This guy is an idiot. You're telling me his whole source of income prior to being shut down was designing cruise missiles?
No.
His previous income was building 7am.com
from scratch.
He then sold it for handsome profit back the dot com days.
Under his own admission, he didn't pay the tax he should have, but was paying it off over installments. It was several hundred thousand I believe.
When it came to applying for funding from the government for another project, the Inland Revenue called in the debt in a lump sum. He couldn't pay so they filed for bankruptcy.
The missile was a hobby that he is now turning too for actual income.
If we rtfa and ftfl(follow the &*%$ing links)
we find on the British Censors site:
"The cast for this work includes:
A film or video, together with associated trailers may exist in several versions and all versions known to the BBFC are listed below.
And...
"Details are likely to be more complete and accurate for the version submitted most recently.
When a film is transferred to video the running time will be shorter by approximately 4% due to the differing number of frames per second. This does not mean that the video version has been cut or re-edited..
Is this merely a trailer video? Perhaps showable at a cinmea, show, etc.
"Australian Gov't puts halt on Spyware consideration."
Story goes on to mention this was due to
"Sharon firing up the BarBee, and chucking on a few savs and shrimps."
Later, Victorian MP was heard to say "Oi, Kev mate. Chuck us another tinnie."
"I'm surprised a call center rep would even have the ability to add arbitrary charges to a customer's bill."
The phone company(Telecom New Zealand) is the incumbent.
As such they run land line(own all the copper), internet, and mobile services.
All these services appear on the one phone bill.
While there is competition in internet and mobile, these services cannot offer integrated services. There is som small niche wireless and cable services but they are tiny.
There telecom support personel, as such, have wide powers, and is v.good after a customer service revamp in the nineties.
They can, and do the following:
- Answer general inquiries and fault reports.
- Can send directives immediately for phone connection and line installation.
- Can immediately ammend bills, offer refunds, or immediate compensation amounts (EG; free phone for month if the phone line plays up"
Cat Byte has encountered a little known fact of life in (community) funded IT work.
A friend of mine works in a funding agency for the government. He has this to say:
"Community based funding schemes create a Land Grab mentality for key stakeholders. We know that the real target for the funding miss out or recieve sub par service. However, the political reality is that it must be seen that:
1) The funding is available.
2) The funding has been distributed
Often the key requirement is that balance sheets and reports show X amount of funding this year.
Post accountibilty is often low due to the target organization".
Now we get to Cat Byte's situation, and one I've been in. We, as IT workers, are often in the front line trenches. We are involved in, and often expose existing(often manual) systems through requirements analysis, systems analysis, and development.
We often expose more than any audit.
What we expose is not pretty, and often embarrasing to managers and stakeholders.
But it is a community based scheme. No one wants to expose faults in the system: from funding eligbilty to post approval accountibilty.
We can often not stomach "sleeping with dogs". We leave, integrity intact.
I feel that there is significant difference between Hardin's "commons" and this one.
This is about an intellectual notion mixing business practice, copyright, artists rights, etc.
Hardin writes of the very resources that support life itself.
I'm sure, though, that some slashdot readers feel that their life would end if their technological 'commons' came to an end.
Hmmm, the desktop market is being extended. Not so sure about developers.
From the Visual C++ site:
Mainstream support for Visual C++ has been extended by one year and will end on September 30, 2004.
Extended support is available from October 1, 2004 through September 30, 2005
So this is to keep those Windows 98 businesses in a windows upgrade cycle, but developers have to move to.Net.
*Spots something out corner of eye*
What is this kylix, Delhpi?
Since I am a non-US merchant, my PayPal account is verified via credit card.
Welp, 2 months ago I got an email about "unusual account detail access", and the account was on hold, by PayPal admin.
Here's the kicker: I asked that the acocunt be shut and all account details deleted.
They could not do that and needed to investigate.
Since that time, many transaction appeared on my car for Online Casinos etc Presumabely by the person that hacked the PayPal account..
It ended with cancelling my card with my bank and claiming back all the transactions I hadnt made.
