It would be really difficult to go part time when rest of the team is doing 60 hrs a week. You might try followings...
1. Don't compromise on total hours. Say you would work 10 hrs a day and take Friday off.
2. Spread out your vacation. For example if you have 14 days of paid vacation then you can say that you want to take every Friday off in summer.
3. Going part time would be easier if you have some legal reason such as child care, illness or regular doctor visits or care for family member.
4. Going part time is much easier when starting a new job. I've always seen that if you tell employer during the time of offer acceptance that you want to take every Friday off (because you need to visit your hometown for example) then it may get approved easily especially for senior positions.
5. Work on some weekends and compensate on other days by longer vacations.
6. Switch to contracting with your own employer. Most IT companies have contractors. You can have 3 month job followed by say 1 month off when project is in low velocity. Many companies would love this if you explain them that they can reduce cost this way by not hiring full time.
In nutshell, if you are going part time and rest of your team isn't you would hurt your career from long term perspective (promotions, bonus etc). The only perfect part time jobs I've heard is in likes of carpentry, plumbing etc.
Only benefit I see using RSS in these new ideas is that you can ride on its popularity. It's not the shoe that fits all sizes. Here's my article that goes in to details of specific case.
Yes, you caught it right. This review was based on Mozilla Calendar (rather then Apple's iCal.app) which seems to support webcal but has no way to remove/view subscriptions. It also doesn't have anyway to control how often it polls. That also made me wonder if Mozilla Calendar treats "subscription" just as simple "import".
I think it's mostly corporates who don't "see" how IPv6 can make their businesses is profitable. The truth of the matter is IPv6 might probably kill off many of these corporates. Right now IPv6 is the nessesity for peer-to-peer communities, not just file sharing. Besides everything else it will probably eliminate NATs which is the biggest hurdle in peer networking. Right now all P2P clients including BitTorrent survives on meer hack called UDP hole punching which works for about 82% of the routers. No supporting IPv6 is good for MPAA but unimaginably bad for free Internet.
Remember this new MX series from Logiteck is right-hand only! This is bad as you know. After checking out different mice available for about 5 hours I bought Logitech MediaPlay and I can tell this is probably the most geeky mouse out there. This mouse is left+right friendly, has 10ft wireless range and you can hold like a remote control for your computer playing Rhapsody or Yahoo Music Engine. Above all it has 8 buttons. Beat that!
From my experience in dealing with my clients. Mid size companies can't make a switch to any significant level because they have one or many custom Windows based app on which these guys have spend atleast million and they don't have any intention to redo them just for Linux. Development on Linux is tougher then on Windows with all its visual trickery plus there are almost no devs available for jobs. Most companies would happily live with older versions of Windows as far as these custom stuff worked.
In one of the clients I worked for, they gave contractors literally 2'X4' desks to work while every other employee at any level in that company had 5 times bigger desk space. This company never invited contractors for company christmas parties and even didn't bothered to set them up with their private voice mail. They wouldn't be invited to participate in meetings that are critical to the project and would be notified later of only outcomes of the meetings. The contractors won't be even invited in to project success parties while the fact was that it was just those contractors and only them who actually wrote any code to build the project. If project is running behind the contractors would be asked to drop their plans and work in weekends at Friday 4 PM and often asked to work late to meet deadlines. They will be even forced regularly to cancel their planned vacations without sufficient notice. When project would end the company will inform them in the morning that it was their last day! The employees, mostly managers, would have completely different life styles of frequent parting at company's cost, vacationing and useless meetings.
The contractors were just worker robots without any feelings or need for social interaction with their collegues, they weren't humans. They had a view that contractors can be treated as worst as they want to because they had higher pay rates and legally only few rights. This is inspite of the fact they were the ONLY contributor in actually building the product.
I just bought this DLP projector yesterday on ebay for $1165. Specs are unlike anything I've seen for this price (or even at $1800): 2300 lumens, 2100 contrast. No wireless networking though. Also no DVI socket. Definitely not pocket. It throws lots of heat. Except these it seems to be the best you can buy for under $1800 projectors.
