You can give a trash guitar to a great player and it will sound good. It's all in the hands. So my concern is will all the digital gear lose the nuances that make one musician great and another so-so.
What I mean is take a group that sounds great live, and put them in the studio and record them and it sounds blan. Why because live you hear the whole audio spectum. In the studio the recording gear and process only covers a smaller range in comparison. That why recording is an art to itself to overdub more tracks and instruments to fill the sound out.
So it will be interesting to see how well these digital instrument compare to analog that transmit everything.
I'm doing a contract to perm gig now, and only saving grace is I get overtime. But needless to say the permement employees don't get overtime and they want to move contractor over as soon as the contract permits.
The industry is abusing people like crazy and getting worse with the bad economy. Something needs to be done. We used to joke about CPU the Computer Professional Union, but maybe it is time. Of most companies will just continue to outsource work to India and other low wage countries.
Training these kids is cool, but don't brainwash them to think they can get a job out of high school. They need more education, and more experience. Can you imagine one of these poor kids dealing with a outage and some suit breathing down their neck. There is far more than having a handful of technical knowledge. Got to know how to handle the whole situation.
Train them and tell them they have a step ahead of others when they go on to college. Don't tell them they are ready for the real world.
I've worked for a lot of commericial software companies and many didn't even announced EOL for products or they did it so quietly most users never knew. I'm not so sure putting extact time period on the EOL is good. What worked fine at other places is we support the current and one previous version of the product. So timeframe didn't matter when new version came out support version shifted up a notch. It takes a lot of resouces especially time that could be focued on fixes on newer versions. I think RH is doing the right thing.
In my day as a musician (no I won't say when that was) record companies signed about 100 groups per year and would hope 10 would be popular. But they still had to pay to record those groups, market them, underwrite tours, In other words they spend far more money than you are calulating, and losing a lot more than you are aware of. The recording costs you are talk about might work out the be the average. The big groups are dropping way more on recording and new groups records on super tight budgets. Then I hate to think about the money they waste on these formula boy bands and Britney all looks no talent types.
Actually Mandrake didn't spend enough time studying Red Hat and how they make money. For Red Hat selling the distro is the smallest part of their business. If I remember correctly from a conversation with them they said the distro is only about 10% of their business. The RH guy me they would stop selling the distro if they thought they could, but it is a major marketing tool. Red Hat makes most their money on training, certifacation, support, and custom programming. Mandrake could of build a support and trainning business to supplement the sale of the distro.
The problem is there appears to be more interest in the Free Beer aspect of Linux versus Freedom. Mandrake is a perfect example they contribute a lot to Linux, but how many people are buying a distro to help support the company and the OSS programmers they hire. Software has value and people should pay for software in some way. Sweat equitity via codeing, QA, documentation, tech notes, or paying what they can afford by buying distro or contributing.
Mandrake should do like OpenBSD and not make ISO images available. They tell people to help suppost OpenBSD by purchasing a distro. If you won't buy OpenBSD then you can download all the files and roll your own CD-ROMS. I think that is very fair.
Most the schools are worth a dam, the instructors are others out of work and can't find work. There are good school but hard to find. Usually little places that understand hands-on is the key and classes need to be longer than a week. In many way college/university extention courses are better because they run for a few weeks. That give you time to play with the info and come back and ask questions. Also helps to meet others and make some contacts.
The best training is to buy some hardware and setup a lab at home. Having a few machines, and basic network gear you can learn a lot. Then go and do some volenteer work. Lots of charities and other organizations need help with web sites and other computer tasks. You get some hands-on work for your resume and may meet some other with jobs.
"On one hand, it seems absurd to ruin the entire life of a foolish 15 year-old for committing the equivalent of graffiti."
Sound harmless until it happens to you. Try owning a building that is the target of graffiti taggers. It get old and expensive and kills property values when you have to constantly have to clean up graffiti. Same with so called harmless crackers. See a system has been compromised the only safe move is to rebuild. Taking time that could be better used else where.
What sounds innocent causes companies to have to spend money on more security staff, hardware, and time rebuilding compromised systems. That cost gets passed to all of us in higher prices for the companies products and services. It is a no-win situation.
This case is TOO big! What self respecting geek only has one computer and soon as you do space becomes an issue. The Shuttle with their SFF are the direction I like to see. I just wish they would make a server model Shuttle. Don't need the multimedeia stuff, need dual NICs, room for two hard drives, no floppy, thin CD-ROM. two PCI slots no floppy, serial ports front and back RJ45 serial would be fine, BIO option to redirect video to serial is no keyboard attached.
