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Uninstall it! Then proceed to wrap it back up along with the million MSDN CD's that you never really want but get anyway and drop it on a certain billionaire's car as he drives under an overpass...
I too am so choked about our treatment as salaried workers! Man, I was in one office where a top level directory said behind closed doors in a management meeting regarding compensation "They should be happy they get paid at all!" What really pisses me off is everyone's complacency on this, no one cares that their jobs are being outsourced, no one cares that there is project after project lined up with unrealistic expectations and deadlines that you have no say in (but you'll have to put in that 60 hour work week to get the job done), no one cares that some bonehead clown out to make a name for himself will work on a project that falls in your domain in a way that will break everything you worked on for the last 2 years...
I just can't believe how no one cares or better yet, how they believe it's fair for them to be worked into the ground.
I hate to say it but it's the state of patents nowadayss. People are trying to patent everything... on the internet that is apparantly anything done by a computer or online is somehow magic that borders on the realm of invention.
However, these inventions that corporations are trying to patent are simply trying to hamstring innovation by other companies. I can rant but there is no point. All I can do is bug politicians here in Canada about the non-sensical patent craze and educate them. Let's see when did I last get a response... oh yeah, never.
*GROAN*
The satelite image alone was worth it for me. It's a good way to get the feel for the layout of buildings on a street. You just don't get that from a regular map. I do see where you are coming from but I think it's a case of net-novelty that hasn't yet bloomed into popular net-app... yet. Time will tell.
On a side note for me, I'm also waiting for higher satellite resolution so I can virtually stalk Angelina Jolie...
The damage was data that could be recreated. Costing people time is irrelevant (no honestly it is) unless that time is expensed or billed (then it becomes relevant). Murders can eventually make their way back into society just like any other criminal. Your sentence is how you are punished. Like it or not. He has the right to pursue a career after he has done his time. This isn't to say that people shouldn't be able to pursue him for punitive damages... If you can say "You cost me $4M" I believe you have the right to (attempt to) sue him for that cost. Good luck getting that out of a minor though.
I don't think you're ranting at all. I agree with you 100%. We're just seeing the result of a generation of non-parents.
People who not only don't know how to parent but think that dropping a kid in front of a TV all day and not paying attention to what their child is watching. That isn't parenting that's just lazy. I let my kid watch 2 hours of TV tops and when he watches TV I comment and interact with him. I show interest in what he watches (not to mention I'm partial to Thomas the ) and filter out what I don't like from his viewing schedule (Down with Barney!).
Also I don't ever expect people to make a space safe for my kid; unless of course it's a space with children in mind and that's another story.
Anyways, I couldn't let this post go it alone and not echo your sentiments; you're not alone in way of thinking and this is coming from a parent! Ok, now maybe I'm ranting...
Respect? Nope, I work in software development and how respectful is it that a project comes along with an arbitrary (arbitrary from the development perspective that is) deadline then as the project comes to a close people are scrambling and forced to work extra hours to get things done and I don't get compensated at all for a single hour I work over 40 in a week...
Just because I'm salaried shouldn't mean I deserve to have that abused. So long as that gets abused, there is no way you could convince me that folks in the tech field are respected. Oh and another thing I love... said project is expected to make the company a lot of money. However, is there a monetary reward for the folks who worked on the project? Nope. *sarcasm alert* I just love working in the computer field. *sarcasm alert*
Get garbage_in
Make garabage_out
Oh, I couldn't resist. I work in Config Mgmt after all...
Seriously, forget all the optimizations in the world. No matter how good a compiler gets it can't fix code.
Bad logic will still cause programs that run slow.
Hard coding will still cause failures on some systems.
Taking static source and turning into a runtime executable is no small task. To expect a compiler to make what you code better is a much greater task.
Alas, we'll have to continue to write good code just a little bit longer.:D
Can I timeshare a computer? A really good one with high end everything. I'll book it when during peak times for mmorpg'ing. ...
Why is everyone looking at me funny??
Ok, I work in the industry in configuration management (pauses while developers gasp). Yes CM that poor mistreated child of the software development industry. My take is as simple as this.
Your branch (the other project) is fair game. You're all working together more or less and there is no hard rules between you as to who "owns" the code. In my books citing the author is plenty and actually from a CM perspective you should always keep track of the original source of a block of code. I know they might think that they will spinoff and become something independant and standalone but if there was a need to split one day, there could be the need to integrate the next.
I think it serves the best interest of software to not have an ego about who wrote some lines of code. In the long run it pales to the accomplishments of a whole team or teams.