I guess this is how it looks like on small scale. On a big picture (next 200 years or so), these are what I would call, a transient issues and trends. I would suspect if the copyright laws or even the whole concept of money has the same meaning in that span. So question is: should I work on duplicating the functionality that someone else already did it 5 years ago. Or Should I invest my effort in inventing new technology that advances the boundary of human knowledge as a whole? Honestly I don't see much benifit in spending a half a decade of my life in creating a word processor that has already existed since years in all its glory. Just for the hake of it, imagine sometime in next 200 years, what if MS opens up their entire source code just like any other open source project and still figures out a way to make money? Where Linux will stand then? Comparing the speed of evolution advantage that MS has, I would imagine Linux and MS OS will stand far apart as long as technology richness strength is concerned. How much time will take before Linux becomes yet another extinct project (well, may be for all but those still living '70s Unix geeks) with millions of lost human hours? Spending my energies in duplicating the functionalities in another OS because of some stupid law is rediculas to me. I however would support any movement with my heart and soul which involves an OS with next generation concepts and which can merit on its own by its pure richness of technologies. But to keep 60s Unix alive by making it wear GUI shells... well I'll leave that to those old generation geeks.
I really wonder how much it's worth to contribute and continue projects like this one (and even to Linux at larger scale). Both of them are SO old. Linux, for example, is so freaking outdated from modern OS point of view. Managed.Net and Java style VMs is the next evolution of moden OS but Linux hasn't even reached to a technology summit where Microsoft COM was 5 years ago. Yeah, I know all those security issues and blunders. But from pure OS sophistication point of view, that was the awesome way to let applications built by components. Look at even FireFox. Those poor guys have finally realised its importance and now has started duplicating MS COM as their own XPCOM. But to a person who looks at OS by their feature-richness, technology like XPCOM is an old news from last century. Sometime I don't know what these Linux guys so proud of? For carrieng burden of that '60s OS concepts still in 2000s? Look at the difference between MS and them. MS renews their OS, applies new technologies like COM and.Net and keep building ever more sophisticated dev tools every 5 years or so. It's not because they are not smart but it's because they have evolved so fast. Technically, Windows is far reacher OS than Linux any single day. I view Linux is stuck on Unix base and deprived of many modernizations that goes under the hood of Windows and Macs. Is it because most of these guys are from really old generation. Every now and then some geek of 80s comes around, builds a process loader and sends out news about new OS and others rejoices. Pathetic.
Grouper is doing nothing new. You can download http://groove.net/ and start using automatically Magic folders automatically. Many people (usually on company instranet) finds this kind of folder sync extremly useful. But whats more important is data sync - which means your data like caleder info, bookmarks, notes etc gets sync. That has way too much potential. For example any app can use this automatically replicated sistributed database rather then relieng on central database server. Thats way beyond usual file sharing. Eventually everything is data and every storage system is somekind of database - so you can see where this is going. If you stretch your imagination little more further, this kind of data P2P effectively allows you to build your own distributed browsable website as "shared space". So your machine becomes a "server" distributing not just files and HTMLs but also event calenders, tiny notes, receipie book and so on. And the content on your machine (which has now becaome "server") is replicated across many mores to distribute the load. A current webserver as we undrstand is just the special case of access-to-everyone non-replicated content distributer. A machine participating in data P2P is far more general case and can be easily customized to emulate "web server".
I've worked on heavy duty project implementing data P2P for two years and am pretyy convienced this is the next big thing on the horizon. Microsoft is already developing Windows P2P layer http://microsoft.com/p2p/ and would be available on Longhorn. Think outside the file P2P - there is whole new world!
PS: I'll be bloging more about this topic on my blog http://www.shitalshah.com/blog/. Stay tuned.
There is way to stop phising or atleast make it less effective...
