In the larger sense I feel RMS is right. By doing backups with one of those hybrid Offline/Online variants of the app, do a Master/Slave with the Cloud. You can fiddle with the direction to your heart's content.
I would prefer a model like those early days where you composed offline and "burst-sent" (and synched) with the Cloud.
Y'Know guys, my ISP has been thunderously atrocious lately, crashing the signal some 4 times a day. I really don't understand why, but it brings the message to me home early. I don't care if it's "temporary"; if I were doing something time sensitive I can't handle 15 minute interruptions to my line. The same issue applies to laptops & spotty wireless.
Make it work like synching with an Exchange (or similar) server. "Found new mail... synching..."
The Cloud can cover for you when you either reformat (or fubar) your comp, and your local can cover you when Cloud, Inc. takes a nose dive.
What RMS is getting at is 100% reliance on the cloud is a dangerous sense of trust. "Gee, we don't feel like offering our service anymore, So Long and Thanks for All the Mail". The smart 30% would do a backup. The other 70% would be hosed. With data as its own weird value measure, it would be like a Data Recession.
I test some free hosts, and one of them melted just like that. "I lost your data, so sorry. Good Luck."
If you try to play the Big Corp card, look at the stunning meltdowns of Big Corps this month in the finance sector, arguably the toughest regulated field in the world.
Not gaming the interview, but "communication" skills are actually judged. Sometimes HR has their eye on Neo-management types who might move sideways into a different position than what they are actually interviewing for.
Sometimes there's a gap between HR who tends to be classically trained in weird variants of SugarySpeech, and the manager who will actually be your boss.
While I probably took a hit on my resume, I liked the Temp circuit for a while because you got placed within four days instead of HR's "call you in three weeks to say sorry you're not hired" routine.
I see your attitude, but I really don't like lying to people. I'm at least quasi knowledgeable, so when it was time for me to get past the silly questions, I took toward giving them paragraph answers to try to drill through their script. It's honest, and has pretty much the same effect.
"I checked my cables, rebooted, turned the modem off and back on, tried a couple system restore points, all three of my computers have the same problem when I plugged them into the modem, I can't ping sites, so what would you like to do now?"
As evidenced by many of the posts in this thread, there's a culture that "you can't be seen doing grunt work if you want to fast-track".
That leads to the PHB mentality eventually, even if it takes time. "Oh, I can code in four languages, but I can't tell you the System code for the printer so HR can fix her newsletter?"
It's a tough balance, but having a finger on the pulse of the gut level ops is important in my view.
I also disagree with "take the job off the resume" because that gets close to the shady side of life. I'd advise he take one of those quick $50 classes on interviewing/speaking so that he can brush by "Yea, I had to get some rent money while I looked for the best fit".
I'd read about IceWeasel a long time back, but I never got around to checking for a Windows port. The Firefox branding did its thing getting me off of IE, but now "a browser is a browser" so onward I go. Good tip.
People need time to develop at different rates. There are qualitative shifts in the brain that occur in the mid twenties. Not everyone explodes out of the gate on a superstar track.
I agree with the advice elsewhere about smaller companies. It's less compartmentalized, and there's more room to wiggle defining roles. I started as a "stopgap jack of several trades" to nudge my company forward. As we have since hired a more classically skilled IT lead who worked with an even stronger consultant to build our server, I now add a "20% of my day" backup "helpdesk" effect that keeps the day flowing. I shifted to bug testing the enterprise software packages we have.
My resume was also rather weak, but my boss banked on classical values like attitude and enthusiasm. I could not have possibly predicted what I am doing now, so why punish someone for not having flawless prior experience?
... And you trust your govt. to follow all those rules? That's just it - why should they? Bush has broken the spirit of the laws more times than popcorn in a large movie bucket.
"Jcr is a suspect for damaging government property, because the camera was working just fine as of 11:38:13 seconds and ceased to work at 11:38:15 after his vehicle passed."
Gang,
in its various incarnations including the rest of YRO, this is *the* signature theme of our century. It's gonna take something really culturally decisive to resolve this. Simple "low level" tricks will not quite work.
The reason why is that cumulatively, the ideas proposed so far have been logically inconsistent! Unfortunately, prosecuting attorneys seem to enjoy crushing people with logically inconsistent motivations.
I don't have the answers. All I know is that the macro problem is *really tough*.
I thought of that too, except that it's already outlawed to wear most types of masks in public "because then we can't ID you if you *might* be a criminal!!"
But yes, I see this as a major flashpoint, and it would open up the next fashion wave.
You recognized that some of us aren't hooked on "small is king". Web pages are being built for big screens, so why not let the "netbook" have a decent screen.
It's not supposed to handle Halo 4 or such, but "the web" still has some processing requirements.
Currently I think "last generation" notebook is perfect for "this generation's netbook". It becomes the ultimate in recycling!! (After all, Going Green is finally in with the fall of the SUV mentality.)
I practice what I promote: I just bought a "netbook" off a friend for about $100, and another $150 in addon stuff from MediocreBuy.
