Working one of these jobs for one hour would give you a very good idea of how much you could expect to earn, and it's not as though someone could even yell at you if you quit after fifteen minutes on the job. I fail to see how something with a maximum potential downside of "you just wasted an hour of your life" needs to be regulated.
This is akin to saying that a house belongs to the people who build it. Ideas are a dime a dozen; the money to finance them and the ability to execute them are the valuable parts of a business. When a plant geneticist created the RoundUp Ready gene, he did it with Monsanto's money, in Monsanto's labs. Monsanto paid for the industrial scale-up of the idea. It belongs to the company. (They're still assholes, though.)
They're tired of having their crops trampled by people who want to come here illegally? It may be a futile gesture, but plenty of protests are done purely as media bait.
I've taken care of a man who had his dog eat not one but two necrotic toes off his feet. Didn't feel a thing - actually, he can't feel anything in his whole foot. Diabetic neuropathy is a bitch.
If you can't trust your employees, you should either fire them or not give them the password to the computer.
I'll give you my for-instance. I'm trying to track patient movement through an outpatient surgery center. I want to know when they enter the operating room, when they leave the room, who their surgeon was, and what the CPT code was (identifies the surgery being done). I don't care who the patient is, so there's no protected health information involved. I've already got someone recording this on paper, but I'm not going to grant her general write access to the Google Docs spreadsheet that I'm using to maintain data. I just want an easy way to get the data she's already collecting entered into a spreadsheet for me. If I could make it a 10-second task for her, she'll do it for me as a favor.
It was a lighthearted introduction. Don't take it too seriously.
when internet purchases are taxed, you're going to complain about that
Of course I'd complain. I may have to follow the law or accept the consequences, but I don't have to be happy about it. And I don't have to spend every waking moment and every spare dollar trying to get the law repealed in order to earn the right to complain.
It appears that 3.2(b) is just to prevent someone from doing an end run around Tele Atlas' data license by saying that government agency X used it, government agency X is subject to FOIA, and therefore Tele Atlas' data is available for free subject to FOIA.
The Bill of Rights is the first ten amendments to the Constitution. There's no distinction, in theory, between wording in the original version of the document and as amended - they're both The Constitution. The focus on which amendment affects a particular legal decision is equivalent to quoting article and section numbers when talking about the original text - it just tells you what phrase is under consideration.
Look, I don't know what benighted part of the planet you inhabit, but even rednecks have below-ground pools around here.
The better question is, why isn't the city going after the people who built the pools? Presumably, the homeowners didn't all build the things themselves. The contractors have licenses that can be revoked for failure to follow the laws. When I've had licensed contractors work on my house, there's been a little section of the bill that lists any city permits and fees necessary, so at least some of them know to do all this.
Oh, wait. It's because it's all about grabbing cash, not about making sure that things are built safely. That's why.
And to make yourself safe, be sure to ask your bank to issue you a debit-only card for ATM use - one without a Visa or Mastercard logo. That way, if you ever do lose the card, it's not possible for someone to empty your bank account before you notice the loss and cancel the card.
Virtually every small business owner does small things themselves to save money. Not every plumbing problem needs a plumber; sometimes you just need Drano, or you just need to snake the pipe. I don't try to fix my air conditioner, or my main sewage line out of my house, but if you can't handle the P trap in your sink, you're at the mercy of anyone who wants to screw you. I'm not a mechanical engineer, but I can change my own oil. (I don't, because I hate crawling under a car and I can easily afford $30 for a car wash and oil change every 3-6 months. But I can.)
What if it's a simple internal site? I mentioned this elsewhere in this thread, but you don't have to be a mechanical engineer to change your oil, and you shouldn't need a BS in CS in order to write a simple web interface to a MySQL database.
This is the sort of thing that I - and I suspect many others - want. I will never write a "real" website, but I'd like to be able to cobble together some little script-level work to knock out stupid tasks. You don't have to be a mechanical engineer to change your own oil, and you shouldn't have to be an elite programmer to do something as simple as a complex search-and-replace.
Not necessarily. I'm in a similar situation: I took a couple of CS classes in college, mostly for the heck of it, and learned a little C++ (this was 1996). I learned a bit about algorithms, and big-O notation, and recursion, and pointers. Intellectually very rewarding, very interesting. But it taught me not a thing about how to write "Hello World" for Windows.
I can think of several small applications for Android that would make my life easier - a custom data entry program for a database I'd like to keep, for example - but I don't know how to write a program in Java, let alone in Android's GUI. "Draw box with the following five questions and text-entry boxes, and then transmit that information to a web page, which will then save it in a MySQL database" is the kind of task that should be trivial by now. Why isn't it? And if it is, where can I learn how to do that?
Because Livingston is in English Protestant Louisiana, not French Catholic Louisiana, and you Catholics are a bunch of idol worshippers who strayed from the true faith a long time ago? Papists.
