I couldn't care less about the brightly colored logos as long as they're transparent (watermark style) or small enough.
What does annoy me is the increasing amount of 'informative' bars at the bottom of the screen, occupying as much as 1/3rd of the entire screen. CNN has been a prime example, with two, three, four and more layers of scrolling info banner mania, using mattes all over the places just so that the wavey background can hold a 'mercan flag blowing in the wind. Or waterfall of unintelligible colors, pictures etc.
(Funny enough, CNN International is considerably less fatty compared with the domestic CNN feed).
With this amount of clutter & redundancy, I might just as well listen to radio as the visual content disappears in peautiful visual spam.
Whatever happened to the classy screen designs? On screen "art" should support the information and not become a self-purpose.
If distracting from the actual information was the goal, mission accomplished, going boldly where local news has gone before.
One of the primary drivers behind VoiceXML or VoXML was vmail and unified messaging systems.
*sigh*
hmm, a few random thoughts..
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Coder or Architect?
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· Score: 5, Interesting
Be prepared to spend a lot more time researching
and reading and talking about strategic decisions.
Being an architect means that while you need to
make tactical decisions on an on-going
basis, you do need to spend a considerable amount
of time to look at the long term aspects of
projects and worry about how things will come together, where you want to end up etc.
You can also expect to be less and less hands-on.
And that's where perhaps the biggest challenge
lies: You need to keep up and be sharp on not
just today's stuff, but just as much the many
tomorrows and potentials and try to make decision
today that set the right direction.
It can be a quite daunting task depending on how
quickly your area is evolving. How do you stay
up on the details, while not getting lost in
them, and know enough to make (or prepare) key
strategic decisions without having the same
hands-on exposure as you have when in the
trenches.
So, expect to spend a third if not two thirds of
your time on strategic work, reading, talking to
people, brainstorming, participating in industry
forums, whatever is suitable for your specific
niche (and even that's not a proper term for
architects as you really need to look and think
outside the box).
Simply leading others doesn't make you an
architect. Architects are visionaries for the
company, and in addition to technical and
political prowess, you should also posses a good
bit of entrepreneurial spirit. Those are key
ingredients to making sound architectural
decisions.
Because you'll have less hands-on, you'll also
need to become quite skilled in dealing with the
people who are in the trenches. You need to
develop a network of people, develop people skills
to work with others to glean experience and
knowledge without neccessarily directly working
with products. Yet, unlike your general (bit
perhaps some technical) manager, you need to be
able to have the skills, people and technical, to
interact with others and sort out fact from
fiction.
Architects need to have a sound understanding of
the business itself. Many decisions you make as
an architect are in liason roles: You serve as
the joint between the technical guys in the
trenches and management on the other side. You
need to communicate well with either. The
techies will want you to make sound decisions to
not make their life any more hell than it
already is, and the manglers will want sound
business decisions (which includes politics,
finance, technical etc etc).
Don't be afraid, just do it:^).. we all learn
every day as we go.
True architects do not really have managerial
responsibilities if they are supposed to have
time to do all the other things they have to do
to explore all the 10 choices of which you're
going to chose one, and of which 9 are a waste
of time at the end.
Getting management to understand that a lot of
an architects tasks (time wise) don't neccessarily
yield results is crucial.
And ditto for the techies who'll wonder why you're
wandering off chasing a tangent you find
important but that is beyond their tactical
horizon.
It doesn't prevent spam at all -- if
anything, it's an inconvenience. To spam on Verizon's servers, all the one has to do is
forge an @verizon.com email address.
Have you actually tried that or have other knowledge of it being used as the only spam control "feature"? It does help make things a bit more cumbersome for those trying to spam others. And that's all spam control is about, making it more difficult. There is no winning.
I never said anything about it being equal to 42.
Meanwhile, you wouldn't be able to send anything addressed as being from your gnu.org email address.
?
Really. Reply-To: doesn't work anymore? Fact remains, this was a classic frontpage/. troll. Mindspring/Earthlink.net and many many others have been doing this for years.
refusing paying customers the ability
to send mail that is returnable to the
account they choose would be very annoying.
Paying customers who are unaware of the benefits
provided by Reply-To: headers are also very annoying.
Point?
Most people don't like to use their ISP
provided email addr because if people come
to know them by that addr, [store it in their
address book, rolodex, etc], then the customer
is more locked into not switching ISP's
because they would then lose that address.
