The real application for this tech is in cars and driving!
Imagine if cars had an "idiot light" on top that lit up 20 seconds before the driver did something stupid!
The word beg, when used in this phrase, does not mean "asking for something", instead it means to dodge or avoid.
"Begging the question (or petitio principii, "assuming the initial point") is a logical fallacy in which the proposition to be proved is assumed implicitly or explicitly in the premise." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question
This is a basic (and common) misunderstanding of trademark law. It is not illegal to make money off of someone else's trademark. You just cannot confuse buyers into thinking your item is a product of the trademark owner.
Now, in practical terms, of the two competing companies, the one with the larger legal budget will likely prevail in court. . . but that's another argument.
This is the right approach, but not nearly elaborate enough. You must create multiple online personalities. Use them for different things, give them different personalities -- which leads to different screen names, passwords, addresses and phone numbers, etc.
This is not difficult to do, and kinda fun. For example, there are a number of online phone number services -- wouldn't part of you like to have a Las Vegas phone number?
Anyway, it's always a good idea to have a couple bank accounts -- get one that lets you create single-use credit card transaction numbers. Go from there.
Just try to not cross-contaminate your IDs (transferring funds from one to the other, calling on the wrong phone line, etc.)
Conversely, in a market with a monopoly or duopoly, where service and quality are often crap, FOSS gives a way to set a bar. Similar to the signs at an amusement park: 'Your product must be at least this good to be charged for.'
It might be that the US military _CAN'T_ shoot down satellites (at least in this way), but wants everyone to think they can. The thing was going to come apart when it hit the atmosphere anyway, why not make the claim that you shot it down?
. . . if you're willing to constantly be looking out for your next project/employer.
This field is now a class of itinerant labor. Just like a worker who picks fruit, most employers will consider you an interchangeable cog. If the stock price bobbles or some pointy-haired VP sneezes, you and your whole division can be laid off.
You will find slightly more stability if you go the consulting route, individually or in a group. (If you're really a glutton for punishment, start your own business!)
In any event, you need to be constantly hustling to line up more work. Get used to it. Do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life.
. . . it's the productivity of others that a Sys Admin enables.
You need to show how productive the rest of the workers are thanks to your efforts.
You can do this two ways:
o negative: "when the Order Entry System fails, we lose $XX,XXX per hour"
o positive: "if we improve the Order Entry System, we gain $xx,xxx"
Pirates rob people on the high seas through threat of violence and bodily harm. CD copiers and file sharers are, at most, infringing on copyrights (and even that's debatable in many cases).
When we call copyright infringement "piracy," we're lending huge greedy corporations more legitimacy than they deserve.
We had a major problem with tools "walking" away when building our DC. Too many contractors, outsiders, and poorly-disciplined insiders. It was a MAJOR headache, with many hours lost hunting, deadlines missed, tempers and bad feelings, etc.
I went to the local big-box store and bought Plasti-Dip in five different colors. (Plasti-Dip is a liquid coating you dip the handles of tools into. It cures to a nice, thick, insulating layer, and makes for a good grip, too.) I assembled five complete sets of tools, gave each set a uniform color with the Plasti-Dip. I colored everything: hand tools, voltmeters, probes, cables, clipboards, everything. I assigned one color to each of our four techs. The fifth set turned out this horrible pink color and I set them aside as spares/loaners.
I had each tech sign for his complete set of tools, making sure he now understood that he was responsible for them, knowing how to use them, care for them, and knowing where they were at all times. I said the company would replace a tool if he turned in a broken one, otherwise it came out of his paycheck. I gave each tech permission in writing to refuse to loan out "his" tools -- I had HR put it in the Employee manual.
This worked pretty well. When someone lost a tool, they had to use one from the pink set -- which, of course, earned them a lot of snide comments until they replaced it themselves. Tool-care became a matter of pride. The tool walk-away problem declined, but never really went to zero.
Then, one day, one of our contractors tried to exit the building with a WAN diag instrument stuffed down his pants! Building security spotted the pink Plasti-Dip color. They didn't know what it was, but they knew tech took a horrible ribbing for having to use a pink tool. I got called to the scene, told the guy he was fired, and escorted him to his car. I get to his car and, looking through the window, see a couple other of our tools on his back seat! I very quickly did a search of his car (maybe not kosher, but I outweigh the guy by 80 lbs, so what's he going to do?)
Anyway, I come up with 9 or 10 of our items in all different colors. They were on the floor, under the seats, under the carpet, everywhere! And not just hand tools, but instruments of various kinds, specially cables, etc. totaling in the thousands of dollars. By this time, the contractor is yelling and screaming and stomping about. My boss comes out to check on this ruckus and immediately calls the cops. Soon, there's four cop cars in the parking lot, handcuffs, sirens, the whole bit.
As I'm walking back to the building, I can see people watching out the windows, crowding around the door and stairs.
"What's going on?" someone asked.
"He had a pink tool," I said.
I stayed with that company for another two years -- we never lost another tool.
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The real application for this tech is in cars and driving!
Imagine if cars had an "idiot light" on top that lit up 20 seconds before the driver did something stupid!
So this "diary" is like a blog, only printed out on paper?
My policy: When i train myself it's for my next job, not my current one.
This begs the question of who is more ignorant?
The word beg, when used in this phrase, does not mean "asking for something", instead it means to dodge or avoid.
"Begging the question (or petitio principii, "assuming the initial point") is a logical fallacy in which the proposition to be proved is assumed implicitly or explicitly in the premise." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question
What was that you were saying about ignorance?
