I've heard of another project that uses semi-processed waste water to make snow. The process of making snow, in which the water is mixed with some other stuff ("chemicals", they are called, I think ?), then sprayed under very high pressure. As the water emerges from the spray nozzel, the sudden depressurization causes the cells of any living organizims (say , germs, or bacteria) to burst, effectively disinfecting the water on a microscopic level. And they swore you couldn't tell it was sewage...
yeah, but you would still need a lawyer, and unless it is a very long term contract that you are disputing, a lawyer can eat up your disputed earnings pretty quickly. And how do you know the client would be willing to sign a contract governed by foreign (to them) law?
Alternatively, define milestones (writing the spec; delivering a prototype, delivering feature A, delivering feature B, etc.) with agreed-upon payments for each deliverable.
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I agree with the review, but don't consider it a bad thing. So what if he isn't a Sci-Fi writer? He is a good suspense writer. He succesfully explores social and scientific issues in a thought-provoking way. Some of the technology is a little over-the-top (including the scenes in Prey that are tailor-made for a film), but if you didn't read Jurassic Park (sp?) and come away with an appreciation for how arrogent engineers (and particularly programmers) can be, then you missed the point. And if you read Prey and don't get that it is as much a commentary on the notion of industry self-regulation and corporate governance as it is about nanotechnology, then you missed the point. So there.
Health Insurance seems like a major hurdle, but look at it this way: how many hours do you need to work to pay the premiume? I am an independant contractor (but I go through agencies because they have better contacts than I do). I pay about $800-$900 dollars a month for Blue Cross. Seems like a lot? yeah, but I make that much money in one long day, so it is a no-brainer. (BTW, get disability insurance too.)
I think there is a lot to be said for enjoying your work. Being in IT, we presumably are already in a field we enjoy, but if you like your work, life is better. (On the other hand, being able to food on the table is more important!!) An earlier poster noted that wireless devices are sure to be an expanding market, so some of the wirelss technologies, such as WAP/WML and J2ME (learn Java if J2ME doesn't mean anything to you.) Beyond that, predicting the future of IT is like predicting the stock market: it is a game for suckers. The only thing you can be sure of is if you are enjoying the technology you are working with.
Actually, from analysing the syntax and structure of the website, I concluded that the page was written by a middle-aged white guy. What was the basis for your conclusion?
As has been pointed out above, the form doesn't really require IE. The form is broken for all browsers. If the form(s) were fixed, I suspect all browsers would work fine. The note about using "The " Internet Explorer Browser is a red herring.
Submitting the form in Mozilla fails because there is a Search form earlier in the page, but that form is never closed. The submit button at the bottom of the email form is in a different form, but since the first one was never closed, the browser submits the FIRST form. If the form were closed properly, I bet this would work fine in ANY browser.
Also not true. On the same page, in the paragraph before the one your quote is:
The Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 abolished parole eligibility for federal offenders - except military offenders -- who commit offenses on or after November 1, 1987.
So there is no longer any parole in the federal system.
... or doens't want to submit to the onerous licensing that micro$oft included in the latest bug fixes.
I find myself in the same situation: My wife uses Windows to 1) Surf (including getting email via the web) B) Use Quatro Pro for budgets and stuff Third) Use Wordperfect for letters and other docs. There is no reason she couldn't do that stuff in openOffice on Linux, and we wouldn't have to give Micro$oft the right to inspect our hard drive and remove any files they think are suspicious.
My biggest problem, though: my kid's games. They are in kindergarten and 1st grade, so they aren't quite ready for Doom yet (I don't think). I've looked around a little, and it seems that there are very few options for kids games outside of Windows (even for the Mac).
I sometimes think of the activities you were convicted of as being like vandalizm:
The perpetrator (that's you) doesn't really intend to hurt anyone, in fact really views the activites as harmless
The perp may doing it for some competitive reason (pride, bragging rights, etc.) or because of the challenge, but the motivation really has nothng to do with the particular software you "steal" or the building you spray paint your name on. The chosen "crime" is almost incidental.
The victim really incures some cost (lost sales revenue, cleaning the spray paint, etc).
Since the victim in either case is more likely to generate the sympathy of prosecutors than the perpetrator is, prosecutions sometimes (but not often) follow.
When the crimes ARE prosecuted, the criminal gets hammered pretty hard, probably far out of proportion to what they would have expected.
What do you think of this metaphor? I'm guessing that many people might view your crimes similarly (not a really big deal, but it is still a crime, so you gotta take your lumps). I'm curious if or how your view differs.
Actually, the major wrong-doing at WorldCom was done by a senior executive directly, who personally created some accounting entries at the end of the fiscal year to move expenses to capital accounts. Only a handful of people would have/could have known about it... and one of them blew the whistle.
I'll pick on just a couple of erroneous conclusions you've got here:
1) If mail delivery were privitized, people in big cities would get good, cheap mail delivery, and people in rural areas would get expensive, or more likely, no mail delivery. Or, private companies would skim off the cheap urban delivery, leaving the expensive rural delivery to the feds. (BTW your taxes do not in any way subsidies USPS employees, lazy or not.)
2) When airport security was private (prior to this year), the work went to the lowest bidder. The lowest bidder, not surprisingly, did not offer the greatest pay or benefits, so turnover was several HUNDRED percent per year, and fraud was rampant, as the vendors, who were, after all, trying to maximize profits, did everything they could to reduce costs. Airport security provided by the lowest bidder may be cheap, but it sin't secure. Are you comfortable with that?
Instead of moderating this topiuc, I have to respond... Why the fuck would you want to start your own company? The vast majority of new companies fail!! I mean if your rich and have some money to waste (or some one elses money to waste maybe), but I promise you your not as smart as you think, and your bright business idea is just as stupid as all those other bozos who's businesses failed.
