiction doesn't make it less poignant...well, maybe with the rubbish that gets produced these days, but not with the classics:)
I think it would be difficult to deny his observations of human nature as expressed in his writing so quickly...all one has to do is (realistically) imagine their own actions in similar circumstances...how soon would you betray love when faced with your greatest fear (and we're not just talking death...that's an easy one, we're talking your greatest fear ala 1984 with the rats).
And if you want a more non-fiction basis for the argument...go talk to some WWII survivors, or chinese survivors of the japanese invasion. I'm sure you will find not a few people guilt ridden about the things they did in order to save themselves.
doesn't america have the concept of "proceeds of crime". i.e. You don't get to keep money earned from committing a criminal act that you are convicted of?
"well, you're going to have 8 developers sitting around twiddling their thumbs until we get a license...so let us know when it's here and we'll get back to work."
It's amazing how fast management will pony up for a license when their deadline is at jeapardy.
Remember, as a developer, it's not your fault if deadlines aren't met...it's the project managers for not _managing_ the project effectively.
Sheesh, otherwise what the hell do project managers get paid for?!? To walk up and ask you "how's that stuff you're working on going"? If that's the case, fire an email to their boss...I'm sure he'd be very happy to learn that he can save $120Kpa by loosing a redundant staff member.
microsoft is looking at old pages, google uses a cache...ergo microsoft must be using google.
if we're going to use that kind of logic, I could just as easily come up with "afghanistan is in the middle east and supports terrorist, iraq is in the middle east...ergo, iraq must support terrorists", and use it to make a case for invading iraq...but you don't see......oh wait
you have to be crazy...linux has now made it to the cover of almost every business and managerial magazine out there. There's no such things as bad pr. Now novell kills the case...front cover again...linux gets massive mainstream cred.
I met a business major once that told me about a sort of check list for decisions that they get taught...it had stuff like, "what has to be sacrificed/what can you not do if you make this decision that you would have been able to do otherwise"...it has like 10 points you go through, it was a great list but unfortunately time has erased it from my memory.
Any business majors heard of such a thing can shed light?
This is a very ignorant statement, and I don't quite understand why you lumped together all the anglo countries
I didn't pick those, "the economist" did in it's latest appraisal of peak markets...while I'm sure others are overvalued, specifically the economists is predicting the end of the peak in the countries I listed.
You clearly have no understanding of finance etc etc
I don't understand the point you're trying to make here. You seem to be agreeing with me that the money I pay as rent to the apartment owner is far less than they have to pay in interest...but I couldn't quite get your point
So you are saying you found a bank that gave you a $600K loan with no money down?
I'm pretty sure that people have the brains to draw the point from the argument rather than getting caught up in details
And that's what this is all based on, your unfounded belief RE will decline in value over time.
The economist magazine + general analyst consensus + logic...but no, keep telling yourself that the bull real estate market will last forever...it won't reverse, because financial markets never ever reverse...oh yeah, the dot com bust and real estate bust of the 80s...but apart from them
finally...chill out dude...that was a very hostile sounding post...it's just a forum...maybe that's another argument against real estate ownership at this time, too much stress worrying about the markets...makes you touchy, on edge:)
While many here dislike him, others have more favorable opinions of him
In other news, while many disapprove of the war in iraq, some do not...while many people enjoy eating meat, others do not, while many people are cat people, others are not and while many parts of a sentence are not redundant, others, in fact, are.
actually, this is a very common misconception, that home ownership is financially better than renting.
Leaving aside the lifestyle choice of a renter (not having to pay rates or fix anything, being able to move at short notice, having investments in more liquid assets), and looking simply at the finances of it, we see a case in much of the western world where renting is now better financial sense than buying.
u.s., u.k., canada and australia are all at the peak of record real estate market highs...so currently, real estate is an extremely overvalued asset, and, by all knowledgable assessment, is set to decline over the coming years. In those same countries, the uptake in home ownership has caused rents to decline, or at least hold steady. So we have a situation where the property owner must make up the shortfall between market driven rents and interest on the investment loan.
