That is as a co-op student and as someone who had to supervise co-op students, I would say that the success of such programs depends on the employer not viewing students as "cheap labour." I think that this point is key as I made my choice to go into IT (I'm an IT Director) based on my experience in co-op where I did everything that a sysadmin would do. In fact, for the last couple of months that I was in co-op, I was the sysadmin. Perhaps I was lucky, I don't know. In any case, employers have to make this as meaningful as possible so that students get as much out of it as possible.
OTOH, there's a certian amount of s**t work that we all have/will do. As long as it's not being a pure gopher, that's acceptable.
I'm sure that there/. types who are far smarter that I who will sit all day and disect this little pi**ing contest, but lets face facts. M$ and Sun can be BOTH accused of trying to rewrite history and make themselves look like they are masters of the computing universe.
Do/. types truly care about either company enough that this issue is more important than say, the 2.4 kernel or making LINUX accessable to the masses who use products based upon the the blue screen of death? IMO, cross platform code is important and it is worth discussing so that the goal of truly portable code is eventally a reality. Sun and M$ bashing each other's brains out however does nothing to move anyone towards that goal.
IMHO, I think it's a scare tactic more than anything else.
I'm not a lawyer, but it has been my experience that any agreement that I've signed that keeps me from working for a competing organization wasn't worth the paper it was printed on. I've challenged a couple in court and had them declared null and void. Maybe the fact that I am in Canada and the law on these agreements isn't well defined had something to do with it.
IT is an industry with serious retention problems. After all, if someone walked up to you and offered you $25K or so more money to jump ship, you'd at least consider it. N-C's a a cheap way for PHB's to try and retain staff. That is until someone sues.
I have a feeling that you can't make and distribute mods even if they are free. There was a Doom mod a while back that turned the shotgun demon character into the Energizer bunny. For a while it was freely availble on CompuServe, AOhell, and the like. Suddenly it disappeared because of a cease and desist letter sent to those among other ISP's who hosted the mod. The rationale at the time was that it wasn't covered under fair use, therefore it had to go. Unless something has changed, I'd say that this is the same situation.
I guess the next thing will be to keep you from reading the book at all. Makes Microsoft's EULA (which among other things keeps you from benchmarking their products) look tame by comparison.
Look wasn't just a victim of the lack of maturity in the wireless service space. It was a victim of it's major shareholder not supporting them fully. You see, Look is part owned by Telesytem Ltd. and Teleglobe Inc., who in turn were recently bought by BCE (Bell Canada Enterprises, the Canada's largest telco). BCE never really gave look the attention and the cash it needed to survive. Prior to BCE being involved, Look was very competetive in the Internet and TV space. Since BCE got invoved, they seem to be less of a threat. Maybe that's because BCE already has a number of divisions that do some of the same sorts of things that Look does (minus the wireless access). There's more on this angle here if you're interested.
Here's a chance for the (quite frankly) aging members of the IOC (who clearly have spent too much time stuffing their own pockets and being entertained by hookers) to advance the Olympic movement to a new generation of humans who don't regard it the same way their parents did. But they instead decide that the "Internet Generation" doesn't count as a means to promote the Olympic movement (and sponsors like 3M and Coke who tag along for the ride).
Lets face facts, THEY DON'T GET IT.
Nor does it see that they are going to get it anytime soon. After all, these are the same humans who kept athletes from posting diaries on their own websites (click here for more) thus restricting the description of the whole Olympic experience to broadcasters who paid billions for the right to do so.
Until the IOC gets people who are more 'net savvy, you'll see more boneheaded decisions like this. I guess oral sex and senility gets in the way of rational thought.
- Rogers@home (provided by the big cable monopoly Rogers Communications) and Sympatico High Speed Edition (1 megabit Spitterless ADSL provided by the big Telco monopoly known as Bell Canada)have had numerous problems since their introduction. Sympatico has had outages sometimes lasting for days and Rogers@home has had mail, news, proxy, and DHCP problems for sometime now. Seeing as a lot of humans in Canada use the net as a communication medium, it makes sense to have it as an essential service.
- Both companies have resisted opening up their networks to other ISP's (just like the US open access nightmare). Rogers in particular has been stonewalling the CRTC in this regard.
If neither one of those items requires Gov't intervention, I don't know what will trigger it. The fact is that ISP's have to be held accountable to somebody for their actions and if the Gov't chooses to do that as long as it is in a fair and logical manner (a stretch I know, but you never know), then I'm all for it. I rely on my @home connection for work purposes and I'd love to have Rogers to be held accountable for their level of service. I'm sure others feel the same.
Not that I doubt you, but are we absolutely sure that the fungus that is currently on MIR is harmless to life on this planet. After all, we have viruses and bacteria that are resistant to common drugs like penicillin. Should we take the risk of introducing something into the biosphere that we may find out years from now is harmful to us. Perhaps a delay is in order to make sure that we humans are not shooting oursleves in the foot.