That 'nonsense' entry is a common account name used in Polycom phone systems.
Seriously, who has time to play around with apps that only work on a legacy OS?
This is a basic (and common) misunderstanding of trademark law. It is not illegal to make money off of someone else's trademark. You just cannot confuse buyers into thinking your item is a product of the trademark owner.
Now, in practical terms, of the two competing companies, the one with the larger legal budget will likely prevail in court. . . but that's another argument.
This is the right approach, but not nearly elaborate enough. You must create multiple online personalities. Use them for different things, give them different personalities -- which leads to different screen names, passwords, addresses and phone numbers, etc.
This is not difficult to do, and kinda fun. For example, there are a number of online phone number services -- wouldn't part of you like to have a Las Vegas phone number?
Anyway, it's always a good idea to have a couple bank accounts -- get one that lets you create single-use credit card transaction numbers. Go from there.
Just try to not cross-contaminate your IDs (transferring funds from one to the other, calling on the wrong phone line, etc.)
. . . are you sure you want to work with people like this?
Really more along the lines of: 'Maybe if we tax them this way, they won't notice.'
Where do I donate to this effort? Do they take PayPal?
Sadly, I too often DON'T get what I pay for -- that's partly why I've become such a cheap SOB.
. . . and maybe what Viacom is after is the personal information, to help their marketing demographics effort (or just to sell to spammers).
Bah! The thing'll be obsolete long before it wears out.
Conversely, in a market with a monopoly or duopoly, where service and quality are often crap, FOSS gives a way to set a bar. Similar to the signs at an amusement park: 'Your product must be at least this good to be charged for.'
It might be that the US military _CAN'T_ shoot down satellites (at least in this way), but wants everyone to think they can. The thing was going to come apart when it hit the atmosphere anyway, why not make the claim that you shot it down?
Probably more efficient to just tow the other ships, rather than go through all the power-conversion steps.
. . . no RIAA music for me for the last five years.
. . . I read your damn book!
He's just lucky he didn't pirate a couple dozen mp3s.
Then he'd be in REAL trouble!
Bah! Pants are for the weak!
. . . if you're willing to constantly be looking out for your next project/employer.
This field is now a class of itinerant labor. Just like a worker who picks fruit, most employers will consider you an interchangeable cog. If the stock price bobbles or some pointy-haired VP sneezes, you and your whole division can be laid off.
You will find slightly more stability if you go the consulting route, individually or in a group. (If you're really a glutton for punishment, start your own business!)
In any event, you need to be constantly hustling to line up more work. Get used to it. Do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life.
. . . it's the productivity of others that a Sys Admin enables.
You need to show how productive the rest of the workers are thanks to your efforts.
You can do this two ways:
o negative: "when the Order Entry System fails, we lose $XX,XXX per hour"
o positive: "if we improve the Order Entry System, we gain $xx,xxx"
Pirates rob people on the high seas through threat of violence and bodily harm. CD copiers and file sharers are, at most, infringing on copyrights (and even that's debatable in many cases).
When we call copyright infringement "piracy," we're lending huge greedy corporations more legitimacy than they deserve.
We had a major problem with tools "walking" away when building our DC. Too many contractors, outsiders, and poorly-disciplined insiders. It was a MAJOR headache, with many hours lost hunting, deadlines missed, tempers and bad feelings, etc.
I went to the local big-box store and bought Plasti-Dip in five different colors. (Plasti-Dip is a liquid coating you dip the handles of tools into. It cures to a nice, thick, insulating layer, and makes for a good grip, too.) I assembled five complete sets of tools, gave each set a uniform color with the Plasti-Dip. I colored everything: hand tools, voltmeters, probes, cables, clipboards, everything. I assigned one color to each of our four techs. The fifth set turned out this horrible pink color and I set them aside as spares/loaners.
I had each tech sign for his complete set of tools, making sure he now understood that he was responsible for them, knowing how to use them, care for them, and knowing where they were at all times. I said the company would replace a tool if he turned in a broken one, otherwise it came out of his paycheck. I gave each tech permission in writing to refuse to loan out "his" tools -- I had HR put it in the Employee manual.
This worked pretty well. When someone lost a tool, they had to use one from the pink set -- which, of course, earned them a lot of snide comments until they replaced it themselves. Tool-care became a matter of pride. The tool walk-away problem declined, but never really went to zero.
Then, one day, one of our contractors tried to exit the building with a WAN diag instrument stuffed down his pants! Building security spotted the pink Plasti-Dip color. They didn't know what it was, but they knew tech took a horrible ribbing for having to use a pink tool. I got called to the scene, told the guy he was fired, and escorted him to his car. I get to his car and, looking through the window, see a couple other of our tools on his back seat! I very quickly did a search of his car (maybe not kosher, but I outweigh the guy by 80 lbs, so what's he going to do?)
Anyway, I come up with 9 or 10 of our items in all different colors. They were on the floor, under the seats, under the carpet, everywhere! And not just hand tools, but instruments of various kinds, specially cables, etc. totaling in the thousands of dollars. By this time, the contractor is yelling and screaming and stomping about. My boss comes out to check on this ruckus and immediately calls the cops. Soon, there's four cop cars in the parking lot, handcuffs, sirens, the whole bit.
As I'm walking back to the building, I can see people watching out the windows, crowding around the door and stairs.
"What's going on?" someone asked.
"He had a pink tool," I said.
I stayed with that company for another two years -- we never lost another tool.