We live out in the country, well, on an old county highway a mile from town. The new next door neighbors have three or four kids. They are never outside. Well, hardly at all. The only time we see them in the yard is on weekends when it appears that other company is over. The adults probably kick the kids out because it's a small house. Now, I am sort of glad those meddlesome kids are not out and about. I can leave my pipe and pouch of tobacco out on the back porch and not worry about kids getting into it or stealing it. But it's creepy. We have a large field behind our house (which we own- again, I am glad those kids aren't out there cutting down or screwing up my black walnut and pecan trees) and those kids have pretty much zero curiousity or motivation to be out there. When I was a kid I spent most of the summer outdoors. Our house abutted on a woods and I spent a lot of time out there.
I still ended up a nerd and a tech freak, but at least when I was young I experienced more than the screen labyrinth of an electronic device.
Organize my dinner? Well, I put the mashed potatoes over on one side of the plate. The string beans on another part. The main course, if it's meat loaf or a roast generally goes in the center of the plate. Often the salad is in a separate small bowl.
My wife gave me a really nice Leatherman knife. It was one she picked up out in the Garden Center at the store she works in. It had been in the posession of a dude who was frantically using it to try to cut through the chainlink fence of the garden center after one of his compatriots had been nabbed for shoplifting. Dude got away but dropped the Leatherman while fleeing.
It had a name engraved into it but the belt sander in the Model Shop at work took it off so it looks good. Everybody involved kinda figured dude wasn't going to come back to claim it.
Incidentally, Leatherman knives are one of the high theft items in the store. Anyhow, it's a pretty nice tool.
You are correct. A trade secret ceases to be a trade secret when some fool takes it off company property and loses it. It's, uh, not secret any more. And the world at large is not under NDA.
Nobody in the chain of possession except for the Apple dude who drank too much beer holds any responsibility regarding Trade Secrets in this instance.
And it wasn't just any car analogy. It was a Mercedes car analogy. We have standards here on apple.slashdot.org that regular slashdot sometimes doesn't meet.
Prototypes are built in small quantities, with special procedures, using small quantity parts orders. A whole separate group in the company assembles them than the mainline product. This prototype iPhone probably cost Apple in excess of $20,000 to produce.
And of course, MD5 signatures formally registered with the government for any binaries allowed to touch this critical secure data. Which leads, of course, to the necessity that any software at all allowed in a business has to come from an accredited established business who have full staff assigned to massage that special branch of the bureaucracy that oversees said MD5 registry.
Indeed, it sounds more and more like Open Source will just plain be out of the question. Except for instances where it's strictly controlled and throttled by top heavy organizations, aka Big Businesses.
One thing I have noted in my "small business" IT jobs, if you dont take IT seriously and stick them in a windowless room in the basement like you would a janitor, you will not succeed in your business.
But basically, that's what IT is. You're file clerks at best. Data janitors is another way to describe it.
But I see some resentment there. Didn't get the prestige you thought you deserved? How did you make sure they regretted it? Can you tell us, and any future employees what you did?
You're correct, but in a sense that you probably don't understand.
In the era of the IBM PC-XT, few companies made IBM clones. Most 'companies' made IBM compatibles.
However, a huge percentage of the PCs out there at that time were IBM clones made from cheap asian motherboards. These motherboards are often complete exact clones of the IBM XT motherboard. I used to buy that kind of board cheap at swapmeets and fix them for fun and profit. The IBM Motherboard (and the BIOS source code, incidentally) has a published schematic diagram, and many of the early XT clone motherboards came with a full schematic in their user manual as well. You could pick up any schematic and use it to troubleshoot any motherboard back then. They all had exactly the same TTL chips in exactly the same spots on the board.
My point? My point is that non-companies made most of the PC clones back in that era. There was a huge market for no-name-brand motherboards, and almost none of them are easily identifiable as to what company produced them. But as you said, few 'companies' (real established companies with brand names, etc.) made IBM clones.
I am downright reactionary about user interfaces. On my NetBSD desktop, I run FVWM2. I have a well maintained ~/.fvwm2rc file and see no need to scrap it and move to some kludge desktop that sucks memory and disk space for no practical purpose.
Well for one, copper pipe v3.5 is still backward compatible with copper pipe v2.1 and will be forward compatible with copper pipe v5.0 and beyond.
However, PEX isn't compatible with PVC, and copper? Well, the contractor is too cheap for that. Let's not even get into the concern any time soldering is involved. Will there be lead pipes in that wall? Will anybody notice and insist they be replaced if there are?
And the grumpy woman is going to raise HELL about that water on her kitchen floor. Don't even go there regarding the muddy footprints.
