Einsturzende Neubauten (http://www.neubauten.org/) had problems with this on their recent US tour. Clear Channel acknowledged their prior art outside the US by only charging them a token fee to record in this country.
Boy was the band upset. They have been doing this outside the US since at least 2000.
SuSE Linux is currently the distro of choice on IBM zSeries machines and their new relationship with Veritas for storage management seems to solidify the perception of them as the true enterprise-class Linux for the big iron. What is the Red Hat strategy for competing with SuSE on the high-end enterprise servers?
The real question is why you want the degree. If you are looking for a credential then what is the job you are looking to do going to require? Would a 5 day Java bootcamp be better?
Otherwise, if you are really after deepening your knowledge in the computer science field then you will be that much more employable because of the knowledge, not the letters after your name.
Few industries survive by filing lawsuits against their customers but the RIAA has taken that tact. Are they aware that they are sending the message to their largest customer base (teenagers and young adults) that they don't want them as customers? What will the RIAA and the industry do once they run off everyone who listens to music by suing them?
Will the music industry made any serious attempt to make it more appealing to young consumers to purchase the products?
You keep referring to some anonymous "Company". There are "people" there with the same problems you have++. They are trying to keep their job, something like reasonable hours, and take responsibility for keeping as much of the company running as possible. I've had to lay-off 40% of my team in order to keep the other 60% employed and was able start hiring back 3 months later because we were able to turn the corner. Maybe what you need to be asking is if you are working for a company that the current management and the current economy can turn the corner and survive or if they are on a slippery slope to Chapter 11. Is there something as a team your group could do to improve the survival chances?
I worked for DEC in the early 80's (wow, it will be 20 years ago next year) and it was one of the best places I've ever worked. Great people, great technology, the whole mix. I did hear that it started getting really bad later but it was one of the Best 100 places to work.
HP was an incredible company. To have it ruined by greed is almost as much of a crime as what AT&T did to Bell Labs. True national treasures tossed in the trash can.
This attitude about intellectual property is exactly what is keeping Linux and other open source tools out of major corporations. If open source is ever going to be mainstream in the corporate world, the patent process and rights will have to be recognized and some sort of indemnification provided. Otherwise the legal departments will nix any use of tools that leave the corporation as the "deep pockets" in a law suit.
In the late '80s there were several meetings/discussions between the various email providers and the USPS regarding X.500 Directory Services (including X.509 digital certificates) where the USPS tried to take ownership of the U.S. domain for all electronic directory entries. The ones I sat in on were pretty sad. The postal service folks were clueless about that they were going after or how they would actually offer and manage the systems so it died by common consent in a NIST/CCITT sub-committee. It was scary the first time we discussed the long term concequences though.
There is a third option: Software Engineering. These degree programs tend to concentrate on programming in the large where Comp Sci spends time writing small programs and Comp Eng building breadboards of systems and writing low-level code. Well worth looking into.
Lets see: Henry Ford didn't get into the car biz until almost 20 years after Benz and Daimler built the first ones. Newton didn't exactly 'invent' gravity (unless things were just floating around before) (he did 'invent' calculus but then so did Libniz), Pistols had been around for several hundred years before Sam Colt was born.
The original Oracle developer was Larry Ellison. The myth is that he worked on a project in Japan for IBM and the CIA code named Oracle that used this radical new idea called a relational database. He decided to build his own and started Oracle. Ingres was a university project at UCB that became Ingres the company that was bought by Computer Associates. Postgres was the follow-on research project. Microsoft's SQL product started as Sybase and morphed into what it is today. IBM's DB2 was the result of the Oracle project that Ellison worked on. Oracle, DB2, and Ingres were pretty much contemporaies. Ingres was the last to adopt SQL.
What do you see as the future processes for a world-class C++ team responsible for large scale SE projects? The classical waterfall and other processes seem to be unworkable in internet-time (which everything seems to be nowadays). What replaces it? How will the requirements, development, testing, and support be provided for MLOC+ size code in C++?
1)I think the point is that we all have a professional toolkit that we use but books like this can help learn new mental models rather than just another set of stupid editor tricks.
2)Pragmatism is actually based on the idea that results, rather than idealistic consistency is moral, ethical, and has value. See 'C', and 'PERL' as opposed to 'Ada' and 'PL/1' for computer science examples.
I was just at a Gartner Group session and the presenters were generally clueless about anything other than 'namebrand' products. IDG and Meta are in the same (leaky) boat. They are wrong so much they have started putting 'probabilities' on all their reports rather than just making flat statements. Evey the probabilities are way off.
Slashdot Mirror
Einsturzende Neubauten (http://www.neubauten.org/) had problems with this on their recent US tour. Clear Channel acknowledged their prior art outside the US by only charging them a token fee to record in this country.
