I just hope they do better than Shockwave 3D. If nothing else, it would be an improvement in that it's unlikely they'll charge for the creation tools as opposed to the overpriced Director MX.
That woman impersonated a 13yo boy and pretended to be in a relationship with the girl. I'm really surprised that they didn't try making a case against her using the laws regarding sexual predators on the net.
She deserves the hell that comes with being a registered sex offender.
You could scare management by explaining to them that allowing direct access will disclose your database schema to the customer which will allow them to reverse engineer some of your service's design and possibly allow them to make their own (eliminating their need to continue working with your company).
Too bad not everybody puts a natural priority on public safety. In this ego-centric civilization, parent is unfortunately the exception and not the rule.
Is it just me or are women especially bad about this?
Uhm... Try spending more than 2 minutes on a microsoft website (especially downloads.microsoft.com) and there's a good chance you'll be asked if you'd like to try the "beta" silverlight version.
Microsoft would be stupid to switch their default experience over to a new platform with such low market saturation.
Disclaimer: I work for M$ft (but in no way should my comments here be considered representative of Microsoft)
Windows 2000 was pried from my cold dead fingers only because XP is required to VPN into work (some days it's nice to just work from home), but XP isn't as bad as I'd expected. Vista on the other hand, well, I crawled through a lot of broken glass working with IE7 Beta2 and I will NEVER willingly install it on any system I need to actually do something other than run office and surf the web.
Windows7, on the other hand, looks very promising. Although, the WinMin kernel and such strongly reminds me of something some Finnish guy slapped together when he was in college...
Enough background, to my point. One of my biggest problems with Microsoft is how as soon as there's a new platform, all development and marketing effort is put into it. Currently I'm working as part of an application development team for a Windows Mobile product. We're targeting WinMo 5 +.Net Compact Framework 1.0 because that's the largest existing install base out there for Windows based SmartPhones and PocketPCs. When we run into problems and post questions to mailing lists we're regularly getting called idiots for not using Compact Framework 3 or WinMo 6. Sure, what we need to do would be easy using those platforms, but NOBODY sells a phone with that already installed and it's asinine to expect users to upgrade just to run our application.
You can still buy phones with WinMo 5 and.Net CF 1.0, yet there's no internal support to speak of for either technology. I shudder to think what hell 3rd party developers must be going through. The platform teams at Microsoft tell us to use.Net CF 3, when.Net CF 2 isn't even standard on the market yet.
For that reason, I've decided to go for upper management rather than technical individual contributor just so I might have a chance at changing some of these fscked up ideas, or at least attempt to give developers some room for better practices and refinement of technologies rather than jumping to the latest and greatest when there's still lots of room for improvement on what's already in the market.
Seriously people, it's the 21st century, the information age. Privacy does not exist. You WILL give your information to banks, governments, health care agencies, employers, etc. in order to function in this world. They in turn will eventually fsck up and disclose said information publicly. I'm in favor of regulations that provide recourse and stiff penalties for organizations that mishandle information. However, they won't always be enforcible and lobbyists will put in loop holes making them ineffective, that's just reality.
In the information age, your identity is your face. You don't walk down the street wearing a mask, do you? No, you'd look pretty silly. Do you yell at the shop clerk to not look at your face? No, you'd be considered rude.
Just shut up and get used to it. Your identity is already public. Your personal information is likely to end up public. The best thing you can do is keep up to date on your credit profile and not be an idiot about spreading your information any more than you must.
Meh. The ones I rip from vinyl still sound better than ones ripped from CD using the same settings (which I tried, although normally I can't notice much difference from ripping a CD at 192).
Anyways, I just think it's silly that they're complaining about loss of quality when going "digital" when a CD is already digital. The audiophiles complaining now will be looked upon in the same light as those who swear by vinyl's superiority over CDs.
If this was anyone but BillG@microsoft.com, like say google, I bet people would be applauding the genious of the nihilistic zen approach to making sure people have thouroughly thought through their proposals before brining them to the head cheese.
I'd say the best case for abuse would be not towards the business being called but the person who's number you use. Seems it'd be easy to make a google hack that could pretty much disable somebody's phone by issuing click-to-call's every 2 minutes or so. Imagine a friday night out with your girlfriend and every 2 minutes a different strip club starts ringing your phone?