Oh, come on. Do you work in marketing? Enter the conspiracy theory. ISP prevent spam to restrict customers freedom of choice. WHAT?!
That's it! This is a capitalist exploitation of the working class!
Have you asked Mully or Scully about this? You should. Skinner is probably already on this anyway.
BellSouth requires the domain you use in the
from field to resolve to a valid domain, which
seems to be a much better solution than just
requiring you to use their domain.
Uhm. There is no one solution to spam reduction. Both are valid.
And what you described isn't the only thing BellSouth.net does to reduce spam.
I can telnet on 56k and still be able to do
PINE just fine. What really kills you is the
lag time more then the bandwidth. Type in Q
and wait.2 seconds to view it is not fun.
Spoiled brat;-).. try telnet over a 300bps acoustic coupler SLIP connection. (no, not CSLIP, SLIP) 10 yrs ago.
But then again, who knows how many/.ers actually remember what KA9Q is and how to use it.
You may want to check out Germany. As an American, all you need to prove is that you have a place to stay and somebody who will hire you when you get your papers, $100 or so and you'll get a permit for 3 yrs or so.
Or, at least it used to be that way 6 yrs ago when I last checked into this and helped somebody thru the process.
You're missing the point. He wanted software, on-the-fly reconfig to allow people to set up intercom closed user groups on-demand.
That's something not easily done with any existing intercom software. If you disagree, post a link or contact info to somebody who does offer it.
These generic "IP won't save the world" flames are pointless when the reply completely misses the point of wanting functionality for a very specific application. Functionality which doesn't exist in present off-the-shelf technology.
It's great to see/. see the light... I am a big fan of the 5.0 SMP code as well. I am surprised to see you guys move to a -CURRENT train, though. It seems to be pretty decent these days, but sets (potentially) a bad precedent perhaps.
The whole idea is to upgrade to -RELEASE trains or other -STABLE trains to get production releases. I guess we'll just have to see how things go.
Keep up the good work.
Slashdot Mirror
What does annoy me is the increasing amount of 'informative' bars at the bottom of the screen, occupying as much as 1/3rd of the entire screen. CNN has been a prime example, with two, three, four and more layers of scrolling info banner mania, using mattes all over the places just so that the wavey background can hold a 'mercan flag blowing in the wind. Or waterfall of unintelligible colors, pictures etc.
(Funny enough, CNN International is considerably less fatty compared with the domestic CNN feed).
With this amount of clutter & redundancy, I might just as well listen to radio as the visual content disappears in peautiful visual spam.
Whatever happened to the classy screen designs? On screen "art" should support the information and not become a self-purpose.
If distracting from the actual information was the goal, mission accomplished, going boldly where local news has gone before.
*sigh*
Be prepared to spend a lot more time researching
and reading and talking about strategic decisions.
Being an architect means that while you need to
make tactical decisions on an on-going
basis, you do need to spend a considerable amount
of time to look at the long term aspects of
projects and worry about how things will come
together, where you want to end up etc.
You can also expect to be less and less hands-on.
And that's where perhaps the biggest challenge
lies: You need to keep up and be sharp on not
just today's stuff, but just as much the many
tomorrows and potentials and try to make decision
today that set the right direction.
It can be a quite daunting task depending on how
quickly your area is evolving. How do you stay
up on the details, while not getting lost in
them, and know enough to make (or prepare) key
strategic decisions without having the same
hands-on exposure as you have when in the
trenches.
So, expect to spend a third if not two thirds of
your time on strategic work, reading, talking to
people, brainstorming, participating in industry
forums, whatever is suitable for your specific
niche (and even that's not a proper term for
architects as you really need to look and think
outside the box).
Simply leading others doesn't make you an
architect. Architects are visionaries for the
company, and in addition to technical and
political prowess, you should also posses a good
bit of entrepreneurial spirit. Those are key
ingredients to making sound architectural
decisions.
Because you'll have less hands-on, you'll also
need to become quite skilled in dealing with the
people who are in the trenches. You need to
develop a network of people, develop people skills
to work with others to glean experience and
knowledge without neccessarily directly working
with products. Yet, unlike your general (bit
perhaps some technical) manager, you need to be
able to have the skills, people and technical, to
interact with others and sort out fact from
fiction.
Architects need to have a sound understanding of
the business itself. Many decisions you make as
an architect are in liason roles: You serve as
the joint between the technical guys in the
trenches and management on the other side. You
need to communicate well with either. The
techies will want you to make sound decisions to
not make their life any more hell than it
already is, and the manglers will want sound
business decisions (which includes politics,
finance, technical etc etc).
