Oracle initially took offense at TomorrowNow using manuals and patches downloaded legally on behalf of TomorrowNow clients. Oracle essentially said "You, as third-party support, cannot use the access purchased by your customer for your customer - they have to log in and download and then hand it off to the TomorrowNow engineers" Some of the customers contracting with TomorrowNow had lost their media and not patched for awhile, to catch up on patching they needed the media. Oracle charges rapacious prices to replace media, upwards of $32K! I'm betting TomorrowNow used legally downloaded media to support customers who no longer had access to support for Siebel just to be nice guys. It is possible to negotiate the price of replacement media with Oracle but it requires weeks of effort and the use of nasty language towards their 'customer service' reps. I still have psychological scarring from my go round and I 'won' a reduced cost.
Besides drawing/paint programs and gcompris (all good suggestions)( just bookmarking HubbleSite and some of the other sites with astronomy pictures would be good entertainment. 4 isn't too young for a very basic, cheap digital camera either so how adding it and a basic photo edit program to go with the netbook? If it's pure fun and games my daughter loved the Sims when she was a tad older than 4.
Oracle nickles and dimes their customers after the initial sale, sounds like the same is done internally. I bet that many of those who left will be sued, or the organizations they join will be sued - that's also standard Oracle playbook.
I see no direct mention of test driven development here. This speeds up development ultimately by reducing errors.
BTW - I've seen paired programming work best as an 'apprenticeship' for newly hatched academic programmers or an experienced one learning a new language or framework from another who's already adept.
If each person in a relationship has one thing that they get to manage and have final decision power on than it is easier to collaborate or compromise on everything else.
Money is another place where power tripping can make problems. It helps if couples agree on a dollar threshold for expenditures that need no joint review.
I've been married near 25 years to another smart person and the above covenants have worked really well.
A better approach than changing passwords frequently (especially when there is single-sign on or federated password management)is to use a complex password sequence. This could be a set of challenge questions or a couple narrative sentences. There is a lot of empirical and academic support for narrative password sequences. People remember them well and don't have to write them down.
Alrighty then, the Win2003, Exchange 2003, and Vista OS are not radically different than the ole NT, Exchange 5.5 and heaven help us Windows 3.3 products. If it is possible to run your 32 bit programs and.dlls ('seamlessly' as one article described it)on the 'new' 64 bit Windows then trust me, it's security and exploit business as usual. The new versions are essentially lipstick on a pig.
It doesn't matter what IT, IS, CIS or other computer science fiction courses you sign up for if you don't combine them with the ability to analyze a problem, write a cogent sentence, understand history, make a little small talk and do a good job presenting.
Community colleges often offer the most practical applied coursework for things like data structures.
In India the wages given to call center staff are paid well relative to the local economy. The real issues are these:
no Indian privacy laws, which makes identity theft hard to prosecute
Culturally, there is a different standard of concern about things like bank account numbers and info westerners consider confidential. It is good form in Delhi to give your PIN and ATM card to your friend if he needs a loan
There is no Indian national ID, and variability in naming conventions, addressing etc makes managing identity of Indian citizens more fluid. This contributes to cultural attitude. Currently, the only way to limit identifty theft in India is through contract and physical controls; such as no pens and paper leaving the call center.
This week two of the former Detroit 'big four' had their investment ratings downgraded to junk status. They also seemed to have plenty in the war chest. Didn't help them design cars people wanted. What is 0% financing or rebate but paying people to buy your product? Well, Microsoft keeps on building on top of old technology - expensive to patch, and not quite state of the art. Why do people keep using it? Because they know how and they feel in control because it's the first desktop tool they learned. But, that attitude won't last forever.
I enjoy being a girl who codes and trains boys too. Regarding the other matter - truth is sometimes harsh. Better the blog with some strong opinion and objective fact than all the namby-pamby pandering to the emotions.
...And let's outsource all the financial services jobs too. If it didn't cost so much to support the machinary of "maintaining shareholder value" than would there be as much manipulation of stock price for the short-term? Long-term investment in the viability of a companies products and services would support a global economy.
Collaborative tools like Wiki do not grow well without the activities of a moderator or group of moderators.
