I hate to tell you this, but in many jurisdictions it is perfectly acceptable to peer in windows without curtains.
In Finland it certainly is not! Our criminal law section 24 subsection 6 explicitly prohibits this. Here's my translation:
He who without permission views or photographs
1) in a place protected by domestic peace, in a toilet or any other corresponding place
2) in a non-public building or apartment, or a person in a fenced yard thus breaking his privacy
is to be condemned to fines or imprisonment maximum 1 year.
And in fact, subsection 7 prohibits even manufacturing a device for this purpose. And take notice that this prohibits, for example, photographing my bedroom even when I'm not home.
Yes, I agree. Brian Herbert / Kevin J Anderson books feels more like adventure story, like Indiana Jones without the comedy. Plus there is a heck load of repetition. You could probably take half of the pages in the books out and the story would still be understandable. But because Brian is Frank's son I just had to buy his books also (I have bought the original Dune saga years ago).
Be a "can do" guy if you can do it within the limitations (time, money, whatever). If you can't do it, please say so and someone from the team can take over or help you out. You won't get fired for saying "I can't do it" once in a while but you do get fired if you cost years of production time without asking help.
Developing skills is something that bothers me a bit. For some reason, whenever there's a question about skill development, employers assume that you do it on your own time. You don't learn forklift driving on your own time so why should you learn programming skills? This happens really often or maybe it's just I'm stumbled in the wrong kind of employers lately:)
You are absolutely right but if these technical impossibilities are used as a key element in a plot, for instance cops can zoom in and clear up a messy picture, rotate it in 3D and recognize the bad guy (I think this was done in some Denzel Washington movie), then there's something definetely wrong. Either the storywriter doesn't have very good imagination or (s)he has too good (read: wild) imagination.
And in Denmark they sell almost all that wind power to Norway where it is used in pumping water upstream. When there's no wind in Denmark they buy water power from Norway. Guess who's making the big money in this game.
This seems to be our faith in Finland also but instead of Norway we end up selling it to Sweden.
While that is true I don't what's this got to do with IE6. I mean, you can serve standard HTML pages which works on any browser with VB6/ASP. I've personally written installation/update web site with VB6/ASP, little like ClickOnce, which works with any browser.
Hear ye! Hear ye! I love my office, which I unfortunately share with our helpdesk person. If I need to collaborate, which I do very often, then we have these collaboration tools available: phones, emails, video calls, etc. We've been also known to go meetings with people from our department and even with other departments from, but not too often so they don't get used to us. Too much collaboration tends to bring a heck load of work for our department and some of those extra works aren't really necessary ones.
But what I don't need is the feeling that someone is constantly watching me, or to be precise my monitor. I'm a little paranoid so I don't like any open settings. I know that nobody's really wathing my monitor but even the feeling is distracting.
Here's my two (not stolen) cents about this. I think the word "steal" is a little encumbered nowadays and needs clarification or we need to come up with a new word.
Photographing my books, even if I personally wrote them, is not stealing because I still have those books in my posession and there's no direct harm to me. Taking them so I wouldn't have them anymore on the other hand would be stealing and robber would have caused monetary harm to me (maybe I could've sold those books). But my "common sense" tells me that in the first part, while I've not suffered any monetary loss, the robber has got unjustified benefit over me: I paid for the books, robber didn't.
Now I would be willing to expand the word "stealing" to comprehend this kind of acts where victim does not suffer any direct harm but actor get unjustified enrichement. I'm not sure what other implications this could bring, maybe there are some bad side effects and my idea is just a dumb one, but I really don't like that someone can use my stuff to get some benefits I had to pay for (with money or time).
Of course, if they want spyware on every computer, then you can no longer have control of your computer
I would think that if they get spyware on computers then they need to fully control that computer. I mean, nothing prevents one from writing and installing a sandbox system which tells the spyware app that there's no music files on the computer whatsoever. Just like rootkits does.
Solution files are a mess. I really don't know why they can't be backward compatible. But luckily there aren't many changes between, at least, 2005 and 2008 versions so I managed to write a simple converter which runs 100% transparently. It replaces Visual Studio Version Selector, upgrades/downgrades solution file (plus some other files) and finally calls VS Version Selector to start up the IDE.
But apart from that "little" problem, I don't see any problem with moving up to VS2010. Just make VS to target.NET version 2.0. I've found VS2010 to be much more productive than 2008, not to mention 2005 which is real PITA compared to either of those. Unfortunately I'll be stuck with 2008 at work for some time now:(
Maybe things are different where you live but I've worked with Windows, Visual Studio, Sql Server, almost anything that comes out of MS for 10 years now (plus some 5 years as a hobby). I've never felt that MS has screwed me or the companies I've worked for.
I've done some Open Source stuff also. Not any biggies, I've written some applications and released them under BSD and lately MIT licenses. All of them are written for Windows with C, C++, C#/.NET. Some of them don't run on Mono I think but probably most do. I've never felt that MS has screwed me here either. They've even provided free tools for me (Visual Studio Express, Sql Server Express).