I specifically made the choice to rent in this market and funnel my savings into other vehicles, and heres why.
The apartment I rent, would be conservatively valued at 600,000 in the current market (similar one just went for that in the same block). I pay $300 per week rent. Current interest rates are approx 7% and expected to rise (but I won't take that into account in these calculations), and the value of the investment is expected to fall by as much as 10% over the coming year.
Lets do some maths:
Approximate interest on purchase of $600,000 for one year -- $42,000 (now at this point, I still don't own any equity, I've just paid the bank). Lets be generous and say that my investment only looses 5% over the next year, that's another $30,000. So, if I have to liquidate at the end of the year, I'm down $72K. Now lets factor into that rates/taxes/body corporate/maintenance/insurance...probably another 10K. Let's multiply that over 3 years which is a conservative projection of the expected real estate market contraction. It's cost me$246,000 to live in a place I still have no equity holding in.
Renting, over the same 3 year period, it costs $46,800 to live in exactly the same house, with exactly the same dollar equity holding, with more rights (tenancy agreements etc) and never having to do any maintenance on my precious weekends. So the I am almost $200,000 better off.
Now each case varies and this generalizes a lot of conditions, but it shows that the old advice that home ownership is better than renting may have held true 20 years ago, but certainly doesn't in a lot of places today.
"hey, aren't those blog things a joke, news directly from the people involved...that'll never take off...people want opinionated, biased journalists...hey, look over there...on that wall...someone's been writing on it....anyway, what was I saying..."
...hmmm, because quite often a political campaign has source code!
actually, the restaurant I just had lunch at posts their menus to the internet, perhaps they're an open source restaurant?
What do you think, can the open source model be applied to restaurants, or is that just a really really really unbelievably stupid things to say?
WHAT...they're high if they think they can claim rights over http...who do they think they are, we'll show them...no matter how big you are, you can't just go around claiming........
actually, that's something we wonder about in other countries. It is so obvious he's a moron...and a puppet for some pretty not nice people...how the hell does he get away with it. The rest of the world half expects the creators of south park to come forward and admit that it's all one big joke they tried to play that went a bit out of control. How can half your country want a confirmed drug user, coward (service record), alcoholic, basically really not too bright guy (all the many, very stupid quotes), liar, nut bag as the president. The rest of the world is seriously dumbfounded as to how he can even be considered anything more than a joke party leader.
...how about you give the 10,000 pounds it costs to a worthy charity and go for a walk with your workmates at lunch time, bonding over how you helped xyz needy cause.
The took rackspaces servers...it just so happened that indys data was on it...sheer coincidence and hardly the governments fault!
Seriously though...that's a loophole that needs to be closed...I would really really check with your ISP about who 'owns' the physical hardware when you buy space (i.e. do you 'rent' the property, or just use it to put data on). Very valid question for anyone looking into hosting something. At the moment I doubt that they have to tell indy anything, they already have told the property owners (rackspace) why they were taken...then hit them with a gag order, which is quite clever (diabolical?) really.
Anyway, host-er beware...check the legality...if they're actually renting you the hardware I would imagine that anyone wanting to take it would have to issue the seizure order to you, otherwise they can issue it to your ISP and tell you nothing...though IANAL.
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oh, except sun was doing it ten years ago.
You know, love Sun microsystems...but if one company has consistently been the victim of an idea whose time has not yet come, and won't come for another 10 years...it's got to be sun. Smart cards, JINI, SunRays...all brilliant...all dead because of being ahead of their time IMHO. They've seriously gotta start hiring some dumber people...I here you can find them in Redmond.
true...it was a work of fiction...but considering it was written from the point of view of an author who had lived through 3 totalitarian regimes, and been involved in positions of authority/militarization on both sides of the debate over his life, I'm fairly certain that he's writing from a place of fact. I mean, it's not like a guy living in Seattle in the 1990s decided to write a fiction about interrogation and oppression...Georgle Orwell was involved in oppression as an instigator and administrator, an observer and later, a victim. I don't think his work can be dropped squarly in the 'fiction' category.
