Companies now often issue laptops so that employees can more easily work at home but at the same time want to ban iPods and flash drive. This is the absurdity that lurks bust below the surface.
OS X was NeXTSTEP which last ran on x86 and the X-Box 2 reference platform is dual G-5s running a version of Windows XP. Microsoft won't release Windows XP for Mac Hardware for the same reason BeOS stopped supporting Mac Hardware.
Apple won't release OS X for x86 hardware because it would gut their Hardware sales.
This isn't true. While XP won't detect a WAP with the SSID broadcast turned off, you can manually configure a connection to the router. This whole point of turning you SSID broadcast off is to not allow automatic detection of WAPs. I would say MS is working within the standard in this case.
I have this specific situation, I am not broadcasting my SSID but I have 3-6 WAPs broadcasting SSIDs around me. I have no problem.
Not the people starting the company. It is a simple idea, VCs finance a company but don't really know if the company has value or not. If you own something and don't understand it, you don't know what you should protect and what you should not care about so make everything secret and you are covered.
Many of the people starting companies in the late 90s that used VC did so in order to flip the company quickly using a FastCompany model:
1. Build it big 2. Hype it 3. Flip it 4. Profit and get out
So the lesson is this: If you have something you want to flip in 2-3 years and will be able to, take the VC and the NDA.
But if you want to build a company do it without VC. But remember building a company yourself it really hard and you will most likely fail. You will most likely fail with VC but as long as you don't personally guarante the company you are losing their money.
This isn't a real comparison, sure the guy in India might get only $5900/year but that isn't what the company he works for is changing the company he is doing contracts for. Remember the people who own the outsource company are making a lot of money.
This isn't a realistic comparison for the current economic conditions. Sure maybe a few years ago you might have seen an order of magnitude difference but not any more. I work with two types of offshore people, the kind that are on site and the kind that are off site, as per the offshore model. The on-site people price is in the same ballpark as contractors, especially independent contractors. The off-site people are about ½ of that. I believe the Indian firms have gone up some and people in the US have gone down a lot.
Outsourcing has the same problem with Tech and business not speaking the same language and not understanding each others needs. Unless you have some one that can bridge the gap, outsourcing just takes a little longer for you to get to failure.
Ownership of problems and solutions and rewards for those owners making something successful is the only way to go. Everything else is leading toward failure.
I tried organizing something like this, it fell thru and management found out. The company sucked before and sucked more afterward.
All those that said leave, left on their own within six months (including me), all those that said hang in stayed more than a year and some multiple years. And now 7 years later, I don't talk to any of those people, I left things well with most of them but I moved on and lost track of them.
Let me give you a clue, it is about you, so stop worrying about what others think. Don't quit until you have a new job, then give two week notice. Nothing you do will make a point, nothing you do will make the powers that be see your point. Live your life for you and do the best for yourself.
How can you block *all* AIM ports, you can configure AIM to use any port. I have used AIM in organizations that only allowed Web traffic on port 80 through a proxy. AIM worked just fine. Do you mean you blocked all access to the AOL AIM servers because that is what I believe you would have to do to actually *block* AIM.
Premji's story is near legend in India, largely because with a fortune estimated at $6 billion, he is by far the nation's wealthiest individual.
Here is the problem; developers making $8k a year aren't going to work for $8k a year forever when the CEO is worth $6B. Bill Gates knew this and MS made more millionaires than any other company in history. The Robber Barron business model doesn't work on knowledge workers forever since knowledge workers are educated and even in India are scarce resource.
Hungry developers and consultants are hungry for money for themselves and not for the CEO. Hungry Indian IT workers don't want to be wealthy but Indian standards, they want to be wealthy by world standards. Sure there are still a good number of years of growth but in the end, $8k a year per developers isn't going to last.
I have seen and used interface variables as constants a lot. One good example is to use interface constants as enumerated types, much like the Color class has many colors predefined (i.e. Color.black is a Color object that represents black).
I have had this happen to me the other way around. I bid the $15k and they took the $5k bid. The site never got built. No even close.
They told me it was a price based decision, I heard from back channels it was because the $5k bid came from a "friend".
Just remember that most sales are made based on the decision makers *feelings* about the project and about the bidders. If you never get a chance to talk to the decision maker directly about why you didn't get the contract, you can never know why he/she made that decision.
This is the same thing that happened to MusicMaker.com and the MM Investment group, the people calling for the return of the money are the people that made MusicMaker.com close it's doors. The money they had left from closing MusicMaker.com went into Liquid Audio for a repeat of the business model.
I can say this for them, they did finally find a way to make some money from a.com, by picking the bones.
As a note, I used to be a MusicMaker.com employee but left many months before it closed it's doors.
Most of the companies I deal with want to use technology as an advantage over their competition. The problem is being able to complete successful projects and actually have those sucessful projects have positive effectices on the bottom line. Technology isn't a silver bullet for business, you can't purchase IT in a vacuum or develop applications in a vacuum and expect things to work.
