Couldn't anyone setup a library, buy a bunch of books, and start loaning them out to people, w/o charge. As I understand it, the current fair use laws allow a person to loan stuff out, give it away or sell it. Why would a public library be any different? It's merely a community sponsored loaning orginization. For those of us who pay taxes, we own part of those books anyway. I agree with those who mentioned that this is just another industry crying for every penny they can get. Wake up and stop whinning. Then maybe you can make a product people want to buy. Then maybe you'll make some money!
i've skimmed a book about beautiful code, beautiful designs and such. the best kind of code is code that is "inhabitable" where one, or ones, can go into the code and feel comfortable learning the guts, and making modifications quickly and easily. this type of code is not beautiful. i've seen inhabitable code, and it's great for the maintenance team. beautiful code is more like a legend that doesn't exist. if it were truly beautiful, noone would dare touch a thing and it would outlive any usefull life. you don't see people going around touching up the mona lisa just because it needs some modifications. art (beauty) is somthing you build or create once and then walk away. code should not be art.
happened in mid 1994? I would think that's the market's reaction to the predicted future president. look at how the market has reacted recently to the election. while the election was "on-hold" the market was still, and seems to have went down hill since. you could say that bush had inherited a "bad economy", but i would suggest that the economy went bad as a result of the incoming president.
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what is all this complaining about email spam? i've seen this here too many times before, and i just don't get it. why should email be any different than any other medium? why not make it a law so that no one can send anything that they don't want? I'm sure we all get loads of crap in the mail box every day that we didn't ask for. we should send those people to jail and gouge them with huge fines. how about the grocery store ads that somehow appear every week in a plastic bag on the door? should those people check a list to see who wants the ads and who doesn't?
any regulation of this sort is going to cost tax dollars. how much money should the government spend to fill a jail with "spammers"? how much of your tax dollars do you want to be spent fighting spammers in the courts?
please, can't we all just filter the crap and get over it?
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Couldn't anyone setup a library, buy a bunch of books, and start loaning them out to people, w/o charge. As I understand it, the current fair use laws allow a person to loan stuff out, give it away or sell it. Why would a public library be any different? It's merely a community sponsored loaning orginization. For those of us who pay taxes, we own part of those books anyway. I agree with those who mentioned that this is just another industry crying for every penny they can get. Wake up and stop whinning. Then maybe you can make a product people want to buy. Then maybe you'll make some money!
i've skimmed a book about beautiful code, beautiful designs and such. the best kind of code is code that is "inhabitable" where one, or ones, can go into the code and feel comfortable learning the guts, and making modifications quickly and easily. this type of code is not beautiful. i've seen inhabitable code, and it's great for the maintenance team. beautiful code is more like a legend that doesn't exist. if it were truly beautiful, noone would dare touch a thing and it would outlive any usefull life. you don't see people going around touching up the mona lisa just because it needs some modifications. art (beauty) is somthing you build or create once and then walk away. code should not be art.
happened in mid 1994? I would think that's the market's reaction to the predicted future president. look at how the market has reacted recently to the election. while the election was "on-hold" the market was still, and seems to have went down hill since. you could say that bush had inherited a "bad economy", but i would suggest that the economy went bad as a result of the incoming president.
what is all this complaining about email spam? i've seen this here too many times before, and i just don't get it. why should email be any different than any other medium? why not make it a law so that no one can send anything that they don't want? I'm sure we all get loads of crap in the mail box every day that we didn't ask for. we should send those people to jail and gouge them with huge fines. how about the grocery store ads that somehow appear every week in a plastic bag on the door? should those people check a list to see who wants the ads and who doesn't?
any regulation of this sort is going to cost tax dollars. how much money should the government spend to fill a jail with "spammers"? how much of your tax dollars do you want to be spent fighting spammers in the courts?
please, can't we all just filter the crap and get over it?