I had been programming for around ten years and was looking for a new challenge, I initially did the logical thing and became a team leader, and like a lot of the posters here I found that you get battered by the management above and the programmers below, it can be really rewarding but it's really hard work and I didn't want to spend my career doing that job. I looked at technical lead and at project management but they didn't feel quite right.
Then by chance I was ask to lead a large tender (my boss was off at the time and no-one else had the skill set). I had to come up with a solution for the prospective customer that not only fitted the requirements but was better than the competitions and write the technical sales documentation and lead the presentations. It was a terrifying couple of weeks. But also an amazing adrenalin rush and from that I ended up becoming a business analyst. I don't programme any more but I get to design the U.I. and all the functional requirements of the software so that satisfies my creative side, and even more strangely the sales side is really great, becuase like a lot of the posters here, you really do know what you are talking about right down to the nuts and bolts of the product. (I'll always have a director with me to handle the commercial side, my job is to get the customers tech boys onside).
I would have never of thought of it as a career move until I got thrown in the deep end, but I get the same satisfaction with work as I did when I was a programmer and I enjoy my role, which is pretty much what you want out of life.
"the speech is full of really interesting comments"
Wow, That speech is just out there, really absorbing reading. Inside the mind of an Evangelist....its a frightening place.
You read the article, then read the retraction and you realise his retraction and apology from a personal point of view would mean nothing to him, absolutely nothing at all. It would just be the best strategy to initially limit the damage and then work out the next move.
Favourite Question is on page 26
Different Speaker: I go back to my former question. How do you sleep at night ?
Criminals use the train/Bus network for their nefarious activities and have done for years.
The government have been building this database for several years now. Its illegal to own a car and not have it taxed even if its off the road. (it is free if you declare it off road). They now have a pretty much complete database of every vehicle in the UK. the owners details and insurance, tax status and the ability to read from the number plates.
Which is complete overkill to catch a few tax dodgers.
So donning my tin-foil hat...
This is actually about road-tolls. I think the government realised some time back that GPS tracking would never work. however set these bad boys up and down the major roads of Great Britain and you've instantly got a shiny new tax revenue system. I truly hope I'm wrong on this but I can't any other reason why the government would have spent what must have been a huge amount of cash to get this system to work.
I'm sure I'm about to be proved wrong on this but....
The strings just look to be a part of a search function for various LAME versions on the users computer, and both programmes contain an array with the highly original title of "largetbl". "Large Table" for those non programmers amongst us. I'd like to see a bit more evidence before I cry foul.
What I find interesting. Why the Sony Rootkit is looking for LAME in the first place? Does it alter or break LAME in in some way if LAME is found ??
Whilst I've seen plenty of bully type managers, but about three or four jobs ago, I had what I can only consider as a psychopath as a boss. (he scored 14 in the article test btw).
He was quite unlike any manager I've worked with both before and after that job. He was always cool, calm and detached and he never once shouted or even as I recall raised his voice.
But he was also remorseless, a pathological liar and a black hole as far finding out any information about what plans the company had.
But one of his main defects and one the quiz didn't mention was his lack of foresight, he would make a dumb decision and then six months further down the line, have to spend lots of time arse covering and generally firing people to keep everything under wraps. It was as if he had no concept of the consequences of his actions.
He did a reasonable job of hiding everything as well. It was only after I left the company and kept in contact with a few of the people who had been fired that we pieced all the bits of the jigsaw together and worked out what was going on.
Out of all the managers I've worked with he's the one who would have me running for the hills if I met him in an interview again.
On a side note, I previously associated this kind of behavior with my fellow Americans. We're a stupid, raucous bunch. I'm glad to open my arms to the UK, I welcome you to our stupid bosom. May you whittle your gene pool alongside us.
"Well, since US television tends not to make it to Britain for a long time after it airs here, it makes a bit of sense".
Absolutely, as I found in the seventh season of Buffy, you have the choice of not connecting to the internet for a few months to avoid the spoilers or you can just download the episodes when they are aired in the U.S. and keep up with what's going on.
As for the piracy aspect I think to a certain extent where programmes have a cult following the producers know that if your a fan, your going to buy the DVD's as soon as they come out anyway, I know I did but how true that holds for other programmes I'm not sure.
