In the real world, persistence multiplied by skill gets stuff done.
I believe the original comment conforms to your observation. Commenter couldn't hack the calculus and eventually didn't let that stop him. He has the skill to be a programmer and was persistent. I am lead to believe your comment is a baseless, judgment on the original comment.
My experience is... Blah blah blah. All of what you wrote is universally used by people to reject other people. You don't approve of the fact he couldn't pass calculus and therefore reject the notion he could possibly be the kind of 'great' you fashion yourself to be.
It became apparent quite quickly that they didn't have the fundamental insight and intelligence that we want. Or, maybe the reason they were interviewed was to have a stack of resumes to meet the perception of attempted diversity. All along, there was never an opportunity for someone outside your org's social comfort zone.
Intolerance and self-selection are legally frowned upon. But your organization culture is how it perpetuates anyway. That's how people work. Look at it this way, I'm on the other extreme. My intolerance and self selection tilts towards the opposite of yours.
You might want to reflect upon your rationalizations though.
The customer for 'Security Products' is some buyer typically disconnected from the nuts-and-bolts of security!
A bunch of mid-to-upper level people sit in a room and talk about 'security.' They don't understand it, but the like/need the idea of it so they can come off as believable to their customer. Better still the clicky-pointy-GUI and report generation features *really* feed the TPS beast. They talk past each other and pass reports around. Perception! Perception! Perception!
The finance industry is the perfect example. It is possible to build a system that meets various compliance standards without COTS products. In fact, you can build it for 1/100th the price and feature-perfect. But when the audit happens and the auditor *doesn't* get the report immediately recognizable as that TPS report generator from software house XYZ, your audit is now in jeopardy.
Either the audit costs skyrocket and probably fail simply because the audit didn't include a TPS report familiar to the industry or you buy the software from XYZ and the auditor gets his TPS report. What do you think is going to happen? Hint, you've probably never seen six-figure checks written to a COTS vendor so quickly.
I'm not negating doing the right thing and getting in compliance.
I'm stating a simple fact. A commercial software provider would *much* rather you not pay for their software and use it. Why? Because they know if you get used to it, chances are very high you will become a paying customer.
Why exactly do you think it's the case that breaking most anti-copying schemes is a PITA, but not impossible? As examples, Microsoft and Adobe could *both* go to hardware dongles and not be *immediately* harmed. What would happen is other software vendors would then become the cracked standard in Office/Graphics whatever and from then on out, Adobe and Microsoft's software market share would decline. Too much BSA enforcement would do the same thing.
So, most of you, like the author of the question, are in fear of a situation that is very unlikely to occur. Do your CYA and plan an orderly exit if you don't care for these kinds of ethics. But don't live in perpetual fear of the compliance boogeyman BSA.
It's the first useful post in this entire discussion.
The short story is, the Tivo-ized Linux is infected with checksum routine that will fail if you make any changes to the OS and binary driver blobs that aren't publicly available. The first person publicly cracking the checksum routine will probably get served DMCA-related litigation. (aka DVD-Jon)
Parent post is wisdom for the ages. The more you can tailor your information to better support the exec the better. Along those lines, some essentials not mentioned so far.
Internal efficiency versus industry. Your costs versus some NetCraft number that can somehow be shoe-horned into a comparison. Speed versus industry. How cheap and fast can you roll out changes. How cheap and fast is your platform? I would add how you are working with Sales (first!, Marketing last!) to implement their ideas. ('driving growth' in managerial-speak) This information needs to be tightly coordinated with the exec to whom you are delivering the report.
If you are doing your job reasonably well, you should be able to blow away most published performance metrics for each dollar spent.
Finally, if you are doing your job well, you are very friendly and sharing information with many people in different operational areas. You don't have to be anyone you aren't, but the relationships will help your relationship with the exec and keep your role relevant.
Having set up Asterisk a couple of different places AND attempting to integrate most of the things discussed, I can tell you there are a whole chain of problems.
a phone system that I could sync to my computer so I could update the phone book over all the units Meaning a single address book shared/synced at all phones? You would need phones with *some* kind of open client interface. Of which, there are exactly zero.
