...so last project you worked 40 hour weekends to bail management out yet again. The real problem: Now you've raised their expactations of whats possible, and they'll expect that and more next time. Its the Scotty principle.
If you want to continue to give your whole life to your comapny in the mistaken concept that you'll get recognition for it later then chances are you're still a naieve new grad. Experienced engineers know they have to train their managers.
After 25+ years of software development heere's what I learnt works best:
* Demand the necessary time to do good work, no matter what time problems that may cause others. Reason: You will actually need about the same time, no matter what quality concessions you make. Furthermore, your manager should have had involved you in his time-estimates for project planning. This is management 101. If he didn't then this is the only way you'll convince him to involve you next time.
* Don't ever agree to deliver low-quality product, regardless of other peoples deadlines. Reason: Non-techincal managers mistakenly believe that time can be saved by sacrificing quality. Actually the opposite is true. Low quality software takes more time overall. Furthermore, if you deliver crappy software, people will forever identify you as being a crappy engineer, regardless of any justifications you may have had at the time. If you're a crappy engineer you're like too many others and worth nothing.
* Don't work overtime unless you both want to and are being paid extra for it. Reason: Your employer is making significantly more money from your work than they are paying you. If they weren't, they wouldn't keep you there. Its basic business economics. They are not a charity and you deserve to be paid and treated just like any other professional. Furthermore, it does nobody any favors if you set urealistic norms and expectations. Yet another reason is that you are far more effective if you're not continually burned-out.
The BIG secret your company doesn't want you to know: Nearly all deadlines are just artificial mechanisms created by management and designed solely to get free overtime/more productivity from the workforce. They usually have no relation to what delivery date was acutally agreed with the customer.
Given the general standard of spelling and grammar in postings on most message boards (Slashdot excepted) it is hard to not come away with the conclusion that average US people already have a much lower acceptable standard of grammar and spelling compared to posters from other countries.
That factor combined with the US's general attitude of slob-like convenince at any cost might explain the mentality behind this horrible proposal.
All this does is to make life more annoying for innocent individuals.
You think Al-Quada don't have some work around for this in place already? e.g. buying/selling gold for example. Chances are they probably don't blatantly wire money around anyway.
what the hell do Microsoft know about real-time anything? Also, who was the moron at the FIA that actually made this decision and by what criteria did they decide Microsoft could actually do a good job?
My dad is a professional musician. Since time began, the record companies have always been able to totally rip-off talented artists with bad contracts because they have a death-grip on the music-industry as a whole and often artists have no viable alternative.
the music industry is pissing its pants because their fat-cat lifestyle is finally being undermined.
Windows is fundamentally insecure because it was originally designed from a single-user persepctive, and by default evan an non-admin (i.e. regular) user (and therefore the apps they run) have sufficient rights to modify the operating system itself. Although many changes have been made to Windows over the years to make it more multi-user-like, there is still a nub of that legacy single-user assumption. For example, the whole idea of a registry, especially one that also shares user and OS configuration parameters in the same database, or the notion that its OK for applications to insert files into windows OS directories and therefore the OS itself.
Instead of enforced security by the system itself, the burden is placed on the user to read a EULA written in legal mumbo-jumbo and then trust the application being installed. Microsoft's chosen security approach is all about legally detaching blame from themselves rather than actually preventing problems. Even Microsoft themselves abuse the lack of real system security with stuff like their WGA tool.
OSX and other unix-like OS's make no such assunptions and actively prevent regular users (and by extension any apps they run) from being able to modify anything of the OS itself. Futhermore the whole philosophy is to keep regular users application settings and files separate, rather than some shared registry or windows directory.
"Microsoft has denied that WGA will kill pirated copies of Windows. According to Waggener Edstrom,"Microsoft anti-piracy technologies cannot and will not turn off your computer."
Nice redirection there. The accusation is that it will kill windows (i.e. corrupt files, bios or flash), he responds as if it was about powering down your PC.
I guess that meas it does corrupt files or whatever, otherwise he would have just said it.
