work with your neighbors. Find out who has these devices, have everyone lower their power, and configure the same security. Then use roaming (ipv6 does roaming better than ipv4) for your needs, no matter where you are.
And get everyone to drop their power, so long as every part of the apartment is covered what do you care which network you reach.
As for the phones: unless you can knock them off there isn't much to do. Suggest to everyone who has on that a cell phone is easier to use, and perhaps you can solve the problem the easy way.
That you are Canadian proves that outsourcing works. Canada (though you grew more or less with the US) was once a place for rich nations to outsource expensive things, but as your economy grew it no longer is. Now Canada is about equal to those who were once outsourcing there, and everyone benifits. Suddenly we have more middle class people all around.
Unfortunately it takes time to get there, and there are a lot of people in India to bring up. (not to mention Russia, China, and all those countries in Africa...) I hope for their sakes that they make it before robots (which once set require no supervision) become even cheaper than they are.
Where was NAFTA promised as an instant solution? NAFTA is working very well, but those who have even a little understanding know that it is a long term thing. 10 years ago factories move to Mexico, but it takes years for Mexico to move up. Wait 30 years, and then look at the difference. Quit thinking so short term, we have to survive hard times to get to better times.
I've worked with file transfer protocols that didn't use backoff. However they required someone configure the maximum bandwidth they could use, and assumed a leased line. Sure you were running over IP, but you had dedicated bandwidth.
In the case of high latency links (think geosynchronous satelites) the standard TCP implimentations do not have a big enough window to saterate a link. If you bought a link with guaranteed bandwidth with an application in mind that needed that much, you need to write your won protocol. Sure you could modify TCP, but that means you need to check if you are on the dedicated line, or the standard network.
Running such a protocol on the internet is impolite and a bad idea. Running it on lines you own is a much different matter.
Well, I've seen it reveresed engineered, so you should be able to do that too. Really easy, Wine runs it just fine, and gives you some powerful debuggers and logging tools to help. (Make sure this machine is firewalled off though so you don't contribute to the DOS attacks in progress)
I'm not going into farther detail because if I did tell you how (which I can't because I've forgotten the details, but we figured them out so you can too) and you were a script kiddie it would be trivial to write whatever program you want and cause more trouble. An honest hacker would have no problem getting the details, so I can safely assume that you wouldn't write this anyway so you don't need to know. (Either you are too lazy to do it, or you don't know how)
As I don't have a system that can boot from USB I have to work with what I know. I know that if linux doesn't work I can make it work.
Linux does not treat USB as a SCSI disk, usb is a SCSI disk. The USB (and 1394) people made the decision to not create a new protocol, instead they reused the scsi command set. So a USB disk is SCSI. (In a previous job I was working with USB cddrom drives, so I know how USB works in general)
Your right though, if it already works I guess I'll have to find a different way to get a job. No big surprize, I didn't expect to find a job based on that post anyway.
Your looking at it all wrong. The things you don't like are not a product of public companies, but a product of big companies. There are a lot of little companies that are both public and innovative, but because they are small you haven't heard of them. Some will never be big, others will become big, some will be bought out by bigger companies, and some will go bankrupt, but it has nothing to do with being public.
If you own a company, you can only sell your entire part. A public company divides your share up so that you can (or not at your choice) sell just a part of it. If you want some extra money and all you have is a company this is a good way to get it.
Likewise if you own part of a company, you might discover that too many of your eggs are in one basket. Since you never know when someone is going to patent a better and cheaper mousetrap that drives you out of business a smart person would sell a part of his company and invest in something else just in case.
Last, if you have a good idea for your company, but don't have the money to get there, you can sell part of the company to get that money. (Normally you sell to a venture capitalist who waits for your idea to make money and then goes public with his shares)
Several big companies (UPS) have went public in years past because of phony stock that they were selling in their retirement plan, managing all the paperwork was as much work as being public, so why not go public with those shares and let investers deal with some of it.
If you have a lot of partners it is often easier to just be public. Indeed laws may require you to go public just because of the number of partners you have. (Goggle is in this position)
This is mostly a state matter, and varies from state to state. Most states have laws that do not allow this type of agreement, but not all
Courts generally will not uphold any agreement that something is owned that the company did not pay for. However courts [in some states] may agree your contribution to some project is company property if the company pays you extra for it, even if you didn't intend it that way. You might not like the payment though. Its been challanges in courts a few times, and it comes down to state laws, so depending on where you live you might or might not win.
Generally it comes down to don't do something that will compete with your company (ie don't write for CVS if you work for a version control company), and the company does not own your time. This is mostly fair, but only after the lawyers fight it out.