States make some people get license mainly to generate revenue, but more important to know who to monitor for collecting income tax. Plus the tests and cert are meaningless. All it say it at some point in time they memorized the answers to a test. Most MCSE's and even more trivial certs like A+ are no indication these people can think on their feet in real world situations. Most forget the info shortly after they take their tests, but even the ones who remember have trouble relating to real issues that don't match what their books explained.
Oh boy open source Delphi code. The few people still using Delphi better grab the code fast before all the 3rd parties TurboPower licensed code from crack down. How usefull is the code that's left its Delphi not Pascal. Pascal doesn't support Borland VCL and the weirds things Delphi does to work. Like virturl constructors, invisible windows, hidden application that spawns user application. Yes this is a big annoucement.
SGI is a great technology company and like other technology companies they don't know how to market their way out of a paper bag. I really hope they can get the word out and sell enough of these systems and keep the doors open.
No they aren't this stuff is BS and only the Linux community listens to it. Try to use articles like this to lure your boss to consider Linux and you will only lose credibility. Best way to lure people is with facts pro and con.
When I design new systems for a department I gain their trust by not only selling the pro's of my design, but being able to tell them more details about the con's than they know. Then I can explain why they are non-issues. It shows them understanding of all aspects and takes the air out of their arguments. Linux has to be presented the same way, not with emails of questionable credibility. Make your best arguemnt to use Linux on facts pro and cons and be done. If you don't convince them this time, fine at least they will listen you again in the future instead of writing you off and a scam artist.
There was never a shortage of workers, it was about corporations wanting cheap labor. I remember when the program first started, there was a lot of unemployment in tech industry. When program was renewed same thing. Maybe now that the tech industry is in a major slump with higher than average unemployment they might get rid of the unnecessary program.
Corporate America thinks employees are like Kleenix to use when necessary and toss away. Quality and loyality mean nothing only paying the lowest salaries they can. All this has done is make employees the same way. Its a vicous cycle.
There are two types of royalities paid out, copyright for the songwriters and the mechaniacal royalty for the musicials and singers on a recording. As I know it copyright is for 25 years with 1 renewal allowed. So this is kind of a non story. Songs go public domain after 50 years. UNLESS like some late classical composers to make sure their families would be able to make money into the future would write arrangement of their key pieces. So at the end of the 50 years the family could copyright the arrangement and collect royalites on it. Assumeing the arrangement is used by anyone.
Now the mechinacal royalites on records like an Elvis recording itself, I don't know when those actually end. All it would mean is after 50 years you wouldn't have to pay songwriters royalies, but mechanical royalities may still need to be paid.
If the GPL was clear as to linking is a derivative work people would avoid using GPL code. But they want the exposure in order to claim large numbers of GPL code users. It also give them a trap to spring some day, the same way some companies patent software, but not announce the patent till useful to do so.
It's like the paper MCSE's and other similar cert holders. They were good at memorizing answers, some were good at memorizing the books they read, but real world situation never seem to match the books. These people don't know how to think on their feet. They don't know how to combined the things they've read to address a real problem.
These people tend to make good admins creating accounts, setting permissions, things that involve following the rules. The SA's good at problem sovling tend to get boring with rote work like this and make simple mistakes. But the paper-cert people are good at learning and following procedures.
The trouble is the good SysAdmin usually like their work and not interested in becoming managers. The paper-cert people its their only way to make more money so you get these idiots trying to manage creative people. Not good.
I'm out of work and looking, but only person I'll work for free for is myself. If I'm going to work for someone I'm going to get paid. I rather change careers and make my love for computers a hobby.
If you work for nothing that is what people think you are worth.
Your the problem and only you can fix it. People get addicted to all sorts of things, and other people do the same things and don't. People with addictions when they really get tired of it, do what they have to, to beat the addiction. You'll never beat it blaming someone else. Beating an addiction is not easy, but people do it everyday. Something you slip back and eventually have to break the addiction again. But if YOU really want to stop you will do what ever it takes to stop it.
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You can give a trash guitar to a great player and it will sound good. It's all in the hands. So my concern is will all the digital gear lose the nuances that make one musician great and another so-so.
What I mean is take a group that sounds great live, and put them in the studio and record them and it sounds blan. Why because live you hear the whole audio spectum. In the studio the recording gear and process only covers a smaller range in comparison. That why recording is an art to itself to overdub more tracks and instruments to fill the sound out.
