One significant difference between IBM and Hollywood is that IBM has a HUGE staff of patent and copyright lawyers who are very capable. Hollywood's lawyers are focused in a totally different direction - the entertainment industry and their copyrights. The two have very little in common.
Thus, I can see IBM putting on a great defense regarding SCO's suit against them and a great offense in their suit against SCO. I can't say that I see the same level of legal practice in regards to Linux rights from the folks in Hollywood. Yes Hollywood has the money but the IBM legal staff is a strong team that has been doing this kind of thing for years. This could get interesting.
I can see Hollywood doing a double-take when they see 1000 dual processor CPUs being hit with extorsion licenses that exceed $1000 each. License fees of over $1-million would wake anybody up.
Ah, no, this is definitely illegal. The Clayton Act, on agreement not to use goods of competitor
It shall be unlawful for any person engaged in commerce, in the course of such commerce, to lease or make a sale or contract for sale of goods, wares, merchandise, machinery, supplies, or other commodities, whether patented or unpatented, for use, consumption, or resale within the United States or any Territory thereof or the District of Columbia or any insular possession or other place under the jurisdiction of the United States, or fix a price charged therefor, or discount from, or rebate upon, such price, on the condition, agreement, or understanding that the lessee or purchaser thereof shall not use or deal in the goods, wares, merchandise, machinery, supplies, or other commodities of a competitor or competitors of the lessor or seller, where the effect of such lease, sale, or contract for sale or such condition, agreement, or understanding may be to substantially lessen competition or tend to create a monopoly in any line of commerce.
One can copy and distribute just about anything to anybody if they have permission. The concept that only a single body may produce copies and distribute them is absurd.
Every CocaCola plant in the world makes their own cans and prints them. They then send these to various distributors who in turn sell them to retailers. In this case both copyright and trademark are legally being copied and distributed by many others.
How is Linux/GNU any different? GPL grants the right to copy and distribute provided you agree to the terms of the GPL license. Thus, I don't have to pay a fee, get a special license or whatever to copy and distribute code under GPL. It is part of the rights provided in the top-level GLP license.
Billy Tauzin had his voice in the house but if the over-lord of media becomes Orin Hatch, the internet as a media medium is in big trouble. Hatch has more media fingers in his pockets than anybody and he also things he's a music artist. We may find we're out of the pan and into the fire with this. Tauzin and Hatch making deals is just too scary of a thought.
I use both a digital (Olympus C3030 Zoom) and a film SLR (Cannon A1). These are both nice cameras however, the digital is really a "snap shot" camera while the A1 is of pro quality. Both have their unique positive attributes and both have their own inherent limitations.
If I'm after a specific photographic shot of something I'm going to blow up to 11 x 14 or bigger, I'll definitely shoot it on film. I may very well use the digital to help determine exposure, aperature and such. The digital gives instant feedback for getting that perfect photo.
I have a ton of Canon C-Mount lenses from 28mm to 1000mm as well as filters and such. The problem is that none of these Canon lenses will work with the newer Canon cameras. Thus, I continue to use the A1 body.
I've also used the A1 for many years and **KNOW** the camera. I know exactly what it will do and won't do. I'm still learning on the digital camera.
The bottom line is that I'll continue to use both film and digital cameras for a while. The resolution and features on the best digitals still don't compare to the capabilities of film.
We've heard M$ say they're getting their security act together so many times now that I really doubt if there is anybody who actually believes them anymore (except the Gartner Group). Due to the evolvolution development approach that M$ has used for the on-going Windoze environment, the product is, by design, insecure. It may be easier for them to start over, from scratch, than to fix what appears to be unfixable.
Both Windoze and the Mac support Unicode fonts so I would assume (maybe wrong on this one:) that the Unicode font sets would work in both worlds -- Mac Unicode on the Macs and Windoze unicode on Windoze and Linux Unicode on Linux...
Office supports Unicode so, how is it that the Mac using Office can't run multi-national font sets and thus Hebrew, Cyrillic, Chinese, etc.
I still have a Z80 based ZCPR and CPM/80 system that I use as a controller for a ComputMotor device. Its easy to program, small in size, does the job and serves it purpose.
The M68010 multibus system running Version-7 Unix still runs as a basic server and has IEEE-488 on it. It's only used for a few tasks anymore but it runs fine. Its never had a problem in 25 years. The Heurikon minibox (Unisoft System-V Unix (5.0) and Unify DBMS got water damaged so it was trashed just a few years ago but it was a wonderful system too.