Ok, so I have files open to the public on my website but since you downloaded them I change my mind and say you're in violation of the CFAA?? Then why did you have them up in the first place??
Isn't that entrapment to put someone into a situation that could cause them to break the law? Don't we tell law enforcement that this is exactly the type of thing you're not allowed to do.
I sincerely hope this gets thrown out. Because I'm really wondering if I made the best choice in procreating.
Nothing against the US. I love Americans... American lawmakers though...
I have to wonder why one country would think along these lines and another thinks in terms of censorship. Is it a cultural thing? Is it education? Crazy stuff, I can only begin to wonder.
I absolutely agree with you 110%.
End user choice should not have been stripped away due to the screw up of another party. The sneaky way it was done was also incorrect. The only other acceptable measure would have been to not resolve the site at all.
But I have another point to add to all this. Who are these parents that don't put restrictions on the content that their kids can pull up?? Man, it's like people live in denial that there is objectionable content on the net. Quite sad.
That said, your idea is fantastic you'd maintain your client relationship without comprimising your ethics as an ISP. More folks need to think like that!
You don't have to be producing software to feel this bite. Every technology worker seems to have to deal with this BS (even me and I'm in Canada) and it's absolute crap. I always thought that the problem in IT was that we don't regulate ourselves as peers. Honestly, if every one of us in IT belonged to a professional organization that licensed us (and nothing like being certified by a corporation or that crap). We'd be able to set out the rules and standards that we would work under. IE: we won't work with a company that has IT professionals like us. You can't farm all the work to India (and I think that's going to cave-in on itself fairly soon).
I know there are many who would be loath to take such a stance but think of the beating that IT takes. Wouldn't you like just once to know that your colleagues abide by the same set of ethics as yourself and that you all hold a bond in that code? We really need an organization just like doctors and lawyers (not engineers because by the time you are able to get your engineering title all the technology you learned is obsolete). My 2 bits!
I like your post so I'll tag unto it. I'd expand to say QA is radically different from testing. If you take a look at TQM (and I know there are folks who will groan at that) the foundation concepts are not "test" centric rather building towards a Quality culture. Most folks do not work in a shop that has a quality culture.
It's my firmest belief that when the quality culture is developed in a shop that QA comes about from this quite naturally.
Maybe the same thing can happen to P2P with Bittorrent. Can you imagine a recursive torrent file that calls keeps downloading itself to spell the end of P2P??? Doom! Don't tell the RIAA!
I am kidding of course.
I thought the mindless doomsaying was appropriate considering the topic.:D
I wouldn't refer to programmers from India as monkeys. I know quite a few who come from a background that is very rigid and solid in development best practice.
The reality is in a country where standard of living is lower you can hire more programmers and force them to work in a mode that goes against any standards and/or in poor conditions. It reminds me of when certain products started getting manufactured in 3rd world countries as opposed to western countries.
This cements my belief that we in IT need a professional organization just like Lawyers and Doctors do. If it meant less crap coming out of others IT I would easily submit to getting a license to "practice" IT.
Q: Speaking of security, Internet Explorer has had well-publicized holes...
Gates: Understand those are cases where you are downloading third-party software.
Q: Yes, but will people continue to do that with Media Center?
Gates: You might well do it. We need to use approaches that block people from ever getting software onto the machine they don't want.
Q: Might you add anti-virus/spyware protection in Windows?
Gates: It's not a thing you build in. You have to offer a service. There are third parties who are doing a good job. We're always taking a hard look, but we don't have any concrete plans.
Let me see if I get this straight... he blames security holes in a software application that they build into an O/S on third party softare and then further discusess how they plan to block people from putting any software on ("that they don't want" yeah right) and then goes to say how you wouldn't build in protection... ARGH!
Man, MS just pisses me off! Perhaps, just perhaps if they developed IE independant of the @#$%ing O/S and didn't wrap it up in ever release of Windoze this crap wouldn't happen...
Honestly, did I just get transported to another planet where common sense is replaced by mindless jabbering??? I'd love to see these folks in IT who are in the spotlight interviewed by real technical folks who are able to dissect what is said and call "BS" when you smell it. Just once!
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Uninstall it! Then proceed to wrap it back up along with the million MSDN CD's that you never really want but get anyway and drop it on a certain billionaire's car as he drives under an overpass...
Me bitter? Why do you say that?