If the part added by the government can't be copyrighted, it can't be licensed under the GPL. It's incompatible with the GPL and they cannot touch each other.
The 'crust' on a loaf of bread protects the bread inside, and keeps it fresh. Slicing the whole loaf just promotes early spoilage. The promotion of pre-packaged sliced bread goes hand in hand with the idea that bread needs to be pumped full of chemicals and preservatives to keep it fresh.
Open Government would show action behind words. Instead, we're subjected to more of the secretive subterfuge that we all had gotten used to during the Bush years. Secret meetings, closed documents, short review periods before votes on multi-thousand page legislation. Chicago Gangster style thuggishness.
Later Marxists were fascinated with(and frequently sought to emulate) to work of industrialist innovators like Ford and Taylor, precisely because they recognized that those guys where on the cutting edge of non-zero-sum transactions and maximal productivity gains from the combination of capital and labor with scientific management techniques.
Or, because said Marxists, like the Taylorists and Ford, were craven materialists interested in maintaining their self-delusion of being scientific. Scientific Socialism. Eugenics. National Socialism. Stalinism. Scientific Management. All variant flavors of Fascist practice. All part of what has evolved forward into what's now called Corporatism.
If you've worked in one of the squeaky new Taylorite operations that are all now the norm in the Corporate World, you know what I'm getting at.
Read this article for a good reference at what I'm getting at. Taylorism is bad news for any creative thinking people.
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We live out in the country, well, on an old county highway a mile from town. The new next door neighbors have three or four kids. They are never outside. Well, hardly at all. The only time we see them in the yard is on weekends when it appears that other company is over. The adults probably kick the kids out because it's a small house. Now, I am sort of glad those meddlesome kids are not out and about. I can leave my pipe and pouch of tobacco out on the back porch and not worry about kids getting into it or stealing it. But it's creepy. We have a large field behind our house (which we own- again, I am glad those kids aren't out there cutting down or screwing up my black walnut and pecan trees) and those kids have pretty much zero curiousity or motivation to be out there. When I was a kid I spent most of the summer outdoors. Our house abutted on a woods and I spent a lot of time out there.
I still ended up a nerd and a tech freak, but at least when I was young I experienced more than the screen labyrinth of an electronic device.
Organize my dinner? Well, I put the mashed potatoes over on one side of the plate. The string beans on another part. The main course, if it's meat loaf or a roast generally goes in the center of the plate. Often the salad is in a separate small bowl.
"Organize my dinner?"
My wife gave me a really nice Leatherman knife. It was one she picked up out in the Garden Center at the store she works in. It had been in the posession of a dude who was frantically using it to try to cut through the chainlink fence of the garden center after one of his compatriots had been nabbed for shoplifting. Dude got away but dropped the Leatherman while fleeing.
It had a name engraved into it but the belt sander in the Model Shop at work took it off so it looks good. Everybody involved kinda figured dude wasn't going to come back to claim it.
Incidentally, Leatherman knives are one of the high theft items in the store. Anyhow, it's a pretty nice tool.
You are correct. A trade secret ceases to be a trade secret when some fool takes it off company property and loses it. It's, uh, not secret any more. And the world at large is not under NDA.
Nobody in the chain of possession except for the Apple dude who drank too much beer holds any responsibility regarding Trade Secrets in this instance.
And it wasn't just any car analogy. It was a Mercedes car analogy. We have standards here on apple.slashdot.org that regular slashdot sometimes doesn't meet.
Yeah, I would place him as a mail-room clerk until he proves he can handle sensative (sp.) information without releasing it to the public.
That's sort of ironic, given that the job responsibility of a mail-room clerk is to handle sensitive information while releasing it to the public.
One Bad Apple Don't Spoil The Whole Bunch Girl.
Prototypes are built in small quantities, with special procedures, using small quantity parts orders. A whole separate group in the company assembles them than the mainline product. This prototype iPhone probably cost Apple in excess of $20,000 to produce.
Which completely destroys the engine, and is extremely hard to repair without completely replacing the blades.
If all four engines stall out mid-air, it becomes likely that its is academic whether the engines are repairable or not.
And of course, MD5 signatures formally registered with the government for any binaries allowed to touch this critical secure data. Which leads, of course, to the necessity that any software at all allowed in a business has to come from an accredited established business who have full staff assigned to massage that special branch of the bureaucracy that oversees said MD5 registry.
Indeed, it sounds more and more like Open Source will just plain be out of the question. Except for instances where it's strictly controlled and throttled by top heavy organizations, aka Big Businesses.
Excellent. Most excellent indeed!
