You try them in absentia, they don't show up to defend themselves, of course, so the State wins a monetary judgment against them. Then the State Prosecutor will place a lien on the company's assets in the United States.
If the company does not have assets in the US, the company will be forced to pay any such fee prior to aquiring any assets in the US.
And many chinese companies don't want to be placed in that situation. They may not even be able to do business with US firms.
I can't believe the government is funding public libraries, they're taking money from commercial bookstores. Like, OmiGod! And the streets! Woah, they should let go of city maintenance and allow the commercial road surfacing companies to fill in the potholes on the street... But wait, there's more! Why is the police allowed to operate, don't they know that they're taking money away from commercial security providers? Heck why do we have cities to begin with, we could just outsource everything to India...
Wait...
I'm dashing off to the patent office with a big grin on my face...
Can I send them an invoice for $25 for the time it took for me to make the phone call and ask them to do something which they should already have done?
(Yes, these are my standard rate. I have bills to pay and very little spare time)
In any case, I don't use email much anymore, even if I am not Korean.
It's government by the people for the people. The people collectively own the government and all its assets. Public officials are employees of the public and are thus all public servants, stewarts of our money.
The People, with a capital P, is sovereign in the United States of America.
Preambule to the US Constitution:
We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
They block access to port 25 except to their own servers? Then they should not call themselves ISP. It stands for Internet Service Provider. Last time I checked, the internet included port 25.
Maybe that should be RISP, for Restricted Internet Service Provider.
I work at a managed health care company (one of the large insurance companies).
The reality, though, is that a lot of research is done in those 1% cases, and such research does provide for safe and inexpensive procedures for the next generation.
Personally, though, I think you are right. There is only so much money society can allocate to any one endehavor before something else will suffer.
Of course, the invisible hand of the market is at work there too. That is why some hospitals close for lack of funding and doctors leave the profession over malpractice suits and insurance therefor.
Overall, the system is not perfect, and there is waste, but it is still able to provide adequate care to hundreds of millions.
And did they credit the medical insurance company that paid the bills, making it possible for the hospital, the doctor, and the nurse to be there to begin with?
Next time people bitch about their medical insurance premium, they should remember that the money is used in the most effective way known to man to provide the kind of medical infrastructure that saves lives.
You know when people complain that Social Security will be bankrupt, they say it's because medical advances are allowing people to live longer and healthier lives. I see no problem with that.
Interestingly, there should be a efficiency modifier in man-hours or man-days in Microsoft Project. This would then let you assign the first 5 hours a week at 100%, then next 5 hours at 90%, and so on until 45 hours at -5% and 50 hours at -10%, meaning that after a certain amount of time for each resource, the project timeline will start increasing in time with the addition of additional resources.
It's sort of like in battlefield simulation software:
You have a tank company at 100%, just fresh of the boat, and a regiment at 9% capacity that's been fighting hard all week. You have to attack an enemy batallion at 30% strength.
You throw your regiment at it, and it gets chewed up and completely wiped out. Then you still have to send in the tank company.
Or you could have sent in the tank company to begin with and saved the regiment, sending it to the rear to recuperate and rearm.
I have a simple rule: if I don't feel good, I don't touch the code.
You do realize that the only way to stop people using these products is to have a brutal police state, right?
Anyway, on the 80+ hrs a week: I code 10 hours a week, the rest of the time I veg, slashdot, doodle in meetings, or look for typos in wikipedia.
I'll occasionally go to the conf room and design on the 10 meters dry-erase board.
I leave at 40.01 hours per week.
My code is innovative, precise, clear, well-documented, and exceeds customer expectations.
Try playing Chess for 2 hours 5 days a week. To me, getting in the "zone" and coding hard is as draining as that.
Finally: If you work in California as a computer programmer, you most likely cannot be salary unless you make $44 and change per hour, for all hours worked. See the State of California Wages poster in the break room (lower left, section h).