So both circa 1985 systems are running and there just isn't any reason to change. I saw no reason to upgrade just for the sake of upgrading.
The 1981 Xerox Alto-II XM just needs a new tube and it can also run. It's just a games machine now but I can't find those games for any other system ever made. They're coded in BCPL and I don't have the time to port them to another hardware and software environment. I really should get that CRT tube replaced:)
I was working on a project in the early '80s to make ink-jet nozzels (pumps) in VLSI. We had a lot of nozzels on a single VLSI chip that could move ink very rapidly. All the logic and such was also on the chip. The pumps worked very efficiently and consumed very little power. They never seemed to get clogged either. This may be a nice new application for an old technology.
I worked on a major telco VoIP project and we were working with SIP as a real telephone alternative. Cisco was involved as were other vendors. The whole scope of our project was to replace analog telephony with VoIP with a reliable and clean alternative. VoIP traffic has its own inherent problems which the industry is still trying to resolve.
So, if the telco I worked for was trying to replace conventional telephone service with VoIP then why wouldn't it be considered a telephone service?
If software patterns can generate audio that could then be construed as "music", then the reverse is also possible. That is "music" can be reduced to binary patterns that are actually computer code.
This creates an interesting situation. People didn't share "music", they shared binary bit streams of code and thus the RIAA has no authority. Or, all the software ever written could be interpreted as music and thus copyright under music licensing laws (ah, the joys of paying royalties:)
Since it has already been determined that a painting doesn't have to represent anything real or recognizable to be construed as art, can the same reasoning be applied to the audible senses as it is to the visual senses? A canvas covered with splotches of paint is basically visual noise and can legally be considered art and can be a copyrighted work. Thus, digital noise could also be considered music and fall into the same realm.
I'd hate to be the judge who has to seperate these two concepts.
When I started my music company, it was the era of Windoze95. The system crashed constantly - literally 4 or 5 times a day. Productivity was slowed to a snail pace. Then can Win98 but it wasn't any better in the reliability department.
So, I tried Debian Linux. I put up a mirror of our web site and moved everything to the linux platform. We didn't have a crash or require any reboots for over a year (excepting updates and such.) Life was good. We've never had a reason to go back. The frustration and headaches are gone. We don't scramble on Win Bug alerts. We know the Linux systems, desktops and applications. Why would we want to learn Windoze now?
I realize that the EULA of almost all software says if it doesn't work, its your problem but, what if I run a totally Unix shop and don't have any Micro$oft products anywhere and don't use any but, my services are rendered useless due to high volumes of spam, sql queries, MSRPC calls, large virus attachments etc. all aimed at M$ products. Would I then be able to sue them for the poor quality of their product?
I use the old Bourne scripts for just about everything because 1) they work. 2) They run on ANY *nix system in a consistent way. 3.)they don't require a lot of work to maintain. 4.) they're portable (excluding things like ps -ef / ps -aux).
Any new run-level mechanism needs to have ALL of the functionality that the current init/simpleinit/telinit have. You need to be able to monitor them from a TTY device - not a bitmapped GUI. If it works well, and can be edited with a WY50/VT100 type interface, can be monitored on-the-fly, they it can be usable.
Adding fancy stuff to a boot-up routine doesn't make any sense as its just more stuff to deal with during boot. Keep it as simple as possible.
After almost 30 years playing with *nix systems, I've seen enough problems from V7, Sys5.0, BSDx.x, SunOS, Solaris, Ultrix... ad nauseum to realize that problems do happen and if you can't manage things at a TTY level, you can really have your hands full.
Sure the software has been around for a while but the hardware components necessary for real recording, mixing and edits are still extremely expensive and quite limited in what is really available. If you want to put 32 tracks or more of real-time high-quality audio into a PC, you're going to require some exoteric equipment. In many cases you need to design and build your own for professional quality capabilities.
Two 16 channel boards accepting either Mic or Line input levels (balanced or unbalanced) as well as gain controls, Analog-to-Digital converters and low distortion levels are essential. Add to this the ability to multiplex each of the digital signals so that they arrive at the computer in near-real time with no delays and you've got a real project on your hands.
