So, we're going to use up the last drops of oil and wait for the planet to boil?
This is just insanity. We need to focus every last dime on alternative, sustainable sources of energy.
The reality is that most authors don't make that much from a book that sells for $28. A 99-cent payment is about half what an author gets from a book. So, the e-book model is actually pretty sustainable--that is except for the big 6 publishers in NYC. They can't afford to support a big pile of corporate interests on such little money but authors can do fine on that--IF they can get their books noticed.
I checked out the latter link and it by itself showed signs of the problem:
It described the accent-correcting application which was written in that new language "VB or 'Virtual Basic'" (SIC) and using "structured Query Language" (SIC). Pathetic.
Toad,
Whenever we did this, we would chase it for that exact reason. It was fun to do anyway and helped assuage our feelings about causing a fire.
Fortunately, the only real risk is when it's first ascending. After it gets aloft, the candle wax drips, makes it lighter and up it goes. By the time the candles burn out, it's really high and never on fire when it comes down finally. A total blast and among the funnest things I did as a kid. If you use the plastic drop cloth plastic, there is really no limit to how big you can make it. We would prefill it with a hair dryer to get the bag out of the way of the candles and then when you light the candles--up that sucker goes! I know a lot of people do it with dry cleaner bags but when you use drop cloths, it can become just massive. We used as many birthday candles as possible.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN8uHdzcZ6U
There is an infinitely better way.
Buy the thinnest clear drop cloth plastic you can find. Fold it into a pillowcase shape. With a piece of fabric to insulate the plastic, melt the edges around all four sides with a clothes iron. Just melt it enough to make a seal. You have a perfect bag that will hold air much better than this painfully ugly trash bag aircraft.
When combined with a balsa-wood cross at the open bottom and birthday candles, you have infinite teenage fun.
What Microsoft is going to announce is that they're retiring Silverlight and that.NET is going to be.NOT.
Sorry to all you folks who invested your time and brain capital in those technologies--you f'd up, you trusted Microsoft not to screw you.
So, do you think that Tolkien omitted sound from "The Hobbit"? Of course not. The sounds occur in your imagination. Each reader creates their own soundtrack, as inspired by the author. A good author such as Tolkien considers all five senses when writing a book.
What if your soundtrack-adder added some rinky-dink toy-piano music when the author intended the scene to be scary. Your soundtrack-adder just interfered with the artistic effect of the book. Think that would make Tolkien happy? There are a thousand effects that an author includes in a book. By adding your moronic sound track you have just interfered with those effects. If you don't understand that a writer writes to all five senses, then you must read at the level of a third grader.
Obviously you have never written a book. My last novel took me six years to write with countless hours, 30 drafts and one major architecture change along the way. Are you planning to add your own smiley face to the Mona Lisa? Not everybody wants or has the talent to write a book. Readers can read hundreds of novels in six years. A writer (one who has a day job like me and who has written 11 books over his career) spend years studying the craft of novel writing. They go to school and also learn to focus and concentrate. It is not a trivial enterprise.
Tell you what. Why don't you go get a copy of Leo Tolstoy's "War & Peace" and add a few chapters of your own. Or pick some book and jazz it up how you like. There is a large chance your book would be guaranteed to suck. Writing a book is not easy. Adding a soundtrack is trivial.
You are allowed to listen to anything you want while you read. You can do that today. That's not at all what this is describing, which is forcing everyone who listens to a work to endure the music selections of some non author. If you want to add music to your book--write a book and add your own music. Then, you can plan your book around that. That is not what they are describing. This is some jackasses unconnected with the precise process of writing the book arriving after the fact with their stupid me too ideas. Asinine.
You are free to add your own music as you wish when you read. However, this smacks of forcing every reader to endure some non-author bozo's music selections. It has nothing to do with the book. Have you ever read a novel? The book provides its own soundtrack. A novel by design appeals to all of your senses--and does not need some moron's music choices.
Since these guys even thought of this idea, they are idiots. First of all, the only person who has the right to choose a soundtrack is the original author.
Second, the whole idea of books is a completely immersive experience. This merely shows me these morons are not readers and don't know that the addition of a soundtrack adds nothing to the experience. Another stupid waste of time app.
I don't know how to break it to you, ol' chap, but Silverlight is dead. Microsoft won't even eat its own dog food but it expects you to get excited about it. Silverlight is dead. Move on.
This reveals a lot about Microsoft. Already, people who have a Windows Phone 7 are neither iPhone nor Android users. They're already suffering enough and Microsoft has to pile on the indignity of stealing their measly data. Microsoft must know everything there is to know about the 536 people--worldwide--who bought the Windows Phone 7.
Bet the same people invested heavily in Silverlight...