Then I clicked on right arrow, watched the page turn and thought: nice, but too slow.
Of course, I had to put my nose on the screen to read it, and then realized: There is no way in hell I am going to read an entire article like this, even with zooming.
Anyone have a copy of the article in Times New Roman, valid html so I can use my browsers's (FF) text enlargement functions?
In addition, I would like to add that furthermore it does not matter if the code is not elegant, if it's a piece of caca, or if it's inneficient, because: it works.
Efficient broadband (1+ gigbit/sec) to the home, with live 24/7 audio and video, voip multiline phone, and a $8000 desk, pc, printer+scanner+fax+im solution, and you avoid the commute altogether.
Of course, the companies hates that, because they can't crack the whip.
Yes. There would be marked government savings; something which is clearly against the current administration's thrust, and would be labeled eevul.
But to take it one step further, the government could just outsourse the rubberstamping to some foreign country, so that the current expensive rubberstamping solution would be just as expensive for us, but would provide a hidden US government subsidy to said country.
I would not be surprised to find out that future patents will be rubberstamped by children in the slums of Baghdad.
With Extra SarcaSauce, the administration will defend its policy by stating: "They should be glad to be alive."
I wrote an artificial intelligence system that emulates 8 workers (yes, modded voice response units to tell them apart)
My bosses, in between golf games, stripped me of benefits and moved me from senior developer to tech support, and I'm on call 24/7/365, as I know primarily maintain the system.
I wasn't fired because they're too lazy to figure out the gui.
It's the least costly alternative, and therefore the most cost-effective. The safer alternative is to do nothing, but that's really lousy in the ROI dept.
The more people "think it out" on their blogs, the more difficult it is for companies to patent an idea, because the instant Joe Coder has described the "network thingy that, with gizmo X and with protocol Z does this really cool thing called baka" on his weblog, then company MegaCorp can't later patent it, because there would be "prior art".
The reality is that patents expire in 14 years. A lot of patents expire every year. One place where a software developer can make bucks it to find a patent that just expired (say one filed in November of 1990), implement it in python, and sell it for $30 (or $3000, whatever the market will bear). He is completely safe, because the prior patent would invalidate any other patents still active (because they would have to have been filed later than the now expired one).
As always, this is just off the top of my sleep-deprived skull, so consult the approprate legal resource.
Finally, if someone has a patent for something you've written, all you got to do is google for prior art. It's not hard, and trust me, once their laywers see that in fact you little programmer trying to make a living by yourself in your little town in the midwest could blow the lid off their patent, and as long as you don't threaten their business plans, they will leave you alone.
Probably not. But I bet his resume/cv will climb to the top with this:
==Skills== *Bittorent: Imagined, designed, coded, deployed, and now maintaining the Bittorent protocol and OS-independent Python client. 12 million users since 2003; 500,000 gigabytes of transfers per day on average.
==Objective== Build a world-class, industrial-grade extranet messaging and collaboration protocol for your company.
==Requirement== $180,000/yr, total combined annual work hours not to exceed 2300. Cost of living adjustment based on consumer index no later than April 1 of each year. Choice of location.
I tell you, if this guy works for a company 4 years and costs them $1M, they will have gotten themselves a bargain. This guy is cheaper than an average team of 4.
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Coding software to sell is dead, for all the reasons you mentioned.
What's a coder to do?
Code away on an open source project, gove away all your hard work.
THEN...
Offer your services as an implemetation and customization consultant for said open source software for businesses.
Implementations are not fun, but pound for pound, you get serous cash. Especially if you wrote the software to begin with. You can charge the most.
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You try them in absentia, they don't show up to defend themselves, of course, so the State wins a monetary judgment against them. Then the State Prosecutor will place a lien on the company's assets in the United States.
If the company does not have assets in the US, the company will be forced to pay any such fee prior to aquiring any assets in the US.
And many chinese companies don't want to be placed in that situation. They may not even be able to do business with US firms.
