It will be interesting to check back a year from now and see if virtually no-one produces Portuguese language content at that time since you won't be able to sell enough to recoup the costs of making and marketing it.
Maybe look at how many NY Times bestsellers are translated Portuguese today and how many are avaible a year or two from now. I know I wouldn't spend my time translating, only to sell one copy and have everyone else pirate it. Maybe it'll work out well, maybe not. Let's check back next year and see, shall we.
That model has worked well. The state agency where I work charges DHS, FEMA, other states and state agencies etc. for our services. We do.a good job and do it efficiently, not wasting money, because we have to compete for those contracts. (Mostly training disaster prevention, managing disaster scenarios, and training first responders.)
Many schools have a partnership with Microsoft. MS provides the curriculum and the materials, including software. The university just sits back and collects the money. For their trouble, MS gets a whole generation trained in MS products and nothing else.
I looked at the Comp Science program at one major university. Their class "Operating Systems" covers Microsoft Windows and... Microsoft Windows. Be prepared to provide a) a compelling argument as why the class should be changed and b) several million dollars.
You may remember back when MS was busted for anti-violations they negotiated a penalty. Their penalty was that they had to give a ton of software licenses to elementary schools. In other words, the government trained a million kids to use MS software, using licenses that didn't cost MS anything. That was the penalty. MS knows that's a great thing for them, so they make deals with schools to ensure only Microsoft Office on Microsoft Windows is taught at those schools.
You don't have to WIN a court case to have it removed. In fact you don't even have to actually file. Under DMCA, you only have to show Youtube that you INTEND to file in court and at that point they have to remove it until the other party proves that they won in court. So fill out the form as though you were going to file the case and send a copy to youtube. That should get the video removed again.
Actually paying the filing fee is optional, so long as youtibe thinks you INTEND to file. I have used this technique with a fraudulent car dealership - they blew me off until I delivered a copy of the legal complaint form, at which point they got real cooperative real fast. I never actually filed the suit, just filled out the paperwork.
The citizens of Colorado can make that law for themselves if they want to. They can even use an initiative to make it so without help from their elected representatives.
They don't need a federal judge making up their laws for them.
Colorado lawmakers or citizens should make a law saying ballots must be secret. The Constitution is (rightly) only a few pages long and "secret ballot" is never mentioned in those few pages.
Colorado citizens have the power of initiative and referendum - citizens can make laws directly. The activists should have talked to their elected representatives or started an initiative, not filed in federal court. It's not an issue for a federal judge to decide, but one for the citizens of Colorado to decide for themselves.
Our government is inherently hamfisted. If they sell rocket stuff to other countries, Iran will buy guided missiles. Government is incapable of common sense, so they need broad policies.
So the while time you've been using Linux you've been paying, donating to your favorite projects, right? You've always had the opportunity to pay. If someone hasn't donated even $10 ever, I'd say that means they'd rather let it come to this. Users have always had the choice.
If you'd rather pay, apt-remove and donate to an ad-free project. I'm about to eat breakfast. I'm a Linux developer. Breakfast costs money. If you'd rather pay, then do so. Lunch is coming up in a few hours and it has to be paid for somehow.
I groaned when I read the headline, picturing permanent banner ads on the desktop. When I TFA, I saw they did a goof job of it. An unobtrusive maybe even useful, way for non-coders to contribute a just a little bit to Ubuntu development. I do continue code, weekly, but still I wouldn't mind those types of carefully integrated search results too much.
> , their brain is given another task to have to attend to in addition to the other(s).
A task they are given no credit for completing, thereby ignoring half of the tasks completed.
If I listen to a lecture while perusing email, sure I my process fewer emails. BUT I also listened to the lecture. The study ignores the value of having heard the lecture. Or say I ride the bus and write a report. I didn't ride any additional miles, so according to that study multi-tasking (writing while riding) didn't do me any good. You have to count BOTH tasks as complete, because you did TWO things. Saying the subjects didn't do a better job of task #1 completely misses the point of multi-tasking.
It's not the sa,e thing at all.
They showed that doing a task while also being distracted by a NON-task reduced the effectiveness of the one and only task. That's not multi-tasking.