(if not sync with Address Book or Outlook), Please, dear Lord. No. This is another binary jail. But it looks like you want your home computer's Outlook client to be somehow involved. Which, is another programming mountain to climb separate from the first feature.
keep a log of caller IDs This, Asterisk can do. A more flexible solution requiring some coding is Freeswitch. As others have mentioned, you have to plug the POTS line into your PC. Is there a GUI that can render the results to meet your satisfaction? Maybe.
or even forward me new voicemail notifications. Asterisk and Freeswitch can do this too. But, there are numerous details that drive people away. Do the hard/soft phones you end up using have ways to implement call forwarding? How about controlling call forwarding at the server only? Is there a GUI available to meet your standards of usable? I haven't worked with Asterisk in a long time though maybe there are prettier ways of doing things now.
Dog forbid you want to integrate your mobile phone into the fray.
I'm shocked I tell you! Huge company with an armada of lawyers steals everything from a startup. Next thing you know the execs at B&N will be rewarded for their cleverness.
Email is not private. The sooner you stop pretending it should be and do nothing, the more quickly the citizens of this country can have a legitimate conversation about this and other issues of national importance.
This is the same old story. The business doesn't want to support a Linux client so they open the code they have and abandon it.
I didn't bother reading TFA so maybe someone else can inform us how would one go about acquiring the binary blob in the future? What distros will the blob track? What about an ARM build? Ebay wants to limit their dev hours but abandoning the gui doesn't help them much.
Which is why I think they'll just abandon the OS altogether sooner rather than later and put a happy face on it with this stunt.
Let's move to a totally free market economy. Let's forget about public roads. Someone will build a road to where I want to go. Except the road only goes one place. Did you catch the cost of switching from the road you are on to another road system? I can't get some places because the road owners can't agree to trade terms. That's okay though because it's unfettered capitalism.
The great thing about totally free markets is, kidnapping you and selling you into slavery is legal. But you won't fetch nearly the price I get for selling your children into slavery. There are no exceptions to your magical thinking. No pesky government prosecuting me for the world's oldest, most abhorent crime. And I'm just getting started. I'm going to put on man-to-beast fights to the death shows and charge $5 to get in. You will be my first contestant. I'm going to make a killing!
I could go on from there, but the basic point is you are pursuing a mythical notion with consequences that you can't possibly justify and purposely choose to ignore. The sooner you come back to reality, the better off we all will be.
Consumers aren't oriented to preserving their media freedom.
Voters aren't oriented to media freedom either. They still swallow 'end of capitalism' and rugged individualism B.S. whole when the notion of regulations is mentioned.
So? You get what you want. Shiny, expensive, handcuffs.
On the mobile phone front, Symbian doesn't get any love on./ but it's more open than it ever has been with excellent media freedom. Tons of applications and years ahead of newbies Apple and Google.
Intel doesn't care what OS runs on their chip. I think their Linux distro is Moblin? As long as they have orders, they don't care what the consumer uses.
Microsoft doesn't care because this is still a niche and they can string along the OEM's with XP forever. When it starts blowing up into a category all its own, I think they'll do something to encourage OEM's to use Intel chips and keep XP out there. Microsoft relies on the fact Linux still doesn't have anything overtly special on XP that the average Dell buyer wants.
Please don't flame me bro. I say these things as a long-time Debian user who gets the differences.
give you a couple of options on the auto-SMS that you can write yourself, i.e. "in a meeting right now," "at the theater," "soldering my fingers to the windowsill," Symbian OS. It's all there. It's been there for years.
or vary the auto-SMS depending on the caller? Again, Symbian OS. Been there for years.
Apple is going to be sweating bullets in a year or so. I'm going to be modded down for stating the obvious here, but the Symbian OS is years ahead of Apple in many technical ways and certainly more developer friendly. So, technically, the race was over before it started. But this isn't about being the better technical product.
Symbian is more open than ever, but Nokia doesn't advertise it like Apple in the U.S. and the American carriers may not like the fact Symbian is not the media/applications jail an iphone is. Hopefully, they will be a thorn in the side of Apple for years to come.
As many posts have mentioned, the argument has little to do with the scholarly sense of the work Libertarian.