100 E-mails a day could hurt some of us that have legitimate businesses that also have a monthly newsletter that requires we send hundreds of E-mails every month. We send each individually and do not bcc or cc the entire list (automated program). So, everything can't be black or white -- on or off. We need to allow legitimate use of mass E-mails while controlling spam at the same time.
That is correct. The Alto was BEFORE the 2900 series chips by AMD. The Alto had a CRAM board which supplied the CPU Ram, 256 K RAM and another board that managed the external CPU functions. It had microcode, germ and other code elements. Device drivers didn't exist as they do today so disks.d had to be compiled into every BCPL program to access the disk.
The STAR computer that was derived from the D-machines like Dolphin and Dorado utilized the AMD 2900 series chips and then later, the 6500 series systems used the Mesa Processor Chip that supported the Intel instruction set, the Mesa instruction set, the AMD instruction set and one programmable set.
The interesting thing was that the 3-MB Diablo D32 packs would hold all your programs - E-Mail, Word processor, graphics software, spread sheets and such plus the development environment(s) and still have room for your files. BravoX was the best word processor I've ever used period. It had features that Word and others still don't have.
The problem was that although Xerox could market and sell printers, computers were not something they knew how to market. It is sad because they really did have a superior product back then.
When I developed the optical mouse (patent 4,751,505) to replace the mechanical mouse in 1982 (issued 1988) using VLSI, the majority of critical systems were still Altos at Xerox.
They ran file servers, high-speed - high resolution color printers, mail servers and yes, even game servers. This box could have multiple Trident T-300s on it or a variety of other add-ons.
But, they were based on the TTL 74181. I've still got one in the garage that works but the monitor is dead.
Floppies! You were lucky. I remember loading the boot loader with switches and FOCAL (Formula Calculator) into the PDP-8e using punch tape on a Model 33 teletype. And, yes, it sure beat punch cards. I used the PDP-8 circa 1974.
I know that in the late 60's Xerox PARC was working on what later became the Alto Personal Computer. This computer, introduced outside of Xerox in 1973 had a GUI, mouse, many programming languages (fortran, interlisp, MESA, BCPL, etc.) and a number of very advanced tools. It had ethernet (3 Mbit PUP net) and later even supported color. Having wet my teeth on the Alto, I still feel that it was better in many respects than the early PCs. It was a totally TTL machine using 74181 Bit-Slice processor chips. Ah, the good ole dayz.
This is old news. In May 2000, infowarrior.org carried an article "Microsoft - A Proven Danger to National Security". I can't find the article on infowarrior but it was very popular and controversial for a while -- even here on/. The sad thing is this article, was a warning that nobody in the government ever listened to. Microsoft sure didn't read this document. If they did, they've spent 3 years doing absolutely nothing.
That may be fine but in some parts of this planet, people must travel to another country to get their visa to the USA. My wife is an immigrant and had to do this. Come back tomorrow is easier said than done. She had to go to Poland and stay at a hotel. Stay another night at the hotel? What about her airline tickets to return home? There is a lot of expense if the attitude is simply "Come back tomorrow" and what if the problem still exists tomorrow?
Doesn't the state department realize some people, other than themselves, have lives and expenses too? Why not take a system that important and apply both patches and anti-virus programs to it. Wouldn't that be a better solution for everybody?
There should be no reason to add 3rd party security IF your security is in place. There are a lot of ways to protect your environment that do not require outside monitoring.
Alert your users of this fact - send them all an E-mail to alert them of this scam!
You run the show -- not some 3rd party. You set the rules and the security policies. You do the monitoring internally.
I can't believe that monitoring consumed 15GB of space. There's something else going on there. I helped work on a data warehouse to capture all of Worldcoms routers data every 5 minutes -- every router's SNMP logs and for years dumped all that data into an Oracle database so we could report on it. That's a bunch of routers and a ton of data. For your company to consume that much log data in a single weekend doesn't make sense.
Block the 3rd party polling IP at the routers and do the job internally.
I bought a couple of computers when I was in California but sadly they were both Motorola 68xxx Multibus Unix Sys-V systems. I guess that doesn't count;-}
I started in the late '70s at Xerox PARC and traversed IT and Tech companies for many years. I have started a few companies and sold them off and now that I'm retired(ya right), I run all the systems for a real-estate company. The fancy new technologies and cool ideas are all around you.