So it will be interesting to see how well these digital instrument compare to analog that transmit everything.
The places that will sell you a computer without Windows charge the same or more. Might as well get the box with Windows and format the drive.
I'm doing a contract to perm gig now, and only saving grace is I get overtime. But needless to say the permement employees don't get overtime and they want to move contractor over as soon as the contract permits.
The industry is abusing people like crazy and getting worse with the bad economy. Something needs to be done. We used to joke about CPU the Computer Professional Union, but maybe it is time. Of most companies will just continue to outsource work to India and other low wage countries.
Training these kids is cool, but don't brainwash them to think they can get a job out of high school. They need more education, and more experience. Can you imagine one of these poor kids dealing with a outage and some suit breathing down their neck. There is far more than having a handful of technical knowledge. Got to know how to handle the whole situation.
Train them and tell them they have a step ahead of others when they go on to college. Don't tell them they are ready for the real world.
I've worked for a lot of commericial software companies and many didn't even announced EOL for products or they did it so quietly most users never knew. I'm not so sure putting extact time period on the EOL is good. What worked fine at other places is we support the current and one previous version of the product. So timeframe didn't matter when new version came out support version shifted up a notch. It takes a lot of resouces especially time that could be focued on fixes on newer versions. I think RH is doing the right thing.
In my day as a musician (no I won't say when that was) record companies signed about 100 groups per year and would hope 10 would be popular. But they still had to pay to record those groups, market them, underwrite tours, In other words they spend far more money than you are calulating, and losing a lot more than you are aware of. The recording costs you are talk about might work out the be the average. The big groups are dropping way more on recording and new groups records on super tight budgets. Then I hate to think about the money they waste on these formula boy bands and Britney all looks no talent types.
It's stupid they don't create area codes for cell phones, pagers, and fax. That would free up a lot of numbers in areas codes for regular lines.
Actually Mandrake didn't spend enough time studying Red Hat and how they make money. For Red Hat selling the distro is the smallest part of their business. If I remember correctly from a conversation with them they said the distro is only about 10% of their business. The RH guy me they would stop selling the distro if they thought they could, but it is a major marketing tool. Red Hat makes most their money on training, certifacation, support, and custom programming. Mandrake could of build a support and trainning business to supplement the sale of the distro.
The problem is there appears to be more interest in the Free Beer aspect of Linux versus Freedom. Mandrake is a perfect example they contribute a lot to Linux, but how many people are buying a distro to help support the company and the OSS programmers they hire. Software has value and people should pay for software in some way. Sweat equitity via codeing, QA, documentation, tech notes, or paying what they can afford by buying distro or contributing.
Mandrake should do like OpenBSD and not make ISO images available. They tell people to help suppost OpenBSD by purchasing a distro. If you won't buy OpenBSD then you can download all the files and roll your own CD-ROMS. I think that is very fair.
I've used Sun carrier grade hardware, don't know of any Intel based. Does any exist?
Most the schools are worth a dam, the instructors are others out of work and can't find work. There are good school but hard to find. Usually little places that understand hands-on is the key and classes need to be longer than a week. In many way college/university extention courses are better because they run for a few weeks. That give you time to play with the info and come back and ask questions. Also helps to meet others and make some contacts.
The best training is to buy some hardware and setup a lab at home. Having a few machines, and basic network gear you can learn a lot. Then go and do some volenteer work. Lots of charities and other organizations need help with web sites and other computer tasks. You get some hands-on work for your resume and may meet some other with jobs.
"On one hand, it seems absurd to ruin the entire life of a foolish 15 year-old for committing the equivalent of graffiti."
Sound harmless until it happens to you. Try owning a building that is the target of graffiti taggers. It get old and expensive and kills property values when you have to constantly have to clean up graffiti. Same with so called harmless crackers. See a system has been compromised the only safe move is to rebuild. Taking time that could be better used else where.
What sounds innocent causes companies to have to spend money on more security staff, hardware, and time rebuilding compromised systems. That cost gets passed to all of us in higher prices for the companies products and services. It is a no-win situation.
This case is TOO big! What self respecting geek only has one computer and soon as you do space becomes an issue. The Shuttle with their SFF are the direction I like to see. I just wish they would make a server model Shuttle. Don't need the multimedeia stuff, need dual NICs, room for two hard drives, no floppy, thin CD-ROM. two PCI slots no floppy, serial ports front and back RJ45 serial would be fine, BIO option to redirect video to serial is no keyboard attached.