Oh my God you are so right!
I can't believe the government is funding public libraries, they're taking money from commercial bookstores. Like, OmiGod! And the streets! Woah, they should let go of city maintenance and allow the commercial road surfacing companies to fill in the potholes on the street... But wait, there's more! Why is the police allowed to operate, don't they know that they're taking money away from commercial security providers? Heck why do we have cities to begin with, we could just outsource everything to India...
Wait...
I'm dashing off to the patent office with a big grin on my face...
Can I send them an invoice for $25 for the time it took for me to make the phone call and ask them to do something which they should already have done?
(Yes, these are my standard rate. I have bills to pay and very little spare time)
In any case, I don't use email much anymore, even if I am not Korean.
>Ignore it and it's more likely to go away, ...in Japan!!!
It's government by the people for the people. The people collectively own the government and all its assets. Public officials are employees of the public and are thus all public servants, stewarts of our money.
The People, with a capital P, is sovereign in the United States of America.
Preambule to the US Constitution:
We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
From Wikipedia
They block access to port 25 except to their own servers?
Then they should not call themselves ISP. It stands for Internet Service Provider. Last time I checked, the internet included port 25.
Maybe that should be RISP, for Restricted Internet Service Provider.
Let's call it like it is people.
Absolutely correct.
I work at a managed health care company (one of the large insurance companies).
The reality, though, is that a lot of research is done in those 1% cases, and such research does provide for safe and inexpensive procedures for the next generation.
Personally, though, I think you are right. There is only so much money society can allocate to any one endehavor before something else will suffer.
Of course, the invisible hand of the market is at work there too. That is why some hospitals close for lack of funding and doctors leave the profession over malpractice suits and insurance therefor.
Overall, the system is not perfect, and there is waste, but it is still able to provide adequate care to hundreds of millions.
And did they credit the medical insurance company that paid the bills, making it possible for the hospital, the doctor, and the nurse to be there to begin with?
Next time people bitch about their medical insurance premium, they should remember that the money is used in the most effective way known to man to provide the kind of medical infrastructure that saves lives.
You know when people complain that Social Security will be bankrupt, they say it's because medical advances are allowing people to live longer and healthier lives. I see no problem with that.
Interestingly, there should be a efficiency modifier in man-hours or man-days in Microsoft Project. This would then let you assign the first 5 hours a week at 100%, then next 5 hours at 90%, and so on until 45 hours at -5% and 50 hours at -10%, meaning that after a certain amount of time for each resource, the project timeline will start increasing in time with the addition of additional resources.
It's sort of like in battlefield simulation software:
You have a tank company at 100%, just fresh of the boat, and a regiment at 9% capacity that's been fighting hard all week. You have to attack an enemy batallion at 30% strength.
You throw your regiment at it, and it gets chewed up and completely wiped out. Then you still have to send in the tank company.
Or you could have sent in the tank company to begin with and
saved the regiment, sending it to the rear to recuperate and rearm.
I have a simple rule: if I don't feel good, I don't touch the code.
You do realize that the only way to stop people using these products is to have a brutal police state, right?
Anyway, on the 80+ hrs a week: I code 10 hours a week, the rest of the time I veg, slashdot, doodle in meetings, or look for typos in wikipedia.
I'll occasionally go to the conf room and design on the 10 meters dry-erase board.
I leave at 40.01 hours per week.
My code is innovative, precise, clear, well-documented, and exceeds customer expectations.
Try playing Chess for 2 hours 5 days a week. To me, getting in the "zone" and coding hard is as draining as that.
Finally:
If you work in California as a computer programmer, you most likely cannot be salary unless you make $44 and change per hour, for all hours worked. See the State of California Wages poster in the break room (lower left, section h).
Amen,
I went to it, watched it load, said, woah, cool.
Then I clicked on right arrow, watched the page turn and thought: nice, but too slow.
Of course, I had to put my nose on the screen to read it, and then realized: There is no way in hell I am going to read an entire article like this, even with zooming.
