If I can avoid the ad by configuring my browser a certain way or writing a patch or plug-in, I'll do that. Otherwise, I simply have to decide whether or not the content is worth the price. If I really want to read a certain story, I guess I have to suffer through the ad. That's their price for delivering the content. If the price proves too steep, they'll lose customers and the world will continue to spin.
As for avoiding the ad via technological means, I think people will have a much tougher time with it when the content providers start putting the content and advertising in the same Flash movie. So people without Flash cannot get it. Whatever...they're only valuable as consumers if they see the ad anyway.
What if I as the parent of a 17 year old, give them permission to look at porn? Can I have that block removed from their phone... a phone I most likely bought and paid for in the first place?
Yes you can, but you are then officially identified as an unfit parent. Your children will be removed from your custody, and you will be instructed not to have any more.
Ok, so right now the only exercise I get during work hours is typing, and occasionally moving and clicking the mouse. Now I'm just going to sit still all day and think code? Gonna need a bigger chair.
Prosecution: The prosecution would like to enter two printed directory listings. We would like to enter as Exhibit 'A' a listing from the CVS source code repository of our client, showing the code in question checked in at 14:47, August 12th, 1998. Further, Exhibit 'B' shows the same files checked into the subpoenaed source tree of the defendant on 08:33, February 3, 2000.
Defense: The defense would like to enter into evidence Exhibit 'A', my birth certificate, clearly showing that I was born on July 1st, 1974. Exhibit 'B' is a directory listing from my own source code repository demonstrating that I wrote and checked in the first five books of the Harry Potter childrens' book series between 16:22 and 16:25 on March 9th, 1971.
Don't know how young your munchkin is, but my 2yo daughter is currently helping me build the meter-long Death Star. I pick out one example of a piece of which I need 34 and tell her to find 33 more of them. She really digs it. It helps with her fine motor skills (handling the small pieces), fine shape distinctions (1x1 plate with a loop at the end is different from a 1x1 plate without), and counting. And when we finish a page of building, she cheers.
It may take 10x as long as doing it myself, but who cares? That just means more time playing with Legos!
He never says anything like that in the article. It's his "Top Ten Most Important" computers. Way different than most popular. I was going to guess the original iMac based on the article header, but it was completely misleading. Bah.
Not that I've ever been in your situation, mind you. My life consists of paid projects I wouldn't choose to develop on my own to subsidize unpaid work on projects I love. Consider anything you get a bonus.
That said, there's no reason to tell your client the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Focus negotiations on the value your software represents to him. If your software is worth more to him than he is paying you to do the development work, the deal will get done. Let him know you would keep working on it for free, and even if he wants to pay you to speed things up, you won't get as much. Let him know that due to other obligations, you were thinking of maybe dropping the project, or at least drastically pulling back on the number of hours you can contribute. Encourage him that for the right price you can afford instead to drop your other obligations and make this product really kick ass, which is of course what you would prefer to do, if only it could be facilitated.
All you really need to do to fix the turbulence problem is to make two large panes of glass, the size of your intended display area. Hang them parallel and let the gas flow between them. The glass protects the fog from the surrounding air.
Professor Usher obviously never authorized the RIAA to act as his agent, and whomever issued the takedown letter swore under penalty of perjury that they were acting as his agent. So why hasn't this ended up in court?
Probably because the RIAA actually swore that they were acting as the agent of the musician Usher. I doubt they knew this professor existed, or ever claimed to be acting on his behalf. So they did not perjure themselves.
PayPal wont accept payment for "adult" related eBusiness now (ie; pornos). Whoever steps in to fill that gap make a friggin mint.
Maybe, maybe not. I very much doubt PayPal's decision is based on any kind of moral grounding. It's likely due to the absurdly high rate of chargebacks associated with adult material. Anyone hoping to step in and make a mint from the business had better have a very good way to deal with the tremendous potential losses involved.
The right to bear arms is indeed a right. That doesn't mean it is incumbent on anyone else to buy you your gun. That's your responsibility. Along the same lines, I can accept that people have a right to education, health care, and even the Internet, and those should be protected under the 10th Amendment. But in none of those cases should it be required that anyone else provide those things for you. A right is something the government should not be allowed to prevent YOU from doing for YOURSELF. No one has a right to force someone else to render them a service, or to confiscate the hard-earned products of their labor.
When the terrorist biological weapon hits, releasing some robust, vaccine-resistant mutation of smallpox, whichever city it lands in will do its best to keep it under wraps so as not to damage its tourism industry. SARS was benign. I am not encouraged.
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If I can avoid the ad by configuring my browser a certain way or writing a patch or plug-in, I'll do that. Otherwise, I simply have to decide whether or not the content is worth the price. If I really want to read a certain story, I guess I have to suffer through the ad. That's their price for delivering the content. If the price proves too steep, they'll lose customers and the world will continue to spin.