A better test would have been to ask the subjects to remember what was shown and what was heard, to actually multi-task. Then count as the score any word remembered - whether the word was shown or heard. They failed by crediting only the performance on task #1.
To use a real world multi-tasking example, suppose you are sorting email as pages load for a report you are researching. The syudu counts how many emails you sort. Sue, you'll sort fewer emails if you're multi-tasking, but you'll also complete the report at the same time! Ignoring the fact that TWO tasks were competed rather than just one makes the study worthless.
You're trying to decide between a pleasant workplace at one salary and a ______ workplace at another salary. Seems to me, tbe question is "what it the work environment like at the new company?" Instead of asking here, ask people who work there, used to work there, or have family working there. Facebook will help you find friends of friends who work there. Heck, Facebook posts by employees may give you a strong clue how they are feeling after work.
In fifteen years, I've purchased ONE application. It wasn't very good and since it wasn't open source I couldn't fix it. So I guess I'm one who expects all my software to be "free". (I contribute code, bug reports, etc., not cash)
Funny thing is, I make a living mainly by SELLING software for Linux, but I never BUY software.
I spent my first fifteen years doing freelance which grew into my own company with three employees. I started by finding a couple of web forums, communities, where people sometimes asked technical questions. In my case, forums for people running their own web sites (1-3 person companies). If I could answer a question, I would. If I didn't know the answer but could look it up, I looked it up. Soon I had a reputation as the most knowledgeable technical person in that community and people wanted to hire me for projects.
Eventually I ended up participating in mailing lists like IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force, the internet standards body), Apache-devel, etc. An interview is a lot easier when the hiring manager Google's your name and finds ypu on the Linux kernel list, apache-devel, and linux-lvm-devel.
One interviewer asked if I had any experience with Debian. I asked if they'd seen the previous day's Debian security update, which warned of a serious flaw, crediting me for discovering it. That's gold and it's just from participating in the community.
Btw, if you read this post and think I sound credible, that's exactly what I'm taking about. Just do the same in a forum where you can be helpful.
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It will be interesting to check back a year from now and see if virtually no-one produces Portuguese language content at that time since you won't be able to sell enough to recoup the costs of making and marketing it. Maybe look at how many NY Times bestsellers are translated Portuguese today and how many are avaible a year or two from now. I know I wouldn't spend my time translating, only to sell one copy and have everyone else pirate it. Maybe it'll work out well, maybe not. Let's check back next year and see, shall we.
That model has worked well. The state agency where I work charges DHS, FEMA, other states and state agencies etc. for our services. We do.a good job and do it efficiently, not wasting money, because we have to compete for those contracts. (Mostly training disaster prevention, managing disaster scenarios, and training first responders.)
Many schools have a partnership with Microsoft. MS provides the curriculum and the materials, including software. The university just sits back and collects the money. For their trouble, MS gets a whole generation trained in MS products and nothing else. I looked at the Comp Science program at one major university. Their class "Operating Systems" covers Microsoft Windows and ... Microsoft Windows. Be prepared to provide a) a compelling argument as why the class should be changed and b) several million dollars.
You may remember back when MS was busted for anti-violations they negotiated a penalty. Their penalty was that they had to give a ton of software licenses to elementary schools. In other words, the government trained a million kids to use MS software, using licenses that didn't cost MS anything. That was the penalty. MS knows that's a great thing for them, so they make deals with schools to ensure only Microsoft Office on Microsoft Windows is taught at those schools.
You don't have to WIN a court case to have it removed. In fact you don't even have to actually file. Under DMCA, you only have to show Youtube that you INTEND to file in court and at that point they have to remove it until the other party proves that they won in court. So fill out the form as though you were going to file the case and send a copy to youtube. That should get the video removed again. Actually paying the filing fee is optional, so long as youtibe thinks you INTEND to file. I have used this technique with a fraudulent car dealership - they blew me off until I delivered a copy of the legal complaint form, at which point they got real cooperative real fast. I never actually filed the suit, just filled out the paperwork.