I too am so choked about our treatment as salaried workers! Man, I was in one office where a top level directory said behind closed doors in a management meeting regarding compensation "They should be happy they get paid at all!" What really pisses me off is everyone's complacency on this, no one cares that their jobs are being outsourced, no one cares that there is project after project lined up with unrealistic expectations and deadlines that you have no say in (but you'll have to put in that 60 hour work week to get the job done), no one cares that some bonehead clown out to make a name for himself will work on a project that falls in your domain in a way that will break everything you worked on for the last 2 years...
I just can't believe how no one cares or better yet, how they believe it's fair for them to be worked into the ground.
It really does bring me down.
I hate to say it but it's the state of patents nowadayss. People are trying to patent everything... on the internet that is apparantly anything done by a computer or online is somehow magic that borders on the realm of invention.
However, these inventions that corporations are trying to patent are simply trying to hamstring innovation by other companies. I can rant but there is no point. All I can do is bug politicians here in Canada about the non-sensical patent craze and educate them. Let's see when did I last get a response... oh yeah, never.
*GROAN*
The satelite image alone was worth it for me. It's a good way to get the feel for the layout of buildings on a street. You just don't get that from a regular map. I do see where you are coming from but I think it's a case of net-novelty that hasn't yet bloomed into popular net-app... yet. Time will tell.
On a side note for me, I'm also waiting for higher satellite resolution so I can virtually stalk Angelina Jolie...
The damage was data that could be recreated. Costing people time is irrelevant (no honestly it is) unless that time is expensed or billed (then it becomes relevant). Murders can eventually make their way back into society just like any other criminal. Your sentence is how you are punished. Like it or not. He has the right to pursue a career after he has done his time. This isn't to say that people shouldn't be able to pursue him for punitive damages... If you can say "You cost me $4M" I believe you have the right to (attempt to) sue him for that cost. Good luck getting that out of a minor though.
I don't think you're ranting at all. I agree with you 100%. We're just seeing the result of a generation of non-parents.
People who not only don't know how to parent but think that dropping a kid in front of a TV all day and not paying attention to what their child is watching. That isn't parenting that's just lazy. I let my kid watch 2 hours of TV tops and when he watches TV I comment and interact with him. I show interest in what he watches (not to mention I'm partial to Thomas the ) and filter out what I don't like from his viewing schedule (Down with Barney!).
Also I don't ever expect people to make a space safe for my kid; unless of course it's a space with children in mind and that's another story.
Anyways, I couldn't let this post go it alone and not echo your sentiments; you're not alone in way of thinking and this is coming from a parent! Ok, now maybe I'm ranting...
I can't wait for the first person who ends up linked on the net like that... :P
Will we be able to hack their brain?
Respect? Nope, I work in software development and how respectful is it that a project comes along with an arbitrary (arbitrary from the development perspective that is) deadline then as the project comes to a close people are scrambling and forced to work extra hours to get things done and I don't get compensated at all for a single hour I work over 40 in a week...
Just because I'm salaried shouldn't mean I deserve to have that abused.
So long as that gets abused, there is no way you could convince me that folks in the tech field are respected.
Oh and another thing I love... said project is expected to make the company a lot of money. However, is there a monetary reward for the folks who worked on the project? Nope. *sarcasm alert* I just love working in the computer field. *sarcasm alert*
Get garbage_in Make garabage_out Oh, I couldn't resist. I work in Config Mgmt after all... Seriously, forget all the optimizations in the world. No matter how good a compiler gets it can't fix code. Bad logic will still cause programs that run slow. Hard coding will still cause failures on some systems. Taking static source and turning into a runtime executable is no small task. To expect a compiler to make what you code better is a much greater task. Alas, we'll have to continue to write good code just a little bit longer. :D
Can I timeshare a computer? A really good one with high end everything. I'll book it when during peak times for mmorpg'ing.
...
Why is everyone looking at me funny??
Ok, I work in the industry in configuration management (pauses while developers gasp). Yes CM that poor mistreated child of the software development industry. My take is as simple as this.
Your branch (the other project) is fair game. You're all working together more or less and there is no hard rules between you as to who "owns" the code.
In my books citing the author is plenty and actually from a CM perspective you should always keep track of the original source of a block of code. I know they might think that they will spinoff and become something independant and standalone but if there was a need to split one day, there could be the need to integrate the next.
I think it serves the best interest of software to not have an ego about who wrote some lines of code. In the long run it pales to the accomplishments of a whole team or teams.
Don't even suggest... that just gives me the ewww feeling.
