The ones that fail would've failed in any industry that has a technology refresh every so often: science, medical, even manufacturing in some cases.
I did want to nail home one point here though: The mutual consensuses is that C# is a LOT easier to write in than Cobol, a ton of stuff is already created for you by MS, it's stomaching the technology overhead that typically proves to be the most challenging.
The difference between the 20 yr and 40 yr old programmer is that the former will push untested code into production and all that entails.
We get these discussions semi-weekly it seems that you at least have been unable to comprehend that it takes a mix of experience to make a coding team.
The hardware engineers can gloat when they learn or hire someone to write their user manuals:)
Not if the P2P exposure causes them to be downloaded to the point where they start losing sales they would've gotten legitimately, but that's only my opinion. I can only theorize.
Just to emphasis one more time... you can get the books from a library and still read them. I don't own the books either and I could care less about Card, but I did enjoy reading the books back in early highschool (I think).
Thinking back to that time... I remember a chick never watched Braveheart because she didn't like Mel Gibson... does that make Braveheart a bad movie? See what I'm getting at?
There's a lot of controversial concepts wars, homosexuality, etc.. in the Bible, better stop reading that too (or financially support it lmao) and burn it...
or not.
the posters today are seriously dumber than nails. What gives?
If you're a robot and take GP's comment literally sure. However, I'm assuming he refuses to read any of the books regardless of whether they came from a library or not, due to his sympathies for the gay community. My point being the author's personal views don't affect the quality of the works they produce. By GP's logic Tolkien is also a racist, so lets stop reading & watching LOTR... fat chance. You'll find that a lot of our creative geniuses don't necessarily win popularity contests.
Pay now listen now, my point to you being that the "convenience" factor has existed for years and years. Your argument about trying it first then buying it later has existed even longer, so when you say
more convenient than the crappy "approved" distribution models
That's a tough one, I wonder if the exposure on p2p would counter-act that 1% with easier to obtain pirated copies, but fundamentally the more places you peddle your digital product, the richer you get.
They can do so with the existing system equally ASSUMING people want to support them after listening to them. This new system would make it more convenient to do so it seems.
I actually thought this too. A legitimate for profit business (regardless of ethics) has far more rights in our capitalistic society than somebody offering a free controversial service.
Underestimating people by thinking that they won't download the next link down, which is the completely free pirated album.
Underestimating the RIAA's greed that they would actually agree to this.
Underestimating the artists themselves as most don't have more than 2-3 good songs an album anyways.
It does make a bit of sense though as I can grab a recorder and get the hit songs off the radio I guess (quality debate out of scope), but so far the best model I've seen for selling music based off of samples is playing the first 20-30 seconds of the song and then asking if the user wants to buy it.
Still at least, they're trying, I'll give them that.
I think I'm equally divided on the agree/disagree factor here, and it's probably a little of both...
1. The company is too disorganized / doesn't know what they're doing, but they have enough sense to see the value of information, so they grab as much as they can, while valuable, they still don't really know what they have / what they're doing with it, these are prime hacker targets (iOS location tracking fiasco).
2. The company has bigger aspirations with the data they mine, the data is mined as thoroughly as possible, categorized, data mined, and formed into trend statistics that the FBI / NSA are very interested in (facebook).
As I said, it's probably a little of both that drives these unethical data collection practices.
A calling to teach, and a passion in the subject make the best teachers. If the teacher is passionate about both math and english, they will excel at teaching both using the same teaching skill, but bouncing between two different passions.
And yes... good teachers are very hard to find, most people see it as a job, it's unfortunate they don't understand / care about the social responsibility it entails.
Your problem is you see it as a job, not a calling. It only works well when it's the latter. I've had plenty of teachers that just show up to do their jobs, and guess what I don't remember the name of a single of them.
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The ones that fail would've failed in any industry that has a technology refresh every so often: science, medical, even manufacturing in some cases.
I did want to nail home one point here though: The mutual consensuses is that C# is a LOT easier to write in than Cobol, a ton of stuff is already created for you by MS, it's stomaching the technology overhead that typically proves to be the most challenging.
You don't have a clue...
The difference between the 20 yr and 40 yr old programmer is that the former will push untested code into production and all that entails.
We get these discussions semi-weekly it seems that you at least have been unable to comprehend that it takes a mix of experience to make a coding team.