The battle is on assuming any rules are created supporting the broadest sense of the phrase Network Neutrality.
The content by the Heartland Institute is used as propaganda that parties with a vested interest in market-driven network access. Telcos and media conglomerates are only two such interested parties. Crap like this will be used to justify privatizing the whole thing.
Finally, some subtler ideas that may be of interest to some.
1. When there is no economic motive, market mechanisms do not apply. It is not economic activity. So, any interested parties that abhor the absence of economic motives will react with irrational hostility. (ex. Heartland Institute) 2. People focused on maintaining a social hierarchy want to maintain or improve their social standing by using non-neutral network access as a status symbol. A vaguely related American example would be these people typically will consume iPhone-everything simply because it's one of the most expensive ways to communicate wirelessly not because they use all of the features. They typically react with indifference or hostility to things that provide no external affirmation of their social status.
Scholarships Employment Government Programs including Military Service. Saving programs.
Of the five mentioned, one has lottery-chances probability of paying for a decent school! That would be a full-ride scholarship.
I have no clue what is available through military service, so I'll give you the benefit of the doubt.
The rest don't work for a tier-1 or 2 school in this day and age. -Savings require the ability to save much more and much faster than the rate of education inflation. It would require my ordinary wages to rise substantially. That's not happening in this economy.
-mythic 'government programs?' This is sheer ignorance on your part.
-Employment? Those part-time Blockbuster wages gonna pay for a tier 1/2 school? Not so much. A tier-1 or 2 school is set up for students who *don't work!*
Depends. Does the company have games Nevada/New Jersey licensed? That's a tier 1 job in the gaming industry. Steady work. Tier 2 is Indian gaming. There are a bunch of game companies at this level that aren't the big-three. Working for these guys can be good but it'll be much more entrepreneurial environment. Lack of resources, lack of a reputation outside gaming too.
*Some* gaming industry software is very tough coding. Most is graphics/compliance/device interface programming. You probably won't get to the hard stuff for a long time. But it can be very steady work with interesting problems.
Finally, the gaming industry is a big silo with three gigantic companies owning most of the industry, not very many links outside and weak generalized brand awareness. (Oracle vs. IGT) A smart company *outside* of gaming that has the slightest clue would snatch you up in a minute. But, most HR departments aren't that smart.
1. What are the consequences of higher education being out of reach for most students? Because that's what you are advocating. There's no wiggle room on this. Your position is, if the student can't afford it then the student doesn't belong. 2. Would you say the same thing if all of the pieces DIDN'T fall into place for you? 3. Would you say the same thing if there were viable alternatives in the U.S? I'd like you to elaborate on the legions of wealthy construction and low-end sanitation workers who can make the math work to improve their general social status through education. 4. Would you say the same thing if the Bank of Mom and Dad didn't fund your education? Chances are at least 60% that your rugged individualism B.S. is supported by the Bank of Mom and Dad who can afford to carry you at any given time.
There are lots of ways to get a degree without taking bad loans - or loans at all for that matter.
Gimmie a reality check here.
-We all agree there is a university ladder in place in every country. Meaning, 'good' schools are ranked higher and the students integrate more easily into industry regardless of the quality of training. Financing an opportunity to join a well-ranked school has become impossible.
-The day is dawning whereby most kids cannot afford even a low-ranked State school. The loans-vs-future income math doesn't work out at all. Ever.
Besides the Bank of Mom and Dad that most posters pretend DIDN'T finance their college education (including housing), how is your claim possible? Really. I'd like to hear this one.
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In the real world, persistence multiplied by skill gets stuff done.
I believe the original comment conforms to your observation. Commenter couldn't hack the calculus and eventually didn't let that stop him. He has the skill to be a programmer and was persistent. I am lead to believe your comment is a baseless, judgment on the original comment.
My experience is ...
Blah blah blah. All of what you wrote is universally used by people to reject other people. You don't approve of the fact he couldn't pass calculus and therefore reject the notion he could possibly be the kind of 'great' you fashion yourself to be.
It became apparent quite quickly that they didn't have the fundamental insight and intelligence that we want.
Or, maybe the reason they were interviewed was to have a stack of resumes to meet the perception of attempted diversity. All along, there was never an opportunity for someone outside your org's social comfort zone.