Lesson: Unlike many online merchants that (supposedly) delete your CC details after each transaction, PayPal dont, and have your number and details.
Re:It is normal for a story to turn this way
on
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Also...if you want the good girl, get the bad girl first(its often easier).
Its the same theory as Seinfeld's 'Show your papers' episode where George gets girls by carrying a photo of a beautiful, but ficticious girlfriend.
Easy to get a girlfriend when you already have one.
Of course the ozzies are waiting for their US parents to make a decision. Seems they don't do anything without the nod from the US these days.
THey can't file their own action, lest it upsets washington.
The university I went to got it right I think.
Their degrees in "IT" were split over two departments. One was the programing side: C, C++, pascal unix etc. Projects included the down and dirty of imaging, security, database structures, binary tress, building a simple computer etc.
The other department dealt with the layer between the above group and clients: IE Requirements analysis, project management, modeling, high level languages like VB, Java, PHP, dynamic web pages.
I have read in this thread that most can't deal with the 'real world' of clients.
Using this universities structure in an ideal:
- One 'manages' the project (but is not above the programmer) and lisases between programmer and client. Manages client feature creep problems, Mock ups of interfaces etc etc.
- The other does the coding, builds the database to the model. Liases with the designer.
I know this sounds basic, but if you allow someone very proficient in C, pascal etc to come in contact with clients, then something is going to give.
Well, the Australian Prime Minister, Mr. Howard now finds out what happens when you lie with dogs: you wake with fleas.
The ozzies, taking a break from BBQ'ing sav's and shrimp, lapped up Mr Bush's Iraq retoric, and went to war for their bigger cousins.
Trade deals would have been glitting in thier ozzie eyes.
Trouble being its all one sided. From the oz point of view, sugars of the menu - more hardship in the oz cane belt, and whats left is pro rata over time.
But DMCA-like Provisions gets discused and a road map resolved?
Mr. Howards anus must resemble the scrap meat bucket in a butcher's shop.
Yes, damned activist sites.
Take Kevin Mitnick. Who here believes 2600 has ONE fact straight.
The mainstream media reported this case as it happened. Nothing exaggerated.
Welp, I have read over the parent story, the 2 linked stories, and the replies on this site. While there is not enough to make a final judgement. With that said...
Conclusion:
1. Pat ran the risk of any business, investing time and money.
2. He registered the name in his own name, as customers do not understand domains, UDAI, and why am I getting this bill from this odd company. 3. Pat tried to get recompense for 2 years of work
4. Pat is a poor business man who doesn't know contracts, TOS's etc.
5. Pat is inexperianced.
Also from this page, presumably, the average Slashdoter:
1. Is a talented web designer. Not to mention developer.
2. Is brilliant at business, draws up brilliant, watertight contracts for every job.
3. Is paid $1.50 per hour. And wouldn't have it any other way.
4. Believes crimes against soft entities(murdered, raped humans) is a darwinian consequence, whereas being a bad web designer, and business man deserves death( with preliminary torture session for resistering domain name in his name).
5. Is relieved to see IT worker pay structure is somewhere around street sweeper, and lawyers, copyrighters, graphic designers, govt employees are sooo deserving of the high pay they get.
Ah, yes.
Additional to the verrry dodgy attendant changing quarters, and his smelly breath, was also the overall griminess of gaming arcades in my area.
In hindsight , and with the benefit of my advanced years I look back and just say "What the hell was going on there."
No wonder my mother would try to keep me away(I'd frequently sneak out). I doubt she was worried about me just playing video games.
Stu was the attendants name. A huge beer belly that protruded from his 2-sizes-too-small tee shirt, and drove a really crappy old van.
Constant 4 day stubble.
Holy crap.
The word "Terrorism" has been hijacked like the person who eats chicken calls themselves "vegetarian".
The families of Lockerbie, Sept. 11, IRA bombings, etc do not deserve to be disrespected in this way by a government deciding on an emotive term like "terrorism" in the same way a marketing dept would come up with a product name that "captures the public imagination".
Don't car pool to work?
