Google print, Amazon book search, this lawsuit and others are just small steps in the evolution of copyright into something else. I don't think we can anticipate what that will be, any more than our ancestors anticipated a day when making and distributing copies of information would be as easy as talking. In the time it's taken me to type this message I could have sent the lifetime works of Benjamin Franklin to someone on the other side of the world. Not just his published writings, but every single word he ever wrote down. It's ludicrous to think that our ancestors would have formulated copyright in the same way if they had known what we know, or that copyright shouldn't evolve like everything else.
Every Halloween at the stroke of midnight an imaginary gun goes off, and thousands of people start working on 50,000-word novels, which they try to finish by the end of November -- National Novel-Writing Month. Writers report their progress on the website. Some people post their work online, but it's all on the honor system and is just for fun. Don't have any ideas? No problem! Visit the site and get advice from character development to plotting to excuses for not finishing. You can also find other participants by location. In many cities people meet and party at the end of the month. Good way to jumpstart yourself.
A couple years ago I built a fog machine based on plans I found somewhere on the web. It was very simple to make and cost under $10. I've always meant to put up my own web page showing how to do it, but you know how that goes. It's not that hard though, especially if you are a true geek. Basically you get a used electric iron and mount it upside down in a shoebox-size box, with a drip mechanism that drips a glycerine and water solution onto the iron, and a computer fan at one end blowing in. Needless to say, you wire the fan and iron to a switch.
For me the hardest part was making the drip mechanism and getting the drip rate right. You want a drip rate of several drops per second but not a running stream. I bought a used aquarium pump but it ran WAY too fast. So I ended up using gravity. I mounted a 2-liter pop bottle upside down on top of the box, with a piece of plastic tubing epoxied through a hole in the cap, extending down into the box. I fused the end of the tubing shut with a candle flame and poked several pinholes in it until it flowed right. Initially the thing stopped dripping after just a few seconds, so I had to poke a hole in the pop bottle's bottom end (which was at the top) to allow air to enter. Then the drip rate was too fast, so I heat-sealed some of the holes in the tubing. It was trial and error, and it ran a little too fast when the bottle was full and too slow when it was low on juice. Some sort of slow pump would work better. But what the hell, the parts were free.
The drops of glycerine instantly boil away to dense white fog when they hit the hot iron, and the fan blows the fog out the other end of the box. Commercial fog juice is a 25% solution of glycerine in water. A 12-oz bottle of glycerine costs about $8 at the drug store. Mix it with 3 parts water and you're there. This quantity will last a couple hours.
The fog machine emits steam, which rises. To make the fog float along the ground you need a chiller, which you can build with an old styrofoam cooler. Cut a 3-inch hole cut in each end, with a tunnel of wire mesh connecting the two holes. You fill the cooler with ice and put the fog machine up against the hole at one end. When the hot fog passes through the chilled tunnel it will stay close to the ground. You don't actually need pieces of plastic pipe or anything, unless you want to duct the fog somewhere.
Instead of using my fog machine to fog up the living room I made a cemetery in the front yard. I had various slabs of styrofoam lying around from who knows what, in thicknesses ranging from 1/2" to 2". If you don't have any just get a 2x8 sheet of rigid foam insulation an inch or two thick. I cut out tombstone shapes with a scroll saw, and for good measure cut a few cracks and other defects into the edges with a serrated kitchen knife. Then I used a soldering iron with a large tip to carve out lettering on each one. The foam melts away at the touch of the iron, and the result has a nice deteriorated look. Then I spray painted the tombstones gray and then sprayed lightly over with black in a haphazard pattern to distress them.
I mounted the stones in the yard using a coat hanger stuck in the bottom of each one and into the ground. Lighting fog from the side looks really good, so I hung a lawn spotlight in a large bush about 15 ft away, downwind of the graveyard, shining through the leaves at the tombstones. The tombstones themselves were standing at an angle to accentuate the shadowing inside the carved letters. It made the lettering really visible. On the upwind side I set up the fog machine and aimed it toward the sidewalk. As the fog came out the slight breeze blew it gently across the yard, through the graveyard and toward the light. My wife hung small stereo speakers in the same bush as the spotlight and we had creepy organ music playing. All in all it was a really cool effect.
Well, yeah, but with eminent domain you need pay the market value for what your taking.