Depends on the boss. I know some who would be impressed that you considered this issue, and look on you better because of it. Others as you say just want less hassle and will make it hard for you.
Fortunaly in your favor is agreements such as the above rarely stick up in court and in some states (not just CA) they are flat illegal.
Fair use in the US is also a matter of common law. A Common law system that in fact has the same roots as your common law: English common law. Some of it has since been since put into law, and some has been changed by law, but where there is no law in place the US runs on common law.
One exception: Louisiana runs under a completely differ system that has roots in France. (Napoleonic code) Judges who cover that area need to know that system, which often means knowing both in some cases involving both state and federal law.
5 people doing status for 2 hours!? You need one of my old bosses. He would always time meetings, and make it clear that fast was good. Best IIRC was 8 people in 18 minutes, counting the 5 minutes spent waiting for the boss. We rarely went over 25 minutes, though we had a full hour in case we needed it. I was re-orged out of that department rather quickly though.
I had a better solution several jobs ago: everyone had a laptop with wifi. When a meeting drifted into useless to you, you just started working with an ear to the meeting. If it ever became useful to you again, you went back to meeting mode again. Sometimes a meeting really does need to spend 10 minutes of two people dealing with one issue before it can get back on track.
Farmers carry insurance for that protection. Seems like a better idea to me, we grow far more crops than we need, so let insurance cover the small amount that are destroyed, and leave the weather alone.
Remember when car were going to save the cities from pollution? Of course not, because that was about 100 years ago, but back about 1900 cars were welcomed in many cities because they didn't leave droppings all over the streets. Of course today we know about the droppings they leave all over the air... I don't know which is worse. (Yes I know that not everyone welcomed cars, but many did)
In appearance yes. Of course Windows is playing catch up with Mac by appearance.
KDE has many features that windows just doesn't have, or has but doesn't get right. (I don't use GNOME, but I assume it is in a similar situation)
Just in the main browser interface, IE doesn't have pop up blocking, nor is their spell check of web forms. Virtual desktops are still not shiped with windows (despite being a feature of X11 window mangers since I first saw it back in 1993...), and handy to have. Nor is my favorite: focus follows mouse available. Sure you might not like some of them, but they handy to others, and features windows still doesn't have, in some cases more than 10 years after X11 had it.
KDE/GNOME is playing catch up in some areas true, but in other areas they have gone far beyond windows, and windows isn't even trying to catch up as far as I can tell.
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In addition to what the others reminded you of...
The Navy has the ability to jump to the surface anytime their air supply system fails. Well not anytime, they can't when under ice, but most of the time anyway.
The Navy operates in water, which is heavy. They need heavy vessels to sink below the water line. Nasa operates in space where there is nothing to float on, but you need to operate against gravity to get there. I could design a sub and have it work, I couldn't design a spacecraft without a lot more education. My sub would just have walls much thicker than needed, and thus a lot less capacity than a navy sub, you wouldn't want to be on it, but it would work. Spacecraft won't get off the ground if they are too heavy, and that is an engineering restriction that cannot be designed around by overkill.
Mind I'm not stupid enough to be on a sub I design with my current knowledge, but I'm pretty sure it would work.
Are you sure you are a single user system? I'm a bachelor living alone, so I'm about as close to a single user as you can get. I have an account on my machine for my sister for when she baby-sits the cat. I also have a guest account for the few visitors I get so they can log in (no remote login) without a password and play a few games/browse the web.
Back in the windows 3.1 days my other sister (about 3 at the time) destroyed just by playing around enough things that we had to reinstall DOS and Windows. That won't be a problem on my machine, kids can play around all they want without breaking anything.
Sure you can reinstall, but do you want to take that time? I have better things to do with my time.
Well, assuming they don't find a root security hole, but they are hard enough to trigger that I dont worry about it.
Yeah, but check around and you will discover the typically windows user is running as administrator, while the typical Linux user does not. Sure you don't have to, but linux is easy to run as a normal user. (Many programs in fact reccomend that you not run as root) Windows doesn't make it easy to run without administrator rights. This isn't necessarily Microsoft's fault, NT has always had the ability for non-administrator users, but many programs do not run correctly without it.
Yeah, but most windows users run as administrator. Except at large offices where IS locks your machine down, and even them users tend to complain. Laptop users apparently cannot function without administrator rights. (or at least my boss told me I had to get administrator from IS when I got a laptop, but that was years ago, and I wasn't there long).