Then you aren't irresponsble with regard to the environment.
You
slaughter jews for a living.
Fair comment. Many other organisations manage to provide good service to their customers, who, by nature may be not be in the best frame of mind.
Its amazing how many miss this point in their business plan.
- Lawyers: their customers are very likely in some trouble.
- Plumbers, rescue people from their burst pipes.
- Mechanic needed when your car leaks coolant every where and suggests you will not make that appointment.
- Doctors. Whoo boy.
The point is, many industries do gear themselves to 'rescuing' their customers, and are somewhat succesful at it.
Odd that many services that provide phone based support miss the boat entirely here.
Is it human nature that causes us to misbehave to customers when there is no chance of physical contact? And therein lies the crux of the problem, perhaps.
I speak from the perspective of a new student recieving their student pack with a CD in it with Gopher as one of the tools on it.
I can remember shifting from New Zealand in 1996 to enrol and University of Minneapolis for 3 years.
Students were set up with email accounts and a couple other services such as access to the library catalog.
I purchased a new computer (p166 32mb ram. Pretty hot stuff back then!) from Dinkytown Computers, just by the Uni.
It already had the UMN tools loaded with gopher on the desktop! This screwdriver shop had some relationship with the UNM.
I do not recall all the details, but one needed gopher to activate and setup their email and library account so it worked.
I cannot recall, but i think the library catalog was only available on gopher. Certainly you needed it for your lending record and reissues.
Regardless thats what I used.
I guess the point is, it was encouraged technology by UMN at the time.
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This guy is an idiot. You're telling me his whole source of income prior to being shut down was designing cruise missiles?
No.
His previous income was building 7am.com from scratch.
He then sold it for handsome profit back the dot com days.
Under his own admission, he didn't pay the tax he should have, but was paying it off over installments. It was several hundred thousand I believe.
When it came to applying for funding from the government for another project, the Inland Revenue called in the debt in a lump sum. He couldn't pay so they filed for bankruptcy.
The missile was a hobby that he is now turning too for actual income.
Its a trap!
-Develop open source policy.
-Invite development.
-Simmer.
-Hi Jack.
Then Expound pitfalls of open source with a big "told you so."
But I could be wrong. MS could be 100% trustworthy on this.
If we rtfa and ftfl(follow the &*%$ing links) we find on the British Censors site:
"The cast for this work includes:
A film or video, together with associated trailers may exist in several versions and all versions known to the BBFC are listed below.
And...
"Details are likely to be more complete and accurate for the version submitted most recently. When a film is transferred to video the running time will be shorter by approximately 4% due to the differing number of frames per second. This does not mean that the video version has been cut or re-edited..
Is this merely a trailer video? Perhaps showable at a cinmea, show, etc.
"Australian Gov't To Consider Spyware Laws"
Previous story related to this:
"Australian Gov't puts halt on Spyware consideration."
Story goes on to mention this was due to
"Sharon firing up the BarBee, and chucking on a few savs and shrimps."
Later, Victorian MP was heard to say "Oi, Kev mate. Chuck us another tinnie."
"I'm surprised a call center rep would even have the ability to add arbitrary charges to a customer's bill."
The phone company(Telecom New Zealand) is the incumbent.
As such they run land line(own all the copper), internet, and mobile services. All these services appear on the one phone bill.
While there is competition in internet and mobile, these services cannot offer integrated services. There is som small niche wireless and cable services but they are tiny.
There telecom support personel, as such, have wide powers, and is v.good after a customer service revamp in the nineties.
They can, and do the following:
- Answer general inquiries and fault reports.
- Can send directives immediately for phone connection and line installation.
- Can immediately ammend bills, offer refunds, or immediate compensation amounts (EG; free phone for month if the phone line plays up"
My version in About says 0.8+
As above there a several different versions in my version(!)
Does this indicate a hard coding of version numbers? Odd.
Best stick with the 0.8 version if you want the simple yet elegant functionality that has gained Firefox many friends.
Examples: I 404 error just returns the in browser text "Nicht gefunden!". Themes are not yet working. Etc.