Except it "sorta" forgot to completely copy the Windows paradigm. I am angling to skip laptops and use things like SuperPhones as ultramobile computing centers, with "commodity" hardware externals like keyboards, monitors.
I still can't believe that a 400-some Mhz machine can't run something like a stripped Windows2000. Lasy I understood you can't even easily use the classical C:\ tree model & install stuff as if it were an OldSchool comp.
(To the theme of Obmoz.com. the quadratic parody of Zombo.com) We are suing people involved with *open source Zotero*. Never use Zotero. Zotero is bad. Yopu might think of using Zotero, but then we might sue you. Be afraid of Zotero! What was that program you were supposed to avoid again? Oh Yes. Zotero. That's right, make sure you remember to avoid *Zotero*.
(Citations, managed without paying the lawsuit aggressors.)
1. Zombo.com. Presumably a parody of empty DotBomb pseudocompanies, and possibly FeelGood management in general. http://www.zombo.com/
2. Obmoz.com. Meta-Parody of the highest class, repurposed by me for this additional context as an example of the mistake a lot of companies seem to be making these days. The brain attaches itself to nouns, so trumpeting the noun-name of your competitor that you hate defeats your purpose. http://www.obmoz.com/
SB: Gotcha! That's Washington Mutual! They got hosed so The Government said, "You have no chance to survive make your time." JP Morgan stepped in and said "All Your Mortgage Are Belong To Us."
Slashdot Mirror
In the larger sense I feel RMS is right. By doing backups with one of those hybrid Offline/Online variants of the app, do a Master/Slave with the Cloud. You can fiddle with the direction to your heart's content.
I would prefer a model like those early days where you composed offline and "burst-sent" (and synched) with the Cloud.
Y'Know guys, my ISP has been thunderously atrocious lately, crashing the signal some 4 times a day. I really don't understand why, but it brings the message to me home early. I don't care if it's "temporary"; if I were doing something time sensitive I can't handle 15 minute interruptions to my line. The same issue applies to laptops & spotty wireless.
I would love to see exactly this!
Make it work like synching with an Exchange (or similar) server.
"Found new mail... synching..."
The Cloud can cover for you when you either reformat (or fubar) your comp, and your local can cover you when Cloud, Inc. takes a nose dive.
What RMS is getting at is 100% reliance on the cloud is a dangerous sense of trust. "Gee, we don't feel like offering our service anymore, So Long and Thanks for All the Mail". The smart 30% would do a backup. The other 70% would be hosed. With data as its own weird value measure, it would be like a Data Recession.
I test some free hosts, and one of them melted just like that. "I lost your data, so sorry. Good Luck."
If you try to play the Big Corp card, look at the stunning meltdowns of Big Corps this month in the finance sector, arguably the toughest regulated field in the world.
It "looks modern" to those Nice HR types. But then interviews are all about the presentation anyway.
Not gaming the interview, but "communication" skills are actually judged. Sometimes HR has their eye on Neo-management types who might move sideways into a different position than what they are actually interviewing for.
Sometimes there's a gap between HR who tends to be classically trained in weird variants of SugarySpeech, and the manager who will actually be your boss.
While I probably took a hit on my resume, I liked the Temp circuit for a while because you got placed within four days instead of HR's "call you in three weeks to say sorry you're not hired" routine.
I see your attitude, but I really don't like lying to people. I'm at least quasi knowledgeable, so when it was time for me to get past the silly questions, I took toward giving them paragraph answers to try to drill through their script. It's honest, and has pretty much the same effect.
"I checked my cables, rebooted, turned the modem off and back on, tried a couple system restore points, all three of my computers have the same problem when I plugged them into the modem, I can't ping sites, so what would you like to do now?"
Turned out the modem was defective.
Yes!
I'll broaden this theme a little.
As evidenced by many of the posts in this thread, there's a culture that "you can't be seen doing grunt work if you want to fast-track".
That leads to the PHB mentality eventually, even if it takes time. "Oh, I can code in four languages, but I can't tell you the System code for the printer so HR can fix her newsletter?"
It's a tough balance, but having a finger on the pulse of the gut level ops is important in my view.
I also disagree with "take the job off the resume" because that gets close to the shady side of life. I'd advise he take one of those quick $50 classes on interviewing/speaking so that he can brush by "Yea, I had to get some rent money while I looked for the best fit".
I'd read about IceWeasel a long time back, but I never got around to checking for a Windows port. The Firefox branding did its thing getting me off of IE, but now "a browser is a browser" so onward I go. Good tip.
Only in America do we punish people for working.
People need time to develop at different rates. There are qualitative shifts in the brain that occur in the mid twenties. Not everyone explodes out of the gate on a superstar track.
I agree with the advice elsewhere about smaller companies. It's less compartmentalized, and there's more room to wiggle defining roles. I started as a "stopgap jack of several trades" to nudge my company forward. As we have since hired a more classically skilled IT lead who worked with an even stronger consultant to build our server, I now add a "20% of my day" backup "helpdesk" effect that keeps the day flowing. I shifted to bug testing the enterprise software packages we have.
