Rather than trying to avoid horrible legacy code, admit that the world is built out of horrible legacy code. Get hold of Martin Fowler, “Refactoring” and Michael C Feathers, “Working Effectively with Legacy Code” then develop your skills at working with legacy code to turn it into better code.
After all, that new beautiful code that you wrote for that last job is now someone else's horrible legacy code.
It is a matter of perception & expectation management.
Watch as your nation is demolished by people claiming that religion is more important than science, and that giving all children the same grade in reading tests is better for their education. If you want to know where your country is headed, watch "Idiocracy".
Just remember that it's easier to control a population if they are uneducated and fearful.
Brooks Duncan will help you go paperless, tame your documents and provide useful hints. Well worth visiting.
Of course, Fujitsu ScanSnap is the most recommended scanner. I have one myself, and it's a joy to use. Just put the paper in the tray, press the blue button. A short while later the searchable (i.e.: OCRed) document is sitting in my electronic Inbox, and the paper can go to the shredder.
I use Leap to name and tag the documents, then Hazel conveniently files them away for me.
That's not the point. The point is that the Apple iBooks Author program is free to use, but if you make money from the output of the program you do it on Apple's terms.
If you didn't want to use Metroworks, you would just go and write your own toolchain. If you don't like bit keeper's conditions, you would just go write your own version control system. If you don't like Microsoft's Educational licence restrictions, you'd just go buy the full version or write your own word processor.
Licencing conditions on commercial use of tools are not a new thing. We still have the option of writing our own WYSIWIG GUI for editing ePub 3.0 format, with live reviewing on the iPad or other device sitting on the desk.
At least you can rest secure in the knowledge that Apple isn't going to give your book away for free in order to boost sales figures, like Amazon does.
There's also the possibility that Lamo was lying, or that the "Bradley Manning" he was chatting with was actually someone else trying to set Bradley up as a stool pigeon.
an "invisible glass" screen will achieve the same result as the "glossy screen" - no surface treatment interfering with the colour depth and resolution of the LCD panel.
Sure other stores might be cheaper in your hypothetical model, and fanboys are rabid looneys in your hypothetical model, but here's how it goes in real life:
If I want Sony music, I head over to Bandit.fm. Check out the prices for Gotye and Kimbra - the iTunes store is cheaper or the same price. If I want stuff that Sony doesn't have, I have to find the online store for that particular publisher. Or I could head to the iTunes store where the music I want is available at the same price.
The only thing I agree with you about is that iTunes is an unholy mess. I prefer the "good old days" when synchronising stuff between devices was done by iSync, and all iTunes was used for was to play music.
But as for your last example - does anyone still use CDs? Really?
An injunction simply means that the Judge has decided that there is enough substance in this case to warrant it actually proceeding. Thus until the case is resolved, Samsung is not allowed to ship a potentially infringing product.
If Samsung wins the case, Apple will be liable for damages.
So don't worry, Samsung iPad fans, you might end up being able to buy your iPad ripoff in Australia after all!
I have a FireWire/USB disk enclosure, and regularly get double the throughput on FireWire 800 versus USB 2.0 (contemporaneous standards). It might be just my imagination, but the disk is quieter when running under FireWire.
So anyone who thinks the standard is "dead" is simply in denial.
I'd make an ad hominem attack about such people being happy gluing $20k worth of plastic onto a $10k car instead of buying the $25k car to start with, but I'm not normally that kind of person.
It does cost money to build the network in the first place, and funnily enough while the cost of cable is relatively small and the cost of digging it into the ground or hanging it off concrete trees doesn't change mich in relation to how many pairs are in use, it does cost a great big truckload of money to terminate the cable and send/receive data, and then route that data to someone else's network.
The costs you are indicating are similar to utilization fees. That is, if you utilize 100% of a cable's capacity, you pay 100% of the upkeep costs. Quotas are a simplistic form utilization charge, where you simply give the end user a proportion of the cable's capacity for a month at a set fee, then either charge penalty rates for over use (learn to budget, dumb end user) or shape to very low speed for the remainder of the billing cycle.
This is a model of billing that has been used in Australia successfully,with ISPs using the profits to expand their capacity. There will always be complainers, of course, but they will be the ones who assume that having a 20Mbps carrier means they should be able to download at 20Mbps all day, every day, for $20/month. Sorry mate, the world doesn't work like that.
Ironic would be if you set up a firewall on the PABX to prevent Lulzsec performing a DDoS on your call centre, but then a major disaster occurred and half the people trying to call you for help weren't able to get through because of your firewall.
Ironic would be if you were participating in the Lulzsec DDoS and ended up taking out your own services.
Ironic would be writing a song titled "Ironic" which proceeds to describe a whole raft of scenarios which are actually not irony at all.
