Uh, maybe because doing well in business takes an additional set of skills besides those required to succeed in tech, a set of skills that most people in tech don't have?
Maybe because they need a steady income for their family rather than the unpredictability of starting a small business that's statistically doomed to failure?
Maybe because they don't want to only eat ramen for two years while they get their company going?
What about the telemarketers? How can we expect them to make a living now that there's a "do not call" list? Cry me a river.
Anyhow, it's time we questioned at the "give it away free and make money on the ads" business model. People are waking the hell up and realizing how annoying it is. I gave up TV in large part because I hate ads more than I like the programs available. I could get a PVR, but even that's becoming an arms race between those who don't want to see the ads and the advertisers anyway. Same thing with commercial radio. If it weren't for satellite, I wouldn't listen to radio at all. Even NPR's "sponsored by" messages are sounding like ads.
---snip--- ...if a patient visits a doctor, they enter automatically into a non-disclosure agreement although no legal documents need to be signed..
A physician you may be, but a lawyer clearly you are not.
I defy you to point out any example of a circumstance where any party is "automatically" entered into an NDA (or other agreement) without documents needing to be signed. Certainly patients do not enter into verbal NDAs with doctors; besides written agreements, what other forms of agreements are there?
Besides, even if CommanderTaco had *deleted* the comment, it wouldn't be censorship. No government would be taking away your right to speak, a private party would be removing your speech from a system that they own! You want to complain about the US, get a blog.
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The review is missing something important. Effective C# is of the same mold as the Scott Meyers' Effective C++ franchise - known by many C++ programmers as a great resource of best practices. Bill has Meyer's approval to publish an "Effective" book, and even announced its publication on his mailing list.
A patent itself is like any other tool: a gun, a can of spray paint, an email service. How you use a tool is where evil can arise. If I randomly shoot children - evil. If I paint my tag on public buildings - evil. If I spam - evil.
If I use a patent to economically enrich myself but as a result impede the use of information - possibly evil.
If I patent something then create a free license for it so that no one can restrict its use through commercial monopoly - good.
I'm not saying that Google is using their PageRank patent for good, just that simply owning patents is an evil-neutral stance. It all comes down to use.
In basement apartments all over the US and Canada, a rare breed of computer users called "overclockers" have been found dead in troublesome numbers. The cause of death appears to be lack of oxygen, although there are never signs of struggle.
The only thing the crime scenes have in common is each victim is found next to a burned-out computer and an empty styrofoam cooler.
Doesn't burining PVC ( http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/lightsaber-8.j pg ) create some nasty chloride smoke? And melting a hole in a metal door? Shouldn't you wear a filter mask or safety glasses or something?
...I think they will be around for a while given their excellent... selection.
I'm a new Netflix user. I've got a 24 hour Blockbuster a mile from home - they always have a copy of the latest Hollywood drek du jour. But that's not what I want to watch. IMHO, Netflix will always have a market as long as enough people want to watch quality film, not just star-packed rehashes and smarm, or gratuitous eardrum-bursting explosions.
Pish! A few minutes a day at http://news.google.com/ gives me more than enough info to stay on top of pop culture. I can learn about any other aspect of society from other sources.
True, debugging is not on curricula. But you will almost certainly fail out of school if you don't start picking up debugging basics immediately after you write your first line of code (bug).
a. It's BETA, meaning not done and unsupported, not free b. "We have not announced pricing and licensing and will not do so until next calendar year. For the time being, we can tell you that the Express Editions will be low-cost and will continue to be easy to acquire." c. as previously stated, there is no permission for distributing apps built with it
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Uh, maybe because doing well in business takes an additional set of skills besides those required to succeed in tech, a set of skills that most people in tech don't have?
Maybe because they need a steady income for their family rather than the unpredictability of starting a small business that's statistically doomed to failure?
Maybe because they don't want to only eat ramen for two years while they get their company going?
What about the telemarketers? How can we expect them to make a living now that there's a "do not call" list? Cry me a river.
Anyhow, it's time we questioned at the "give it away free and make money on the ads" business model. People are waking the hell up and realizing how annoying it is. I gave up TV in large part because I hate ads more than I like the programs available. I could get a PVR, but even that's becoming an arms race between those who don't want to see the ads and the advertisers anyway. Same thing with commercial radio. If it weren't for satellite, I wouldn't listen to radio at all. Even NPR's "sponsored by" messages are sounding like ads.
A physician you may be, but a lawyer clearly you are not.
I defy you to point out any example of a circumstance where any party is "automatically" entered into an NDA (or other agreement) without documents needing to be signed. Certainly patients do not enter into verbal NDAs with doctors; besides written agreements, what other forms of agreements are there?
Implicit NDA - as if!
Replace his laptop with an Etch-a-Sketch.
Besides, even if CommanderTaco had *deleted* the comment, it wouldn't be censorship. No government would be taking away your right to speak, a private party would be removing your speech from a system that they own! You want to complain about the US, get a blog.
The review is missing something important. Effective C# is of the same mold as the Scott Meyers' Effective C++ franchise - known by many C++ programmers as a great resource of best practices. Bill has Meyer's approval to publish an "Effective" book, and even announced its publication on his mailing list.
And boingboing scooped slashdot on the story about the Nokia app.
Glocks are not ceramic, and never have been. F'ing Bruce Willis.
Under that scheme, to get a hold of someone's biometrics you would just have to steal one of their DVDs!
A patent itself is like any other tool: a gun, a can of spray paint, an email service. How you use a tool is where evil can arise. If I randomly shoot children - evil. If I paint my tag on public buildings - evil. If I spam - evil.
If I use a patent to economically enrich myself but as a result impede the use of information - possibly evil.
If I patent something then create a free license for it so that no one can restrict its use through commercial monopoly - good.
I'm not saying that Google is using their PageRank patent for good, just that simply owning patents is an evil-neutral stance. It all comes down to use.
In basement apartments all over the US and Canada, a rare breed of computer users called "overclockers" have been found dead in troublesome numbers. The cause of death appears to be lack of oxygen, although there are never signs of struggle.
The only thing the crime scenes have in common is each victim is found next to a burned-out computer and an empty styrofoam cooler.
I saw this without the parent and thought: "Kansas has the bomb?!?"
Doesn't burining PVC ( http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/lightsaber-8.j pg ) create some nasty chloride smoke? And melting a hole in a metal door? Shouldn't you wear a filter mask or safety glasses or something?
Who would willingly* accept a job at a company that didn't have version control?
*Economic need to take the available first job offer doesn't (in my mind) constitute willing acceptance.
True, debugging is not on curricula. But you will almost certainly fail out of school if you don't start picking up debugging basics immediately after you write your first line of code (bug).
Not if the hammer's EULA restricts it.
It is, and they are not pretending it is not:
"Microsoft is committed to helping you "graduate" to higher-end products "
It's not free in any sense of the word.
a. It's BETA, meaning not done and unsupported, not free
b. "We have not announced pricing and licensing and will not do so until next calendar year. For the time being, we can tell you that the Express Editions will be low-cost and will continue to be easy to acquire."
c. as previously stated, there is no permission for distributing apps built with it
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Now before "You can leave a message...", it says in yellow:
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Your ignorance is showing. I won't even bother to give examples.