Intolerance and self-selection are legally frowned upon. But your organization culture is how it perpetuates anyway. That's how people work. Look at it this way, I'm on the other extreme. My intolerance and self selection tilts towards the opposite of yours.
You might want to reflect upon your rationalizations though.
The customer for 'Security Products' is some buyer typically disconnected from the nuts-and-bolts of security!
A bunch of mid-to-upper level people sit in a room and talk about 'security.' They don't understand it, but the like/need the idea of it so they can come off as believable to their customer. Better still the clicky-pointy-GUI and report generation features *really* feed the TPS beast. They talk past each other and pass reports around. Perception! Perception! Perception!
The finance industry is the perfect example. It is possible to build a system that meets various compliance standards without COTS products. In fact, you can build it for 1/100th the price and feature-perfect. But when the audit happens and the auditor *doesn't* get the report immediately recognizable as that TPS report generator from software house XYZ, your audit is now in jeopardy.
Either the audit costs skyrocket and probably fail simply because the audit didn't include a TPS report familiar to the industry or you buy the software from XYZ and the auditor gets his TPS report. What do you think is going to happen? Hint, you've probably never seen six-figure checks written to a COTS vendor so quickly.
I'm not negating doing the right thing and getting in compliance.
I'm stating a simple fact. A commercial software provider would *much* rather you not pay for their software and use it. Why? Because they know if you get used to it, chances are very high you will become a paying customer.
Why exactly do you think it's the case that breaking most anti-copying schemes is a PITA, but not impossible? As examples, Microsoft and Adobe could *both* go to hardware dongles and not be *immediately* harmed. What would happen is other software vendors would then become the cracked standard in Office/Graphics whatever and from then on out, Adobe and Microsoft's software market share would decline. Too much BSA enforcement would do the same thing.
So, most of you, like the author of the question, are in fear of a situation that is very unlikely to occur. Do your CYA and plan an orderly exit if you don't care for these kinds of ethics. But don't live in perpetual fear of the compliance boogeyman BSA.
It's the first useful post in this entire discussion.
The short story is, the Tivo-ized Linux is infected with checksum routine that will fail if you make any changes to the OS and binary driver blobs that aren't publicly available. The first person publicly cracking the checksum routine will probably get served DMCA-related litigation. (aka DVD-Jon)
Parent post is wisdom for the ages. The more you can tailor your information to better support the exec the better. Along those lines, some essentials not mentioned so far.
Internal efficiency versus industry. Your costs versus some NetCraft number that can somehow be shoe-horned into a comparison.
Speed versus industry. How cheap and fast can you roll out changes. How cheap and fast is your platform?
I would add how you are working with Sales (first!, Marketing last!) to implement their ideas. ('driving growth' in managerial-speak) This information needs to be tightly coordinated with the exec to whom you are delivering the report.
If you are doing your job reasonably well, you should be able to blow away most published performance metrics for each dollar spent.
Finally, if you are doing your job well, you are very friendly and sharing information with many people in different operational areas. You don't have to be anyone you aren't, but the relationships will help your relationship with the exec and keep your role relevant.
This is the only defense against the next Carly Fiorina working in your company.
Is it any worse than similar CMS's?
There are tons of modules for it, so more than just a couple people 'get it.'
Having set up Asterisk a couple of different places AND attempting to integrate most of the things discussed, I can tell you there are a whole chain of problems.
a phone system that I could sync to my computer so I could update the phone book over all the units
Meaning a single address book shared/synced at all phones? You would need phones with *some* kind of open client interface. Of which, there are exactly zero.
(if not sync with Address Book or Outlook),
Please, dear Lord. No. This is another binary jail. But it looks like you want your home computer's Outlook client to be somehow involved. Which, is another programming mountain to climb separate from the first feature.
keep a log of caller IDs
This, Asterisk can do. A more flexible solution requiring some coding is Freeswitch. As others have mentioned, you have to plug the POTS line into your PC. Is there a GUI that can render the results to meet your satisfaction? Maybe.
or even forward me new voicemail notifications.