:)
And even if it was...fables are works of fictions...but they outline very real aspects of human nature. Just because somethings fiction doesn't make it less poignant...well, maybe with the rubbish that gets produced these days, but not with the classics
I think it would be difficult to deny his observations of human nature as expressed in his writing so quickly...all one has to do is (realistically) imagine their own actions in similar circumstances...how soon would you betray love when faced with your greatest fear (and we're not just talking death...that's an easy one, we're talking your greatest fear ala 1984 with the rats).
And if you want a more non-fiction basis for the argument...go talk to some WWII survivors, or chinese survivors of the japanese invasion. I'm sure you will find not a few people guilt ridden about the things they did in order to save themselves.
2) Love
Love can be controlled, manipulated and extinguished more easily than most would care to believe...ever read 1984?
doesn't america have the concept of "proceeds of crime". i.e. You don't get to keep money earned from committing a criminal act that you are convicted of?
$WINDOWS?
so it's in wine to eh? bloody open source developers, using cracked software.
yeah, I used to do that...now I say things like
"well, you're going to have 8 developers sitting around twiddling their thumbs until we get a license...so let us know when it's here and we'll get back to work."
It's amazing how fast management will pony up for a license when their deadline is at jeapardy.
Remember, as a developer, it's not your fault if deadlines aren't met...it's the project managers for not _managing_ the project effectively.
Sheesh, otherwise what the hell do project managers get paid for?!? To walk up and ask you "how's that stuff you're working on going"? If that's the case, fire an email to their boss...I'm sure he'd be very happy to learn that he can save $120Kpa by loosing a redundant staff member.
insane hours
little pay (when you project your wage over the hours you work)
offshoreing
sounds like maybe it's time to unionize software development...strength in numbers and all that.
microsoft is looking at old pages, google uses a cache...ergo microsoft must be using google.
if we're going to use that kind of logic, I could just as easily come up with "afghanistan is in the middle east and supports terrorist, iraq is in the middle east...ergo, iraq must support terrorists", and use it to make a case for invading iraq...but you don't see......oh wait
you have to be crazy...linux has now made it to the cover of almost every business and managerial magazine out there. There's no such things as bad pr. Now novell kills the case...front cover again...linux gets massive mainstream cred.
...you should have said earlier.
Everyone back to their business.
I met a business major once that told me about a sort of check list for decisions that they get taught...it had stuff like, "what has to be sacrificed/what can you not do if you make this decision that you would have been able to do otherwise"...it has like 10 points you go through, it was a great list but unfortunately time has erased it from my memory.
Any business majors heard of such a thing can shed light?
This is a very ignorant statement, and I don't quite understand why you lumped together all the anglo countries
:)
I didn't pick those, "the economist" did in it's latest appraisal of peak markets...while I'm sure others are overvalued, specifically the economists is predicting the end of the peak in the countries I listed.
You clearly have no understanding of finance etc etc
I don't understand the point you're trying to make here. You seem to be agreeing with me that the money I pay as rent to the apartment owner is far less than they have to pay in interest...but I couldn't quite get your point
So you are saying you found a bank that gave you a $600K loan with no money down?
I'm pretty sure that people have the brains to draw the point from the argument rather than getting caught up in details
And that's what this is all based on, your unfounded belief RE will decline in value over time.
The economist magazine + general analyst consensus + logic...but no, keep telling yourself that the bull real estate market will last forever...it won't reverse, because financial markets never ever reverse...oh yeah, the dot com bust and real estate bust of the 80s...but apart from them
finally...chill out dude...that was a very hostile sounding post...it's just a forum...maybe that's another argument against real estate ownership at this time, too much stress worrying about the markets...makes you touchy, on edge
While many here dislike him, others have more favorable opinions of him
In other news, while many disapprove of the war in iraq, some do not...while many people enjoy eating meat, others do not, while many people are cat people, others are not and while many parts of a sentence are not redundant, others, in fact, are.
actually, this is a very common misconception, that home ownership is financially better than renting.