So personally I trust them on this one and on many other cases. I don't see how they could pull the plug on this or why they'd do it when they clearly has some synergies here. Your experiences seem to have differed and its totally up to you make your own mind, of course. And here's the reason I took on this subject: I don't like when people speak for me, no matter are they wrong or right. That's why I questioned who's this "we" you are talking about:)
I was once asked to write database engine in C++ after a two hour interview. They said I had two weeks to write it. Do I need to say I refused and told them that if I could write a DB engine in two weeks I wouldn't be applying to work for them, but instead I would've been applying to work for MS or Oracle? I guess not:)
I sure as hell do not want to be stuck using some GUI IDE just to build the latest $foobar
You are absolutely right. But luckily there are also command line options. For instance I write every piece of code with Visual Studio but for the actual builds I use automated command line scripts. And in fact, since Visual Studio Express (which I use at home) doesn't support publishing ASP.NET apps from GUI I wrote a one-liner to do it from command line.
This project sounds something like what I planned couple of years ago but didn't have time or motivation to start it up. I'm just glad that someone has:)
Well, I don't think even Microsoft could sue someone over patent infringement without listing the actual patents that were supposedly infringed. Maybe SCO could though;)
As already said, malware doesn't need to run as root or Administrator.
But then it comes to sudo prompt / UAC. How are you going to educate old granny not to enter root/admin password when OS asks for it unless there a valid need for it? Heck, I've playing and working with computers (C64, C128, Amiga, PC Windows/Linux/BSD, Sparc/Solaris etc. etc.) for 25 years now and even I can't always tell when UAC (yes, I'm using Vista currently) prompt is valid or not! Just yesterday some Java-piece-of-crap asked for admin privileges all the sudden and I said heck no. My dad for instance would have entered the password without even thinking about it. My wife too but I haven't told her the password, which brings some social issues to the picture also...
"by default Linux is more secure than Windows" - Oh, for heaven's sake. Linux is by default more secure so we don't need to worry about this Adobe exploit? I would worry about it even if I were using OpenBSD!
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In Finland it certainly is not! Our criminal law section 24 subsection 6 explicitly prohibits this. Here's my translation:
He who without permission views or photographs
1) in a place protected by domestic peace, in a toilet or any other corresponding place
2) in a non-public building or apartment, or a person in a fenced yard thus breaking his privacy
is to be condemned to fines or imprisonment maximum 1 year.
And in fact, subsection 7 prohibits even manufacturing a device for this purpose. And take notice that this prohibits, for example, photographing my bedroom even when I'm not home.
As Frank Herbert put it in God Emperor of Dune: All religions leads eventually to witch hunt. And thus religions are driven by guilt.
All I'm getting is "The following sites were visited:" and then nothing. I'm not impressed :)
Yes, I agree. Brian Herbert / Kevin J Anderson books feels more like adventure story, like Indiana Jones without the comedy. Plus there is a heck load of repetition. You could probably take half of the pages in the books out and the story would still be understandable. But because Brian is Frank's son I just had to buy his books also (I have bought the original Dune saga years ago).
For I second I thought the title said "Holtzmann equation solved". That's probably because I was just reading Dune: The Battle of Corrin :)
Does the size matter?
Be a "can do" guy if you can do it within the limitations (time, money, whatever). If you can't do it, please say so and someone from the team can take over or help you out. You won't get fired for saying "I can't do it" once in a while but you do get fired if you cost years of production time without asking help.
Developing skills is something that bothers me a bit. For some reason, whenever there's a question about skill development, employers assume that you do it on your own time. You don't learn forklift driving on your own time so why should you learn programming skills? This happens really often or maybe it's just I'm stumbled in the wrong kind of employers lately :)
Ugh. I've spoken.
You are absolutely right but if these technical impossibilities are used as a key element in a plot, for instance cops can zoom in and clear up a messy picture, rotate it in 3D and recognize the bad guy (I think this was done in some Denzel Washington movie), then there's something definetely wrong. Either the storywriter doesn't have very good imagination or (s)he has too good (read: wild) imagination.
You mean Flash crashed the whole Mac OS?
And in Denmark they sell almost all that wind power to Norway where it is used in pumping water upstream. When there's no wind in Denmark they buy water power from Norway. Guess who's making the big money in this game.
This seems to be our faith in Finland also but instead of Norway we end up selling it to Sweden.
While that is true I don't what's this got to do with IE6. I mean, you can serve standard HTML pages which works on any browser with VB6/ASP. I've personally written installation/update web site with VB6/ASP, little like ClickOnce, which works with any browser.