As an avid 0.8 version user, my advice is wait for 0.9 instead of 0.8+ they call it. I think.
"There are 01 types of people in this world. Those that understand binary, and me."
Shouldn't that be: There are 10(two) types of people in this world. Those that understand binary, and me.
Cat Byte has encountered a little known fact of life in (community) funded IT work.
A friend of mine works in a funding agency for the government. He has this to say:
"Community based funding schemes create a Land Grab mentality for key stakeholders. We know that the real target for the funding miss out or recieve sub par service. However, the political reality is that it must be seen that:
1) The funding is available.
2) The funding has been distributed
Often the key requirement is that balance sheets and reports show X amount of funding this year.
Post accountibilty is often low due to the target organization".
Now we get to Cat Byte's situation, and one I've been in. We, as IT workers, are often in the front line trenches. We are involved in, and often expose existing(often manual) systems through requirements analysis, systems analysis, and development.
We often expose more than any audit.
What we expose is not pretty, and often embarrasing to managers and stakeholders.
But it is a community based scheme. No one wants to expose faults in the system: from funding eligbilty to post approval accountibilty.
We can often not stomach "sleeping with dogs".
We leave, integrity intact.
I feel that there is significant difference between Hardin's "commons" and this one.
This is about an intellectual notion mixing business practice, copyright, artists rights, etc.
Hardin writes of the very resources that support life itself.
I'm sure, though, that some slashdot readers feel that their life would end if their technological 'commons' came to an end.
Hmmm, the desktop market is being extended. Not so sure about developers. From the Visual C++ site: .Net.
Mainstream support for Visual C++ has been extended by one year and will end on September 30, 2004. Extended support is available from October 1, 2004 through September 30, 2005
So this is to keep those Windows 98 businesses in a windows upgrade cycle, but developers have to move to
*Spots something out corner of eye*
What is this kylix, Delhpi?
Since I am a non-US merchant, my PayPal account is verified via credit card. Welp, 2 months ago I got an email about "unusual account detail access", and the account was on hold, by PayPal admin.
Here's the kicker: I asked that the acocunt be shut and all account details deleted. They could not do that and needed to investigate.
Since that time, many transaction appeared on my car for Online Casinos etc Presumabely by the person that hacked the PayPal account..
It ended with cancelling my card with my bank and claiming back all the transactions I hadnt made.
Lesson: Unlike many online merchants that (supposedly) delete your CC details after each transaction, PayPal dont, and have your number and details.
Also...if you want the good girl, get the bad girl first(its often easier).
Its the same theory as Seinfeld's 'Show your papers' episode where George gets girls by carrying a photo of a beautiful, but ficticious girlfriend.
Easy to get a girlfriend when you already have one.
Of course the ozzies are waiting for their US parents to make a decision. Seems they don't do anything without the nod from the US these days.
THey can't file their own action, lest it upsets washington.
The university I went to got it right I think.
Their degrees in "IT" were split over two departments. One was the programing side: C, C++, pascal unix etc. Projects included the down and dirty of imaging, security, database structures, binary tress, building a simple computer etc.
The other department dealt with the layer between the above group and clients: IE Requirements analysis, project management, modeling, high level languages like VB, Java, PHP, dynamic web pages.
I have read in this thread that most can't deal with the 'real world' of clients.
Using this universities structure in an ideal:
- One 'manages' the project (but is not above the programmer) and lisases between programmer and client. Manages client feature creep problems, Mock ups of interfaces etc etc.
- The other does the coding, builds the database to the model. Liases with the designer.
I know this sounds basic, but if you allow someone very proficient in C, pascal etc to come in contact with clients, then something is going to give.
Well, the Australian Prime Minister, Mr. Howard now finds out what happens when you lie with dogs: you wake with fleas.
The ozzies, taking a break from BBQ'ing sav's and shrimp, lapped up Mr Bush's Iraq retoric, and went to war for their bigger cousins. Trade deals would have been glitting in thier ozzie eyes.
