Give it up man. The moniker "hacker" just sounds too good for the media to give up. It has harsh syllables and does good visuals. I wrote a college paper in 1984 about misuse of the term - it has been that long a battle my friend.
I thought Congress determined a couple of years ago that the prices of CD's were artificially inflated. As I recall they were supposed to bitch-slap 'em and make 'em give some of the money back. What happened to that?
I agree that there are Big Brother aspects to this I don't like at all. But don't act like this is news - the FCC had MANDATED that phones be equipped to track position in the near future. Two outfits are going cheep and using triangulation others are building GPS into the phones. My Samsung has a little radar dish to show me it has a position lock. the reason is so that in case 911 calls come in the position can be verified easily. Most people don't have a clue as the precise location they happen to be at in an emergency. Yes - they can in fact track you - curse on one hand - blessing on the other. The europeans have used features similar to this to offer innovative services tailored to your location - phone the nearest pizza joint to have one waiting get directions while your on the phone, are there any single chicks nearby that fit my profile? Message her with an offer to have lunch. There are some cool uses for this technology without getting Orwellian about it.
Jeez - I'd accept a 5% attrition in ANY market if 95% of music buyers are honest as he says. I like that stupid nirvanistic-utopian comment about "...honest people, may, for the first time, enjoy the pleasurable experience of legal and licensed copying and sharing of their music...". I wish I could get off that easy!
Get a PocketPC and then the 48G emulator - it can all be had at the hpcalc website and it runs great! I love mine - I have a 48GX and it sits in the drawer most of the time because I have my PDA with me all the time. Regards, Jon
Learn about the war before you make stoopid comments like this. The Japanese overran China levelled entire cities, raped the women then killed them, slit babies throats, then chopped off the heads of the men and put them on poles outside the city to instill fear in others. Entire cities destroyed the hard way - not just vaporized. The Nazis and the Japanese are the ones that dragged civilians into the war - not the US or the Allies. Or did you also forget places like Dachau and other death camps - mass graves in Poland where the entire village was made to dig a big hole and then were executed and buried in them? The concept of civilians being off limits pretty much died in WWII. We can honestly say we didn't start it - but we damn well finished it! Then we made restitution by picking their sorry butts up dusting them off and offered our hand to help and in friendship.
Some of these folks obviously never had or can't hold a real job.
1st thing - draw the org chart - the REAL org chart not the one they print saying who reports to whom. Anyone who makes a request follow them up the foodchain to find their boss and where he sits. Use where their *boss* is on the foodchain to decide priorities. If their boss is higher up or better able to forward your career then drop what you're doing and take on the new job. Now cover your butt by taking the time to email,with a copy to yourself, the people whose jobs you dropped "I am sorry but I have been requested to give by priority and thus your job has [pick one](a)dropped off my to-do list (b) been delayed. if there are mitigating circumstances that could affect this decision, I encourage you to present them to for resolution. Thanks."
If they are lower on the totem pole than the job you are currently working on: "I'm sorry but I can't squeeze that in just yet as has me working on . I can see your job is really important so why don't you contact and present him with your problem. I'm sure he will be willing to allot some time from his project to yours."
Ta-da! You have offended no one and got 'em off your back. You have either acknowledged them as king of the hill and boosted their ego AND their opinion of you as a bright perceptive individual OR you've told them to take their project and take their chances with the sharks - but in a way that cannot be faulted.
This is real-world advice and covers the most common offenders. The sneaky bastards are the hardest ones to handle but essentially you drag them down to the boss's office pronto and get a verdict NOW. Do not let them slink away and slime your name because you didn't kiss their butt right away. The good news is that everyone usually knows they are weasels anyway.
Regards, BubbaJonBoy
What a pile of steaming tripe. Please educate yourself to the plight of the American developer before you dash off something this offensive.
I personally worked for a company that was off-shored out of existance. Not because we made boo-coodles of money - but rather our company was bought by a bank and some dick they hired from India as a consultant recommended that they could get the same thing done for far less in India. I won't go into the gory details but we also ran into the H-11B fiasco trying to get new jobs.
Oh - and our product which had actually been making money and commanded a large market share has pretty much stagnated and lost ground against existing competitors.
So was this a M$Office job? No. We supported several DB's in an n-tier B2B framework using C++ for commercial loan servicing. Our customers were all Fortune 100 and 500.
Also if you'd read the headlines you see this is IBM -you know, Big Blue? Not your typical shareware programmers. You sure you're just not taking this opportunity to boast about your shiny new masters degree?
Regards from the head-pullers union - we'll help you see daylight again.