I've been day dreaming of doing something like this with Mode 0x13 VGA game development for almost a year now. I have a few different ideas for the details, but basically a tournament that run 3 sessions over a weekend (Saturday late-morning through afternoon, Sunday morning, Sunday afternoon/evening) ending with live music and awards party Sunday night.
I have a place picked out and could organize it, the entry fee would cover the venue and the pot. The rest I'd cover out of pocket unless co-organizers would like to pitch in.
My personal experience has been fully self taught starting with BASIC when I was 12, C/C++ Turbo at 14 and then 5 years in the game industry and doing freelance development from 19 to present (25) and learning many langs/techs along the way (Lingo, ActionScript, VisBasic, assembly, Win32 API, DirectX, OpenGL, MaxScript, HTML, XML, CSS, ASP, javascript, Macromedia Object Architecture, SOAP, J2ME, BREW, SQL (Oracle and mySQL mainly), PHP, you get the idea).
With all those, I felt I was spinning in dependancies as well, but I just kept pushing farther with every lap and it turns out what looks like a circle at the start is actually the base of a spring.
Just keep going, google up code samples, surf forums, it'll all make sense eventually with patience and commitment.
That's where you're wrong. The problem isn't the spam, DDOS, IT costs, etc. The problem is the n00bs who have no respect for technology. Make a virus that makes the n00bs go blind, and the web will be a better place.
What we really need is a virus that doesn't screw around with mail relays and botnet building and something that will just completely fry the machine of anyone stupid enought to catch it. Then the web will be a better place. It's called natural selection.
If they developed it on their own time (and preferably at home, not using company computers), then it's their IP. It's not part of their job description, and it's very unlikely they're getting paid enough to be developing software on a work-for-hire basis. So...
What they should do is draw up a contract/proposal, detailing the features, testing proceedure, launch proceedure, and compensation. If they don't actually want to do it, just put a huge price-tag in there. Of course, any price tag will probably make the manager balk as he/she probably thinks they're getting this new system/utility for the $9/hr they're already paying these guys.
Just in case, I want to point out that I was making a weak joke about the stereotypes, what was in my head was the general stereotype of programmers being anti-social, overweight white guys. Anywho. No offence was intended.
Only reason I wouldn't trade places with a rich black man is that I don't dig rap and basketball bores me. Actually, for his money, I could learn to love that shizzit. =P
Seriously though, I'm not saying that there's no discrimination. What I am saying that just because I'm white doesn't mean I automatically have it easier than anybody else is the low end of the income tax bracket. I've had to work hard to get where I am, and I'm not really anywhere good yet. I'm 24, have yet to get my Associate's Degree and have been fully supporting myself since I was 18. I've applied for grants and never gotten approval, and I can't help but wonder if my race/gender played a part in that, I know I met all the financial and academic requirements.
I resent that. I didn't have anything handed to me on a silver platter and I'm as white as it gets. I've had to work my arse off to get where I am and I'm not even that far. It's going to take over a year of working in a test department at a software company just to get enough money to go finish my associates degree.
It's not about color, it's about social class. Sure, maybe there's more latinos in the low end, but there's plenty of us crackers there too. Hell, I went to apply for a grant and the only thing that kept me from getting it was that I wasn't latino or female. So I'm going to have to earn my education.
I've been using qhacc for a while, and it's a cute hack, but not really useful. I'm just using it until I find something better. There's a few java ones that look promising, but I'm not a fan of java software.
Getting lucky with google for "accounting linux" turned this up: http://www.aaxnet.com/design/linuxacct.html
There's also the popular GnuCash (http://www.gnucash.org/).
If you have any interest in network nuts and bolts, you could get a job as a DSL lineman with the local telco. Last I checked, CWA (Communication Workers' Union) still had pretty good benefits too.
Other alteratives, that I've actually done, are PLC programming. There's still lots of nights sitting at the desk at home with a test setup on the table next to me, but there's just as much time spent out at sites installing and trouble shooting the units and sensor/relay wiring. And usually the sites don't really keep having a place to sit down in mind when they allocate a cabinet for the PLC, so some of my best fixes have been coded standing up.
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I just hope they do better than Shockwave 3D. If nothing else, it would be an improvement in that it's unlikely they'll charge for the creation tools as opposed to the overpriced Director MX.