As for avoiding the ad via technological means, I think people will have a much tougher time with it when the content providers start putting the content and advertising in the same Flash movie. So people without Flash cannot get it. Whatever...they're only valuable as consumers if they see the ad anyway.
Yes you can, but you are then officially identified as an unfit parent. Your children will be removed from your custody, and you will be instructed not to have any more.
Ok, so right now the only exercise I get during work hours is typing, and occasionally moving and clicking the mouse. Now I'm just going to sit still all day and think code? Gonna need a bigger chair.
Prosecution: The prosecution would like to enter two printed directory listings. We would like to enter as Exhibit 'A' a listing from the CVS source code repository of our client, showing the code in question checked in at 14:47, August 12th, 1998. Further, Exhibit 'B' shows the same files checked into the subpoenaed source tree of the defendant on 08:33, February 3, 2000.
Defense: The defense would like to enter into evidence Exhibit 'A', my birth certificate, clearly showing that I was born on July 1st, 1974. Exhibit 'B' is a directory listing from my own source code repository demonstrating that I wrote and checked in the first five books of the Harry Potter childrens' book series between 16:22 and 16:25 on March 9th, 1971.
-- ShadyG
Should have previewed before posting. It's the meter-long Star Destroyer, of course. Hmm...which dimension of the Death Star is the long one again?
Don't know how young your munchkin is, but my 2yo daughter is currently helping me build the meter-long Death Star. I pick out one example of a piece of which I need 34 and tell her to find 33 more of them. She really digs it. It helps with her fine motor skills (handling the small pieces), fine shape distinctions (1x1 plate with a loop at the end is different from a 1x1 plate without), and counting. And when we finish a page of building, she cheers.
It may take 10x as long as doing it myself, but who cares? That just means more time playing with Legos!
No, actually Mr. CEO is shipping them high skilled jobs, and "we" support his freedom to determine whom he does and does not hire.
You ever notice Gimli says this right after he's finished shattering his axe in a vain attempt to cleave the Ring?
He never says anything like that in the article. It's his "Top Ten Most Important" computers. Way different than most popular. I was going to guess the original iMac based on the article header, but it was completely misleading. Bah.
The way I read it, they searched for child porn specifically, and 42% of the 1286 search results were valid.
The more likely headline:
"Mandrake 9.2 ISOs Available"
Not that I've ever been in your situation, mind you. My life consists of paid projects I wouldn't choose to develop on my own to subsidize unpaid work on projects I love. Consider anything you get a bonus.
That said, there's no reason to tell your client the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Focus negotiations on the value your software represents to him. If your software is worth more to him than he is paying you to do the development work, the deal will get done. Let him know you would keep working on it for free, and even if he wants to pay you to speed things up, you won't get as much. Let him know that due to other obligations, you were thinking of maybe dropping the project, or at least drastically pulling back on the number of hours you can contribute. Encourage him that for the right price you can afford instead to drop your other obligations and make this product really kick ass, which is of course what you would prefer to do, if only it could be facilitated.
-- ShadyG
Damnit, I knew there was a catch.
All you really need to do to fix the turbulence problem is to make two large panes of glass, the size of your intended display area. Hang them parallel and let the gas flow between them. The glass protects the fog from the surrounding air.
Probably because the RIAA actually swore that they were acting as the agent of the musician Usher. I doubt they knew this professor existed, or ever claimed to be acting on his behalf. So they did not perjure themselves.
Split infinitive?
Maybe, maybe not. I very much doubt PayPal's decision is based on any kind of moral grounding. It's likely due to the absurdly high rate of chargebacks associated with adult material. Anyone hoping to step in and make a mint from the business had better have a very good way to deal with the tremendous potential losses involved.
Except that ((((c++)++)++)++) == c++ == c
The right to bear arms is indeed a right. That doesn't mean it is incumbent on anyone else to buy you your gun. That's your responsibility. Along the same lines, I can accept that people have a right to education, health care, and even the Internet, and those should be protected under the 10th Amendment. But in none of those cases should it be required that anyone else provide those things for you. A right is something the government should not be allowed to prevent YOU from doing for YOURSELF. No one has a right to force someone else to render them a service, or to confiscate the hard-earned products of their labor.
When the terrorist biological weapon hits, releasing some robust, vaccine-resistant mutation of smallpox, whichever city it lands in will do its best to keep it under wraps so as not to damage its tourism industry. SARS was benign. I am not encouraged.
I think In-N-Out would have supplied some prior art on that one.
Hardly the first. Lisp has been doing this for decades.
-- ShadyG
Who lives at that kind of altitude? I'd guess most of us will get the full data rate, while a few in the Rockies will get slightly less.
-- ShadyG
It's PEOPLE! Bavarian beer is PEOPLE!!!
-- ShadyG
No, because it will not have fallen into the public domain, and IP laws will have further evolved to plug that nasty "fair use" loophole.
-- ShadyG