With sudo in linux you can at least make sure the few things a user might want root for are contained. (generally network configuration. and you just prevented them from installing applications perhaps illegally on a work machine by getitng it right)
Unix users in general do not use or need root on a day to day basis, and are used to IS installing applications centrally (on a fileserver). Windows users often get applications installed locally. It doesn't have to be that way, but it normally is.
Are you sure about that high definition part? I've been told that most porn companies aren't going to HD if they can help it. Apparently fuzzy displays help many models look good, and you wouldn't want to meet them in real life.
My source was the author of this piece, but the article gives a different impression from talking to him in person. Make what you will of it.
IANAL of course, but my understanding is translations are not copyrightable in general, as they are considered the same as the original work. However translations of poetry are considered copyrightable. (Think about it a poem that scans and rhymes is hard to translate while maintaining those features)
Maybe, but my Atari400 with that membrane keyboard finaly has one good point: it doesn't click. (of course I had to void my warrintee by disconnecting the speaker to get it to stop clicking, but now there is now noise. I suppose the 90 days for a computer manufactured in 1981 is long gone though)
Now I just need to hook it up to the web... Doable, but many web pages are more bigger than my ram.
My comment still stands, because when windows takes over it will installs its own USB drivers. unless you are going to try to convince me that in this day and age windows XP uses BIOS to address diskdrives? I don't think so, windows 95 maybe, but XP has moved byond such backward ways of working. So if the drivers are not coded right, it gets to the point in the boot process where it starts loading USB drivers, and things fail because the disk has not been reset, or there are two filesystems trying to work on it or whatever. Do not compare DOS, which uses the BIOS for disk access with a modern OS which bypasses that old way of doing things.
Linux is open source, I can make it work if the closed source hardware will do its part. I don't have to know how everything works yet, because the first part of making it work is finding out how it is supposed to work.
Your forgot one: the patches are so buggy that not even Microsoft would release them. (okay, Microsoft has gotten a lot better in the last 10 years, so this can just mean bugs that most users would consider minor)
Sigh, I did in fact. I have no clue what those words above mean, or what language they are in (I though I was set to only English) but somehow they passed the spell checker.
Proof that while spell checkers help, they do not solve the whole problem. That was half the point of my its/it's comment. Be thankful for the 3 mistakes corrected in this post.
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work with your neighbors. Find out who has these devices, have everyone lower their power, and configure the same security. Then use roaming (ipv6 does roaming better than ipv4) for your needs, no matter where you are.
And get everyone to drop their power, so long as every part of the apartment is covered what do you care which network you reach.
As for the phones: unless you can knock them off there isn't much to do. Suggest to everyone who has on that a cell phone is easier to use, and perhaps you can solve the problem the easy way.
That you are Canadian proves that outsourcing works. Canada (though you grew more or less with the US) was once a place for rich nations to outsource expensive things, but as your economy grew it no longer is. Now Canada is about equal to those who were once outsourcing there, and everyone benifits. Suddenly we have more middle class people all around.
Unfortunately it takes time to get there, and there are a lot of people in India to bring up. (not to mention Russia, China, and all those countries in Africa...) I hope for their sakes that they make it before robots (which once set require no supervision) become even cheaper than they are.
Where was NAFTA promised as an instant solution? NAFTA is working very well, but those who have even a little understanding know that it is a long term thing. 10 years ago factories move to Mexico, but it takes years for Mexico to move up. Wait 30 years, and then look at the difference. Quit thinking so short term, we have to survive hard times to get to better times.
I've worked with file transfer protocols that didn't use backoff. However they required someone configure the maximum bandwidth they could use, and assumed a leased line. Sure you were running over IP, but you had dedicated bandwidth.
In the case of high latency links (think geosynchronous satelites) the standard TCP implimentations do not have a big enough window to saterate a link. If you bought a link with guaranteed bandwidth with an application in mind that needed that much, you need to write your won protocol. Sure you could modify TCP, but that means you need to check if you are on the dedicated line, or the standard network.
Running such a protocol on the internet is impolite and a bad idea. Running it on lines you own is a much different matter.
Well, I've seen it reveresed engineered, so you should be able to do that too. Really easy, Wine runs it just fine, and gives you some powerful debuggers and logging tools to help. (Make sure this machine is firewalled off though so you don't contribute to the DOS attacks in progress)
I'm not going into farther detail because if I did tell you how (which I can't because I've forgotten the details, but we figured them out so you can too) and you were a script kiddie it would be trivial to write whatever program you want and cause more trouble. An honest hacker would have no problem getting the details, so I can safely assume that you wouldn't write this anyway so you don't need to know. (Either you are too lazy to do it, or you don't know how)
As I don't have a system that can boot from USB I have to work with what I know. I know that if linux doesn't work I can make it work.