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I had been programming for around ten years and was looking for a new challenge, I initially did the logical thing and became a team leader, and like a lot of the posters here I found that you get battered by the management above and the programmers below, it can be really rewarding but it's really hard work and I didn't want to spend my career doing that job. I looked at technical lead and at project management but they didn't feel quite right.
Then by chance I was ask to lead a large tender (my boss was off at the time and no-one else had the skill set). I had to come up with a solution for the prospective customer that not only fitted the requirements but was better than the competitions and write the technical sales documentation and lead the presentations. It was a terrifying couple of weeks. But also an amazing adrenalin rush and from that I ended up becoming a business analyst. I don't programme any more but I get to design the U.I. and all the functional requirements of the software so that satisfies my creative side, and even more strangely the sales side is really great, becuase like a lot of the posters here, you really do know what you are talking about right down to the nuts and bolts of the product. (I'll always have a director with me to handle the commercial side, my job is to get the customers tech boys onside).
I would have never of thought of it as a career move until I got thrown in the deep end, but I get the same satisfaction with work as I did when I was a programmer and I enjoy my role, which is pretty much what you want out of life.
"the speech is full of really interesting comments"
Wow, That speech is just out there, really absorbing reading. Inside the mind of an Evangelist....its a frightening place.
You read the article, then read the retraction and you realise his retraction and apology from a personal point of view would mean nothing to him, absolutely nothing at all. It would just be the best strategy to initially limit the damage and then work out the next move.
Favourite Question is on page 26
Different Speaker: I go back to my former question. How do you sleep at night ?
Criminals use the train/Bus network for their nefarious activities and have done for years.
The government have been building this database for several years now. Its illegal to own a car and not have it taxed even if its off the road. (it is free if you declare it off road). They now have a pretty much complete database of every vehicle in the UK. the owners details and insurance, tax status and the ability to read from the number plates.
Which is complete overkill to catch a few tax dodgers.
So donning my tin-foil hat...
This is actually about road-tolls. I think the government realised some time back that GPS tracking would never work. however set these bad boys up and down the major roads of Great Britain and you've instantly got a shiny new tax revenue system. I truly hope I'm wrong on this but I can't any other reason why the government would have spent what must have been a huge amount of cash to get this system to work.
I'm sure I'm about to be proved wrong on this but....
The strings just look to be a part of a search function for various LAME versions on the users computer,
and both programmes contain an array with the highly original title of "largetbl".
"Large Table" for those non programmers amongst us.
I'd like to see a bit more evidence before I cry foul.
What I find interesting. Why the Sony Rootkit is looking for LAME in the first place?
Does it alter or break LAME in in some way if LAME is found ??
Whilst I've seen plenty of bully type managers, but about three or four jobs ago, I had what I can only consider as a psychopath as a boss.
(he scored 14 in the article test btw).
He was quite unlike any manager I've worked with both before and after that job.
He was always cool, calm and detached and he never once shouted or even as I recall raised his voice.
But he was also remorseless, a pathological liar and a black hole as far finding out any information about what plans the company had.
But one of his main defects and one the quiz didn't mention was his lack of foresight, he would make a dumb decision and then six months further down the line, have to spend lots of time arse covering and generally firing people to keep everything under wraps. It was as if he had no concept of the consequences of his actions.
He did a reasonable job of hiding everything as well. It was only after I left the company and kept in contact with a few of the people who had been fired that we pieced all the bits of the jigsaw together and worked out what was going on.
Out of all the managers I've worked with he's the one who would have me running for the hills if I met him in an interview again.
1) Find details of the trucks route and the dates that Google will be mapping San Francisco.
2) Download pictures of the FBIs 50 most wanted and photoshop bodies on to them.
3) Get the local print shop to create life size cardboard cutouts.
4) Place cuts outs strategically around San Francisco. I like the thought of Osma coming out of McDonalds with a bigmac.
You guys (and girls) set the standard and us Brits can only hope to keep up. However I'm sure our next generation will raise the bar still further. 3 Daughters aged 12 14 16 all pregant. mother blames school
We're doomed aren't we ?
Absolutely, as I found in the seventh season of Buffy, you have the choice of not connecting to the internet for a few months to avoid the spoilers or you can just download the episodes when they are aired in the U.S. and keep up with what's going on. As for the piracy aspect I think to a certain extent where programmes have a cult following the producers know that if your a fan, your going to buy the DVD's as soon as they come out anyway, I know I did but how true that holds for other programmes I'm not sure.