That woman impersonated a 13yo boy and pretended to be in a relationship with the girl. I'm really surprised that they didn't try making a case against her using the laws regarding sexual predators on the net. She deserves the hell that comes with being a registered sex offender.
You could scare management by explaining to them that allowing direct access will disclose your database schema to the customer which will allow them to reverse engineer some of your service's design and possibly allow them to make their own (eliminating their need to continue working with your company).
Too bad not everybody puts a natural priority on public safety. In this ego-centric civilization, parent is unfortunately the exception and not the rule.
Is it just me or are women especially bad about this?
Uhm... Try spending more than 2 minutes on a microsoft website (especially downloads.microsoft.com) and there's a good chance you'll be asked if you'd like to try the "beta" silverlight version. Microsoft would be stupid to switch their default experience over to a new platform with such low market saturation.
At least with Windows7, the backwards compatibility nightmare will be over with virtualization similar to what Apple did.
Disclaimer: I work for M$ft (but in no way should my comments here be considered representative of Microsoft) Windows 2000 was pried from my cold dead fingers only because XP is required to VPN into work (some days it's nice to just work from home), but XP isn't as bad as I'd expected. Vista on the other hand, well, I crawled through a lot of broken glass working with IE7 Beta2 and I will NEVER willingly install it on any system I need to actually do something other than run office and surf the web. Windows7, on the other hand, looks very promising. Although, the WinMin kernel and such strongly reminds me of something some Finnish guy slapped together when he was in college... Enough background, to my point. One of my biggest problems with Microsoft is how as soon as there's a new platform, all development and marketing effort is put into it. Currently I'm working as part of an application development team for a Windows Mobile product. We're targeting WinMo 5 + .Net Compact Framework 1.0 because that's the largest existing install base out there for Windows based SmartPhones and PocketPCs. When we run into problems and post questions to mailing lists we're regularly getting called idiots for not using Compact Framework 3 or WinMo 6. Sure, what we need to do would be easy using those platforms, but NOBODY sells a phone with that already installed and it's asinine to expect users to upgrade just to run our application.
You can still buy phones with WinMo 5 and .Net CF 1.0, yet there's no internal support to speak of for either technology. I shudder to think what hell 3rd party developers must be going through. The platform teams at Microsoft tell us to use .Net CF 3, when .Net CF 2 isn't even standard on the market yet.
For that reason, I've decided to go for upper management rather than technical individual contributor just so I might have a chance at changing some of these fscked up ideas, or at least attempt to give developers some room for better practices and refinement of technologies rather than jumping to the latest and greatest when there's still lots of room for improvement on what's already in the market.
Seriously people, it's the 21st century, the information age. Privacy does not exist. You WILL give your information to banks, governments, health care agencies, employers, etc. in order to function in this world. They in turn will eventually fsck up and disclose said information publicly. I'm in favor of regulations that provide recourse and stiff penalties for organizations that mishandle information. However, they won't always be enforcible and lobbyists will put in loop holes making them ineffective, that's just reality. In the information age, your identity is your face. You don't walk down the street wearing a mask, do you? No, you'd look pretty silly. Do you yell at the shop clerk to not look at your face? No, you'd be considered rude. Just shut up and get used to it. Your identity is already public. Your personal information is likely to end up public. The best thing you can do is keep up to date on your credit profile and not be an idiot about spreading your information any more than you must.
Meh. The ones I rip from vinyl still sound better than ones ripped from CD using the same settings (which I tried, although normally I can't notice much difference from ripping a CD at 192). Anyways, I just think it's silly that they're complaining about loss of quality when going "digital" when a CD is already digital. The audiophiles complaining now will be looked upon in the same light as those who swear by vinyl's superiority over CDs.
44.1KHz is the sample rate, not a bit rate. Apples and oranges.
I have some stuff I ripped from vinyl at 64-256kB/s(vbr), sounds better to me than the CDs (which you only have to rip at 192 to get 100%).
If this was anyone but BillG@microsoft.com, like say google, I bet people would be applauding the genious of the nihilistic zen approach to making sure people have thouroughly thought through their proposals before brining them to the head cheese.
I'd say the best case for abuse would be not towards the business being called but the person who's number you use. Seems it'd be easy to make a google hack that could pretty much disable somebody's phone by issuing click-to-call's every 2 minutes or so. Imagine a friday night out with your girlfriend and every 2 minutes a different strip club starts ringing your phone?