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It would be really difficult to go part time when rest of the team is doing 60 hrs a week. You might try followings... 1. Don't compromise on total hours. Say you would work 10 hrs a day and take Friday off. 2. Spread out your vacation. For example if you have 14 days of paid vacation then you can say that you want to take every Friday off in summer. 3. Going part time would be easier if you have some legal reason such as child care, illness or regular doctor visits or care for family member. 4. Going part time is much easier when starting a new job. I've always seen that if you tell employer during the time of offer acceptance that you want to take every Friday off (because you need to visit your hometown for example) then it may get approved easily especially for senior positions. 5. Work on some weekends and compensate on other days by longer vacations. 6. Switch to contracting with your own employer. Most IT companies have contractors. You can have 3 month job followed by say 1 month off when project is in low velocity. Many companies would love this if you explain them that they can reduce cost this way by not hiring full time. In nutshell, if you are going part time and rest of your team isn't you would hurt your career from long term perspective (promotions, bonus etc). The only perfect part time jobs I've heard is in likes of carpentry, plumbing etc.
Only benefit I see using RSS in these new ideas is that you can ride on its popularity. It's not the shoe that fits all sizes. Here's my article that goes in to details of specific case.
Yes, you caught it right. This review was based on Mozilla Calendar (rather then Apple's iCal.app) which seems to support webcal but has no way to remove/view subscriptions. It also doesn't have anyway to control how often it polls. That also made me wonder if Mozilla Calendar treats "subscription" just as simple "import".
I think it's mostly corporates who don't "see" how IPv6 can make their businesses is profitable. The truth of the matter is IPv6 might probably kill off many of these corporates. Right now IPv6 is the nessesity for peer-to-peer communities, not just file sharing. Besides everything else it will probably eliminate NATs which is the biggest hurdle in peer networking. Right now all P2P clients including BitTorrent survives on meer hack called UDP hole punching which works for about 82% of the routers. No supporting IPv6 is good for MPAA but unimaginably bad for free Internet.
Remember this new MX series from Logiteck is right-hand only! This is bad as you know. After checking out different mice available for about 5 hours I bought Logitech MediaPlay and I can tell this is probably the most geeky mouse out there. This mouse is left+right friendly, has 10ft wireless range and you can hold like a remote control for your computer playing Rhapsody or Yahoo Music Engine. Above all it has 8 buttons. Beat that!
From my experience in dealing with my clients. Mid size companies can't make a switch to any significant level because they have one or many custom Windows based app on which these guys have spend atleast million and they don't have any intention to redo them just for Linux. Development on Linux is tougher then on Windows with all its visual trickery plus there are almost no devs available for jobs. Most companies would happily live with older versions of Windows as far as these custom stuff worked.
In one of the clients I worked for, they gave contractors literally 2'X4' desks to work while every other employee at any level in that company had 5 times bigger desk space. This company never invited contractors for company christmas parties and even didn't bothered to set them up with their private voice mail. They wouldn't be invited to participate in meetings that are critical to the project and would be notified later of only outcomes of the meetings. The contractors won't be even invited in to project success parties while the fact was that it was just those contractors and only them who actually wrote any code to build the project. If project is running behind the contractors would be asked to drop their plans and work in weekends at Friday 4 PM and often asked to work late to meet deadlines. They will be even forced regularly to cancel their planned vacations without sufficient notice. When project would end the company will inform them in the morning that it was their last day! The employees, mostly managers, would have completely different life styles of frequent parting at company's cost, vacationing and useless meetings. The contractors were just worker robots without any feelings or need for social interaction with their collegues, they weren't humans. They had a view that contractors can be treated as worst as they want to because they had higher pay rates and legally only few rights. This is inspite of the fact they were the ONLY contributor in actually building the product.
I just bought this DLP projector yesterday on ebay for $1165. Specs are unlike anything I've seen for this price (or even at $1800): 2300 lumens, 2100 contrast. No wireless networking though. Also no DVI socket. Definitely not pocket. It throws lots of heat. Except these it seems to be the best you can buy for under $1800 projectors.