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Mark Twaine saind that explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog: you understand it better, but the frog dies in the process.
that has GOT to hurt!!
I've heard of another project that uses semi-processed waste water to make snow. The process of making snow, in which the water is mixed with some other stuff ("chemicals", they are called, I think ?), then sprayed under very high pressure. As the water emerges from the spray nozzel, the sudden depressurization causes the cells of any living organizims (say , germs, or bacteria) to burst, effectively disinfecting the water on a microscopic level.
And they swore you couldn't tell it was sewage...
you seem to be under the illusion that java exists only for web pages. you are wrong. Most java is not contained in web pages.
yeah, but you would still need a lawyer, and unless it is a very long term contract that you are disputing, a lawyer can eat up your disputed earnings pretty quickly.
And how do you know the client would be willing to sign a contract governed by foreign (to them) law?
except in IT contracting, you do your estimate, then you DOUBLE it!
Alternatively, define milestones (writing the spec; delivering a prototype, delivering feature A, delivering feature B, etc.) with agreed-upon payments for each deliverable.
I agree with the review, but don't consider it a bad thing. So what if he isn't a Sci-Fi writer? He is a good suspense writer. He succesfully explores social and scientific issues in a thought-provoking way. Some of the technology is a little over-the-top (including the scenes in Prey that are tailor-made for a film), but if you didn't read Jurassic Park (sp?) and come away with an appreciation for how arrogent engineers (and particularly programmers) can be, then you missed the point. And if you read Prey and don't get that it is as much a commentary on the notion of industry self-regulation and corporate governance as it is about nanotechnology, then you missed the point.
So there.
Health Insurance seems like a major hurdle, but look at it this way: how many hours do you need to work to pay the premiume?
I am an independant contractor (but I go through agencies because they have better contacts than I do). I pay about $800-$900 dollars a month for Blue Cross. Seems like a lot? yeah, but I make that much money in one long day, so it is a no-brainer.
(BTW, get disability insurance too.)
I think there is a lot to be said for enjoying your work. Being in IT, we presumably are already in a field we enjoy, but if you like your work, life is better. (On the other hand, being able to food on the table is more important!!)
An earlier poster noted that wireless devices are sure to be an expanding market, so some of the wirelss technologies, such as WAP/WML and J2ME (learn Java if J2ME doesn't mean anything to you.)
Beyond that, predicting the future of IT is like predicting the stock market: it is a game for suckers. The only thing you can be sure of is if you are enjoying the technology you are working with.
Actually, from analysing the syntax and structure of the website, I concluded that the page was written by a middle-aged white guy. What was the basis for your conclusion?
As has been pointed out above, the form doesn't really require IE. The form is broken for all browsers. If the form(s) were fixed, I suspect all browsers would work fine. The note about using "The " Internet Explorer Browser is a red herring.
Submitting the form in Mozilla fails because there is a Search form earlier in the page, but that form is never closed. The submit button at the bottom of the email form is in a different form, but since the first one was never closed, the browser submits the FIRST form.
If the form were closed properly, I bet this would work fine in ANY browser.
you should have read the article instead of copying it. He isn't hosting the site on his phone. He is suing it as a modem.
I'm guessing you don't have a date this weekend.
Also not true. On the same page, in the paragraph before the one your quote is:
The Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 abolished parole eligibility for federal offenders - except military offenders -- who commit offenses on or after November 1, 1987.
So there is no longer any parole in the federal system.
yeah... I planned that. Pretty funny, huh?
... or doens't want to submit to the onerous licensing that micro$oft included in the latest bug fixes.
;-)
I find myself in the same situation: My wife uses Windows to
1) Surf (including getting email via the web)
B) Use Quatro Pro for budgets and stuff
Third) Use Wordperfect for letters and other docs.
There is no reason she couldn't do that stuff in openOffice on Linux, and we wouldn't have to give Micro$oft the right to inspect our hard drive and remove any files they think are suspicious.
My biggest problem, though: my kid's games. They are in kindergarten and 1st grade, so they aren't quite ready for Doom yet (I don't think). I've looked around a little, and it seems that there are very few options for kids games outside of Windows (even for the Mac).
So the kids will learn to duel-boot
What do you think of this metaphor? I'm guessing that many people might view your crimes similarly (not a really big deal, but it is still a crime, so you gotta take your lumps). I'm curious if or how your view differs.
Actually, the major wrong-doing at WorldCom was done by a senior executive directly, who personally created some accounting entries at the end of the fiscal year to move expenses to capital accounts. Only a handful of people would have/could have known about it... and one of them blew the whistle.
I'll pick on just a couple of erroneous conclusions you've got here:
1) If mail delivery were privitized, people in big cities would get good, cheap mail delivery, and people in rural areas would get expensive, or more likely, no mail delivery. Or, private companies would skim off the cheap urban delivery, leaving the expensive rural delivery to the feds. (BTW your taxes do not in any way subsidies USPS employees, lazy or not.)
2) When airport security was private (prior to this year), the work went to the lowest bidder. The lowest bidder, not surprisingly, did not offer the greatest pay or benefits, so turnover was several HUNDRED percent per year, and fraud was rampant, as the vendors, who were, after all, trying to maximize profits, did everything they could to reduce costs. Airport security provided by the lowest bidder may be cheap, but it sin't secure. Are you comfortable with that?
oops, no wait... that was Carol King...
Any way, how old are you, 12?
one word: Locomotion
How old are you? 12?
Instead of moderating this topiuc, I have to respond...
Why the fuck would you want to start your own company? The vast majority of new companies fail!! I mean if your rich and have some money to waste (or some one elses money to waste maybe), but I promise you your not as smart as you think, and your bright business idea is just as stupid as all those other bozos who's businesses failed.