Well, no, you don't. As discussed on Slashdot last month, the U.S. government gives companies license to ignore patents when it's convenient. Modern morality is increasingly equated with lawfulness, which means whoever pulls the strings in the government gets to define right and wrong. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain./Chaotic Neutral and proud.
Local governments can kick people out of their houses for the sake of public works projects, and lately they've been doing it for commercial projects. The federal government can void patents in the name of national security. I'm not in love with either practice, but as long as those are the rules we have to live under why can't the principle of eminent domain be invoked to override a patent claim that denies a valuable service to a significant number of people. Especially if the technology has been in use for a while.
The Epimenides paradox has always seemed silly to me. If Epimenides, a Cretan, states that all Cretans are liars, then he must be lying, and the premise that all Cretans are liars must simply be wrong. Some of them are liars and some aren't, and Epimenides happens to be one of the ones who are. No paradox.
A single statement such as "I am telling a lie" is paradoxical because it can be neither true nor false. But two statements that rely on each other merely indicate that one of them must be wrong.
My first solution to the 3 lightbulb problem was to turn on switch A and leave it on for 10000 hours, ample time for the bulb to burn out. Then turn on switch B and enter the rooms. If you see a lit up bulb you know it's connected to switch B. If you see a dark bulb unscrew it and momentarily stick your finger in the socket. If you get a shock (which won't kill you as long as you are not grounded) you know it's connected to switch A, otherwise it's C. Not as good as the hot-bulb solution, but original.
Given that there are about 35 people in the world who haven't seen one version or another yet, how worthwhile is any King Kong remake? I can't wait for Jackson to move onto another project like The Mote in God's Eye or the Foundation trilogy.
This smells like a scam to me. If they think Internet addiction is a problem, where were they with television and radio addiction, phone addiction, newspaper reading addiction, or for that matter Mah Jong addiction? I don't know what their equivalent of Congress is, but they must have corresponding equivalents for hey Senator, nice to see you, oops, you dropped this envelope full of $100 bills, wink wink.
Read the post by WallaceAndGromit above. This weapon almost certainly uses the same technology as is used to destroy kidney stones, focusing the sound waves in a very small area and doing little or no damage to the surroundings. The military has been experimenting with focused sound on land as well, and has a device that can project voices and other sounds to a single individual or a tight group of people, that are inaudible to everyone around them.
The loss of the Wallace and Gromit material is just one instance of a much larger process of history destruction that goes on continuously. More than half of all the movies ever made have been lost forever, because they mouldered away in vaults and filing cabinets instead of being out in free circulation, their owners hoarding them on the chance that one day they might produce profit, or forgetting them entirely and letting them crumble away. Simple neglect can be as destructive as fire or any other disaster.
As Intellectual Property rights are strengthened, this type of loss is going to happen more and more. Rights holders will have tight control over the distribution of "their property," even to the extent of disabling it whenever they want. Fewer and fewer unmonitored copies will exist, and more and more material will be simply yanked out of circulation because it competes with something newer that somebody wants to sell.
I collect Old Time Radio shows from the 1940s and earlier. Thanks to our Congressmen-for-hire, these shows and ALL audio recordings made before 1972 are still copyrighted, and will remain so until the year 2067. Theoretically the only legal copies are those kept by the rights holders. Ironically, most of the shows that still exist have survived only through the illegal activities of a diehard fan community. Most old time radio shows were never intended to be heard again. They were recorded only so they could be retransmitted later to different time zones, or simply so the studio didn't have to be in the same building as the transmitter. Most were destined for the trash, or sometimes already in the trash, when they were rescued and taken home by radio station engineers and the like, later to be copied to tapes, CDs and mp3s over the years, and sold/traded/handed out to other collectors. These "pirates" have kept this material alive for decades while the original rights holders in most cases did absolutely nothing. These old shows may not be great literature, but they do provide an invaluable record of popular American entertainment during one of the greatest times in our history, showing us what average everyday people thought was funny, interesting and frightening at that time. You can't get that sort of thing out of a book, and we wouldn't have it today if everybody had played by the rules.
I only mow my lawn about every two weeks. My neighbor across the street mows his every week. Shouldn't he have to pay twice as much for a mower as I do?