The hardware engineers can gloat when they learn or hire someone to write their user manuals :)
Haha,
what reality stars are emotionally stable?
If they want to make a reality show, I think we know exactly the type of people they'll select and trust me they won't be astronaut grade.
Not if the P2P exposure causes them to be downloaded to the point where they start losing sales they would've gotten legitimately, but that's only my opinion. I can only theorize.
Just to emphasis one more time... you can get the books from a library and still read them. I don't own the books either and I could care less about Card, but I did enjoy reading the books back in early highschool (I think).
Thinking back to that time... I remember a chick never watched Braveheart because she didn't like Mel Gibson... does that make Braveheart a bad movie? See what I'm getting at?
There's a lot of controversial concepts wars, homosexuality, etc.. in the Bible, better stop reading that too (or financially support it lmao) and burn it...
or not.
the posters today are seriously dumber than nails. What gives?
Had absolutely nothing to do with it!
If you're a robot and take GP's comment literally sure. However, I'm assuming he refuses to read any of the books regardless of whether they came from a library or not, due to his sympathies for the gay community. My point being the author's personal views don't affect the quality of the works they produce. By GP's logic Tolkien is also a racist, so lets stop reading & watching LOTR... fat chance. You'll find that a lot of our creative geniuses don't necessarily win popularity contests.
have you heard of the Amazon music store? :P
Pay now listen now, my point to you being that the "convenience" factor has existed for years and years. Your argument about trying it first then buying it later has existed even longer, so when you say
more convenient than the crappy "approved" distribution models
You come off as sounding ignorant.
you don't know who Nietzsche is do you?
What a moronic argument, Nietzsche fucked some animal in a street, does that mean we should disregard him as a philosopher?
obvious troll is obvious.
you've never read the books have you?
Ender's game = work of art
Bender's game = shitty animated film
I for one would never think of them in the same thought(s)... except for your post.
That's a tough one, I wonder if the exposure on p2p would counter-act that 1% with easier to obtain pirated copies, but fundamentally the more places you peddle your digital product, the richer you get.
a remember? I don't take illogical advice from ACs who can't form proper sentences.
Ehh... and unicorns exist. That's my counter-argument. The thing I missed was the time I spent reading your post. Sorry.
They can do so with the existing system equally ASSUMING people want to support them after listening to them. This new system would make it more convenient to do so it seems.
I actually thought this too. A legitimate for profit business (regardless of ethics) has far more rights in our capitalistic society than somebody offering a free controversial service.
C-o-n-t-r-a-c-t
Have you ever heard of the iTunes music store sir?
Underestimating people by thinking that they won't download the next link down, which is the completely free pirated album.
Underestimating the RIAA's greed that they would actually agree to this.
Underestimating the artists themselves as most don't have more than 2-3 good songs an album anyways.
It does make a bit of sense though as I can grab a recorder and get the hit songs off the radio I guess (quality debate out of scope), but so far the best model I've seen for selling music based off of samples is playing the first 20-30 seconds of the song and then asking if the user wants to buy it.
Still at least, they're trying, I'll give them that.
I think I'm equally divided on the agree/disagree factor here, and it's probably a little of both...
1. The company is too disorganized / doesn't know what they're doing, but they have enough sense to see the value of information, so they grab as much as they can, while valuable, they still don't really know what they have / what they're doing with it, these are prime hacker targets (iOS location tracking fiasco).
2. The company has bigger aspirations with the data they mine, the data is mined as thoroughly as possible, categorized, data mined, and formed into trend statistics that the FBI / NSA are very interested in (facebook).
As I said, it's probably a little of both that drives these unethical data collection practices.
You do realize... the history of math is a part of the math field... right?
Not quite sure what literature and geography have to do with each other either. The history of literature would be a little more relevant.
A calling to teach, and a passion in the subject make the best teachers. If the teacher is passionate about both math and english, they will excel at teaching both using the same teaching skill, but bouncing between two different passions.
And yes... good teachers are very hard to find, most people see it as a job, it's unfortunate they don't understand / care about the social responsibility it entails.
Your problem is you see it as a job, not a calling. It only works well when it's the latter. I've had plenty of teachers that just show up to do their jobs, and guess what I don't remember the name of a single of them.