Boy was the band upset. They have been doing this outside the US since at least 2000.
-c
SuSE Linux is currently the distro of choice on IBM zSeries machines and their new relationship with Veritas for storage management seems to solidify the perception of them as the true enterprise-class Linux for the big iron. What is the Red Hat strategy for competing with SuSE on the high-end enterprise servers?
The real question is why you want the degree. If you are looking for a credential then what is the job you are looking to do going to require? Would a 5 day Java bootcamp be better?
Otherwise, if you are really after deepening your knowledge in the computer science field then you will be that much more employable because of the knowledge, not the letters after your name.
-c
Few industries survive by filing lawsuits against their customers but the RIAA has taken that tact. Are they aware that they are sending the message to their largest customer base (teenagers and young adults) that they don't want them as customers? What will the RIAA and the industry do once they run off everyone who listens to music by suing them?
Will the music industry made any serious attempt to make it more appealing to young consumers to purchase the products?
You keep referring to some anonymous "Company". There are "people" there with the same problems you have++. They are trying to keep their job, something like reasonable hours, and take responsibility for keeping as much of the company running as possible. I've had to lay-off 40% of my team in order to keep the other 60% employed and was able start hiring back 3 months later because we were able to turn the corner. Maybe what you need to be asking is if you are working for a company that the current management and the current economy can turn the corner and survive or if they are on a slippery slope to Chapter 11. Is there something as a team your group could do to improve the survival chances?
-c
I worked for DEC in the early 80's (wow, it will be 20 years ago next year) and it was one of the best places I've ever worked. Great people, great technology, the whole mix. I did hear that it started getting really bad later but it was one of the Best 100 places to work.
HP was an incredible company. To have it ruined by greed is almost as much of a crime as what AT&T did to Bell Labs. True national treasures tossed in the trash can.
This attitude about intellectual property is exactly what is keeping Linux and other open source tools out of major corporations. If open source is ever going to be mainstream in the corporate world, the patent process and rights will have to be recognized and some sort of indemnification provided. Otherwise the legal departments will nix any use of tools that leave the corporation as the "deep pockets" in a law suit.
In the late '80s there were several meetings/discussions between the various email providers and the USPS regarding X.500 Directory Services (including X.509 digital certificates) where the USPS tried to take ownership of the U.S. domain for all electronic directory entries. The ones I sat in on were pretty sad. The postal service folks were clueless about that they were going after or how they would actually offer and manage the systems so it died by common consent in a NIST/CCITT sub-committee. It was scary the first time we discussed the long term concequences though.
Just saved me $45 bucks and an aggravating evening.
There is a third option: Software Engineering. These degree programs tend to concentrate on programming in the large where Comp Sci spends time writing small programs and Comp Eng building breadboards of systems and writing low-level code. Well worth looking into.
Lets see: Henry Ford didn't get into the car biz until almost 20 years after Benz and Daimler built the first ones. Newton didn't exactly 'invent' gravity (unless things were just floating around before) (he did 'invent' calculus but then so did Libniz), Pistols had been around for several hundred years before Sam Colt was born.
Maybe you should get out more 8^)
The original Oracle developer was Larry Ellison. The myth is that he worked on a project in Japan for IBM and the CIA code named Oracle that used this radical new idea called a relational database. He decided to build his own and started Oracle.
Ingres was a university project at UCB that became Ingres the company that was bought by Computer Associates. Postgres was the follow-on research project.
Microsoft's SQL product started as Sybase and morphed into what it is today.
IBM's DB2 was the result of the Oracle project that Ellison worked on.
Oracle, DB2, and Ingres were pretty much contemporaies. Ingres was the last to adopt SQL.
What do you see as the future processes for a world-class C++ team responsible for large scale SE projects? The classical waterfall and other processes seem to be unworkable in internet-time (which everything seems to be nowadays). What replaces it? How will the requirements, development, testing, and support be provided for MLOC+ size code in C++?
Chris Cunningham
1)I think the point is that we all have a professional toolkit that we use but books like this can help learn new mental models rather than just another set of stupid editor tricks.
2)Pragmatism is actually based on the idea that results, rather than idealistic consistency is moral, ethical, and has value. See 'C', and 'PERL' as opposed to 'Ada' and 'PL/1' for computer science examples.
-c
The town in the "Truman Show" is actually
Seaside Flordia. Worth checking out.
I was just at a Gartner Group session and the presenters were generally clueless about anything other than 'namebrand' products. IDG and Meta are in the same (leaky) boat. They are wrong so much they have started putting 'probabilities' on all their reports rather than just making flat statements. Evey the probabilities are way off.
-c