If software companies are allowed to control "their property" in this way, I don't see why sellers of physical products won't eventually do the same thing. Instead of buying a product and owning it, you'll merely be buying a license to use it for a certain amount of time. Then the license will expire and you'll either have to renew it or throw the product away. Tell me how this is different from what software companies are already doing?
20 minute drive each way, 30 minutes waiting for prints=70, which for a quantity of 100 is less than 1 minute per print
But for a quantity of 2 prints it's more than a half hour per print, which was my point. The time I would spend in a year going someplace for a couple prints at a time would add up, not to mention having to transfer the files to a CD first to take to the store, plus remembering to do it in the first place. Compare that to pulling a print out of the Photosmart once or twice a week whenever I feel like it. Takes no time at all, and I actually do it instead of planning to next time I'm at the store and forgetting. For infrequent use, owning one of these can be well worth it.
The best market for these might be the low-volume user for whom a trip to a photo processing place just to make 2 or 3 prints every now and then is too much trouble and expense. My in-laws gave me a Photosmart last Christmas, which I never would have bought for myself, but I really appreciate the ability to crank out maybe 5 or 6 prints per month to send to relatives and whatnot. At that one-at-a-time rate it just isn't worth it to me to go anywhere to get digital prints. If this printer lasts 6 or 8 years I will happily pay to replace it.
But of course by then the big thing will probably be digital paper with Harry Potter style images that move around and talk.
...a game is decided whether or not it is 'violent' by juries, and different juries could have different opinions on what is defined as 'violent
So apparently they object to it because it works the same way as our judicial system, which has been in place for hundreds of years. Does the phrase, "I have a cunning plan" spring to mind?
From the previous article... No sane business operator enters a contract in which one party has the right to disregard its terms at will, but that's what HR-1201 permits.
That's also what Congress did when it passed the Bono Act in 1998, which extended copyright terms for another 50 years and retroactively placed all audio recordings made before 1972 under copyright until the year 2067. Many of these works were already in the public domain. But even the wax cylinders recorded by Edison in the 1890s are now copyrighted until 2067 because of this law.
Copyright isn't a fact of nature or a divine right, it's a contract between copyright holders and the public. The public agrees to respect a copyright and pay taxes to enforce it for a specific number of years. At the end of that time the public expects the work to become public domain. Every time Congress extends copyrights it's like declaring that all 30-year mortgages are now 60-year mortgages. Or in some cases, giving the house back to the bank after it's been paid up. Great news if you're the bank, bad news if you're the one making the payments.
What sane person would enter into a contract that allows the other party to disregard its terms at will? The average American citizen. Oops, I mean "consumer."
I've been a contractor most of my 25 year career and I think it's the best way to go. You have no politics, fewer meetings, managers listen to you more than they listen to their own employees, and they don't waste your time as much. If you need something they tend to get it for you right away. There's also the variety, and for me the knowledge that I have a planned end date helps alleviate any frustrations and negatives there might be. I don't take jobs that I don't want, and I get free training by going after projects where I know most but not all of what's needed and can convince them that I'll be able to learn the rest quickly.
The only downside I can think of is that sometimes I do get attached to a place and don't really want to leave. But usually I can think of a couple negatives that balance that out.
To find jobs I use temp agencies such as Volt, and smaller ones that spring up all the time. I just send out my resume to the usual suspects when a project is winding down, and they find the jobs and arrange the interviews. All I have to do is show up. On average my projects last 6 months to a year and I have 3-4 weeks off between.
Agencies hire you a a W2 employee, so they pay their half of social security. I work a little over 45 weeks a year. Taking health insurance cost into account, my situation is roughly equivalent to having a full time job at $70-75k/year with 5 weeks paid time off and benefits. Not bad for web/db dev, and with no downtrodden-masses feeling that can come with a permanent job. Best of all, no maintenance assignments or beeper-carrying. All my work is new dev.
All in all it would take a mighty big carrot on a mighty big stick to lure me back to FTE.
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Google print, Amazon book search, this lawsuit and others are just small steps in the evolution of copyright into something else. I don't think we can anticipate what that will be, any more than our ancestors anticipated a day when making and distributing copies of information would be as easy as talking. In the time it's taken me to type this message I could have sent the lifetime works of Benjamin Franklin to someone on the other side of the world. Not just his published writings, but every single word he ever wrote down. It's ludicrous to think that our ancestors would have formulated copyright in the same way if they had known what we know, or that copyright shouldn't evolve like everything else.