My resume was also rather weak, but my boss banked on classical values like attitude and enthusiasm. I could not have possibly predicted what I am doing now, so why punish someone for not having flawless prior experience?
"Jcr is a suspect for damaging government property, because the camera was working just fine as of 11:38:13 seconds and ceased to work at 11:38:15 after his vehicle passed."
Gang,
in its various incarnations including the rest of YRO, this is *the* signature theme of our century. It's gonna take something really culturally decisive to resolve this. Simple "low level" tricks will not quite work.
The reason why is that cumulatively, the ideas proposed so far have been logically inconsistent! Unfortunately, prosecuting attorneys seem to enjoy crushing people with logically inconsistent motivations.
I don't have the answers. All I know is that the macro problem is *really tough*.
Except that "Outlaw attitudes" tend to be frowned upon by employers. Oops.
I thought of that too, except that it's already outlawed to wear most types of masks in public "because then we can't ID you if you *might* be a criminal!!"
But yes, I see this as a major flashpoint, and it would open up the next fashion wave.
I have seen far too many CHAINED stories of the following variety:
1. "Let's collect all this data! It might help us catch one terrorist!"
2. "The only people who have to fear this data are criminals, so go back to the San Terradino Free University."
3. News in YRO: "Today an employee lost the laptop with 5 million records of the tracking database."
4. Anonymous posts the database on the net.
5. Everyone starts blogging. "Ooh, I wonder why you went to the Red Light District, hmm?"
We're headed towards a Sixties-ish explosion over this stuff within a decade. The pressure can't build forever.
Yes!
You recognized that some of us aren't hooked on "small is king". Web pages are being built for big screens, so why not let the "netbook" have a decent screen.
It's not supposed to handle Halo 4 or such, but "the web" still has some processing requirements.
Currently I think "last generation" notebook is perfect for "this generation's netbook". It becomes the ultimate in recycling!! (After all, Going Green is finally in with the fall of the SUV mentality.)
I practice what I promote: I just bought a "netbook" off a friend for about $100, and another $150 in addon stuff from MediocreBuy.
That's just the problem - it can.
"Follow a link" can go to *anything* including custom loaded pages which then do actions...
Would bringing an FBI Raid upon your head be scary enough?
Please don't be right.
I might even send you a cake upon being reminded of this.
"Unified Windows Rollout! Windows Seven Desktop. Windows Seven Mobile. Windows Seven. It's a Revelation".
Except it "sorta" forgot to completely copy the Windows paradigm. I am angling to skip laptops and use things like SuperPhones as ultramobile computing centers, with "commodity" hardware externals like keyboards, monitors.
I still can't believe that a 400-some Mhz machine can't run something like a stripped Windows2000. Lasy I understood you can't even easily use the classical C:\ tree model & install stuff as if it were an OldSchool comp.
(To the theme of Obmoz.com. the quadratic parody of Zombo.com)
We are suing people involved with *open source Zotero*.
Never use Zotero. Zotero is bad. Yopu might think of using Zotero, but then we might sue you. Be afraid of Zotero! What was that program you were supposed to avoid again? Oh Yes. Zotero. That's right, make sure you remember to avoid *Zotero*.
(Citations, managed without paying the lawsuit aggressors.)
1. Zombo.com. Presumably a parody of empty DotBomb pseudocompanies, and possibly FeelGood management in general. http://www.zombo.com/
2. Obmoz.com. Meta-Parody of the highest class, repurposed by me for this additional context as an example of the mistake a lot of companies seem to be making these days. The brain attaches itself to nouns, so trumpeting the noun-name of your competitor that you hate defeats your purpose. http://www.obmoz.com/
What if it's buried as the iFrame exploit attached to "Click Here to Install"?
Carnegie Hall "milk and cookies" Show:
In an April 1979 performance at New York's Carnegie Hall, ...
The performance is most famous for Kaufman ending the show by actually taking the entire audience, in 20 buses, out for milk and cookies.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Kaufman
Now... do you trust me to give you an honest link?
Mod Parent Troll.
You're handed a juicy exploit that gives you nice little clicks and can't think of a way to break it?!
Here is the Least severe example I can think of. You click to look up something at work and it sends P0rn to HR.
SB: Clicking on the Icky Sticky Clicky Wiki's...
SB: "Dear StrongBad. This website says that if I click on a link I could get my browser taken over!! What do I do? P.S. I want the Tire."
SB: Easy IWTT. Click Here to open a nice juicy SubPrime Mortage on that tire. https://www.wamu.com/personal/default.asp
SB: Gotcha! That's Washington Mutual! They got hosed so The Government said, "You have no chance to survive make your time." JP Morgan stepped in and said "All Your Mortgage Are Belong To Us."
No.
It causes you to perform actions on the football player's girlfriend you didn't think you were performing!
Ender's Game FTW!