Linux does not treat USB as a SCSI disk, usb is a SCSI disk. The USB (and 1394) people made the decision to not create a new protocol, instead they reused the scsi command set. So a USB disk is SCSI. (In a previous job I was working with USB cddrom drives, so I know how USB works in general)
Your right though, if it already works I guess I'll have to find a different way to get a job. No big surprize, I didn't expect to find a job based on that post anyway.
Your looking at it all wrong. The things you don't like are not a product of public companies, but a product of big companies. There are a lot of little companies that are both public and innovative, but because they are small you haven't heard of them. Some will never be big, others will become big, some will be bought out by bigger companies, and some will go bankrupt, but it has nothing to do with being public.
If you own a company, you can only sell your entire part. A public company divides your share up so that you can (or not at your choice) sell just a part of it. If you want some extra money and all you have is a company this is a good way to get it.
Likewise if you own part of a company, you might discover that too many of your eggs are in one basket. Since you never know when someone is going to patent a better and cheaper mousetrap that drives you out of business a smart person would sell a part of his company and invest in something else just in case.
Last, if you have a good idea for your company, but don't have the money to get there, you can sell part of the company to get that money. (Normally you sell to a venture capitalist who waits for your idea to make money and then goes public with his shares)
Several big companies (UPS) have went public in years past because of phony stock that they were selling in their retirement plan, managing all the paperwork was as much work as being public, so why not go public with those shares and let investers deal with some of it.
If you have a lot of partners it is often easier to just be public. Indeed laws may require you to go public just because of the number of partners you have. (Goggle is in this position)
This is mostly a state matter, and varies from state to state. Most states have laws that do not allow this type of agreement, but not all
Courts generally will not uphold any agreement that something is owned that the company did not pay for. However courts [in some states] may agree your contribution to some project is company property if the company pays you extra for it, even if you didn't intend it that way. You might not like the payment though. Its been challanges in courts a few times, and it comes down to state laws, so depending on where you live you might or might not win.
Generally it comes down to don't do something that will compete with your company (ie don't write for CVS if you work for a version control company), and the company does not own your time. This is mostly fair, but only after the lawyers fight it out.
Depends on the boss. I know some who would be impressed that you considered this issue, and look on you better because of it. Others as you say just want less hassle and will make it hard for you.
Fortunaly in your favor is agreements such as the above rarely stick up in court and in some states (not just CA) they are flat illegal.
Fair use in the US is also a matter of common law. A Common law system that in fact has the same roots as your common law: English common law. Some of it has since been since put into law, and some has been changed by law, but where there is no law in place the US runs on common law.
One exception: Louisiana runs under a completely differ system that has roots in France. (Napoleonic code) Judges who cover that area need to know that system, which often means knowing both in some cases involving both state and federal law.
5 people doing status for 2 hours!? You need one of my old bosses. He would always time meetings, and make it clear that fast was good. Best IIRC was 8 people in 18 minutes, counting the 5 minutes spent waiting for the boss. We rarely went over 25 minutes, though we had a full hour in case we needed it. I was re-orged out of that department rather quickly though.
Since when are meetings held in rooms with windows?
I had a better solution several jobs ago: everyone had a laptop with wifi. When a meeting drifted into useless to you, you just started working with an ear to the meeting. If it ever became useful to you again, you went back to meeting mode again. Sometimes a meeting really does need to spend 10 minutes of two people dealing with one issue before it can get back on track.
Farmers carry insurance for that protection. Seems like a better idea to me, we grow far more crops than we need, so let insurance cover the small amount that are destroyed, and leave the weather alone.
Remember when car were going to save the cities from pollution? Of course not, because that was about 100 years ago, but back about 1900 cars were welcomed in many cities because they didn't leave droppings all over the streets. Of course today we know about the droppings they leave all over the air... I don't know which is worse. (Yes I know that not everyone welcomed cars, but many did)
In appearance yes. Of course Windows is playing catch up with Mac by appearance.
KDE has many features that windows just doesn't have, or has but doesn't get right. (I don't use GNOME, but I assume it is in a similar situation)
Just in the main browser interface, IE doesn't have pop up blocking, nor is their spell check of web forms. Virtual desktops are still not shiped with windows (despite being a feature of X11 window mangers since I first saw it back in 1993...), and handy to have. Nor is my favorite: focus follows mouse available. Sure you might not like some of them, but they handy to others, and features windows still doesn't have, in some cases more than 10 years after X11 had it.