Asterisk and Freeswitch can do this too. But, there are numerous details that drive people away. Do the hard/soft phones you end up using have ways to implement call forwarding? How about controlling call forwarding at the server only? Is there a GUI available to meet your standards of usable? I haven't worked with Asterisk in a long time though maybe there are prettier ways of doing things now.
Dog forbid you want to integrate your mobile phone into the fray.
BTW, there's a whole forest of patents on voicemail notification alone. Even *if* something was made, it probably violates patents. http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=98808
I'm shocked I tell you! Huge company with an armada of lawyers steals everything from a startup. Next thing you know the execs at B&N will be rewarded for their cleverness.
It's never happened before.
http://browser.garage.maemo.org/news/10/
One of the architecture mistakes in the Google browser was *not* using Qt.
Email is the equivalent of postcards.
Email is not private. The sooner you stop pretending it should be and do nothing, the more quickly the citizens of this country can have a legitimate conversation about this and other issues of national importance.
Moral outrage in 3....2....1....
This is the same old story. The business doesn't want to support a Linux client so they open the code they have and abandon it.
I didn't bother reading TFA so maybe someone else can inform us how would one go about acquiring the binary blob in the future? What distros will the blob track? What about an ARM build? Ebay wants to limit their dev hours but abandoning the gui doesn't help them much.
Which is why I think they'll just abandon the OS altogether sooner rather than later and put a happy face on it with this stunt.
Do nothing? Okay.
Let's move to a totally free market economy. Let's forget about public roads. Someone will build a road to where I want to go. Except the road only goes one place. Did you catch the cost of switching from the road you are on to another road system? I can't get some places because the road owners can't agree to trade terms. That's okay though because it's unfettered capitalism.
The great thing about totally free markets is, kidnapping you and selling you into slavery is legal. But you won't fetch nearly the price I get for selling your children into slavery. There are no exceptions to your magical thinking. No pesky government prosecuting me for the world's oldest, most abhorent crime. And I'm just getting started. I'm going to put on man-to-beast fights to the death shows and charge $5 to get in. You will be my first contestant. I'm going to make a killing!
I could go on from there, but the basic point is you are pursuing a mythical notion with consequences that you can't possibly justify and purposely choose to ignore. The sooner you come back to reality, the better off we all will be.
Consumers aren't oriented to preserving their media freedom.
Voters aren't oriented to media freedom either. They still swallow 'end of capitalism' and rugged individualism B.S. whole when the notion of regulations is mentioned.
So? You get what you want. Shiny, expensive, handcuffs.
On the mobile phone front, Symbian doesn't get any love on ./ but it's more open than it ever has been with excellent media freedom. Tons of applications and years ahead of newbies Apple and Google.
http://www.debian.org/ports/arm/
I've run it on an NSLU2. Worked perfectly. They've got desktop packages for it an everything.
Ubuntu is has been standing on the shoulders of giants (Debian) for a long time. It's time for you to go straight to the source.
http://packages.debian.org/lenny/arm/xmame-sdl/download
I've run Debian ARM distro on an NSLU2. Works great.
Is this the End of Intel AND Microsoft?
Intel doesn't care what OS runs on their chip. I think their Linux distro is Moblin? As long as they have orders, they don't care what the consumer uses.
Microsoft doesn't care because this is still a niche and they can string along the OEM's with XP forever. When it starts blowing up into a category all its own, I think they'll do something to encourage OEM's to use Intel chips and keep XP out there. Microsoft relies on the fact Linux still doesn't have anything overtly special on XP that the average Dell buyer wants.
Please don't flame me bro. I say these things as a long-time Debian user who gets the differences.
give you a couple of options on the auto-SMS that you can write yourself, i.e. "in a meeting right now," "at the theater," "soldering my fingers to the windowsill,"
Symbian OS. It's all there. It's been there for years.
or vary the auto-SMS depending on the caller?
Again, Symbian OS. Been there for years.
Apple is going to be sweating bullets in a year or so.
I'm going to be modded down for stating the obvious here, but the Symbian OS is years ahead of Apple in many technical ways and certainly more developer friendly. So, technically, the race was over before it started. But this isn't about being the better technical product.