Finding a company that will let you innovate and implement may be a challenge but I've got a realistic budget and timelines, toys and challenges that the telcos never gave me.
I only work about 12 days a month, don't carry a damned pager and make more than I ever did before. I've got a better quality of life and better (but different) challenges to address.
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One significant difference between IBM and Hollywood is that IBM has a HUGE staff of patent and copyright lawyers who are very capable. Hollywood's lawyers are focused in a totally different direction - the entertainment industry and their copyrights. The two have very little in common.
Thus, I can see IBM putting on a great defense regarding SCO's suit against them and a great offense in their suit against SCO. I can't say that I see the same level of legal practice in regards to Linux rights from the folks in Hollywood. Yes Hollywood has the money but the IBM legal staff is a strong team that has been doing this kind of thing for years. This could get interesting.
I can see Hollywood doing a double-take when they see 1000 dual processor CPUs being hit with extorsion licenses that exceed $1000 each. License fees of over $1-million would wake anybody up.
Ah, no, this is definitely illegal. The Clayton Act, on agreement not to use goods of competitor
It shall be unlawful for any person engaged in commerce, in the course of such commerce, to lease or make a sale or contract for sale of goods, wares, merchandise, machinery, supplies, or other commodities, whether patented or unpatented, for use, consumption, or resale within the United States or any Territory thereof or the District of Columbia or any insular possession or other place under the jurisdiction of the United States, or fix a price charged therefor, or discount from, or rebate upon, such price, on the condition, agreement, or understanding that the lessee or purchaser thereof shall not use or deal in the goods, wares, merchandise, machinery, supplies, or other commodities of a competitor or competitors of the lessor or seller, where the effect of such lease, sale, or contract for sale or such condition, agreement, or understanding may be to substantially lessen competition or tend to create a monopoly in any line of commerce.
Too bad the number of trees has NOT increased 43% in the past 3 years. At this rate we'll have a naked planet in no time.
One can copy and distribute just about anything to anybody if they have permission. The concept that only a single body may produce copies and distribute them is absurd.
Every CocaCola plant in the world makes their own cans and prints them. They then send these to various distributors who in turn sell them to retailers. In this case both copyright and trademark are legally being copied and distributed by many others.
How is Linux/GNU any different? GPL grants the right to copy and distribute provided you agree to the terms of the GPL license. Thus, I don't have to pay a fee, get a special license or whatever to copy and distribute code under GPL. It is part of the rights provided in the top-level GLP license.
SCO is still smoking something..
Billy Tauzin had his voice in the house but if the over-lord of media becomes Orin Hatch, the internet as a media medium is in big trouble. Hatch has more media fingers in his pockets than anybody and he also things he's a music artist. We may find we're out of the pan and into the fire with this. Tauzin and Hatch making deals is just too scary of a thought.
I use both a digital (Olympus C3030 Zoom) and a film SLR (Cannon A1). These are both nice cameras however, the digital is really a "snap shot" camera while the A1 is of pro quality. Both have their unique positive attributes and both have their own inherent limitations.
If I'm after a specific photographic shot of something I'm going to blow up to 11 x 14 or bigger, I'll definitely shoot it on film. I may very well use the digital to help determine exposure, aperature and such. The digital gives instant feedback for getting that perfect photo.
I have a ton of Canon C-Mount lenses from 28mm to 1000mm as well as filters and such. The problem is that none of these Canon lenses will work with the newer Canon cameras. Thus, I continue to use the A1 body.
I've also used the A1 for many years and **KNOW** the camera. I know exactly what it will do and won't do. I'm still learning on the digital camera.
The bottom line is that I'll continue to use both film and digital cameras for a while. The resolution and features on the best digitals still don't compare to the capabilities of film.
We've heard M$ say they're getting their security act together so many times now that I really doubt if there is anybody who actually believes them anymore (except the Gartner Group). Due to the evolvolution development approach that M$ has used for the on-going Windoze environment, the product is, by design, insecure. It may be easier for them to start over, from scratch, than to fix what appears to be unfixable.
Both Windoze and the Mac support Unicode fonts so I would assume (maybe wrong on this one :) that the Unicode font sets would work in both worlds -- Mac Unicode on the Macs and Windoze unicode on Windoze and Linux Unicode on Linux ...
Office supports Unicode so, how is it that the Mac using Office can't run multi-national font sets and thus Hebrew, Cyrillic, Chinese, etc.