That's what I'd like to see.
States make some people get license mainly to generate revenue, but more important to know who to monitor for collecting income tax. Plus the tests and cert are meaningless. All it say it at some point in time they memorized the answers to a test. Most MCSE's and even more trivial certs like A+ are no indication these people can think on their feet in real world situations. Most forget the info shortly after they take their tests, but even the ones who remember have trouble relating to real issues that don't match what their books explained.
How do you call that a troll??? Those are valid points. Instead of calling me a troll, tell me where I'm wrong.
Oh boy open source Delphi code. The few people still using Delphi better grab the code fast before all the 3rd parties TurboPower licensed code from crack down. How usefull is the code that's left its Delphi not Pascal. Pascal doesn't support Borland VCL and the weirds things Delphi does to work. Like virturl constructors, invisible windows, hidden application that spawns user application. Yes this is a big annoucement.
Yawn....
SGI is a great technology company and like other technology companies they don't know how to market their way out of a paper bag. I really hope they can get the word out and sell enough of these systems and keep the doors open.
No they aren't this stuff is BS and only the Linux community listens to it. Try to use articles like this to lure your boss to consider Linux and you will only lose credibility. Best way to lure people is with facts pro and con.
When I design new systems for a department I gain their trust by not only selling the pro's of my design, but being able to tell them more details about the con's than they know. Then I can explain why they are non-issues. It shows them understanding of all aspects and takes the air out of their arguments. Linux has to be presented the same way, not with emails of questionable credibility. Make your best arguemnt to use Linux on facts pro and cons and be done. If you don't convince them this time, fine at least they will listen you again in the future instead of writing you off and a scam artist.
There was never a shortage of workers, it was about corporations wanting cheap labor. I remember when the program first started, there was a lot of unemployment in tech industry. When program was renewed same thing. Maybe now that the tech industry is in a major slump with higher than average unemployment they might get rid of the unnecessary program.
Corporate America thinks employees are like Kleenix to use when necessary and toss away. Quality and loyality mean nothing only paying the lowest salaries they can. All this has done is make employees the same way. Its a vicous cycle.
There are two types of royalities paid out, copyright for the songwriters and the mechaniacal royalty for the musicials and singers on a recording. As I know it copyright is for 25 years with 1 renewal allowed. So this is kind of a non story. Songs go public domain after 50 years. UNLESS like some late classical composers to make sure their families would be able to make money into the future would write arrangement of their key pieces. So at the end of the 50 years the family could copyright the arrangement and collect royalites on it. Assumeing the arrangement is used by anyone.
Now the mechinacal royalites on records like an Elvis recording itself, I don't know when those actually end. All it would mean is after 50 years you wouldn't have to pay songwriters royalies, but mechanical royalities may still need to be paid.
If the GPL was clear as to linking is a derivative work people would avoid using GPL code. But they want the exposure in order to claim large numbers of GPL code users. It also give them a trap to spring some day, the same way some companies patent software, but not announce the patent till useful to do so.
BSD license rocks! .
It's like the paper MCSE's and other similar cert holders. They were good at memorizing answers, some were good at memorizing the books they read, but real world situation never seem to match the books. These people don't know how to think on their feet. They don't know how to combined the things they've read to address a real problem.
These people tend to make good admins creating accounts, setting permissions, things that involve following the rules. The SA's good at problem sovling tend to get boring with rote work like this and make simple mistakes. But the paper-cert people are good at learning and following procedures.
The trouble is the good SysAdmin usually like their work and not interested in becoming managers. The paper-cert people its their only way to make more money so you get these idiots trying to manage creative people. Not good.
I all depends on the person, age, other experineces, intelligence, creativity. Like designing systems, there is no one correct answer.
I'm out of work and looking, but only person I'll work for free for is myself. If I'm going to work for someone I'm going to get paid. I rather change careers and make my love for computers a hobby.
If you work for nothing that is what people think you are worth.
Your the problem and only you can fix it. People get addicted to all sorts of things, and other people do the same things and don't. People with addictions when they really get tired of it, do what they have to, to beat the addiction. You'll never beat it blaming someone else. Beating an addiction is not easy, but people do it everyday. Something you slip back and eventually have to break the addiction again. But if YOU really want to stop you will do what ever it takes to stop it.
Just remember Oprah love ya honey!