Leaving aside the lifestyle choice of a renter (not having to pay rates or fix anything, being able to move at short notice, having investments in more liquid assets), and looking simply at the finances of it, we see a case in much of the western world where renting is now better financial sense than buying.
u.s., u.k., canada and australia are all at the peak of record real estate market highs...so currently, real estate is an extremely overvalued asset, and, by all knowledgable assessment, is set to decline over the coming years. In those same countries, the uptake in home ownership has caused rents to decline, or at least hold steady. So we have a situation where the property owner must make up the shortfall between market driven rents and interest on the investment loan.
I specifically made the choice to rent in this market and funnel my savings into other vehicles, and heres why.
The apartment I rent, would be conservatively valued at 600,000 in the current market (similar one just went for that in the same block). I pay $300 per week rent. Current interest rates are approx 7% and expected to rise (but I won't take that into account in these calculations), and the value of the investment is expected to fall by as much as 10% over the coming year.
Lets do some maths:
Approximate interest on purchase of $600,000 for one year -- $42,000 (now at this point, I still don't own any equity, I've just paid the bank). Lets be generous and say that my investment only looses 5% over the next year, that's another $30,000. So, if I have to liquidate at the end of the year, I'm down $72K. Now lets factor into that rates/taxes/body corporate/maintenance/insurance...probably another 10K. Let's multiply that over 3 years which is a conservative projection of the expected real estate market contraction. It's cost me$246,000 to live in a place I still have no equity holding in.
Renting, over the same 3 year period, it costs $46,800 to live in exactly the same house, with exactly the same dollar equity holding, with more rights (tenancy agreements etc) and never having to do any maintenance on my precious weekends. So the I am almost $200,000 better off.
Now each case varies and this generalizes a lot of conditions, but it shows that the old advice that home ownership is better than renting may have held true 20 years ago, but certainly doesn't in a lot of places today.
"hey, aren't those blog things a joke, news directly from the people involved...that'll never take off...people want opinionated, biased journalists...hey, look over there...on that wall...someone's been writing on it....anyway, what was I saying..."
WHAT...they're high if they think they can claim rights over http...who do they think they are, we'll show them...no matter how big you are, you can't just go around claiming
signal lost
I disagree...I know many business managers that would happily accept information of their competitors upcoming marketting campaigns/products.
Not everyone is as logical as you are...not everyone sees or expects a downside.
And for a lot of people, having that edge can be worth significant bonuses in their pay packet, and is worth the minimal risk of getting busted.
...it was meant as "news for advertising execs, stuff you can freebase"
the 'amazon come-upins' strategy
actually, that's something we wonder about in other countries. It is so obvious he's a moron...and a puppet for some pretty not nice people...how the hell does he get away with it. The rest of the world half expects the creators of south park to come forward and admit that it's all one big joke they tried to play that went a bit out of control. How can half your country want a confirmed drug user, coward (service record), alcoholic, basically really not too bright guy (all the many, very stupid quotes), liar, nut bag as the president. The rest of the world is seriously dumbfounded as to how he can even be considered anything more than a joke party leader.
I sent this to Bartlett Cleland, the VP of Public Policy at ITAA. I suggest others do the same
but I don't work for IBM?
The took rackspaces servers...it just so happened that indys data was on it...sheer coincidence and hardly the governments fault!
Seriously though...that's a loophole that needs to be closed...I would really really check with your ISP about who 'owns' the physical hardware when you buy space (i.e. do you 'rent' the property, or just use it to put data on). Very valid question for anyone looking into hosting something. At the moment I doubt that they have to tell indy anything, they already have told the property owners (rackspace) why they were taken...then hit them with a gag order, which is quite clever (diabolical?) really.
Anyway, host-er beware...check the legality...if they're actually renting you the hardware I would imagine that anyone wanting to take it would have to issue the seizure order to you, otherwise they can issue it to your ISP and tell you nothing...though IANAL.
yeah...hack by candle light...
that article sounds like a lot of wank