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Give it up man. The moniker "hacker" just sounds too good for the media to give up. It has harsh syllables and does good visuals. I wrote a college paper in 1984 about misuse of the term - it has been that long a battle my friend.
I thought Congress determined a couple of years ago that the prices of CD's were artificially inflated. As I recall they were supposed to bitch-slap 'em and make 'em give some of the money back. What happened to that?
I agree that there are Big Brother aspects to this I don't like at all. But don't act like this is news - the FCC had MANDATED that phones be equipped to track position in the near future. Two outfits are going cheep and using triangulation others are building GPS into the phones. My Samsung has a little radar dish to show me it has a position lock. the reason is so that in case 911 calls come in the position can be verified easily. Most people don't have a clue as the precise location they happen to be at in an emergency. Yes - they can in fact track you - curse on one hand - blessing on the other. The europeans have used features similar to this to offer innovative services tailored to your location - phone the nearest pizza joint to have one waiting get directions while your on the phone, are there any single chicks nearby that fit my profile? Message her with an offer to have lunch. There are some cool uses for this technology without getting Orwellian about it.
Jeez - I'd accept a 5% attrition in ANY market if 95% of music buyers are honest as he says.
I like that stupid nirvanistic-utopian comment about "...honest people, may, for the first time, enjoy the pleasurable experience of legal and licensed copying and sharing of their music...". I wish I could get off that easy!
Get a PocketPC and then the 48G emulator - it can all be had at the hpcalc website and it runs great! I love mine - I have a 48GX and it sits in the drawer most of the time because I have my PDA with me all the time.
Regards, Jon
Learn about the war before you make stoopid comments like this.
The Japanese overran China levelled entire cities, raped the women then killed them, slit babies throats, then chopped off the heads of the men and put them on poles outside the city to instill fear in others. Entire cities destroyed the hard way - not just vaporized. The Nazis and the Japanese are the ones that dragged civilians into the war - not the US or the Allies. Or did you also forget places like Dachau and other death camps - mass graves in Poland where the entire village was made to dig a big hole and then were executed and buried in them?
The concept of civilians being off limits pretty much died in WWII. We can honestly say we didn't start it - but we damn well finished it! Then we made restitution by picking their sorry butts up dusting them off and offered our hand to help and in friendship.
regards, BubbaJonBoy
Some of these folks obviously never had or can't hold a real job. 1st thing - draw the org chart - the REAL org chart not the one they print saying who reports to whom. Anyone who makes a request follow them up the foodchain to find their boss and where he sits. Use where their *boss* is on the foodchain to decide priorities. If their boss is higher up or better able to forward your career then drop what you're doing and take on the new job. Now cover your butt by taking the time to email ,with a copy to yourself, the people whose jobs you dropped "I am sorry but I have been requested to give by priority and thus your job has [pick one](a)dropped off my to-do list (b) been delayed. if there are mitigating circumstances that could affect this decision, I encourage you to present them to for resolution. Thanks."
If they are lower on the totem pole than the job you are currently working on: "I'm sorry but I can't squeeze that in just yet as has me working on . I can see your job is really important so why don't you contact and present him with your problem. I'm sure he will be willing to allot some time from his project to yours."
Ta-da! You have offended no one and got 'em off your back. You have either acknowledged them as king of the hill and boosted their ego AND their opinion of you as a bright perceptive individual OR you've told them to take their project and take their chances with the sharks - but in a way that cannot be faulted.
This is real-world advice and covers the most common offenders. The sneaky bastards are the hardest ones to handle but essentially you drag them down to the boss's office pronto and get a verdict NOW. Do not let them slink away and slime your name because you didn't kiss their butt right away. The good news is that everyone usually knows they are weasels anyway.
Regards, BubbaJonBoy
What a pile of steaming tripe. Please educate yourself to the plight of the American developer before you dash off something this offensive. I personally worked for a company that was off-shored out of existance. Not because we made boo-coodles of money - but rather our company was bought by a bank and some dick they hired from India as a consultant recommended that they could get the same thing done for far less in India. I won't go into the gory details but we also ran into the H-11B fiasco trying to get new jobs. Oh - and our product which had actually been making money and commanded a large market share has pretty much stagnated and lost ground against existing competitors. So was this a M$Office job? No. We supported several DB's in an n-tier B2B framework using C++ for commercial loan servicing. Our customers were all Fortune 100 and 500. Also if you'd read the headlines you see this is IBM -you know, Big Blue? Not your typical shareware programmers. You sure you're just not taking this opportunity to boast about your shiny new masters degree? Regards from the head-pullers union - we'll help you see daylight again.