I still have a Z80 based ZCPR and CPM/80 system that I use as a controller for a ComputMotor device. Its easy to program, small in size, does the job and serves it purpose.
:)
The M68010 multibus system running Version-7 Unix still runs as a basic server and has IEEE-488 on it. It's only used for a few tasks anymore but it runs fine. Its never had a problem in 25 years. The Heurikon minibox (Unisoft System-V Unix (5.0) and Unify DBMS got water damaged so it was trashed just a few years ago but it was a wonderful system too.
So both circa 1985 systems are running and there just isn't any reason to change. I saw no reason to upgrade just for the sake of upgrading.
The 1981 Xerox Alto-II XM just needs a new tube and it can also run. It's just a games machine now but I can't find those games for any other system ever made. They're coded in BCPL and I don't have the time to port them to another hardware and software environment. I really should get that CRT tube replaced
I was working on a project in the early '80s to make ink-jet nozzels (pumps) in VLSI. We had a lot of nozzels on a single VLSI chip that could move ink very rapidly. All the logic and such was also on the chip. The pumps worked very efficiently and consumed very little power. They never seemed to get clogged either. This may be a nice new application for an old technology.
I worked on a major telco VoIP project and we were working with SIP as a real telephone alternative. Cisco was involved as were other vendors. The whole scope of our project was to replace analog telephony with VoIP with a reliable and clean alternative. VoIP traffic has its own inherent problems which the industry is still trying to resolve.
So, if the telco I worked for was trying to replace conventional telephone service with VoIP then why wouldn't it be considered a telephone service?
If software patterns can generate audio that could then be construed as "music", then the reverse is also possible. That is "music" can be reduced to binary patterns that are actually computer code.
:)
This creates an interesting situation. People didn't share "music", they shared binary bit streams of code and thus the RIAA has no authority. Or, all the software ever written could be interpreted as music and thus copyright under music licensing laws (ah, the joys of paying royalties
Since it has already been determined that a painting doesn't have to represent anything real or recognizable to be construed as art, can the same reasoning be applied to the audible senses as it is to the visual senses? A canvas covered with splotches of paint is basically visual noise and can legally be considered art and can be a copyrighted work. Thus, digital noise could also be considered music and fall into the same realm.
I'd hate to be the judge who has to seperate these two concepts.
When I started my music company, it was the era of Windoze95. The system crashed constantly - literally 4 or 5 times a day. Productivity was slowed to a snail pace. Then can Win98 but it wasn't any better in the reliability department.
So, I tried Debian Linux. I put up a mirror of our web site and moved everything to the linux platform. We didn't have a crash or require any reboots for over a year (excepting updates and such.) Life was good. We've never had a reason to go back. The frustration and headaches are gone. We don't scramble on Win Bug alerts. We know the Linux systems, desktops and applications. Why would we want to learn Windoze now?
I realize that the EULA of almost all software says if it doesn't work, its your problem but, what if I run a totally Unix shop and don't have any Micro$oft products anywhere and don't use any but, my services are rendered useless due to high volumes of spam, sql queries, MSRPC calls, large virus attachments etc. all aimed at M$ products. Would I then be able to sue them for the poor quality of their product?
I use the old Bourne scripts for just about everything because 1) they work. 2) They run on ANY *nix system in a consistent way. 3.)they don't require a lot of work to maintain. 4.) they're portable (excluding things like ps -ef / ps -aux).
... ad nauseum to realize that problems do happen and if you can't manage things at a TTY level, you can really have your hands full.
Any new run-level mechanism needs to have ALL of the functionality that the current init/simpleinit/telinit have. You need to be able to monitor them from a TTY device - not a bitmapped GUI. If it works well, and can be edited with a WY50/VT100 type interface, can be monitored on-the-fly, they it can be usable.
Adding fancy stuff to a boot-up routine doesn't make any sense as its just more stuff to deal with during boot. Keep it as simple as possible.
After almost 30 years playing with *nix systems, I've seen enough problems from V7, Sys5.0, BSDx.x, SunOS, Solaris, Ultrix
Two 16 channel boards accepting either Mic or Line input levels (balanced or unbalanced) as well as gain controls, Analog-to-Digital converters and low distortion levels are essential. Add to this the ability to multiplex each of the digital signals so that they arrive at the computer in near-real time with no delays and you've got a real project on your hands.