I guess this is how it looks like on small scale. On a big picture (next 200 years or so), these are what I would call, a transient issues and trends. I would suspect if the copyright laws or even the whole concept of money has the same meaning in that span. So question is: should I work on duplicating the functionality that someone else already did it 5 years ago. Or Should I invest my effort in inventing new technology that advances the boundary of human knowledge as a whole? Honestly I don't see much benifit in spending a half a decade of my life in creating a word processor that has already existed since years in all its glory. Just for the hake of it, imagine sometime in next 200 years, what if MS opens up their entire source code just like any other open source project and still figures out a way to make money? Where Linux will stand then? Comparing the speed of evolution advantage that MS has, I would imagine Linux and MS OS will stand far apart as long as technology richness strength is concerned. How much time will take before Linux becomes yet another extinct project (well, may be for all but those still living '70s Unix geeks) with millions of lost human hours? Spending my energies in duplicating the functionalities in another OS because of some stupid law is rediculas to me. I however would support any movement with my heart and soul which involves an OS with next generation concepts and which can merit on its own by its pure richness of technologies. But to keep 60s Unix alive by making it wear GUI shells... well I'll leave that to those old generation geeks.
I really wonder how much it's worth to contribute and continue projects like this one (and even to Linux at larger scale). Both of them are SO old. Linux, for example, is so freaking outdated from modern OS point of view. Managed .Net and Java style VMs is the next evolution of moden OS but Linux hasn't even reached to a technology summit where Microsoft COM was 5 years ago. Yeah, I know all those security issues and blunders. But from pure OS sophistication point of view, that was the awesome way to let applications built by components. Look at even FireFox. Those poor guys have finally realised its importance and now has started duplicating MS COM as their own XPCOM. But to a person who looks at OS by their feature-richness, technology like XPCOM is an old news from last century. Sometime I don't know what these Linux guys so proud of? For carrieng burden of that '60s OS concepts still in 2000s? Look at the difference between MS and them. MS renews their OS, applies new technologies like COM and .Net and keep building ever more sophisticated dev tools every 5 years or so. It's not because they are not smart but it's because they have evolved so fast. Technically, Windows is far reacher OS than Linux any single day. I view Linux is stuck on Unix base and deprived of many modernizations that goes under the hood of Windows and Macs. Is it because most of these guys are from really old generation. Every now and then some geek of 80s comes around, builds a process loader and sends out news about new OS and others rejoices. Pathetic.
Grouper is doing nothing new. You can download http://groove.net/ and start using automatically Magic folders automatically. Many people (usually on company instranet) finds this kind of folder sync extremly useful. But whats more important is data sync - which means your data like caleder info, bookmarks, notes etc gets sync. That has way too much potential. For example any app can use this automatically replicated sistributed database rather then relieng on central database server. Thats way beyond usual file sharing. Eventually everything is data and every storage system is somekind of database - so you can see where this is going. If you stretch your imagination little more further, this kind of data P2P effectively allows you to build your own distributed browsable website as "shared space". So your machine becomes a "server" distributing not just files and HTMLs but also event calenders, tiny notes, receipie book and so on. And the content on your machine (which has now becaome "server") is replicated across many mores to distribute the load. A current webserver as we undrstand is just the special case of access-to-everyone non-replicated content distributer. A machine participating in data P2P is far more general case and can be easily customized to emulate "web server". I've worked on heavy duty project implementing data P2P for two years and am pretyy convienced this is the next big thing on the horizon. Microsoft is already developing Windows P2P layer http://microsoft.com/p2p/ and would be available on Longhorn. Think outside the file P2P - there is whole new world! PS: I'll be bloging more about this topic on my blog http://www.shitalshah.com/blog/. Stay tuned.
There is way to stop phising or atleast make it less effective... http://www.shitalshah.com/blog/PermaLink.aspx?guid =cb8a822e-ccad-4c89-a2c3-dea116d6f1f9