Collaboration is, after all, really a set of behaviors. The activity of a moderator(s) can model the behaviors and disciplines for the rest of the community.
I discovered this great book -Cookwise, by Shirley Corrigher. It covers the science of cooking and baking. Very helpful with de-bugging recipes, and also for using the basic formulas and reaction rules for creating your own recipes on the fly
Here's the biggest risk of all.Much of the customer service and IT work done offshore is related to HR and Credit card functions. The data managed offshore is subject NOT to North American or European privacy laws, but to the local laws. Guess what? India has no data privacy laws. Can you all say identity theft, embezzlement and support of terrorism through these activities. I don't trust international business contract law to protect ordinary citizens. The greed of corporation and the current US administration makes them stupid to the real risks and downside of their short-term economic strategies
Gee doesn't this mean that Carly Fiorina's ability to build a big fortune on the backs of American and off-shore IT workes isn't god given either?
Why can't we send the CEO's off-shore too? Won't lower salaries across the board mean better shareholder value? Oh, but wait. There won't be anyone left who has enough cash to buy stocks.
Considering the number of consonants in the acronyms Xforms is likely a plot of slavic coders, 'cause I'm thinking that the next big set-up of off-shore code gerbil cages is Russia
Just because a mob is brought together initially for a surreal event and behaves peacefully doesn't mean it can't turn into a 'really' angry mob in pretty short order.
The technique has great potential for mayhem as well as positive social action. The behavior of the mob is reliant on either the good sense and good will of the individual participants, or a dynamic leader who can keep an eye on the situation and defuse any anti social tendencies real fast.
That's funny. But as a synaesthete I can relate to your son's immediate (and extreme) opinion -
When I was 4 I was entirely hung-up on the tastes of words. It's under control now, but at 4 the experience of chanting 'aluminum' while listening to symphonic music ( I see sounds) was addictive. The pleasure of the combined sensations were amazing.
Aluminum the word tastes kind of like plum cobbler by the way.
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Oracle initially took offense at TomorrowNow using manuals and patches downloaded legally on behalf of TomorrowNow clients. Oracle essentially said "You, as third-party support, cannot use the access purchased by your customer for your customer - they have to log in and download and then hand it off to the TomorrowNow engineers" Some of the customers contracting with TomorrowNow had lost their media and not patched for awhile, to catch up on patching they needed the media. Oracle charges rapacious prices to replace media, upwards of $32K! I'm betting TomorrowNow used legally downloaded media to support customers who no longer had access to support for Siebel just to be nice guys. It is possible to negotiate the price of replacement media with Oracle but it requires weeks of effort and the use of nasty language towards their 'customer service' reps. I still have psychological scarring from my go round and I 'won' a reduced cost.
Besides drawing/paint programs and gcompris (all good suggestions)( just bookmarking HubbleSite and some of the other sites with astronomy pictures would be good entertainment. 4 isn't too young for a very basic, cheap digital camera either so how adding it and a basic photo edit program to go with the netbook? If it's pure fun and games my daughter loved the Sims when she was a tad older than 4.
Oracle nickles and dimes their customers after the initial sale, sounds like the same is done internally. I bet that many of those who left will be sued, or the organizations they join will be sued - that's also standard Oracle playbook.
I see no direct mention of test driven development here. This speeds up development ultimately by reducing errors. BTW - I've seen paired programming work best as an 'apprenticeship' for newly hatched academic programmers or an experienced one learning a new language or framework from another who's already adept.
Get some MacGyver on it.... http://www.rpi-polymath.com/ducttape/RFIDWallet.php ITgrrrl
If each person in a relationship has one thing that they get to manage and have final decision power on than it is easier to collaborate or compromise on everything else. Money is another place where power tripping can make problems. It helps if couples agree on a dollar threshold for expenditures that need no joint review. I've been married near 25 years to another smart person and the above covenants have worked really well.
Hey, maybe Rome is bringing back limbo like they are indulgences http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1881152,00.html?iid=perma_share
WWTFSMD? What would the Flying Spaghetti Monster do?
A better approach than changing passwords frequently (especially when there is single-sign on or federated password management)is to use a complex password sequence. This could be a set of challenge questions or a couple narrative sentences. There is a lot of empirical and academic support for narrative password sequences. People remember them well and don't have to write them down.