Hear ye! Hear ye! I love my office, which I unfortunately share with our helpdesk person. If I need to collaborate, which I do very often, then we have these collaboration tools available: phones, emails, video calls, etc. We've been also known to go meetings with people from our department and even with other departments from, but not too often so they don't get used to us. Too much collaboration tends to bring a heck load of work for our department and some of those extra works aren't really necessary ones.
But what I don't need is the feeling that someone is constantly watching me, or to be precise my monitor. I'm a little paranoid so I don't like any open settings. I know that nobody's really wathing my monitor but even the feeling is distracting.
Well, maybe "malicious enrichment" would be better term :)
Here's my two (not stolen) cents about this. I think the word "steal" is a little encumbered nowadays and needs clarification or we need to come up with a new word.
Photographing my books, even if I personally wrote them, is not stealing because I still have those books in my posession and there's no direct harm to me. Taking them so I wouldn't have them anymore on the other hand would be stealing and robber would have caused monetary harm to me (maybe I could've sold those books). But my "common sense" tells me that in the first part, while I've not suffered any monetary loss, the robber has got unjustified benefit over me: I paid for the books, robber didn't.
Now I would be willing to expand the word "stealing" to comprehend this kind of acts where victim does not suffer any direct harm but actor get unjustified enrichement. I'm not sure what other implications this could bring, maybe there are some bad side effects and my idea is just a dumb one, but I really don't like that someone can use my stuff to get some benefits I had to pay for (with money or time).
I would think that if they get spyware on computers then they need to fully control that computer. I mean, nothing prevents one from writing and installing a sandbox system which tells the spyware app that there's no music files on the computer whatsoever. Just like rootkits does.
Solution files are a mess. I really don't know why they can't be backward compatible. But luckily there aren't many changes between, at least, 2005 and 2008 versions so I managed to write a simple converter which runs 100% transparently. It replaces Visual Studio Version Selector, upgrades/downgrades solution file (plus some other files) and finally calls VS Version Selector to start up the IDE.
But apart from that "little" problem, I don't see any problem with moving up to VS2010. Just make VS to target .NET version 2.0. I've found VS2010 to be much more productive than 2008, not to mention 2005 which is real PITA compared to either of those. Unfortunately I'll be stuck with 2008 at work for some time now :(
You lack imagination! If only they would give me ONE HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS I would be mostly satisfied. No need to hire me.
Maybe things are different where you live but I've worked with Windows, Visual Studio, Sql Server, almost anything that comes out of MS for 10 years now (plus some 5 years as a hobby). I've never felt that MS has screwed me or the companies I've worked for.
I've done some Open Source stuff also. Not any biggies, I've written some applications and released them under BSD and lately MIT licenses. All of them are written for Windows with C, C++, C#/.NET. Some of them don't run on Mono I think but probably most do. I've never felt that MS has screwed me here either. They've even provided free tools for me (Visual Studio Express, Sql Server Express).
So personally I trust them on this one and on many other cases. I don't see how they could pull the plug on this or why they'd do it when they clearly has some synergies here. Your experiences seem to have differed and its totally up to you make your own mind, of course. And here's the reason I took on this subject: I don't like when people speak for me, no matter are they wrong or right. That's why I questioned who's this "we" you are talking about :)
I was once asked to write database engine in C++ after a two hour interview. They said I had two weeks to write it. Do I need to say I refused and told them that if I could write a DB engine in two weeks I wouldn't be applying to work for them, but instead I would've been applying to work for MS or Oracle? I guess not :)
I always thought also that the country I live in, Finland, is a developed coutry but we are doing the exact same.
You are absolutely right. But luckily there are also command line options. For instance I write every piece of code with Visual Studio but for the actual builds I use automated command line scripts. And in fact, since Visual Studio Express (which I use at home) doesn't support publishing ASP.NET apps from GUI I wrote a one-liner to do it from command line.
This project sounds something like what I planned couple of years ago but didn't have time or motivation to start it up. I'm just glad that someone has :)
Answer is simple: maybe you shouldn't. But who is this we?
Since you asked, here you go.
Well, I don't think even Microsoft could sue someone over patent infringement without listing the actual patents that were supposedly infringed. Maybe SCO could though ;)
As already said, malware doesn't need to run as root or Administrator.
But then it comes to sudo prompt / UAC. How are you going to educate old granny not to enter root/admin password when OS asks for it unless there a valid need for it? Heck, I've playing and working with computers (C64, C128, Amiga, PC Windows/Linux/BSD, Sparc/Solaris etc. etc.) for 25 years now and even I can't always tell when UAC (yes, I'm using Vista currently) prompt is valid or not! Just yesterday some Java-piece-of-crap asked for admin privileges all the sudden and I said heck no. My dad for instance would have entered the password without even thinking about it. My wife too but I haven't told her the password, which brings some social issues to the picture also...
"by default Linux is more secure than Windows" - Oh, for heaven's sake. Linux is by default more secure so we don't need to worry about this Adobe exploit? I would worry about it even if I were using OpenBSD!