For several years I worked in Manhattan for one of those large privately held media Companies, one with both magazines and magazine websites galore, including ones you would know. We used to use Akamai. Sure they could cache our content and then absorb a lot of traffic from our servers, but they were expensive as hell--especially for what they did, in my opinion. I do seem to recall that our big company eventually dumped Akamai and all the money that went with it. Why they still exist I will never know.
I don't know what it is--but I get this gut feeling that I should eat one of those Elvis favorites: Deep-Fat-Fried Peanut Butter & Bannana sandwiches. I know it's horrible for me but... I can't explain it... it's just a gut feeling I get.
You would think that hackers might see there is no honor in hacking windows.
Windows is such a warmed over dog's breakfast that I can't imagine any self-respecting hacker spending the time to hack a Windows PC. Any fool who uses Windows probably has already had their bank accounts drained. You're just kicking an unconscious body laying in the alley. Why bother.
Look at yourselves... having a big jolly party. There are already so many fantastic features in Java--we're jaded in our big happy family. So many open-source offerings court the Java developer, we forget that we could be going back to Ol' Mamma Redmond night after night. Horrors!
Look at the poor, pathetic.NET developers. Unloved by Microsoft. Uneaten dogfood. Jilted in Windows 8. Told that.NET experience on a resume is a black mark with startups. They need an intervention.
Gentlemen and Lady, how can you Java Developers be so insensitive?.NET developers are weeping. A decade of hard-won knowledge lost and back with that FoxPro DBA textbook. They lay down with the Evil Empire and woke up with fleas. Go figure!
I have never understood the appeal of mindless games like Angry Birds.
The common app phone is such a wasted instrument. How much more it could really be. I will only use apps on my Android phone that I myself wrote.
They could have easily rewritten the old systems. They chose not to. The fact that they had database-access code mingled in the JSPs speaks plainly. Many developers do the minimum they can to get by. They leave at 4.59 and are content to do a bad job. There were dozens of worst practices. So, they could have done as I and many other developers have done--invest in their own brains, kept updating their technological skillset and updated their apps. They chose not to. The manager herself had tried to get them to improve their whack a mole bugs for a year before I got there. She said she specifically brought in an outside with an advanced skillset to force the issue. You may consider it a boast but the line between that an the statement of fact is merely a question of context, which I have now supplied.
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If you really believed that, why did you post as Anonymous Coward?
Alternative energy sources need to be researched and then they will create many, many more jobs without killing the climate.
You are right on the money. Disregard the oil junkies. You are 100% correct. Putting more CO2 in the air is insanity.
So, we're going to use up the last drops of oil and wait for the planet to boil? This is just insanity. We need to focus every last dime on alternative, sustainable sources of energy.
I didn't say that 99 cents went to the author. I said in volume 99 cents is enough--as a price.
The reality is that most authors don't make that much from a book that sells for $28. A 99-cent payment is about half what an author gets from a book. So, the e-book model is actually pretty sustainable--that is except for the big 6 publishers in NYC. They can't afford to support a big pile of corporate interests on such little money but authors can do fine on that--IF they can get their books noticed.
I checked out the latter link and it by itself showed signs of the problem: It described the accent-correcting application which was written in that new language "VB or 'Virtual Basic'" (SIC) and using "structured Query Language" (SIC). Pathetic.
Toad, Whenever we did this, we would chase it for that exact reason. It was fun to do anyway and helped assuage our feelings about causing a fire. Fortunately, the only real risk is when it's first ascending. After it gets aloft, the candle wax drips, makes it lighter and up it goes. By the time the candles burn out, it's really high and never on fire when it comes down finally. A total blast and among the funnest things I did as a kid. If you use the plastic drop cloth plastic, there is really no limit to how big you can make it. We would prefill it with a hair dryer to get the bag out of the way of the candles and then when you light the candles--up that sucker goes! I know a lot of people do it with dry cleaner bags but when you use drop cloths, it can become just massive. We used as many birthday candles as possible. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN8uHdzcZ6U
There is an infinitely better way. Buy the thinnest clear drop cloth plastic you can find. Fold it into a pillowcase shape. With a piece of fabric to insulate the plastic, melt the edges around all four sides with a clothes iron. Just melt it enough to make a seal. You have a perfect bag that will hold air much better than this painfully ugly trash bag aircraft. When combined with a balsa-wood cross at the open bottom and birthday candles, you have infinite teenage fun.
What Microsoft is going to announce is that they're retiring Silverlight and that .NET is going to be .NOT.
Sorry to all you folks who invested your time and brain capital in those technologies--you f'd up, you trusted Microsoft not to screw you.
So, do you think that Tolkien omitted sound from "The Hobbit"? Of course not. The sounds occur in your imagination. Each reader creates their own soundtrack, as inspired by the author. A good author such as Tolkien considers all five senses when writing a book.
What if your soundtrack-adder added some rinky-dink toy-piano music when the author intended the scene to be scary. Your soundtrack-adder just interfered with the artistic effect of the book. Think that would make Tolkien happy? There are a thousand effects that an author includes in a book. By adding your moronic sound track you have just interfered with those effects. If you don't understand that a writer writes to all five senses, then you must read at the level of a third grader.