I absolutely hate this fad of putting cameras on everything. It increases battery consumption, price, size and weight of any item they're added to. Also if you happen to work in a secure area, you can't take it to work. Its almost impossible to find a nice cell phone without a camera now.
> However, I do want to be prepared in case such a situation should arise.
My post was about the degree of paranoia in the US. You just seem to be reconfirming it. Do you honestly beleive that the chance of you getting forced into a gunfight situation is higher than all the other negative scenarios such as your gun accidentally going off and hurting/killing someone? or, maybe you or your friends have kids that might find your gun... or a million other variants?
Did you know that more that 50% of all gunshot injuries are from victims own guns? Doesn't that tell you something?
that copying music CD's and movies etc is now rfecognised as legal there? Presumably their constitution or whatever prevents the spanish gov. from profiteering from illegal activity.
>> Let's take a hypothetical situation where you and a buddy come under fire from multiple assailants
yeah because that happens all the time on your way to the mall right? You know its only paranoia like that, that is making Americans carry guns in the first place.
I saw a documentary the other day that said actual figures indicate violent crime in the US is significantly decreasing however the American media is so pushing violent crime stories on TV that the average American now believes its more dagerous than ever to go outside.
Interestingly, Europeans don't have the same media, so many guns or consequently live in as much fear as the average American.
OK so how many people actually believe PGP is still safe and that the NSA still can't crack it?
Given their vast amount of resources and the fact that every serious criminal and terrorist organisation probably choose PGP I'm guessing they must have something by now, not that they'd want anyone to know.
My guesses include:
* They've coerced the author to build in a backdoor (a la clipper). * They've spent enough billions on serious hardware that they can brute-force it in a reasonable time. * They've got some very clever mathematician to figure out a viable attack.
Its a shame that the projects that the Gates Foundation contribute to are all aimed at human issues. If there's one thing on this planet were not short of, its humans. All the human problems and drug companies behind them already receive billions from other charities.
They're not contributing at all to ecological or wildlife welfare, which is where real emergencies, shortages and long-term issues are, and is by far the most underfunded and underpublicised. Also nearly all these planetary issues are directly caued by human and corporate greed, which is a singularly appropriate area for the worlds richest man to focus on.
I actually wrote (nicely) to ask the foundation about that but I got a one line reply saying they were to busy to answer questions.
>>They were pushing for unions, and higher wages. These Programmers Guild people are no different. It was a bad idea then, just as it is now.
Look back at American history. Unions always have been a necessary counterbalance greedy corporate bullying. Companies know one thing only; do whatever it takes to maximise profit. Without unions, the accepted standards for workers would be nonexistent. If it was left it to free market economics, you'd be working 80 hour weeks for lees than minimum wage. Just like the environment that all the H1-B applicants are trying to escape from.
>> There is a certain degree of expectation that if you are going to use their network, that you need to be a paying customer.
Really? I've been to plenty of places that just offer free wi-fi and dont expect anything back. In return its free advertising for them about how community-minded they are. Anyway, if they have an open router and are broadcasting an SSID then that constitutes a blatant invitiation.
If they leave their internet wide open and broadcast an SSID then I beleive its fair to assume that this is an open invatiation and they are offerng a community service.
If he was just using the internet why would the coffee shop give a damn anyway? its not like they are losing anything. In fact, I would have thought the coffee-shop would WANT to offer a free wifi zone as its free publicity about how community-minded they are.
I think there must be more in this. He was probably parked in front of thsir shop, downloading porn and masturbating in public.
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How can the patent office allow anyone to get a patent on anything that has already been in general use for ages?
...so last project you worked 40 hour weekends to bail management out yet again. The real problem: Now you've raised their expactations of whats possible, and they'll expect that and more next time. Its the Scotty principle.
If you want to continue to give your whole life to your comapny in the mistaken concept that you'll get recognition for it later then chances are you're still a naieve new grad. Experienced engineers know they have to train their managers.
