Had this happen to me - I have an idea for the next app - I'll tell it to you, you build it, and you can have 1/2 the cash. My response? Consider: Someone approaches Steven King. Tells them they have a brilliant idea for a book - all he has to do is write it, and he can keep 1/2 of money. I'm betting Mr. King has a very full well (or 2, or 3) of the bodies of people like that.
If, on the other hand, someone approaches me, with desing notes, screen sketches etc of what they want built, I can give them an estimate as to how much it will cost them to get me to build it.
Somehow, realizing that they are going to have to pay to get their idea built seems to frighten most of them off.
While nigh impossible to get a good techy on the call support line, sometimes you do. And sometimes they listen.
When working on the 1 meg modem project, some of us had developer units. Internet goes down. Pattern of blinky LEDs on modem indicates that issue is with line card at other end.
Call tech support, ask them to reseat the line card. Get massive confusion on their end, as I've got access to better diagnostics then they do. And I know what their GUI looks like. And which alarm is active on it at the moment. Eventually, it sinks in with them, that they have someone who actually helped build the product they were supporting.
In the end, they did reseat the card, and my backup internet came back up.
Let them pay the H-1B applicants the same salary as before, but pay the extra amount straight to the government - You guys would have your debt cleared before you know it.
A new generation of parents no longer felt it important to teach their kids the work ethic through hard, manual work.
Or maybe they felt that having their kids spending their summers slaving in fields for piss poor wages wasn't a good thing anymore. Don't know about you, but if I can find a way for my kids to have a better summer job than that, I will. Hopefully it will be something that will be in the same field they eventually want to work in.
There are worse things than picking berries - I paid for my first year of university by picking pine cones for the MNR to eventually turn into tree seedlings for reforestation. Would I want my kids to do that? Heck no.
Are we going to have limits on what is an acceptable noise? Otherwise, I can see a race between the fart generators and the "When sally met harry fake orgasm" clips.
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Had this happen to me - I have an idea for the next app - I'll tell it to you, you build it, and you can have 1/2 the cash. My response? Consider: Someone approaches Steven King. Tells them they have a brilliant idea for a book - all he has to do is write it, and he can keep 1/2 of money. I'm betting Mr. King has a very full well (or 2, or 3) of the bodies of people like that.
If, on the other hand, someone approaches me, with desing notes, screen sketches etc of what they want built, I can give them an estimate as to how much it will cost them to get me to build it.
Somehow, realizing that they are going to have to pay to get their idea built seems to frighten most of them off.
Isn't that what Canadian Tire money is? - the stronger currency?
or manage to proceed without collapsing the workshop, cause your iron ore was located under your workshop, so you started digging at the side...
As is food fried in bacon grease - right?
Until I can get a USB adapter and hook my steel battalion controller to the Xbox One, no deal...
While nigh impossible to get a good techy on the call support line, sometimes you do. And sometimes they listen.
When working on the 1 meg modem project, some of us had developer units. Internet goes down. Pattern of blinky LEDs on modem indicates that issue is with line card at other end.
Call tech support, ask them to reseat the line card. Get massive confusion on their end, as I've got access to better diagnostics then they do. And I know what their GUI looks like. And which alarm is active on it at the moment. Eventually, it sinks in with them, that they have someone who actually helped build the product they were supporting.
In the end, they did reseat the card, and my backup internet came back up.
Maybe that's the problem - that he HAS switched wives - a few times...
Let them pay the H-1B applicants the same salary as before, but pay the extra amount straight to the government - You guys would have your debt cleared before you know it.
velcro tape?
Lets not forget microcode - which is pretty much needed to make assembly work.
I'm betting we get a self driving truck, except the entire back is a mini fusion reactor to power the laser cannon it uses to evaporate your trash.
Because putting fist sized gold nuggets in the flower gardens of the churches hasn't worked out so well.
Judging gender by a name is about as dumb as you can get. John Wayne would have kicked their butts.
A new generation of parents no longer felt it important to teach their kids the work ethic through hard, manual work.
Or maybe they felt that having their kids spending their summers slaving in fields for piss poor wages wasn't a good thing anymore. Don't know about you, but if I can find a way for my kids to have a better summer job than that, I will. Hopefully it will be something that will be in the same field they eventually want to work in.
There are worse things than picking berries - I paid for my first year of university by picking pine cones for the MNR to eventually turn into tree seedlings for reforestation. Would I want my kids to do that? Heck no.
Wouldn't dropping it on the far side of the moon work better? Eventually, we may find a good use for that stuff. (What could possibly go wrong?)
Wasn't that pretty much the plot from Die Hard 2?
Cue the guys with stick on extra zeros, of maybe just an extra 1 or 2 for the front...
Recall the bear from the movie AI?
That one got solved by the physics guys a while back. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...
Go for the eyes Boo!
Isn't that the point of driverless cars? Providing plausible deniability for road based bumping off of annoyances?
Are we going to have limits on what is an acceptable noise? Otherwise, I can see a race between the fart generators and the "When sally met harry fake orgasm" clips.
A race to the bottom.
That worked out so well for Saturn didn't it?
With only 5% of the world's population, the U.S. can only expect about 5% of Americans to be born here.
So did Spider Robinson. Go read "The Time Traveller" in Callahan's Crosstime Saloon.
Transplant shock.