Trouble being its all one sided. From the oz point of view, sugars of the menu - more hardship in the oz cane belt, and whats left is pro rata over time.
But DMCA-like Provisions gets discused and a road map resolved?
Mr. Howards anus must resemble the scrap meat bucket in a butcher's shop.
Yes, damned activist sites.
Take Kevin Mitnick. Who here believes 2600 has ONE fact straight.
The mainstream media reported this case as it happened. Nothing exaggerated.
You could say "slashdoted" to 100 lawyers, and 1 *might* know what your're talking about.
Welp, I have read over the parent story, the 2 linked stories, and the replies on this site. While there is not enough to make a final judgement. With that said...
Conclusion:
1. Pat ran the risk of any business, investing time and money.
2. He registered the name in his own name, as customers do not understand domains, UDAI, and why am I getting this bill from this odd company.
3. Pat tried to get recompense for 2 years of work
4. Pat is a poor business man who doesn't know contracts, TOS's etc.
5. Pat is inexperianced.
Also from this page, presumably, the average Slashdoter:
1. Is a talented web designer. Not to mention developer.
2. Is brilliant at business, draws up brilliant, watertight contracts for every job.
3. Is paid $1.50 per hour. And wouldn't have it any other way.
4. Believes crimes against soft entities(murdered, raped humans) is a darwinian consequence, whereas being a bad web designer, and business man deserves death( with preliminary torture session for resistering domain name in his name).
5. Is relieved to see IT worker pay structure is somewhere around street sweeper, and lawyers, copyrighters, graphic designers, govt employees are sooo deserving of the high pay they get.
Ah, yes.
Additional to the verrry dodgy attendant changing quarters, and his smelly breath, was also the overall griminess of gaming arcades in my area. In hindsight , and with the benefit of my advanced years I look back and just say "What the hell was going on there."
No wonder my mother would try to keep me away(I'd frequently sneak out). I doubt she was worried about me just playing video games.
Stu was the attendants name. A huge beer belly that protruded from his 2-sizes-too-small tee shirt, and drove a really crappy old van.
Constant 4 day stubble.
Holy crap.
The word "Terrorism" has been hijacked like the person who eats chicken calls themselves "vegetarian".
The families of Lockerbie, Sept. 11, IRA bombings, etc do not deserve to be disrespected in this way by a government deciding on an emotive term like "terrorism" in the same way a marketing dept would come up with a product name that "captures the public imagination".
Don't car pool to work? Then you aren't irresponsble with regard to the environment. You slaughter jews for a living.
As I assumed when reading original story, and as subsequent posts bear out.
WTO(World Trade Organisation) = USA.
Fair comment. Many other organisations manage to provide good service to their customers, who, by nature may be not be in the best frame of mind.
Its amazing how many miss this point in their business plan. - Lawyers: their customers are very likely in some trouble. - Plumbers, rescue people from their burst pipes. - Mechanic needed when your car leaks coolant every where and suggests you will not make that appointment. - Doctors. Whoo boy. The point is, many industries do gear themselves to 'rescuing' their customers, and are somewhat succesful at it. Odd that many services that provide phone based support miss the boat entirely here.
Is it human nature that causes us to misbehave to customers when there is no chance of physical contact? And therein lies the crux of the problem, perhaps.
I speak from the perspective of a new student recieving their student pack with a CD in it with Gopher as one of the tools on it.
I can remember shifting from New Zealand in 1996 to enrol and University of Minneapolis for 3 years.
Students were set up with email accounts and a couple other services such as access to the library catalog.
I purchased a new computer (p166 32mb ram. Pretty hot stuff back then!) from Dinkytown Computers, just by the Uni. It already had the UMN tools loaded with gopher on the desktop! This screwdriver shop had some relationship with the UNM. I do not recall all the details, but one needed gopher to activate and setup their email and library account so it worked.
I cannot recall, but i think the library catalog was only available on gopher. Certainly you needed it for your lending record and reissues. Regardless thats what I used.
I guess the point is, it was encouraged technology by UMN at the time.
Kazaa doesn't download music.
People download music.