What you experienced was neither irony nor coincidence. What you experienced was simply as would be expected in the scenario that occurred.
In Australia we've had caps for a long time, with some providers giving cheaper versions of Facebook (because Facebook provides a mobile-optimised version at m.facebook.com) accessed through their provider-specific starting screens. They don't block Bing or Google, they don't block MySpace, they just provide cheaper access to the things that will help sign people up to their plans.
There are laws against offering people one thing and selling them another.
The funny thing is that even with caps on data, the Australian mobile carriers are still screaming like stuck pigs about their customers having the audacity to actually use the quota that they've been sold!
I have hidden the address bar on my browsers for many years. Command+L to reveal it so I can type in a new location, or Command+Space, search term, tab, "Bing" and off we go to the search results...
What should be of interest to shareholders of any company is the succession planning. Any CEO could be hit by a bus/train or (more likely in the USA) cop a bullet in a drive by shooting. Do you include the question of succession planning when you are researching stocks to buy?
Good luck selling your software to half the population of the USA (much less the rest of the world) when the only language you can use is American English.
Internationalisation and localisation are separate to the issue of source code being able to represent variable names and string constants written in Unicode, eg: "écrire" rather than "ecrire" will keep your French users happier. A variable named fichier_à_écrire might make more sense to a French programmer too (I'm only using Google translate here, I have no idea how to correctly translate "output file").
To insist that the French programmer uses "fichier_a_ecrire" instead would be equivalent to insisting that English speaking programmers use "1" for lower-case L, upper-case I, and the shell "pipe" - hey, they all look the same anyway, right? H0w d1ff1cu1t d0e5 1t need t0 be bef0re y0u rea1i5e that 11m1t1ng character 5et5 15 a 51gn1f1cant hand1cap?
please describe the way you change the volume of the next song, or the volume of the phone call you are currently engaged in, if the reader application has remapped the volume control buttons to be scrolling controls?
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Rather than trying to avoid horrible legacy code, admit that the world is built out of horrible legacy code. Get hold of Martin Fowler, “Refactoring” and Michael C Feathers, “Working Effectively with Legacy Code” then develop your skills at working with legacy code to turn it into better code.
After all, that new beautiful code that you wrote for that last job is now someone else's horrible legacy code.
It is a matter of perception & expectation management.
Watch as your nation is demolished by people claiming that religion is more important than science, and that giving all children the same grade in reading tests is better for their education. If you want to know where your country is headed, watch "Idiocracy".
Just remember that it's easier to control a population if they are uneducated and fearful.
http://www.documentsnap.com/
Brooks Duncan will help you go paperless, tame your documents and provide useful hints. Well worth visiting.
Of course, Fujitsu ScanSnap is the most recommended scanner. I have one myself, and it's a joy to use. Just put the paper in the tray, press the blue button. A short while later the searchable (i.e.: OCRed) document is sitting in my electronic Inbox, and the paper can go to the shredder.
I use Leap to name and tag the documents, then Hazel conveniently files them away for me.
Leap: http://www.ironicsoftware.com/leap/
Hazel: http://www.noodlesoft.com/hazel.php
Of course, I'm a Mac user. There will no doubt be similar products for Linux (using xattrs to tag files, perhaps?)
That's not the point. The point is that the Apple iBooks Author program is free to use, but if you make money from the output of the program you do it on Apple's terms.
If you didn't want to use Metroworks, you would just go and write your own toolchain. If you don't like bit keeper's conditions, you would just go write your own version control system. If you don't like Microsoft's Educational licence restrictions, you'd just go buy the full version or write your own word processor.
Licencing conditions on commercial use of tools are not a new thing. We still have the option of writing our own WYSIWIG GUI for editing ePub 3.0 format, with live reviewing on the iPad or other device sitting on the desk.
At least you can rest secure in the knowledge that Apple isn't going to give your book away for free in order to boost sales figures, like Amazon does.
And the fact that it's Motorola instead of Google makes it just fine for them to violate the F/RAND licensing six ways to Sunday?
There's also the possibility that Lamo was lying, or that the "Bradley Manning" he was chatting with was actually someone else trying to set Bradley up as a stool pigeon.
an "invisible glass" screen will achieve the same result as the "glossy screen" - no surface treatment interfering with the colour depth and resolution of the LCD panel.
Sure other stores might be cheaper in your hypothetical model, and fanboys are rabid looneys in your hypothetical model, but here's how it goes in real life:
If I want Sony music, I head over to Bandit.fm. Check out the prices for Gotye and Kimbra - the iTunes store is cheaper or the same price. If I want stuff that Sony doesn't have, I have to find the online store for that particular publisher. Or I could head to the iTunes store where the music I want is available at the same price.
The only thing I agree with you about is that iTunes is an unholy mess. I prefer the "good old days" when synchronising stuff between devices was done by iSync, and all iTunes was used for was to play music.
