"By Monday morning, a preliminary version of Desktop Manager was ready for review by Atkinson's boss, Wayne Rosing, who was thrilled with the change."
Wayne Rosing went on to a distinguished career at Sun, eventually heading the Sun Labs research division before taking the helm at FirstPerson, the semi-spinoff meant to commercialize Java. Wayne retired for a few years before being called by his friend Eric Schmidt to become a VP at Google, where he remains today. Hell of a career.
I think Owen Densmore was also an alum of the Lisa project. He left Apple and moved to Sun where he created the object-oriented postscript system that was used to program NeWS, the Network Extensible Window System. I think the acronym might have been captialized in a funny way so it could be trademarked.
What ties all this together? Both NeWS and Java were invented by James Gosling who is still at Sun, and is probably still doing cool stuff.
Check out health savings accounts (www.hsainsider.com) for your healthcare needs. That may be a good option if you are making your own health insurance decisions.
Contracting can be great, as long as you know what to expect. I was a long-time employee at Sun when I left for a startup. The startup didn't work out for me so I went back Sun as a contractor. Even though I had been at Sun for something like 6 or 7 years, when I came back as a contractor I was the lowest of the low. I could not go to employee meetings, I did not participate in any of the extra cirrucular activities, I did not get any little tschotkies (SP?) at the end of a project. As long as that doesn't bug you, contracting is a good way to go.
XM Radio Online, will launch sometime in early October and operate commercial-free, just as its satellite programming does.
Am I missing something or is the "commercial free" line complete BS? I rented an Avis car a few weeks ago that had XM satellite radio in it. It seemed like it was as bad as AM radio! I listened to the two comedy selections they had, raunchy and nice, and both were filled with ads. Many of the ads were for XM sattelite service itself, but there were other ads for the same kind of crap you would find on any station. The same was true for their political stations, both left-leaning and right-wing. The brichure int he car made the same claim, that the satellite service was "commercial free". Far from it.
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God, will you geeks please learn how to spell "imminent"!
Wayne Rosing went on to a distinguished career at Sun, eventually heading the Sun Labs research division before taking the helm at FirstPerson, the semi-spinoff meant to commercialize Java. Wayne retired for a few years before being called by his friend Eric Schmidt to become a VP at Google, where he remains today. Hell of a career.
I think Owen Densmore was also an alum of the Lisa project. He left Apple and moved to Sun where he created the object-oriented postscript system that was used to program NeWS, the Network Extensible Window System. I think the acronym might have been captialized in a funny way so it could be trademarked.
What ties all this together? Both NeWS and Java were invented by James Gosling who is still at Sun, and is probably still doing cool stuff.
Check out health savings accounts (www.hsainsider.com) for your healthcare needs. That may be a good option if you are making your own health insurance decisions.
Contracting can be great, as long as you know what to expect. I was a long-time employee at Sun when I left for a startup. The startup didn't work out for me so I went back Sun as a contractor. Even though I had been at Sun for something like 6 or 7 years, when I came back as a contractor I was the lowest of the low. I could not go to employee meetings, I did not participate in any of the extra cirrucular activities, I did not get any little tschotkies (SP?) at the end of a project. As long as that doesn't bug you, contracting is a good way to go.
Am I missing something or is the "commercial free" line complete BS? I rented an Avis car a few weeks ago that had XM satellite radio in it. It seemed like it was as bad as AM radio! I listened to the two comedy selections they had, raunchy and nice, and both were filled with ads. Many of the ads were for XM sattelite service itself, but there were other ads for the same kind of crap you would find on any station. The same was true for their political stations, both left-leaning and right-wing. The brichure int he car made the same claim, that the satellite service was "commercial free". Far from it.