After 25+ years of software development heere's what I learnt works best:
* Demand the necessary time to do good work, no matter what time problems that may cause others. Reason: You will actually need about the same time, no matter what quality concessions you make. Furthermore, your manager should have had involved you in his time-estimates for project planning. This is management 101. If he didn't then this is the only way you'll convince him to involve you next time.
* Don't ever agree to deliver low-quality product, regardless of other peoples deadlines. Reason: Non-techincal managers mistakenly believe that time can be saved by sacrificing quality. Actually the opposite is true. Low quality software takes more time overall. Furthermore, if you deliver crappy software, people will forever identify you as being a crappy engineer, regardless of any justifications you may have had at the time. If you're a crappy engineer you're like too many others and worth nothing.
* Don't work overtime unless you both want to and are being paid extra for it. Reason: Your employer is making significantly more money from your work than they are paying you. If they weren't, they wouldn't keep you there. Its basic business economics. They are not a charity and you deserve to be paid and treated just like any other professional. Furthermore, it does nobody any favors if you set urealistic norms and expectations. Yet another reason is that you are far more effective if you're not continually burned-out.
The BIG secret your company doesn't want you to know:
Nearly all deadlines are just artificial mechanisms created by management and designed solely to get free overtime/more productivity from the workforce. They usually have no relation to what delivery date was acutally agreed with the customer.
Maybe its just me but every time I see AOLers written down I confuse it with the word 'assholes'.
What is the point of AOL?
Given the general standard of spelling and grammar in postings on most message boards (Slashdot excepted) it is hard to not come away with the conclusion that average US people already have a much lower acceptable standard of grammar and spelling compared to posters from other countries.
That factor combined with the US's general attitude of slob-like convenince at any cost might explain the mentality behind this horrible proposal.
All this does is to make life more annoying for innocent individuals.
You think Al-Quada don't have some work around for this in place already? e.g. buying/selling gold for example. Chances are they probably don't blatantly wire money around anyway.
Windows CE is NOT a real-time operating system, no matter what Microsoft claim.
what the hell do Microsoft know about real-time anything?
Also, who was the moron at the FIA that actually made this decision and by what criteria did they decide Microsoft could actually do a good job?
>> What good is this mans death?.. Will it prevent him from doing it again?
:-)
I think it might be a fair assumption
My dad is a professional musician.
Since time began, the record companies have always been able to totally rip-off talented artists with bad contracts because they have a death-grip on the music-industry as a whole and often artists have no viable alternative.
the music industry is pissing its pants because their fat-cat lifestyle is finally being undermined.
Dude, you need a lesson in logic.
Just because a and b are in the same set, does not mean a == b.
No you're wrong.
Windows is fundamentally insecure because it was originally designed from a single-user persepctive, and by default evan an non-admin (i.e. regular) user (and therefore the apps they run) have sufficient rights to modify the operating system itself. Although many changes have been made to Windows over the years to make it more multi-user-like, there is still a nub of that legacy single-user assumption. For example, the whole idea of a registry, especially one that also shares user and OS configuration parameters in the same database, or the notion that its OK for applications to insert files into windows OS directories and therefore the OS itself.
Instead of enforced security by the system itself, the burden is placed on the user to read a EULA written in legal mumbo-jumbo and then trust the application being installed. Microsoft's chosen security approach is all about legally detaching blame from themselves rather than actually preventing problems. Even Microsoft themselves abuse the lack of real system security with stuff like their WGA tool.
OSX and other unix-like OS's make no such assunptions and actively prevent regular users (and by extension any apps they run) from being able to modify anything of the OS itself. Futhermore the whole philosophy is to keep regular users application settings and files separate, rather than some shared registry or windows directory.
This is one of the reasons why you're wrong.
"Microsoft has denied that WGA will kill pirated copies of Windows. According to Waggener Edstrom,"Microsoft anti-piracy technologies cannot and will not turn off your computer."
Nice redirection there. The accusation is that it will kill windows (i.e. corrupt files, bios or flash), he responds as if it was about powering down your PC.