One thing I have noted in my "small business" IT jobs, if you dont take IT seriously and stick them in a windowless room in the basement like you would a janitor, you will not succeed in your business.
But basically, that's what IT is. You're file clerks at best. Data janitors is another way to describe it.
But I see some resentment there. Didn't get the prestige you thought you deserved? How did you make sure they regretted it? Can you tell us, and any future employees what you did?
similar to how few companies made IBM clones.
You're correct, but in a sense that you probably don't understand.
In the era of the IBM PC-XT, few companies made IBM clones. Most 'companies' made IBM compatibles.
However, a huge percentage of the PCs out there at that time were IBM clones made from cheap asian motherboards. These motherboards are often complete exact clones of the IBM XT motherboard. I used to buy that kind of board cheap at swapmeets and fix them for fun and profit. The IBM Motherboard (and the BIOS source code, incidentally) has a published schematic diagram, and many of the early XT clone motherboards came with a full schematic in their user manual as well. You could pick up any schematic and use it to troubleshoot any motherboard back then. They all had exactly the same TTL chips in exactly the same spots on the board.
My point? My point is that non-companies made most of the PC clones back in that era. There was a huge market for no-name-brand motherboards, and almost none of them are easily identifiable as to what company produced them. But as you said, few 'companies' (real established companies with brand names, etc.) made IBM clones.
I'm beginning to think that the computing world became so boring lately mainly because the cold war is over.
The new 'battle fronts' allow for lots of cool new computing projects, though. Unmanned planes, etc. are awesome, not boring.
I don't think you're alone.
I am downright reactionary about user interfaces. On my NetBSD desktop, I run FVWM2. I have a well maintained ~/.fvwm2rc file and see no need to scrap it and move to some kludge desktop that sucks memory and disk space for no practical purpose.
That's true, but there are only a handful of people out there interested in buying new Windows.
It's the installed base that forces the issue.
Likewise, there were FAR more Palin covers than Clinton covers. Guess why?
Because Palin was a Vice Presidential candidate, whereas Hillary by that point was an also-ran.
Well for one, copper pipe v3.5 is still backward compatible with copper pipe v2.1 and will be forward compatible with copper pipe v5.0 and beyond.
However, PEX isn't compatible with PVC, and copper? Well, the contractor is too cheap for that. Let's not even get into the concern any time soldering is involved. Will there be lead pipes in that wall? Will anybody notice and insist they be replaced if there are?
And the grumpy woman is going to raise HELL about that water on her kitchen floor. Don't even go there regarding the muddy footprints.
Maybe they stuck one of those Rainbow stickers on it that you get in the package with many Apple products.
Any computer can be Apple Labeled if you've got those stickers.
(I've always liked placing the Intel Inside stickers on wastebaskets.)
Mostly that's updaters they have for free download. You can't download Claris Works.
They do have MacOS 7.53 available.
(I don't need to, have it on original CD)
When I was young (actually in my mid 20's) only the rich people had 1200 baud. The rest of us had 300 baud.
If the part added by the government can't be copyrighted, it can't be licensed under the GPL. It's incompatible with the GPL and they cannot touch each other.
Sliced bread actually sucks. Bigtime.
The 'crust' on a loaf of bread protects the bread inside, and keeps it fresh. Slicing the whole loaf just promotes early spoilage. The promotion of pre-packaged sliced bread goes hand in hand with the idea that bread needs to be pumped full of chemicals and preservatives to keep it fresh.
Well, you can always hope to never grow old and annoying yourself. We can hope for that, too.
Open Government would show action behind words. Instead, we're subjected to more of the secretive subterfuge that we all had gotten used to during the Bush years. Secret meetings, closed documents, short review periods before votes on multi-thousand page legislation. Chicago Gangster style thuggishness.
Say hello to the New Boss.
Same as the Old Boss.
Later Marxists were fascinated with(and frequently sought to emulate) to work of industrialist innovators like Ford and Taylor, precisely because they recognized that those guys where on the cutting edge of non-zero-sum transactions and maximal productivity gains from the combination of capital and labor with scientific management techniques.
Or, because said Marxists, like the Taylorists and Ford, were craven materialists interested in maintaining their self-delusion of being scientific. Scientific Socialism. Eugenics. National Socialism. Stalinism. Scientific Management. All variant flavors of Fascist practice. All part of what has evolved forward into what's now called Corporatism.
If you've worked in one of the squeaky new Taylorite operations that are all now the norm in the Corporate World, you know what I'm getting at.
Read this article for a good reference at what I'm getting at. Taylorism is bad news for any creative thinking people.