Alrighty then, the Win2003, Exchange 2003, and Vista OS are not radically different than the ole NT, Exchange 5.5 and heaven help us Windows 3.3 products. If it is possible to run your 32 bit programs and .dlls ('seamlessly' as one article described it)on the 'new' 64 bit Windows then trust me, it's security and exploit business as usual. The new versions are essentially lipstick on a pig.
It doesn't matter what IT, IS, CIS or other computer science fiction courses you sign up for if you don't combine them with the ability to analyze a problem, write a cogent sentence, understand history, make a little small talk and do a good job presenting. Community colleges often offer the most practical applied coursework for things like data structures.
In India the wages given to call center staff are paid well relative to the local economy. The real issues are these: no Indian privacy laws, which makes identity theft hard to prosecute Culturally, there is a different standard of concern about things like bank account numbers and info westerners consider confidential. It is good form in Delhi to give your PIN and ATM card to your friend if he needs a loan There is no Indian national ID, and variability in naming conventions, addressing etc makes managing identity of Indian citizens more fluid. This contributes to cultural attitude. Currently, the only way to limit identifty theft in India is through contract and physical controls; such as no pens and paper leaving the call center.
This week two of the former Detroit 'big four' had their investment ratings downgraded to junk status. They also seemed to have plenty in the war chest. Didn't help them design cars people wanted. What is 0% financing or rebate but paying people to buy your product? Well, Microsoft keeps on building on top of old technology - expensive to patch, and not quite state of the art. Why do people keep using it? Because they know how and they feel in control because it's the first desktop tool they learned. But, that attitude won't last forever.
I always thought of the academic discipline as being computer science fiction anyway
I enjoy being a girl who codes and trains boys too. Regarding the other matter - truth is sometimes harsh. Better the blog with some strong opinion and objective fact than all the namby-pamby pandering to the emotions.
...And let's outsource all the financial services jobs too. If it didn't cost so much to support the machinary of "maintaining shareholder value" than would there be as much manipulation of stock price for the short-term? Long-term investment in the viability of a companies products and services would support a global economy.
Collaborative tools like Wiki do not grow well without the activities of a moderator or group of moderators. Collaboration is, after all, really a set of behaviors. The activity of a moderator(s) can model the behaviors and disciplines for the rest of the community.
I discovered this great book -Cookwise, by Shirley Corrigher. It covers the science of cooking and baking. Very helpful with de-bugging recipes, and also for using the basic formulas and reaction rules for creating your own recipes on the fly
Right on, no one is born knowing any of this tech stuff, was wondering when someone would mention the BOFH.
Here's the biggest risk of all.Much of the customer service and IT work done offshore is related to HR and Credit card functions. The data managed offshore is subject NOT to North American or European privacy laws, but to the local laws. Guess what? India has no data privacy laws. Can you all say identity theft, embezzlement and support of terrorism through these activities. I don't trust international business contract law to protect ordinary citizens. The greed of corporation and the current US administration makes them stupid to the real risks and downside of their short-term economic strategies
Gee doesn't this mean that Carly Fiorina's ability to build a big fortune on the backs of American and off-shore IT workes isn't god given either? Why can't we send the CEO's off-shore too? Won't lower salaries across the board mean better shareholder value? Oh, but wait. There won't be anyone left who has enough cash to buy stocks.
Considering the number of consonants in the acronyms Xforms is likely a plot of slavic coders, 'cause I'm thinking that the next big set-up of off-shore code gerbil cages is Russia
Just because a mob is brought together initially for a surreal event and behaves peacefully doesn't mean it can't turn into a 'really' angry mob in pretty short order.
The technique has great potential for mayhem as well as positive social action. The behavior of the mob is reliant on either the good sense and good will of the individual participants, or a dynamic leader who can keep an eye on the situation and defuse any anti social tendencies real fast.
That's funny. But as a synaesthete I can relate to your son's immediate (and extreme) opinion -
When I was 4 I was entirely hung-up on the tastes of words. It's under control now, but at 4 the experience of chanting 'aluminum' while listening to symphonic music ( I see sounds) was addictive. The pleasure of the combined sensations were amazing.
Aluminum the word tastes kind of like plum cobbler by the way.