Ok, so I have files open to the public on my website but since you downloaded them I change my mind and say you're in violation of the CFAA?? Then why did you have them up in the first place??
Isn't that entrapment to put someone into a situation that could cause them to break the law? Don't we tell law enforcement that this is exactly the type of thing you're not allowed to do.
I sincerely hope this gets thrown out. Because I'm really wondering if I made the best choice in procreating.
Nothing against the US. I love Americans... American lawmakers though...
I have to wonder why one country would think along these lines and another thinks in terms of censorship. Is it a cultural thing? Is it education? Crazy stuff, I can only begin to wonder.
I absolutely agree with you 110%.
End user choice should not have been stripped away due to the screw up of another party. The sneaky way it was done was also incorrect. The only other acceptable measure would have been to not resolve the site at all.
But I have another point to add to all this. Who are these parents that don't put restrictions on the content that their kids can pull up?? Man, it's like people live in denial that there is objectionable content on the net. Quite sad.
That said, your idea is fantastic you'd maintain your client relationship without comprimising your ethics as an ISP. More folks need to think like that!
We in the colonies prefer to think of ourselves as "Slow". You know we're big on being PC :D
Paranoid idiots.
You don't have to be producing software to feel this bite. Every technology worker seems to have to deal with this BS (even me and I'm in Canada) and it's absolute crap. I always thought that the problem in IT was that we don't regulate ourselves as peers. Honestly, if every one of us in IT belonged to a professional organization that licensed us (and nothing like being certified by a corporation or that crap). We'd be able to set out the rules and standards that we would work under. IE: we won't work with a company that has IT professionals like us. You can't farm all the work to India (and I think that's going to cave-in on itself fairly soon).
I know there are many who would be loath to take such a stance but think of the beating that IT takes. Wouldn't you like just once to know that your colleagues abide by the same set of ethics as yourself and that you all hold a bond in that code? We really need an organization just like doctors and lawyers (not engineers because by the time you are able to get your engineering title all the technology you learned is obsolete).
My 2 bits!
...and all move to slashcode already. :D
I think this should have been modded as +1 Evil
I like your post so I'll tag unto it. I'd expand to say QA is radically different from testing. If you take a look at TQM (and I know there are folks who will groan at that) the foundation concepts are not "test" centric rather building towards a Quality culture. Most folks do not work in a shop that has a quality culture.
It's my firmest belief that when the quality culture is developed in a shop that QA comes about from this quite naturally.
Maybe the same thing can happen to P2P with Bittorrent. Can you imagine a recursive torrent file that calls keeps downloading itself to spell the end of P2P??? Doom! Don't tell the RIAA!
:D
I am kidding of course.
I thought the mindless doomsaying was appropriate considering the topic.
See this is what happens when you watch too much television! You lose touch with reality! Bahahaha!
I wouldn't refer to programmers from India as monkeys. I know quite a few who come from a background that is very rigid and solid in development best practice.
The reality is in a country where standard of living is lower you can hire more programmers and force them to work in a mode that goes against any standards and/or in poor conditions. It reminds me of when certain products started getting manufactured in 3rd world countries as opposed to western countries.
This cements my belief that we in IT need a professional organization just like Lawyers and Doctors do. If it meant less crap coming out of others IT I would easily submit to getting a license to "practice" IT.
Please tell me I didn't read this!
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Q: Speaking of security, Internet Explorer has had well-publicized holes
Gates: Understand those are cases where you are downloading third-party software.
Q: Yes, but will people continue to do that with Media Center?
Gates: You might well do it. We need to use approaches that block people from ever getting software onto the machine they don't want.
Q: Might you add anti-virus/spyware protection in Windows?
Gates: It's not a thing you build in. You have to offer a service. There are third parties who are doing a good job. We're always taking a hard look, but we don't have any concrete plans.
Let me see if I get this straight... he blames security holes in a software application that they build into an O/S on third party softare and then further discusess how they plan to block people from putting any software on ("that they don't want" yeah right) and then goes to say how you wouldn't build in protection... ARGH!
Man, MS just pisses me off! Perhaps, just perhaps if they developed IE independant of the @#$%ing O/S and didn't wrap it up in ever release of Windoze this crap wouldn't happen...
Honestly, did I just get transported to another planet where common sense is replaced by mindless jabbering??? I'd love to see these folks in IT who are in the spotlight interviewed by real technical folks who are able to dissect what is said and call "BS" when you smell it. Just once!
I brace myself for the impending "Redundant" mod.