Obviously you have never written a book. My last novel took me six years to write with countless hours, 30 drafts and one major architecture change along the way. Are you planning to add your own smiley face to the Mona Lisa? Not everybody wants or has the talent to write a book. Readers can read hundreds of novels in six years. A writer (one who has a day job like me and who has written 11 books over his career) spend years studying the craft of novel writing. They go to school and also learn to focus and concentrate. It is not a trivial enterprise.
Tell you what. Why don't you go get a copy of Leo Tolstoy's "War & Peace" and add a few chapters of your own. Or pick some book and jazz it up how you like. There is a large chance your book would be guaranteed to suck. Writing a book is not easy. Adding a soundtrack is trivial.
You are allowed to listen to anything you want while you read. You can do that today. That's not at all what this is describing, which is forcing everyone who listens to a work to endure the music selections of some non author. If you want to add music to your book--write a book and add your own music. Then, you can plan your book around that. That is not what they are describing. This is some jackasses unconnected with the precise process of writing the book arriving after the fact with their stupid me too ideas. Asinine.
You are free to add your own music as you wish when you read. However, this smacks of forcing every reader to endure some non-author bozo's music selections. It has nothing to do with the book. Have you ever read a novel? The book provides its own soundtrack. A novel by design appeals to all of your senses--and does not need some moron's music choices.
Since these guys even thought of this idea, they are idiots. First of all, the only person who has the right to choose a soundtrack is the original author.
Second, the whole idea of books is a completely immersive experience. This merely shows me these morons are not readers and don't know that the addition of a soundtrack adds nothing to the experience. Another stupid waste of time app.
I don't know how to break it to you, ol' chap, but Silverlight is dead. Microsoft won't even eat its own dog food but it expects you to get excited about it. Silverlight is dead. Move on.
Ballmer, go back to monkey dancing and stop filling /. with your shite.
This reveals a lot about Microsoft. Already, people who have a Windows Phone 7 are neither iPhone nor Android users. They're already suffering enough and Microsoft has to pile on the indignity of stealing their measly data. Microsoft must know everything there is to know about the 536 people--worldwide--who bought the Windows Phone 7.
Bet the same people invested heavily in Silverlight...
For several years I worked in Manhattan for one of those large privately held media Companies, one with both magazines and magazine websites galore, including ones you would know. We used to use Akamai. Sure they could cache our content and then absorb a lot of traffic from our servers, but they were expensive as hell--especially for what they did, in my opinion. I do seem to recall that our big company eventually dumped Akamai and all the money that went with it. Why they still exist I will never know.
I don't know what it is--but I get this gut feeling that I should eat one of those Elvis favorites: Deep-Fat-Fried Peanut Butter & Bannana sandwiches. I know it's horrible for me but... I can't explain it... it's just a gut feeling I get.
You would think that hackers might see there is no honor in hacking windows.
Windows is such a warmed over dog's breakfast that I can't imagine any self-respecting hacker spending the time to hack a Windows PC. Any fool who uses Windows probably has already had their bank accounts drained. You're just kicking an unconscious body laying in the alley. Why bother.
People, People, calm down, put a lid on it.
Look at yourselves... having a big jolly party. There are already so many fantastic features in Java--we're jaded in our big happy family. So many open-source offerings court the Java developer, we forget that we could be going back to Ol' Mamma Redmond night after night. Horrors!
Look at the poor, pathetic .NET developers. Unloved by Microsoft. Uneaten dogfood. Jilted in Windows 8. Told that .NET experience on a resume is a black mark with startups. They need an intervention.
Gentlemen and Lady, how can you Java Developers be so insensitive? .NET developers are weeping. A decade of hard-won knowledge lost and back with that FoxPro DBA textbook. They lay down with the Evil Empire and woke up with fleas. Go figure!
Thank you, Google!
Just in time!
I have been working on a project that would need to pump massive amounts of data through the pipes.
We live our lives mostly in the fleeting moment... but there is a way for that to change...
I have never understood the appeal of mindless games like Angry Birds. The common app phone is such a wasted instrument. How much more it could really be. I will only use apps on my Android phone that I myself wrote.
They could have easily rewritten the old systems. They chose not to. The fact that they had database-access code mingled in the JSPs speaks plainly. Many developers do the minimum they can to get by. They leave at 4.59 and are content to do a bad job. There were dozens of worst practices. So, they could have done as I and many other developers have done--invest in their own brains, kept updating their technological skillset and updated their apps. They chose not to. The manager herself had tried to get them to improve their whack a mole bugs for a year before I got there. She said she specifically brought in an outside with an advanced skillset to force the issue. You may consider it a boast but the line between that an the statement of fact is merely a question of context, which I have now supplied.