Every Halloween at the stroke of midnight an imaginary gun goes off, and thousands of people start working on 50,000-word novels, which they try to finish by the end of November -- National Novel-Writing Month. Writers report their progress on the website. Some people post their work online, but it's all on the honor system and is just for fun. Don't have any ideas? No problem! Visit the site and get advice from character development to plotting to excuses for not finishing. You can also find other participants by location. In many cities people meet and party at the end of the month. Good way to jumpstart yourself.
A couple years ago I built a fog machine based on plans I found somewhere on the web. It was very simple to make and cost under $10. I've always meant to put up my own web page showing how to do it, but you know how that goes. It's not that hard though, especially if you are a true geek. Basically you get a used electric iron and mount it upside down in a shoebox-size box, with a drip mechanism that drips a glycerine and water solution onto the iron, and a computer fan at one end blowing in. Needless to say, you wire the fan and iron to a switch.
For me the hardest part was making the drip mechanism and getting the drip rate right. You want a drip rate of several drops per second but not a running stream. I bought a used aquarium pump but it ran WAY too fast. So I ended up using gravity. I mounted a 2-liter pop bottle upside down on top of the box, with a piece of plastic tubing epoxied through a hole in the cap, extending down into the box. I fused the end of the tubing shut with a candle flame and poked several pinholes in it until it flowed right. Initially the thing stopped dripping after just a few seconds, so I had to poke a hole in the pop bottle's bottom end (which was at the top) to allow air to enter. Then the drip rate was too fast, so I heat-sealed some of the holes in the tubing. It was trial and error, and it ran a little too fast when the bottle was full and too slow when it was low on juice. Some sort of slow pump would work better. But what the hell, the parts were free.
The drops of glycerine instantly boil away to dense white fog when they hit the hot iron, and the fan blows the fog out the other end of the box. Commercial fog juice is a 25% solution of glycerine in water. A 12-oz bottle of glycerine costs about $8 at the drug store. Mix it with 3 parts water and you're there. This quantity will last a couple hours.
The fog machine emits steam, which rises. To make the fog float along the ground you need a chiller, which you can build with an old styrofoam cooler. Cut a 3-inch hole cut in each end, with a tunnel of wire mesh connecting the two holes. You fill the cooler with ice and put the fog machine up against the hole at one end. When the hot fog passes through the chilled tunnel it will stay close to the ground. You don't actually need pieces of plastic pipe or anything, unless you want to duct the fog somewhere.
Instead of using my fog machine to fog up the living room I made a cemetery in the front yard. I had various slabs of styrofoam lying around from who knows what, in thicknesses ranging from 1/2" to 2". If you don't have any just get a 2x8 sheet of rigid foam insulation an inch or two thick. I cut out tombstone shapes with a scroll saw, and for good measure cut a few cracks and other defects into the edges with a serrated kitchen knife. Then I used a soldering iron with a large tip to carve out lettering on each one. The foam melts away at the touch of the iron, and the result has a nice deteriorated look. Then I spray painted the tombstones gray and then sprayed lightly over with black in a haphazard pattern to distress them.
I mounted the stones in the yard using a coat hanger stuck in the bottom of each one and into the ground. Lighting fog from the side looks really good, so I hung a lawn spotlight in a large bush about 15 ft away, downwind of the graveyard, shining through the leaves at the tombstones. The tombstones themselves were standing at an angle to accentuate the shadowing inside the carved letters. It made the lettering really visible. On the upwind side I set up the fog machine and aimed it toward the sidewalk. As the fog came out the slight breeze blew it gently across the yard, through the graveyard and toward the light. My wife hung small stereo speakers in the same bush as the spotlight and we had creepy organ music playing. All in all it was a really cool effect.
Well, yeah, but with eminent domain you need pay the market value for what your taking.
/Chaotic Neutral and proud.
Well, no, you don't. As discussed on Slashdot last month, the U.S. government gives companies license to ignore patents when it's convenient. Modern morality is increasingly equated with lawfulness, which means whoever pulls the strings in the government gets to define right and wrong. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
Well yeah, he threw the chair, but he didn't inhale.
...sort of like .Net three years ago?
"If you read the papers today, other than curing cancer, Google will do everything."
