There is professional liability insurance for proprietary programmers, though you seem to be talking about something outside the realm of what insurance is supposed to address.
Accept the fact that even a $40,000/yr starting salary is a very, very GOOD place to be, and don't bemoan the dot.com years because they were FAKE. The salaries and benefits available then were a balloon. Don't peg your hopes to them.
Almost nobody's doing that anymore. When IT people these days say "I can't get a job", they mean they can't get ANY IT job, not the high paying ones.
I'm assuming the liability insurance will cover more than SCO. With the enormous amount of code changing hands in the OSS community, it's not really a bad idea to have liability insurance.
To graduate from an accredited law school, you have to have spent a minimum of two full years attending law school (with few, minor, and expensive exceptions).
The US's traditional position on R&D is not as special as you might think - in the pharmaceutical industry, R&D competition from India is nothing new - think of Ranbaxy, Dr Reddy's Labs to name a few. Yanks probably haven't heard of them but they are happily producing generic copies of Western blockbuster drugs
...you just offered a counterexample to your own proposition. Copying US scientists isn't really a great example of R&D.
- "3-2-1 Contact" was the science spinoff for middle school students. It presented some grade-level appropriate documentaries, followed by The Bloodhound Gang using those concepts to solve mysteries.
If hearing the 3-2-1 Contact theme song doesn't send you into euphoric nostalgia, then you didn't grow up right.
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There's companies buying politicians, people starving in africa so some warlord can live it up, and various cancers killing people left right and center.
I'd say the enormous increase in rates of cancer over the past century was the result in large part of industrial waste, but that would be arrogant of me.
No kidding. I'll make a disclaimer and mention that I didn't RTFA, but offhand it sounds like they're taxing private networks like they do public networks which were funded with public money.
It probably sounds like that because you didn't RTFA.
If we actually recieved value for the tax dollars we pay, that would be one thing. But the complete ineptness of virtually every beauracracy that I have ever dealt with (think DMV, USPS, IRS) destroys that hope.
I needed a driver's license, I applied through the DMV, they tested me, I got one.
When I need to send something to someone I put it in an envelope, and mail it, and it will get to them in 2 or 3 days, no matter where in the country they live.
I submitted my tax return to the IRS, and got my refund check a few weeks later.
American government officials are barred, I don't think the rest of us are, and congress can allow exceptions. However, I don't think (but I'm not sure) that under British law non-Commonwealth members are allowed to get the full knighthood with flourishes and title.
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Machinima people don't seem to know how to write, draw, sing, dance, direct, film or much of anything else very well.
See? They ARE like garage bands.
Oh please, they would do this so fast. If they didn't it would just be dumb. And all of you would do it too. And there's nothing wrong with that.
Don't you get it? Free means free for me to do what I want, but it doesn't mean you're free to do what you want.
"I don't think you should do X" doesn't mean "I will force you not to do X". Not a big believer in freedom of speech?
Or does a 206 MHz processor with 64 MB of ram seem like DRASTIC OVERKILL for a parking meter?
Nah. But admittedly the nVidia GeForce 6800 they put in each one may be a bit much...
True, but does turning a key force you to remember a complex stored memory? Nope.
Finding my keys does...
There is professional liability insurance for proprietary programmers, though you seem to be talking about something outside the realm of what insurance is supposed to address.
Accept the fact that even a $40,000/yr starting salary is a very, very GOOD place to be, and don't bemoan the dot.com years because they were FAKE. The salaries and benefits available then were a balloon. Don't peg your hopes to them.
Almost nobody's doing that anymore. When IT people these days say "I can't get a job", they mean they can't get ANY IT job, not the high paying ones.
The pro-outsourcing people don't really address that, it's more fun to scream ISOLATIONIST at you.
Support companies that make products that are worth buying at prices that are worth paying - wherever they are made.
Let me guess, you work for the marketing department of Nike.
I'm assuming the liability insurance will cover more than SCO. With the enormous amount of code changing hands in the OSS community, it's not really a bad idea to have liability insurance.
Most people spell it Macy*s, not Maceys.
Nah, that's just you and the marketing department of Macy's...
To graduate from an accredited law school, you have to have spent a minimum of two full years attending law school (with few, minor, and expensive exceptions).
Uhh...odd, they're making me do three years.
The US's traditional position on R&D is not as special as you might think - in the pharmaceutical industry, R&D competition from India is nothing new - think of Ranbaxy, Dr Reddy's Labs to name a few. Yanks probably haven't heard of them but they are happily producing generic copies of Western blockbuster drugs
...you just offered a counterexample to your own proposition. Copying US scientists isn't really a great example of R&D.
- "3-2-1 Contact" was the science spinoff for middle school students. It presented some grade-level appropriate documentaries, followed by The Bloodhound Gang using those concepts to solve mysteries.
If hearing the 3-2-1 Contact theme song doesn't send you into euphoric nostalgia, then you didn't grow up right.
There's companies buying politicians, people starving in africa so some warlord can live it up, and various cancers killing people left right and center.
I'd say the enormous increase in rates of cancer over the past century was the result in large part of industrial waste, but that would be arrogant of me.
They made profits of $187 million on revenue of $2.29 billion. I wish I could fail like that.
No kidding. I'll make a disclaimer and mention that I didn't RTFA, but offhand it sounds like they're taxing private networks like they do public networks which were funded with public money.
It probably sounds like that because you didn't RTFA.
If we actually recieved value for the tax dollars we pay, that would be one thing. But the complete ineptness of virtually every beauracracy that I have ever dealt with (think DMV, USPS, IRS) destroys that hope.
I needed a driver's license, I applied through the DMV, they tested me, I got one.
When I need to send something to someone I put it in an envelope, and mail it, and it will get to them in 2 or 3 days, no matter where in the country they live.
I submitted my tax return to the IRS, and got my refund check a few weeks later.
Where's the complete ineptness?
You know, believe it or not the revenue services don't get to keep the tax money themselves.
Surprised St. John's made the list. I went there like 10 years ago and if they even had computer labs they were well hidden.
Just about as effective as security-by-obscurity.
Which is actually is pretty effective.
American government officials are barred, I don't think the rest of us are, and congress can allow exceptions. However, I don't think (but I'm not sure) that under British law non-Commonwealth members are allowed to get the full knighthood with flourishes and title.
Yep. Just don't lose the quotation marks.
What are these see-through things in most of the outside walls of my house called?
There's an outside now?
Heads up, good buddy, it's your debt too.