Symbian is more open than ever, but Nokia doesn't advertise it like Apple in the U.S. and the American carriers may not like the fact Symbian is not the media/applications jail an iphone is. Hopefully, they will be a thorn in the side of Apple for years to come.
http://www.symbian.org/ (flash heavy, but you'll get passed it after a few layers)
As many posts have mentioned, the argument has little to do with the scholarly sense of the work Libertarian.
The battle is on assuming any rules are created supporting the broadest sense of the phrase Network Neutrality.
The content by the Heartland Institute is used as propaganda that parties with a vested interest in market-driven network access. Telcos and media conglomerates are only two such interested parties. Crap like this will be used to justify privatizing the whole thing.
Finally, some subtler ideas that may be of interest to some.
1. When there is no economic motive, market mechanisms do not apply. It is not economic activity. So, any interested parties that abhor the absence of economic motives will react with irrational hostility. (ex. Heartland Institute)
2. People focused on maintaining a social hierarchy want to maintain or improve their social standing by using non-neutral network access as a status symbol. A vaguely related American example would be these people typically will consume iPhone-everything simply because it's one of the most expensive ways to communicate wirelessly not because they use all of the features. They typically react with indifference or hostility to things that provide no external affirmation of their social status.
Scholarships
Employment
Government Programs including Military Service.
Saving programs.
Of the five mentioned, one has lottery-chances probability of paying for a decent school! That would be a full-ride scholarship.
I have no clue what is available through military service, so I'll give you the benefit of the doubt.
The rest don't work for a tier-1 or 2 school in this day and age.
-Savings require the ability to save much more and much faster than the rate of education inflation. It would require my ordinary wages to rise substantially. That's not happening in this economy.
-mythic 'government programs?' This is sheer ignorance on your part.
-Employment? Those part-time Blockbuster wages gonna pay for a tier 1/2 school? Not so much. A tier-1 or 2 school is set up for students who *don't work!*
Depends. Does the company have games Nevada/New Jersey licensed? That's a tier 1 job in the gaming industry. Steady work.
Tier 2 is Indian gaming. There are a bunch of game companies at this level that aren't the big-three. Working for these guys can be good but it'll be much more entrepreneurial environment. Lack of resources, lack of a reputation outside gaming too.
*Some* gaming industry software is very tough coding. Most is graphics/compliance/device interface programming. You probably won't get to the hard stuff for a long time. But it can be very steady work with interesting problems.
Finally, the gaming industry is a big silo with three gigantic companies owning most of the industry, not very many links outside and weak generalized brand awareness. (Oracle vs. IGT) A smart company *outside* of gaming that has the slightest clue would snatch you up in a minute. But, most HR departments aren't that smart.
1. What are the consequences of higher education being out of reach for most students? Because that's what you are advocating. There's no wiggle room on this. Your position is, if the student can't afford it then the student doesn't belong.
2. Would you say the same thing if all of the pieces DIDN'T fall into place for you?
3. Would you say the same thing if there were viable alternatives in the U.S? I'd like you to elaborate on the legions of wealthy construction and low-end sanitation workers who can make the math work to improve their general social status through education.
4. Would you say the same thing if the Bank of Mom and Dad didn't fund your education? Chances are at least 60% that your rugged individualism B.S. is supported by the Bank of Mom and Dad who can afford to carry you at any given time.
There are lots of ways to get a degree without taking bad loans - or loans at all for that matter.
Gimmie a reality check here.
-We all agree there is a university ladder in place in every country. Meaning, 'good' schools are ranked higher and the students integrate more easily into industry regardless of the quality of training. Financing an opportunity to join a well-ranked school has become impossible.
-The day is dawning whereby most kids cannot afford even a low-ranked State school. The loans-vs-future income math doesn't work out at all. Ever.
Besides the Bank of Mom and Dad that most posters pretend DIDN'T finance their college education (including housing), how is your claim possible? Really. I'd like to hear this one.
In true White Goodman fashion, cheating is something losers come up with to make them feel better about losing.
Is Intel the 500 lb. gorilla in chipsets? Sure, and they got there by 'cheating.' Which is winning.
Aint capitalism grand?
For all you losers who don't know who the great White Goodman is: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0364725/