Local governments can kick people out of their houses for the sake of public works projects, and lately they've been doing it for commercial projects. The federal government can void patents in the name of national security. I'm not in love with either practice, but as long as those are the rules we have to live under why can't the principle of eminent domain be invoked to override a patent claim that denies a valuable service to a significant number of people. Especially if the technology has been in use for a while.
The Epimenides paradox has always seemed silly to me. If Epimenides, a Cretan, states that all Cretans are liars, then he must be lying, and the premise that all Cretans are liars must simply be wrong. Some of them are liars and some aren't, and Epimenides happens to be one of the ones who are. No paradox.
A single statement such as "I am telling a lie" is paradoxical because it can be neither true nor false. But two statements that rely on each other merely indicate that one of them must be wrong.
My first solution to the 3 lightbulb problem was to turn on switch A and leave it on for 10000 hours, ample time for the bulb to burn out. Then turn on switch B and enter the rooms. If you see a lit up bulb you know it's connected to switch B. If you see a dark bulb unscrew it and momentarily stick your finger in the socket. If you get a shock (which won't kill you as long as you are not grounded) you know it's connected to switch A, otherwise it's C. Not as good as the hot-bulb solution, but original.
Troll? Ok, I take it back. Google doesn't hate America.
/note to self: there are people alive who don't realize "Why does [whoever] hate America?" is just lame humor.
About halfway through I wondered if it had been written by Yoda.
Awkward syntax did it have.
Wow, I'm glad you called them. I would love to have seen the look on that smug bastard's face when the FBI hauled away his computers.
Why does Google hate America?
I think my 11th level thief looted Erowid's Cannabis Vault and stole the Bong of Mordenkainen.
Given that there are about 35 people in the world who haven't seen one version or another yet, how worthwhile is any King Kong remake? I can't wait for Jackson to move onto another project like The Mote in God's Eye or the Foundation trilogy.
This smells like a scam to me. If they think Internet addiction is a problem, where were they with television and radio addiction, phone addiction, newspaper reading addiction, or for that matter Mah Jong addiction? I don't know what their equivalent of Congress is, but they must have corresponding equivalents for hey Senator, nice to see you, oops, you dropped this envelope full of $100 bills, wink wink.
Read the post by WallaceAndGromit above. This weapon almost certainly uses the same technology as is used to destroy kidney stones, focusing the sound waves in a very small area and doing little or no damage to the surroundings. The military has been experimenting with focused sound on land as well, and has a device that can project voices and other sounds to a single individual or a tight group of people, that are inaudible to everyone around them.
The loss of the Wallace and Gromit material is just one instance of a much larger process of history destruction that goes on continuously. More than half of all the movies ever made have been lost forever, because they mouldered away in vaults and filing cabinets instead of being out in free circulation, their owners hoarding them on the chance that one day they might produce profit, or forgetting them entirely and letting them crumble away. Simple neglect can be as destructive as fire or any other disaster.
As Intellectual Property rights are strengthened, this type of loss is going to happen more and more. Rights holders will have tight control over the distribution of "their property," even to the extent of disabling it whenever they want. Fewer and fewer unmonitored copies will exist, and more and more material will be simply yanked out of circulation because it competes with something newer that somebody wants to sell.
I collect Old Time Radio shows from the 1940s and earlier. Thanks to our Congressmen-for-hire, these shows and ALL audio recordings made before 1972 are still copyrighted, and will remain so until the year 2067. Theoretically the only legal copies are those kept by the rights holders. Ironically, most of the shows that still exist have survived only through the illegal activities of a diehard fan community. Most old time radio shows were never intended to be heard again. They were recorded only so they could be retransmitted later to different time zones, or simply so the studio didn't have to be in the same building as the transmitter. Most were destined for the trash, or sometimes already in the trash, when they were rescued and taken home by radio station engineers and the like, later to be copied to tapes, CDs and mp3s over the years, and sold/traded/handed out to other collectors. These "pirates" have kept this material alive for decades while the original rights holders in most cases did absolutely nothing. These old shows may not be great literature, but they do provide an invaluable record of popular American entertainment during one of the greatest times in our history, showing us what average everyday people thought was funny, interesting and frightening at that time. You can't get that sort of thing out of a book, and we wouldn't have it today if everybody had played by the rules.