100 E-mails a day could hurt some of us that have legitimate businesses that also have a monthly newsletter that requires we send hundreds of E-mails every month. We send each individually and do not bcc or cc the entire list (automated program). So, everything can't be black or white -- on or off. We need to allow legitimate use of mass E-mails while controlling spam at the same time.
The STAR computer that was derived from the D-machines like Dolphin and Dorado utilized the AMD 2900 series chips and then later, the 6500 series systems used the Mesa Processor Chip that supported the Intel instruction set, the Mesa instruction set, the AMD instruction set and one programmable set.
The interesting thing was that the 3-MB Diablo D32 packs would hold all your programs - E-Mail, Word processor, graphics software, spread sheets and such plus the development environment(s) and still have room for your files. BravoX was the best word processor I've ever used period. It had features that Word and others still don't have.
The problem was that although Xerox could market and sell printers, computers were not something they knew how to market. It is sad because they really did have a superior product back then.
When I developed the optical mouse (patent 4,751,505) to replace the mechanical mouse in 1982 (issued 1988) using VLSI, the majority of critical systems were still Altos at Xerox.
They ran file servers, high-speed - high resolution color printers, mail servers and yes, even game servers. This box could have multiple Trident T-300s on it or a variety of other add-ons.
But, they were based on the TTL 74181. I've still got one in the garage that works but the monitor is dead.
Floppies! You were lucky. I remember loading the boot loader with switches and FOCAL (Formula Calculator) into the PDP-8e using punch tape on a Model 33 teletype. And, yes, it sure beat punch cards. I used the PDP-8 circa 1974.
I know that in the late 60's Xerox PARC was working on what later became the Alto Personal Computer. This computer, introduced outside of Xerox in 1973 had a GUI, mouse, many programming languages (fortran, interlisp, MESA, BCPL, etc.) and a number of very advanced tools. It had ethernet (3 Mbit PUP net) and later even supported color. Having wet my teeth on the Alto, I still feel that it was better in many respects than the early PCs. It was a totally TTL machine using 74181 Bit-Slice processor chips. Ah, the good ole dayz.
This is old news. In May 2000, infowarrior.org carried an article "Microsoft - A Proven Danger to National Security". I can't find the article on infowarrior but it was very popular and controversial for a while -- even here on /. The sad thing is this article, was a warning that nobody in the government ever listened to. Microsoft sure didn't read this document. If they did, they've spent 3 years doing absolutely nothing.
That may be fine but in some parts of this planet, people must travel to another country to get their visa to the USA. My wife is an immigrant and had to do this. Come back tomorrow is easier said than done. She had to go to Poland and stay at a hotel. Stay another night at the hotel? What about her airline tickets to return home? There is a lot of expense if the attitude is simply "Come back tomorrow" and what if the problem still exists tomorrow?
Doesn't the state department realize some people, other than themselves, have lives and expenses too? Why not take a system that important and apply both patches and anti-virus programs to it. Wouldn't that be a better solution for everybody?
There should be no reason to add 3rd party security IF your security is in place. There are a lot of ways to protect your environment that do not require outside monitoring.
Alert your users of this fact - send them all an E-mail to alert them of this scam!
You run the show -- not some 3rd party. You set the rules and the security policies. You do the monitoring internally.
I can't believe that monitoring consumed 15GB of space. There's something else going on there. I helped work on a data warehouse to capture all of Worldcoms routers data every 5 minutes -- every router's SNMP logs and for years dumped all that data into an Oracle database so we could report on it. That's a bunch of routers and a ton of data. For your company to consume that much log data in a single weekend doesn't make sense.
Block the 3rd party polling IP at the routers and do the job internally.
I bought a couple of computers when I was in California but sadly they were both Motorola 68xxx Multibus Unix Sys-V systems. I guess that doesn't count ;-}
I started in the late '70s at Xerox PARC and traversed IT and Tech companies for many years. I have started a few companies and sold them off and now that I'm retired(ya right), I run all the systems for a real-estate company. The fancy new technologies and cool ideas are all around you.
Finding a company that will let you innovate and implement may be a challenge but I've got a realistic budget and timelines, toys and challenges that the telcos never gave me.
I only work about 12 days a month, don't carry a damned pager and make more than I ever did before. I've got a better quality of life and better (but different) challenges to address.
Don't complain until you've tried it.