Don't be afraid, just do it :^).. we all learn
every day as we go.
True architects do not really have managerial
responsibilities if they are supposed to have
time to do all the other things they have to do
to explore all the 10 choices of which you're
going to chose one, and of which 9 are a waste
of time at the end.
Getting management to understand that a lot of
an architects tasks (time wise) don't neccessarily
yield results is crucial.
And ditto for the techies who'll wonder why you're
wandering off chasing a tangent you find
important but that is beyond their tactical
horizon.
Hope this helps.. Good luck.
http://www.mail-abuse.com/pressreleases/2001-10-03 .html
Yet another misleading /. headline blurb it would seem.. Big surprise.
Oh, and of course we should believe everything contained in contradicting press releases. Sic.
And I once felt sorry for this guy.
What a piece of scum.
You've got to be kidding me! You think this is new stuff?! These swapout crates have been around forever (for at least a decade, if not longer)
*YAWN*
Wow, the cluetrain is just dropping smarty folks left and right today. Time to call the NTSB. Hurry!
PS: If you're actually ( DOH! ) an Earthlink subscriber, you could always call their fabulous customer support and ask them. Nice troll, tho.
anything, it's an inconvenience. To spam on
Verizon's servers, all the one has to do is
forge an @verizon.com email address.
Have you actually tried that or have other knowledge of it being used as the only spam control "feature"? It does help make things a bit more cumbersome for those trying to spam others. And that's all spam control is about, making it more difficult. There is no winning.
I never said anything about it being equal to 42.
Meanwhile, you wouldn't be able to send anything addressed as being from your gnu.org email address.
?
Really. Reply-To: doesn't work anymore? Fact remains, this was a classic frontpage /. troll. Mindspring/Earthlink.net and many many others have been doing this for years.
spam,
Cool.
refusing paying customers the ability
to send mail that is returnable to the
account they choose would be very annoying.
Paying customers who are unaware of the benefits
provided by Reply-To: headers are also very annoying.
Point?
Most people don't like to use their ISP
provided email addr because if people come
to know them by that addr, [store it in their
address book, rolodex, etc], then the customer
is more locked into not switching ISP's
because they would then lose that address.
Oh, come on. Do you work in marketing? Enter the conspiracy theory. ISP prevent spam to restrict customers freedom of choice. WHAT?!
That's it! This is a capitalist exploitation of the working class!
Have you asked Mully or Scully about this? You should. Skinner is probably already on this anyway.
*sigh*
"Morons, your bus is leaving!"
from field to resolve to a valid domain, which
seems to be a much better solution than just
requiring you to use their domain.
Uhm. There is no one solution to spam reduction. Both are valid.
And what you described isn't the only thing BellSouth.net does to reduce spam.
Yes, so what. This is very common and done to prevent spam.
What, do trolls now make frontpage /. news?
PS: Nice demonstration of utter cluelessness, tho.
Cheers,
Chris
rightfully so. just because it's open source doesn't mean copyright, trademarks etc don't apply.
Spoiled brat ;-).. try telnet over a 300bps acoustic coupler SLIP connection. (no, not CSLIP, SLIP) 10 yrs ago.
But then again, who knows how many /.ers actually remember what KA9Q is and how to use it.
Speed corrupts. Absolutely.
Cheers,
Chris
But, you have a point in that it is a different culture (like anywhere outside your native country) and you should expect to learn a lot.
And that's the whole fun of doing it in the first place!!!
Or, at least it used to be that way 6 yrs ago when I last checked into this and helped somebody thru the process.
Very straightforward.
big difference.
nonetheless, a step in the right direction.
That's something not easily done with any existing intercom software. If you disagree, post a link or contact info to somebody who does offer it.
These generic "IP won't save the world" flames are pointless when the reply completely misses the point of wanting functionality for a very specific application. Functionality which doesn't exist in present off-the-shelf technology.
Yes, Symbol makes one. Speaks H.323 over 802.11. Call by E.164 or IP addr.
It's great to see /. see the light... I am a big fan of the 5.0 SMP code as well. I am surprised to see you guys move to a -CURRENT train, though. It seems to be pretty decent these days, but sets (potentially) a bad precedent perhaps.
The whole idea is to upgrade to -RELEASE trains or other -STABLE trains to get production releases. I guess we'll just have to see how things go.
Keep up the good work.