Sure there was IT waste, such many people go in to IT because it was a money maker, sure many people are disillusioned with IT, but this isn't unique to IT. Every profession has these problems, especially professions that make a lot of money (Doctors, Lawyers, Engineers).
But let me tell you this, in six months or a year when the "IT is a waste meme" is gone, the CTOs, CIOs and others that decided not to spend on IT now, just as things are turning around will be out of a job because their companies will be behind the technology curve. Businesses in America have very short memories and saving me some money more than six months ago, with nothing new to show for it today is failure.
I sure this is true, and while some contract will have successful outcomes, many more will fail.
But then again, since many IT projects are a race to failure for reason beyond the actual technical aspects of the project, at least it will cost less to fail.
It is interesting that at the same time we have a problem with e-mail and documents we want to delete not really being deleted because it is archived somewhere on a server and we have a problem with e-mail and documents we want to keep being destroyed by hard drive failures.
I guess everything is a matter of point of view and the current situational needs.
Really hard drive failure is a digital equivelent of a fire in your work area. There are solutions and the people that will put in the work to implement and maintain those solutions will have their data preserved, those that don't (for what ever reason) won't.
Copyright is on the text of the code, if he doesn't copy the code, there is no copyright problem. If they don't have a patent, then you don't have a problem there either. You can't really Trade Mark code.
So I would say, no patent and fresh code == no IP problem.
The front end of every language compiler or interpreter is a parser. Start there. Lex, Yacc and ANTLR are good places to start. Perl was orginally designed to parsing files and most languages have parsing libraries in them but their value can vary greatly.
when the software industry has licenses and accreditions. Those who can pay the tests will make more money and have more control over the software development process. If some design is bad, I can refuse to sign it and force a new better design.
Basically software developers well be able to gain more power over the process and how software is developed.
I have accepted counters and regretted it. But you have a different situation, if money is the only reason for leaving. For me the reason for leaving was poor management and when I took the counter it was with promises of things changing and nothing changed.
I have never left a company for simply money reasons but if it were, I would consider a counter that matched. Be honest with yourself, if money isn't the only reason, leave.
If money is the only reason, it is a calculated risk to stay but it could work out. Your real problem is that "it working out" really isn't in your hands, it will be with the feelings of the people that had to make the offer.
On the plus side, it money is the reason, the devil you know is often better than the devil you don't know.
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This also solves the backward compatibility problem for Vista. I think it is a great idea on MS's part to break from this burdon.
I use Hotmail, the only one left is to have a Passport account. Goodbye Hotmail.
Companies now often issue laptops so that employees can more easily work at home but at the same time want to ban iPods and flash drive. This is the absurdity that lurks bust below the surface.
OS X was NeXTSTEP which last ran on x86 and the X-Box 2 reference platform is dual G-5s running a version of Windows XP. Microsoft won't release Windows XP for Mac Hardware for the same reason BeOS stopped supporting Mac Hardware.
Apple won't release OS X for x86 hardware because it would gut their Hardware sales.
This isn't true. While XP won't detect a WAP with the SSID broadcast turned off, you can manually configure a connection to the router. This whole point of turning you SSID broadcast off is to not allow automatic detection of WAPs. I would say MS is working within the standard in this case.
I have this specific situation, I am not broadcasting my SSID but I have 3-6 WAPs broadcasting SSIDs around me. I have no problem.
Not the people starting the company. It is a simple idea, VCs finance a company but don't really know if the company has value or not. If you own something and don't understand it, you don't know what you should protect and what you should not care about so make everything secret and you are covered.
Many of the people starting companies in the late 90s that used VC did so in order to flip the company quickly using a FastCompany model:
1. Build it big
2. Hype it
3. Flip it
4. Profit and get out
So the lesson is this: If you have something you want to flip in 2-3 years and will be able to, take the VC and the NDA.
But if you want to build a company do it without VC. But remember building a company yourself it really hard and you will most likely fail. You will most likely fail with VC but as long as you don't personally guarante the company you are losing their money.
For the same reason wealthy and famous people need to hire body guards.
This isn't a real comparison, sure the guy in India might get only $5900/year but that isn't what the company he works for is changing the company he is doing contracts for. Remember the people who own the outsource company are making a lot of money.
This isn't a realistic comparison for the current economic conditions. Sure maybe a few years ago you might have seen an order of magnitude difference but not any more. I work with two types of offshore people, the kind that are on site and the kind that are off site, as per the offshore model. The on-site people price is in the same ballpark as contractors, especially independent contractors. The off-site people are about ½ of that. I believe the Indian firms have gone up some and people in the US have gone down a lot.
Outsourcing has the same problem with Tech and business not speaking the same language and not understanding each others needs. Unless you have some one that can bridge the gap, outsourcing just takes a little longer for you to get to failure.
Ownership of problems and solutions and rewards for those owners making something successful is the only way to go. Everything else is leading toward failure.