Anyone have a copy of the article in Times New Roman, valid html so I can use my browsers's (FF) text enlargement functions?
Well, then, if Trusted Solaris was so wonderful, why did the NSA develop SE Linux?
Technically, it's called httpd...
In addition, I would like to add that furthermore it does not matter if the code is not elegant, if it's a piece of caca, or if it's inneficient, because: it works.
Efficient broadband (1+ gigbit/sec) to the home, with live 24/7 audio and video, voip multiline phone, and a $8000 desk, pc, printer+scanner+fax+im solution, and you avoid the commute altogether.
Of course, the companies hates that, because they can't crack the whip.
If you have no money, you have no money. You just don't have any options.
Yes. There would be marked government savings; something which is clearly against the current administration's thrust, and would be labeled eevul.
But to take it one step further, the government could just outsourse the rubberstamping to some foreign country, so that the current expensive rubberstamping solution would be just as expensive for us, but would provide a hidden US government subsidy to said country.
I would not be surprised to find out that future patents will be rubberstamped by children in the slums of Baghdad.
With Extra SarcaSauce, the administration will defend its policy by stating: "They should be glad to be alive."
No fees on high speed, high fees on modem.
That will also kill AOL as a side effect, but we have to do what we have to do for National Security and The Country...
They already do that. But then people would not get their cars inspected if they did not have the money to pay.
That's nuthing...
I wrote an artificial intelligence system that emulates 8 workers (yes, modded voice response units to tell them apart)
My bosses, in between golf games, stripped me of benefits and moved me from senior developer to tech support, and I'm on call 24/7/365, as I know primarily maintain the system.
I wasn't fired because they're too lazy to figure out the gui.
Yeah, but he did it when no one else had.
It's the least costly alternative, and therefore the most cost-effective. The safer alternative is to do nothing, but that's really lousy in the ROI dept.
Yeah, but only if there is a patent for it.
The more people "think it out" on their blogs, the more difficult it is for companies to patent an idea, because the instant Joe Coder has described the "network thingy that, with gizmo X and with protocol Z does this really cool thing called baka" on his weblog, then company MegaCorp can't later patent it, because there would be "prior art".
The reality is that patents expire in 14 years. A lot of patents expire every year. One place where a software developer can make bucks it to find a patent that just expired (say one filed in November of 1990), implement it in python, and sell it for $30 (or $3000, whatever the market will bear). He is completely safe, because the prior patent would invalidate any other patents still active (because they would have to have been filed later than the now expired one).
As always, this is just off the top of my sleep-deprived skull, so consult the approprate legal resource.
Finally, if someone has a patent for something you've written, all you got to do is google for prior art. It's not hard, and trust me, once their laywers see that in fact you little programmer trying to make a living by yourself in your little town in the midwest could blow the lid off their patent, and as long as you don't threaten their business plans, they will leave you alone.
Probably not. But I bet his resume/cv will climb to the top with this:
==Skills==
*Bittorent: Imagined, designed, coded, deployed, and now maintaining the Bittorent protocol and OS-independent Python client. 12 million users since 2003; 500,000 gigabytes of transfers per day on average.
==Objective==
Build a world-class, industrial-grade extranet messaging and collaboration protocol for your company.
==Requirement==
$180,000/yr, total combined annual work hours not to exceed 2300. Cost of living adjustment based on consumer index no later than April 1 of each year. Choice of location.
I tell you, if this guy works for a company 4 years and costs them $1M, they will have gotten themselves a bargain. This guy is cheaper than an average team of 4.
Coding software to sell is dead, for all the reasons you mentioned.
What's a coder to do?
Code away on an open source project, gove away all your hard work.
THEN...
Offer your services as an implemetation and customization consultant for said open source software for businesses.
Implementations are not fun, but pound for pound, you get serous cash. Especially if you wrote the software to begin with. You can charge the most.