Moves like this show only one thing. RAMBUS is afraid that none of it's assertions would hold water in court. Thus the requirement to "judge shop." Perhaps this is a sign that RAMBUS is a lawsuit away from being non-existant? Only time will tell.
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If a space station drops into the ocean when nobody's around, does it make a sound?
Check out this thread on Apache usage in the pr0n industry (the logic being that pr0n sites take way more hits than "normal" sites), and try this article on Yahoo's experience on traffic/load balancing on BSD. Oh yeah, there's this article on why the pr0n industry uses BSD and not M$.
"Welcome to Earth - A subsidary of Microsoft"
How About Bubble Gum Crisis ?
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This series is set in the years 2032 - 2033 and it is about a group of women who are vigilanties who wear powered armor (called Hardsuits) who fight against the evil Genom corporation and their android creations which cause havoc on the population of MegaTokoyo and are key to Genom to take control of the world. The whole series have a Blade Runner sort of feel to it and it explores some really interesting themes. It has loads of violence and brief nudity so you've been warned (of course, this might add to the viewing plesure for some of you...;-> ). You can pick up the DVD's (which contain some extra footage not availabe on the VHS versions) here.
They can't be serious.... Who has 8MB of friends? I guess it must impress the chicks or something. (Yeah babe! I got 8 megs in my Palm. Ain't I special?!?) Oh well at least it will push down the price of existing palms.
One has to wonder if this isn't some sort of attempt to divert attention from the Handspring Visor which is ALLGEDLY cheaper and better than any of the Palm versions. Face it, Handspring is the first serious Palm OS challenge that Palm has had conidering other Palm OS licencees try not to compete against Palm.
Another point, a couple people who had surface mounting skills and a background in electronics figured out how to get 8MB into a Palm V. It's apparently not rocket science and it costs as little as $99 USD.
For me, the only thing the Vx will do for me is to allow me to buy a cheaper IIIx as it will drive prices down.
Why not try a Compaq DS10 or DS20 with Tru64 UNIX as it comes with a ton of Open Source stuff (with binaries) and kicks the crap out of any NT solution?
I've seen mail servers based around them that are cheap to put together and have excellent performance in terms of POP3, IMAP, and Sendmail applications. Check out this URL for the description of the software and this URL for the boxes themselves.
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That is as a co-op student and as someone who had to supervise co-op students, I would say that the success of such programs depends on the employer not viewing students as "cheap labour." I think that this point is key as I made my choice to go into IT (I'm an IT Director) based on my experience in co-op where I did everything that a sysadmin would do. In fact, for the last couple of months that I was in co-op, I was the sysadmin. Perhaps I was lucky, I don't know. In any case, employers have to make this as meaningful as possible so that students get as much out of it as possible.
OTOH, there's a certian amount of s**t work that we all have/will do. As long as it's not being a pure gopher, that's acceptable.
Just my $0.02 (CDN) worth.
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BTW, If a space station falls from space and hits the water with nobody around, does it make a sound?
Where men are men, and women are also men.
I'm sure that there /. types who are far smarter that I who will sit all day and disect this little pi**ing contest, but lets face facts. M$ and Sun can be BOTH accused of trying to rewrite history and make themselves look like they are masters of the computing universe.
/. types truly care about either company enough that this issue is more important than say, the 2.4 kernel or making LINUX accessable to the masses who use products based upon the the blue screen of death? IMO, cross platform code is important and it is worth discussing so that the goal of truly portable code is eventally a reality. Sun and M$ bashing each other's brains out however does nothing to move anyone towards that goal.
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Let's move on shall we?
IMHO, I think it's a scare tactic more than anything else.
I'm not a lawyer, but it has been my experience that any agreement that I've signed that keeps me from working for a competing organization wasn't worth the paper it was printed on. I've challenged a couple in court and had them declared null and void. Maybe the fact that I am in Canada and the law on these agreements isn't well defined had something to do with it.
IT is an industry with serious retention problems. After all, if someone walked up to you and offered you $25K or so more money to jump ship, you'd at least consider it. N-C's a a cheap way for PHB's to try and retain staff. That is until someone sues.
"Welcome to Earth. A division of Microsoft."
I have a feeling that you can't make and distribute mods even if they are free. There was a Doom mod a while back that turned the shotgun demon character into the Energizer bunny. For a while it was freely availble on CompuServe, AOhell, and the like. Suddenly it disappeared because of a cease and desist letter sent to those among other ISP's who hosted the mod. The rationale at the time was that it wasn't covered under fair use, therefore it had to go. Unless something has changed, I'd say that this is the same situation.
I guess the next thing will be to keep you from reading the book at all. Makes Microsoft's EULA (which among other things keeps you from benchmarking their products) look tame by comparison.