I tried organizing something like this, it fell thru and management found out. The company sucked before and sucked more afterward.
All those that said leave, left on their own within six months (including me), all those that said hang in stayed more than a year and some multiple years. And now 7 years later, I don't talk to any of those people, I left things well with most of them but I moved on and lost track of them.
Let me give you a clue, it is about you, so stop worrying about what others think. Don't quit until you have a new job, then give two week notice. Nothing you do will make a point, nothing you do will make the powers that be see your point. Live your life for you and do the best for yourself.
How can you block *all* AIM ports, you can configure AIM to use any port. I have used AIM in organizations that only allowed Web traffic on port 80 through a proxy. AIM worked just fine. Do you mean you blocked all access to the AOL AIM servers because that is what I believe you would have to do to actually *block* AIM.
Hungry developers and consultants are hungry for money for themselves and not for the CEO. Hungry Indian IT workers don't want to be wealthy but Indian standards, they want to be wealthy by world standards. Sure there are still a good number of years of growth but in the end, $8k a year per developers isn't going to last.
I have seen and used interface variables as constants a lot. One good example is to use interface constants as enumerated types, much like the Color class has many colors predefined (i.e. Color.black is a Color object that represents black).
Intel tried to say that x86 and all 86 related chip references were theirs by Trademark that that failed (leading to the Pentium name).
Copyrights cover groups of words, not just a single word so you can't copyright $19.99.
But prices might be considered trade secrets, especially future prices, i.e. future sale prices.
I have had this happen to me the other way around. I bid the $15k and they took the $5k bid. The site never got built. No even close.
They told me it was a price based decision, I heard from back channels it was because the $5k bid came from a "friend".
Just remember that most sales are made based on the decision makers *feelings* about the project and about the bidders. If you never get a chance to talk to the decision maker directly about why you didn't get the contract, you can never know why he/she made that decision.
This is the same thing that happened to MusicMaker.com and the MM Investment group, the people calling for the return of the money are the people that made MusicMaker.com close it's doors. The money they had left from closing MusicMaker.com went into Liquid Audio for a repeat of the business model.
.com, by picking the bones.
I can say this for them, they did finally find a way to make some money from a
As a note, I used to be a MusicMaker.com employee but left many months before it closed it's doors.
Most of the companies I deal with want to use technology as an advantage over their competition. The problem is being able to complete successful projects and actually have those sucessful projects have positive effectices on the bottom line. Technology isn't a silver bullet for business, you can't purchase IT in a vacuum or develop applications in a vacuum and expect things to work.
Sure there was IT waste, such many people go in to IT because it was a money maker, sure many people are disillusioned with IT, but this isn't unique to IT. Every profession has these problems, especially professions that make a lot of money (Doctors, Lawyers, Engineers).
But let me tell you this, in six months or a year when the "IT is a waste meme" is gone, the CTOs, CIOs and others that decided not to spend on IT now, just as things are turning around will be out of a job because their companies will be behind the technology curve. Businesses in America have very short memories and saving me some money more than six months ago, with nothing new to show for it today is failure.
I sure this is true, and while some contract will have successful outcomes, many more will fail.
But then again, since many IT projects are a race to failure for reason beyond the actual technical aspects of the project, at least it will cost less to fail.
It is interesting that at the same time we have a problem with e-mail and documents we want to delete not really being deleted because it is archived somewhere on a server and we have a problem with e-mail and documents we want to keep being destroyed by hard drive failures.
I guess everything is a matter of point of view and the current situational needs.
Really hard drive failure is a digital equivelent of a fire in your work area. There are solutions and the people that will put in the work to implement and maintain those solutions will have their data preserved, those that don't (for what ever reason) won't.
Copyright is on the text of the code, if he doesn't copy the code, there is no copyright problem. If they don't have a patent, then you don't have a problem there either. You can't really Trade Mark code.
So I would say, no patent and fresh code == no IP problem.
Again IANAL.
The front end of every language compiler or interpreter is a parser. Start there. Lex, Yacc and ANTLR are good places to start. Perl was orginally designed to parsing files and most languages have parsing libraries in them but their value can vary greatly.
when the software industry has licenses and accreditions. Those who can pay the tests will make more money and have more control over the software development process. If some design is bad, I can refuse to sign it and force a new better design.
Basically software developers well be able to gain more power over the process and how software is developed.
I have accepted counters and regretted it. But you have a different situation, if money is the only reason for leaving. For me the reason for leaving was poor management and when I took the counter it was with promises of things changing and nothing changed.
I have never left a company for simply money reasons but if it were, I would consider a counter that matched. Be honest with yourself, if money isn't the only reason, leave.
If money is the only reason, it is a calculated risk to stay but it could work out. Your real problem is that "it working out" really isn't in your hands, it will be with the feelings of the people that had to make the offer.
On the plus side, it money is the reason, the devil you know is often better than the devil you don't know.