KDE/GNOME is playing catch up in some areas true, but in other areas they have gone far beyond windows, and windows isn't even trying to catch up as far as I can tell.
In addition to what the others reminded you of...
The Navy has the ability to jump to the surface anytime their air supply system fails. Well not anytime, they can't when under ice, but most of the time anyway.
The Navy operates in water, which is heavy. They need heavy vessels to sink below the water line. Nasa operates in space where there is nothing to float on, but you need to operate against gravity to get there. I could design a sub and have it work, I couldn't design a spacecraft without a lot more education. My sub would just have walls much thicker than needed, and thus a lot less capacity than a navy sub, you wouldn't want to be on it, but it would work. Spacecraft won't get off the ground if they are too heavy, and that is an engineering restriction that cannot be designed around by overkill.
Mind I'm not stupid enough to be on a sub I design with my current knowledge, but I'm pretty sure it would work.
Are you sure you are a single user system? I'm a bachelor living alone, so I'm about as close to a single user as you can get. I have an account on my machine for my sister for when she baby-sits the cat. I also have a guest account for the few visitors I get so they can log in (no remote login) without a password and play a few games/browse the web.
Back in the windows 3.1 days my other sister (about 3 at the time) destroyed just by playing around enough things that we had to reinstall DOS and Windows. That won't be a problem on my machine, kids can play around all they want without breaking anything.
Sure you can reinstall, but do you want to take that time? I have better things to do with my time.
Well, assuming they don't find a root security hole, but they are hard enough to trigger that I dont worry about it.
Yeah, but check around and you will discover the typically windows user is running as administrator, while the typical Linux user does not. Sure you don't have to, but linux is easy to run as a normal user. (Many programs in fact reccomend that you not run as root) Windows doesn't make it easy to run without administrator rights. This isn't necessarily Microsoft's fault, NT has always had the ability for non-administrator users, but many programs do not run correctly without it.
Yeah, but most windows users run as administrator. Except at large offices where IS locks your machine down, and even them users tend to complain. Laptop users apparently cannot function without administrator rights. (or at least my boss told me I had to get administrator from IS when I got a laptop, but that was years ago, and I wasn't there long).
With sudo in linux you can at least make sure the few things a user might want root for are contained. (generally network configuration. and you just prevented them from installing applications perhaps illegally on a work machine by getitng it right)
Unix users in general do not use or need root on a day to day basis, and are used to IS installing applications centrally (on a fileserver). Windows users often get applications installed locally. It doesn't have to be that way, but it normally is.
Are you sure about that high definition part? I've been told that most porn companies aren't going to HD if they can help it. Apparently fuzzy displays help many models look good, and you wouldn't want to meet them in real life.
My source was the author of this piece, but the article gives a different impression from talking to him in person. Make what you will of it.
IANAL of course, but my understanding is translations are not copyrightable in general, as they are considered the same as the original work. However translations of poetry are considered copyrightable. (Think about it a poem that scans and rhymes is hard to translate while maintaining those features)
Maybe, but my Atari400 with that membrane keyboard finaly has one good point: it doesn't click. (of course I had to void my warrintee by disconnecting the speaker to get it to stop clicking, but now there is now noise. I suppose the 90 days for a computer manufactured in 1981 is long gone though)
Now I just need to hook it up to the web... Doable, but many web pages are more bigger than my ram.
My comment still stands, because when windows takes over it will installs its own USB drivers. unless you are going to try to convince me that in this day and age windows XP uses BIOS to address diskdrives? I don't think so, windows 95 maybe, but XP has moved byond such backward ways of working. So if the drivers are not coded right, it gets to the point in the boot process where it starts loading USB drivers, and things fail because the disk has not been reset, or there are two filesystems trying to work on it or whatever. Do not compare DOS, which uses the BIOS for disk access with a modern OS which bypasses that old way of doing things.
Linux is open source, I can make it work if the closed source hardware will do its part. I don't have to know how everything works yet, because the first part of making it work is finding out how it is supposed to work.
Your forgot one: the patches are so buggy that not even Microsoft would release them. (okay, Microsoft has gotten a lot better in the last 10 years, so this can just mean bugs that most users would consider minor)
Sigh, I did in fact. I have no clue what those words above mean, or what language they are in (I though I was set to only English) but somehow they passed the spell checker.
Proof that while spell checkers help, they do not solve the whole problem. That was half the point of my its/it's comment. Be thankful for the 3 mistakes corrected in this post.