I guess that meas it does corrupt files or whatever, otherwise he would have just said it.
I absolutely hate this fad of putting cameras on everything.
It increases battery consumption, price, size and weight of any item they're added to. Also if you happen to work in a secure area, you can't take it to work.
Its almost impossible to find a nice cell phone without a camera now.
It looks like the wrist version of those luggable computers around in the early 80's.
I think I'll wait until wearable computers have sufficient power/memory/battery-life to be truly useful, and look like a slim writswatch.
> However, I do want to be prepared in case such a situation should arise.
My post was about the degree of paranoia in the US. You just seem to be reconfirming it. Do you honestly beleive that the chance of you getting forced into a gunfight situation is higher than all the other negative scenarios such as your gun accidentally going off and hurting/killing someone? or, maybe you or your friends have kids that might find your gun... or a million other variants?
Did you know that more that 50% of all gunshot injuries are from victims own guns? Doesn't that tell you something?
that copying music CD's and movies etc is now rfecognised as legal there? Presumably their constitution or whatever prevents the spanish gov. from profiteering from illegal activity.
>> Let's take a hypothetical situation where you and a buddy come under fire from multiple assailants
yeah because that happens all the time on your way to the mall right? You know its only paranoia like that, that is making Americans carry guns in the first place.
I saw a documentary the other day that said actual figures indicate violent crime in the US is significantly decreasing however the American media is so pushing violent crime stories on TV that the average American now believes its more dagerous than ever to go outside.
Interestingly, Europeans don't have the same media, so many guns or consequently live in as much fear as the average American.
OK so how many people actually believe PGP is still safe and that the NSA still can't crack it?
Given their vast amount of resources and the fact that every serious criminal and terrorist organisation probably choose PGP I'm guessing they must have something by now, not that they'd want anyone to know.
My guesses include:
* They've coerced the author to build in a backdoor (a la clipper).
* They've spent enough billions on serious hardware that they can brute-force it in a reasonable time.
* They've got some very clever mathematician to figure out a viable attack.
Its a shame that the projects that the Gates Foundation contribute to are all aimed at human issues. If there's one thing on this planet were not short of, its humans. All the human problems and drug companies behind them already receive billions from other charities.
They're not contributing at all to ecological or wildlife welfare, which is where real emergencies, shortages and long-term issues are, and is by far the most underfunded and underpublicised. Also nearly all these planetary issues are directly caued by human and corporate greed, which is a singularly appropriate area for the worlds richest man to focus on.
I actually wrote (nicely) to ask the foundation about that but I got a one line reply saying they were to busy to answer questions.
Mental Adulthood? Been there and tried it. Its overrated and very boring. Decided to regress and enjoy life again.
there's a name for theories that are unable to be emiprically tested. They're called religions.
String theory isn't science. Lets move on.
>>They were pushing for unions, and higher wages. These Programmers Guild people are no different. It was a bad idea then, just as it is now.
Look back at American history. Unions always have been a necessary counterbalance greedy corporate bullying. Companies know one thing only; do whatever it takes to maximise profit. Without unions, the accepted standards for workers would be nonexistent. If it was left it to free market economics, you'd be working 80 hour weeks for lees than minimum wage. Just like the environment that all the H1-B applicants are trying to escape from.
>> There is a certain degree of expectation that if you are going to use their network, that you need to be a paying customer.
Really? I've been to plenty of places that just offer free wi-fi and dont expect anything back. In return its free advertising for them about how community-minded they are. Anyway, if they have an open router and are broadcasting an SSID then that constitutes a blatant invitiation.
If they leave their internet wide open and broadcast an SSID then I beleive its fair to assume that this is an open invatiation and they are offerng a community service.
If he was just using the internet why would the coffee shop give a damn anyway? its not like they are losing anything. In fact, I would have thought the coffee-shop would WANT to offer a free wifi zone as its free publicity about how community-minded they are.
I think there must be more in this. He was probably parked in front of thsir shop, downloading porn and masturbating in public.