The citizens of Colorado can make that law for themselves if they want to. They can even use an initiative to make it so without help from their elected representatives. They don't need a federal judge making up their laws for them.
Colorado lawmakers or citizens should make a law saying ballots must be secret. The Constitution is (rightly) only a few pages long and "secret ballot" is never mentioned in those few pages. Colorado citizens have the power of initiative and referendum - citizens can make laws directly. The activists should have talked to their elected representatives or started an initiative, not filed in federal court. It's not an issue for a federal judge to decide, but one for the citizens of Colorado to decide for themselves.
Our government is inherently hamfisted. If they sell rocket stuff to other countries, Iran will buy guided missiles. Government is incapable of common sense, so they need broad policies.
So the while time you've been using Linux you've been paying, donating to your favorite projects, right? You've always had the opportunity to pay. If someone hasn't donated even $10 ever, I'd say that means they'd rather let it come to this. Users have always had the choice. If you'd rather pay, apt-remove and donate to an ad-free project. I'm about to eat breakfast. I'm a Linux developer. Breakfast costs money. If you'd rather pay, then do so. Lunch is coming up in a few hours and it has to be paid for somehow.
I groaned when I read the headline, picturing permanent banner ads on the desktop. When I TFA, I saw they did a goof job of it. An unobtrusive maybe even useful, way for non-coders to contribute a just a little bit to Ubuntu development. I do continue code, weekly, but still I wouldn't mind those types of carefully integrated search results too much.
> , their brain is given another task to have to attend to in addition to the other(s). A task they are given no credit for completing, thereby ignoring half of the tasks completed. If I listen to a lecture while perusing email, sure I my process fewer emails. BUT I also listened to the lecture. The study ignores the value of having heard the lecture. Or say I ride the bus and write a report. I didn't ride any additional miles, so according to that study multi-tasking (writing while riding) didn't do me any good. You have to count BOTH tasks as complete, because you did TWO things. Saying the subjects didn't do a better job of task #1 completely misses the point of multi-tasking.
It's not the sa,e thing at all. They showed that doing a task while also being distracted by a NON-task reduced the effectiveness of the one and only task. That's not multi-tasking. A better test would have been to ask the subjects to remember what was shown and what was heard, to actually multi-task. Then count as the score any word remembered - whether the word was shown or heard. They failed by crediting only the performance on task #1. To use a real world multi-tasking example, suppose you are sorting email as pages load for a report you are researching. The syudu counts how many emails you sort. Sue, you'll sort fewer emails if you're multi-tasking, but you'll also complete the report at the same time! Ignoring the fact that TWO tasks were competed rather than just one makes the study worthless.
You're trying to decide between a pleasant workplace at one salary and a ______ workplace at another salary. Seems to me, tbe question is "what it the work environment like at the new company?" Instead of asking here, ask people who work there, used to work there, or have family working there. Facebook will help you find friends of friends who work there. Heck, Facebook posts by employees may give you a strong clue how they are feeling after work.
In fifteen years, I've purchased ONE application. It wasn't very good and since it wasn't open source I couldn't fix it. So I guess I'm one who expects all my software to be "free". (I contribute code, bug reports, etc., not cash) Funny thing is, I make a living mainly by SELLING software for Linux, but I never BUY software.
I spent my first fifteen years doing freelance which grew into my own company with three employees. I started by finding a couple of web forums, communities, where people sometimes asked technical questions. In my case, forums for people running their own web sites (1-3 person companies). If I could answer a question, I would. If I didn't know the answer but could look it up, I looked it up. Soon I had a reputation as the most knowledgeable technical person in that community and people wanted to hire me for projects. Eventually I ended up participating in mailing lists like IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force, the internet standards body), Apache-devel, etc. An interview is a lot easier when the hiring manager Google's your name and finds ypu on the Linux kernel list, apache-devel, and linux-lvm-devel. One interviewer asked if I had any experience with Debian. I asked if they'd seen the previous day's Debian security update, which warned of a serious flaw, crediting me for discovering it. That's gold and it's just from participating in the community. Btw, if you read this post and think I sound credible, that's exactly what I'm taking about. Just do the same in a forum where you can be helpful.