Look wasn't just a victim of the lack of maturity in the wireless service space. It was a victim of it's major shareholder not supporting them fully. You see, Look is part owned by Telesytem Ltd. and Teleglobe Inc., who in turn were recently bought by BCE (Bell Canada Enterprises, the Canada's largest telco). BCE never really gave look the attention and the cash it needed to survive. Prior to BCE being involved, Look was very competetive in the Internet and TV space. Since BCE got invoved, they seem to be less of a threat. Maybe that's because BCE already has a number of divisions that do some of the same sorts of things that Look does (minus the wireless access). There's more on this angle here if you're interested.
Here's a chance for the (quite frankly) aging members of the IOC (who clearly have spent too much time stuffing their own pockets and being entertained by hookers) to advance the Olympic movement to a new generation of humans who don't regard it the same way their parents did. But they instead decide that the "Internet Generation" doesn't count as a means to promote the Olympic movement (and sponsors like 3M and Coke who tag along for the ride).
Lets face facts, THEY DON'T GET IT.
Nor does it see that they are going to get it anytime soon. After all, these are the same humans who kept athletes from posting diaries on their own websites (click here for more) thus restricting the description of the whole Olympic experience to broadcasters who paid billions for the right to do so.
Until the IOC gets people who are more 'net savvy, you'll see more boneheaded decisions like this. I guess oral sex and senility gets in the way of rational thought.
Seriously! Here's why I think they do:
- Rogers@home (provided by the big cable monopoly Rogers Communications) and Sympatico High Speed Edition (1 megabit Spitterless ADSL provided by the big Telco monopoly known as Bell Canada)have had numerous problems since their introduction. Sympatico has had outages sometimes lasting for days and Rogers@home has had mail, news, proxy, and DHCP problems for sometime now. Seeing as a lot of humans in Canada use the net as a communication medium, it makes sense to have it as an essential service.
- Both companies have resisted opening up their networks to other ISP's (just like the US open access nightmare). Rogers in particular has been stonewalling the CRTC in this regard.
If neither one of those items requires Gov't intervention, I don't know what will trigger it. The fact is that ISP's have to be held accountable to somebody for their actions and if the Gov't chooses to do that as long as it is in a fair and logical manner (a stretch I know, but you never know), then I'm all for it. I rely on my @home connection for work purposes and I'd love to have Rogers to be held accountable for their level of service. I'm sure others feel the same.
Not that I doubt you, but are we absolutely sure that the fungus that is currently on MIR is harmless to life on this planet. After all, we have viruses and bacteria that are resistant to common drugs like penicillin. Should we take the risk of introducing something into the biosphere that we may find out years from now is harmful to us. Perhaps a delay is in order to make sure that we humans are not shooting oursleves in the foot.
Moves like this show only one thing. RAMBUS is afraid that none of it's assertions would hold water in court. Thus the requirement to "judge shop." Perhaps this is a sign that RAMBUS is a lawsuit away from being non-existant? Only time will tell.
If a space station drops into the ocean when nobody's around, does it make a sound?
Because you just handed a fat cheque to Mark Burnett (Producer of Survivor) to produce a show that involves MIR.
"If a space station drops into the ocean when nobody's around, does it make a sound?"
Check out this thread on Apache usage in the pr0n industry (the logic being that pr0n sites take way more hits than "normal" sites), and try this article on Yahoo's experience on traffic/load balancing on BSD. Oh yeah, there's this article on why the pr0n industry uses BSD and not M$. "Welcome to Earth - A subsidary of Microsoft"
CNET has more on this story at here
This series is set in the years 2032 - 2033 and it is about a group of women who are vigilanties who wear powered armor (called Hardsuits) who fight against the evil Genom corporation and their android creations which cause havoc on the population of MegaTokoyo and are key to Genom to take control of the world. The whole series have a Blade Runner sort of feel to it and it explores some really interesting themes. It has loads of violence and brief nudity so you've been warned (of course, this might add to the viewing plesure for some of you... ;-> ). You can pick up the DVD's (which contain some extra footage not availabe on the VHS versions) here.
They can't be serious.... Who has 8MB of friends? I guess it must impress the chicks or something. (Yeah babe! I got 8 megs in my Palm. Ain't I special?!?) Oh well at least it will push down the price of existing palms.
One has to wonder if this isn't some sort of attempt to divert attention from the Handspring Visor which is ALLGEDLY cheaper and better than any of the Palm versions. Face it, Handspring is the first serious Palm OS challenge that Palm has had conidering other Palm OS licencees try not to compete against Palm.
Another point, a couple people who had surface mounting skills and a background in electronics figured out how to get 8MB into a Palm V. It's apparently not rocket science and it costs as little as $99 USD.
For me, the only thing the Vx will do for me is to allow me to buy a cheaper IIIx as it will drive prices down.
Why not try a Compaq DS10 or DS20 with Tru64 UNIX as it comes with a ton of Open Source stuff (with binaries) and kicks the crap out of any NT solution?
I've seen mail servers based around them that are cheap to put together and have excellent performance in terms of POP3, IMAP, and Sendmail applications. Check out this URL for the description of the software and this URL for the boxes themselves.