But as for your last example - does anyone still use CDs? Really?
An injunction simply means that the Judge has decided that there is enough substance in this case to warrant it actually proceeding. Thus until the case is resolved, Samsung is not allowed to ship a potentially infringing product.
If Samsung wins the case, Apple will be liable for damages.
So don't worry, Samsung iPad fans, you might end up being able to buy your iPad ripoff in Australia after all!
Pity it's off-base.
How about, "Apple bans game that portrays suicide & child slavery, and offers to collect donations outside the usual rules for the App Store."
But that doesn't have the same attention-pulling power, does it?
It's the go-to place because that's where everybody goes.
c.f.: the network effect
So you're okay taking someone's blood money, but you're not going to stop them committing more crimes?
I have a FireWire/USB disk enclosure, and regularly get double the throughput on FireWire 800 versus USB 2.0 (contemporaneous standards). It might be just my imagination, but the disk is quieter when running under FireWire.
So anyone who thinks the standard is "dead" is simply in denial.
I'd make an ad hominem attack about such people being happy gluing $20k worth of plastic onto a $10k car instead of buying the $25k car to start with, but I'm not normally that kind of person.
It does cost money to build the network in the first place, and funnily enough while the cost of cable is relatively small and the cost of digging it into the ground or hanging it off concrete trees doesn't change mich in relation to how many pairs are in use, it does cost a great big truckload of money to terminate the cable and send/receive data, and then route that data to someone else's network.
The costs you are indicating are similar to utilization fees. That is, if you utilize 100% of a cable's capacity, you pay 100% of the upkeep costs. Quotas are a simplistic form utilization charge, where you simply give the end user a proportion of the cable's capacity for a month at a set fee, then either charge penalty rates for over use (learn to budget, dumb end user) or shape to very low speed for the remainder of the billing cycle.
This is a model of billing that has been used in Australia successfully,with ISPs using the profits to expand their capacity. There will always be complainers, of course, but they will be the ones who assume that having a 20Mbps carrier means they should be able to download at 20Mbps all day, every day, for $20/month. Sorry mate, the world doesn't work like that.
You forgot Natalie Portman!
Ironic would be if you set up a firewall on the PABX to prevent Lulzsec performing a DDoS on your call centre, but then a major disaster occurred and half the people trying to call you for help weren't able to get through because of your firewall.
Ironic would be if you were participating in the Lulzsec DDoS and ended up taking out your own services.
Ironic would be writing a song titled "Ironic" which proceeds to describe a whole raft of scenarios which are actually not irony at all.
What you experienced was neither irony nor coincidence. What you experienced was simply as would be expected in the scenario that occurred.
Do you have any basis for this claim?
In Australia we've had caps for a long time, with some providers giving cheaper versions of Facebook (because Facebook provides a mobile-optimised version at m.facebook.com) accessed through their provider-specific starting screens. They don't block Bing or Google, they don't block MySpace, they just provide cheaper access to the things that will help sign people up to their plans.
There are laws against offering people one thing and selling them another.
The funny thing is that even with caps on data, the Australian mobile carriers are still screaming like stuck pigs about their customers having the audacity to actually use the quota that they've been sold!
They play for fun, not grinding.
I have hidden the address bar on my browsers for many years. Command+L to reveal it so I can type in a new location, or Command+Space, search term, tab, "Bing" and off we go to the search results...
What should be of interest to shareholders of any company is the succession planning. Any CEO could be hit by a bus/train or (more likely in the USA) cop a bullet in a drive by shooting. Do you include the question of succession planning when you are researching stocks to buy?
Good luck selling your software to half the population of the USA (much less the rest of the world) when the only language you can use is American English.
Internationalisation and localisation are separate to the issue of source code being able to represent variable names and string constants written in Unicode, eg: "écrire" rather than "ecrire" will keep your French users happier. A variable named fichier_à_écrire might make more sense to a French programmer too (I'm only using Google translate here, I have no idea how to correctly translate "output file").
To insist that the French programmer uses "fichier_a_ecrire" instead would be equivalent to insisting that English speaking programmers use "1" for lower-case L, upper-case I, and the shell "pipe" - hey, they all look the same anyway, right? H0w d1ff1cu1t d0e5 1t need t0 be bef0re y0u rea1i5e that 11m1t1ng character 5et5 15 a 51gn1f1cant hand1cap?
please describe the way you change the volume of the next song, or the volume of the phone call you are currently engaged in, if the reader application has remapped the volume control buttons to be scrolling controls?
Okay, I couldn't resist. But when the best defense you have against falcons is to use falcons yourself, doesn't that mean the falcon is overpowered?
Damned ECM ships.
there is a world of difference between liking computer games more than sex, and not having sex.
It's a faceoff between basement virgins and Warcraft widowers.