I only mow my lawn about every two weeks. My neighbor across the street mows his every week. Shouldn't he have to pay twice as much for a mower as I do?
If software companies are allowed to control "their property" in this way, I don't see why sellers of physical products won't eventually do the same thing. Instead of buying a product and owning it, you'll merely be buying a license to use it for a certain amount of time. Then the license will expire and you'll either have to renew it or throw the product away. Tell me how this is different from what software companies are already doing?
20 minute drive each way, 30 minutes waiting for prints=70, which for a quantity of 100 is less than 1 minute per print
But for a quantity of 2 prints it's more than a half hour per print, which was my point. The time I would spend in a year going someplace for a couple prints at a time would add up, not to mention having to transfer the files to a CD first to take to the store, plus remembering to do it in the first place. Compare that to pulling a print out of the Photosmart once or twice a week whenever I feel like it. Takes no time at all, and I actually do it instead of planning to next time I'm at the store and forgetting. For infrequent use, owning one of these can be well worth it.
The best market for these might be the low-volume user for whom a trip to a photo processing place just to make 2 or 3 prints every now and then is too much trouble and expense. My in-laws gave me a Photosmart last Christmas, which I never would have bought for myself, but I really appreciate the ability to crank out maybe 5 or 6 prints per month to send to relatives and whatnot. At that one-at-a-time rate it just isn't worth it to me to go anywhere to get digital prints. If this printer lasts 6 or 8 years I will happily pay to replace it.
But of course by then the big thing will probably be digital paper with Harry Potter style images that move around and talk.
...a game is decided whether or not it is 'violent' by juries, and different juries could have different opinions on what is defined as 'violent
So apparently they object to it because it works the same way as our judicial system, which has been in place for hundreds of years. Does the phrase, "I have a cunning plan" spring to mind?
From the previous article...
No sane business operator enters a contract in which one party has the right to disregard its terms at will, but that's what HR-1201 permits.
That's also what Congress did when it passed the Bono Act in 1998, which extended copyright terms for another 50 years and retroactively placed all audio recordings made before 1972 under copyright until the year 2067. Many of these works were already in the public domain. But even the wax cylinders recorded by Edison in the 1890s are now copyrighted until 2067 because of this law.
Copyright isn't a fact of nature or a divine right, it's a contract between copyright holders and the public. The public agrees to respect a copyright and pay taxes to enforce it for a specific number of years. At the end of that time the public expects the work to become public domain. Every time Congress extends copyrights it's like declaring that all 30-year mortgages are now 60-year mortgages. Or in some cases, giving the house back to the bank after it's been paid up. Great news if you're the bank, bad news if you're the one making the payments.
What sane person would enter into a contract that allows the other party to disregard its terms at will? The average American citizen. Oops, I mean "consumer."
E510n -- at first it looked like an attempt to say something clever in leet, like "Easy-on," but apparently it's just a numbering scheme coincidence.
First Ballmer throws office furniture. Now Gates whines about somebody else's DRM.
Life just keeps getting more and more entertaining.
I've been a contractor most of my 25 year career and I think it's the best way to go. You have no politics, fewer meetings, managers listen to you more than they listen to their own employees, and they don't waste your time as much. If you need something they tend to get it for you right away. There's also the variety, and for me the knowledge that I have a planned end date helps alleviate any frustrations and negatives there might be. I don't take jobs that I don't want, and I get free training by going after projects where I know most but not all of what's needed and can convince them that I'll be able to learn the rest quickly.
The only downside I can think of is that sometimes I do get attached to a place and don't really want to leave. But usually I can think of a couple negatives that balance that out.
To find jobs I use temp agencies such as Volt, and smaller ones that spring up all the time. I just send out my resume to the usual suspects when a project is winding down, and they find the jobs and arrange the interviews. All I have to do is show up. On average my projects last 6 months to a year and I have 3-4 weeks off between.
Agencies hire you a a W2 employee, so they pay their half of social security. I work a little over 45 weeks a year. Taking health insurance cost into account, my situation is roughly equivalent to having a full time job at $70-75k/year with 5 weeks paid time off and benefits. Not bad for web/db dev, and with no downtrodden-masses feeling that can come with a permanent job. Best of all, no maintenance assignments or beeper-carrying. All my work is new dev.
All in all it would take a mighty big carrot on a mighty big stick to lure me back to FTE.