I've been day dreaming of doing something like this with Mode 0x13 VGA game development for almost a year now. I have a few different ideas for the details, but basically a tournament that run 3 sessions over a weekend (Saturday late-morning through afternoon, Sunday morning, Sunday afternoon/evening) ending with live music and awards party Sunday night.
I have a place picked out and could organize it, the entry fee would cover the venue and the pot. The rest I'd cover out of pocket unless co-organizers would like to pitch in.
Anybody interested?
My personal experience has been fully self taught starting with BASIC when I was 12, C/C++ Turbo at 14 and then 5 years in the game industry and doing freelance development from 19 to present (25) and learning many langs/techs along the way (Lingo, ActionScript, VisBasic, assembly, Win32 API, DirectX, OpenGL, MaxScript, HTML, XML, CSS, ASP, javascript, Macromedia Object Architecture, SOAP, J2ME, BREW, SQL (Oracle and mySQL mainly), PHP, you get the idea). With all those, I felt I was spinning in dependancies as well, but I just kept pushing farther with every lap and it turns out what looks like a circle at the start is actually the base of a spring. Just keep going, google up code samples, surf forums, it'll all make sense eventually with patience and commitment.
That's where you're wrong. The problem isn't the spam, DDOS, IT costs, etc. The problem is the n00bs who have no respect for technology. Make a virus that makes the n00bs go blind, and the web will be a better place.
What we really need is a virus that doesn't screw around with mail relays and botnet building and something that will just completely fry the machine of anyone stupid enought to catch it. Then the web will be a better place. It's called natural selection.
Follow the money, he's worse than the spammers.
Spammers will not go away as long as people are willing to pay for their "services".
I seriously doubt an employment contract for customer service reps at a warehouse would include rights to software developed on their own time.
If they developed it on their own time (and preferably at home, not using company computers), then it's their IP. It's not part of their job description, and it's very unlikely they're getting paid enough to be developing software on a work-for-hire basis. So...
What they should do is draw up a contract/proposal, detailing the features, testing proceedure, launch proceedure, and compensation. If they don't actually want to do it, just put a huge price-tag in there. Of course, any price tag will probably make the manager balk as he/she probably thinks they're getting this new system/utility for the $9/hr they're already paying these guys.
Just in case, I want to point out that I was making a weak joke about the stereotypes, what was in my head was the general stereotype of programmers being anti-social, overweight white guys. Anywho. No offence was intended.
Only reason I wouldn't trade places with a rich black man is that I don't dig rap and basketball bores me. Actually, for his money, I could learn to love that shizzit. =P
Seriously though, I'm not saying that there's no discrimination. What I am saying that just because I'm white doesn't mean I automatically have it easier than anybody else is the low end of the income tax bracket. I've had to work hard to get where I am, and I'm not really anywhere good yet. I'm 24, have yet to get my Associate's Degree and have been fully supporting myself since I was 18. I've applied for grants and never gotten approval, and I can't help but wonder if my race/gender played a part in that, I know I met all the financial and academic requirements.
I resent that. I didn't have anything handed to me on a silver platter and I'm as white as it gets. I've had to work my arse off to get where I am and I'm not even that far. It's going to take over a year of working in a test department at a software company just to get enough money to go finish my associates degree.
It's not about color, it's about social class. Sure, maybe there's more latinos in the low end, but there's plenty of us crackers there too. Hell, I went to apply for a grant and the only thing that kept me from getting it was that I wasn't latino or female. So I'm going to have to earn my education.
I've been using qhacc for a while, and it's a cute hack, but not really useful. I'm just using it until I find something better. There's a few java ones that look promising, but I'm not a fan of java software. Getting lucky with google for "accounting linux" turned this up: http://www.aaxnet.com/design/linuxacct.html There's also the popular GnuCash (http://www.gnucash.org/).
If you have any interest in network nuts and bolts, you could get a job as a DSL lineman with the local telco. Last I checked, CWA (Communication Workers' Union) still had pretty good benefits too.
Other alteratives, that I've actually done, are PLC programming. There's still lots of nights sitting at the desk at home with a test setup on the table next to me, but there's just as much time spent out at sites installing and trouble shooting the units and sensor/relay wiring. And usually the sites don't really keep having a place to sit down in mind when they allocate a cabinet for the PLC, so some of my best fixes have been coded standing up.