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Working one of these jobs for one hour would give you a very good idea of how much you could expect to earn, and it's not as though someone could even yell at you if you quit after fifteen minutes on the job. I fail to see how something with a maximum potential downside of "you just wasted an hour of your life" needs to be regulated.
If you can afford an iPad and a tethering phone, you probably aren't the problem demographic.
This is akin to saying that a house belongs to the people who build it. Ideas are a dime a dozen; the money to finance them and the ability to execute them are the valuable parts of a business. When a plant geneticist created the RoundUp Ready gene, he did it with Monsanto's money, in Monsanto's labs. Monsanto paid for the industrial scale-up of the idea. It belongs to the company. (They're still assholes, though.)
They're tired of having their crops trampled by people who want to come here illegally? It may be a futile gesture, but plenty of protests are done purely as media bait.
I've taken care of a man who had his dog eat not one but two necrotic toes off his feet. Didn't feel a thing - actually, he can't feel anything in his whole foot. Diabetic neuropathy is a bitch.
If you can't trust your employees, you should either fire them or not give them the password to the computer.
I'll give you my for-instance. I'm trying to track patient movement through an outpatient surgery center. I want to know when they enter the operating room, when they leave the room, who their surgeon was, and what the CPT code was (identifies the surgery being done). I don't care who the patient is, so there's no protected health information involved. I've already got someone recording this on paper, but I'm not going to grant her general write access to the Google Docs spreadsheet that I'm using to maintain data. I just want an easy way to get the data she's already collecting entered into a spreadsheet for me. If I could make it a 10-second task for her, she'll do it for me as a favor.
when internet purchases are taxed, you're going to complain about that
Of course I'd complain. I may have to follow the law or accept the consequences, but I don't have to be happy about it. And I don't have to spend every waking moment and every spare dollar trying to get the law repealed in order to earn the right to complain.
with out the system making them up as they see fit
Do they ever do it any other way?
It appears that 3.2(b) is just to prevent someone from doing an end run around Tele Atlas' data license by saying that government agency X used it, government agency X is subject to FOIA, and therefore Tele Atlas' data is available for free subject to FOIA.
The Bill of Rights is the first ten amendments to the Constitution. There's no distinction, in theory, between wording in the original version of the document and as amended - they're both The Constitution. The focus on which amendment affects a particular legal decision is equivalent to quoting article and section numbers when talking about the original text - it just tells you what phrase is under consideration.
Or the contractors are shady bastards who skimped on getting the permits and pocketed the money.
it fails, a 3-6 foot wall of water
Look, I don't know what benighted part of the planet you inhabit, but even rednecks have below-ground pools around here.
The better question is, why isn't the city going after the people who built the pools? Presumably, the homeowners didn't all build the things themselves. The contractors have licenses that can be revoked for failure to follow the laws. When I've had licensed contractors work on my house, there's been a little section of the bill that lists any city permits and fees necessary, so at least some of them know to do all this.
Oh, wait. It's because it's all about grabbing cash, not about making sure that things are built safely. That's why.
You, sir, deserve one internets for being polite. I'm happy I helped.
And to make yourself safe, be sure to ask your bank to issue you a debit-only card for ATM use - one without a Visa or Mastercard logo. That way, if you ever do lose the card, it's not possible for someone to empty your bank account before you notice the loss and cancel the card.
Well, if you tether, it goes up very high, very fast. That 3-4" screen really does keep your usage down.
Thanks, that's sort of what I was looking for.
A shell script that I use to manipulate a few text files, or a little VB macro in Excel, is what I'm thinking of. Nothing public-facing.
Virtually every small business owner does small things themselves to save money. Not every plumbing problem needs a plumber; sometimes you just need Drano, or you just need to snake the pipe. I don't try to fix my air conditioner, or my main sewage line out of my house, but if you can't handle the P trap in your sink, you're at the mercy of anyone who wants to screw you. I'm not a mechanical engineer, but I can change my own oil. (I don't, because I hate crawling under a car and I can easily afford $30 for a car wash and oil change every 3-6 months. But I can.)
He's asking about technical skills, not ways of thinking.
What if it's a simple internal site? I mentioned this elsewhere in this thread, but you don't have to be a mechanical engineer to change your oil, and you shouldn't need a BS in CS in order to write a simple web interface to a MySQL database.
This is the sort of thing that I - and I suspect many others - want. I will never write a "real" website, but I'd like to be able to cobble together some little script-level work to knock out stupid tasks. You don't have to be a mechanical engineer to change your own oil, and you shouldn't have to be an elite programmer to do something as simple as a complex search-and-replace.
Not necessarily. I'm in a similar situation: I took a couple of CS classes in college, mostly for the heck of it, and learned a little C++ (this was 1996). I learned a bit about algorithms, and big-O notation, and recursion, and pointers. Intellectually very rewarding, very interesting. But it taught me not a thing about how to write "Hello World" for Windows.
I can think of several small applications for Android that would make my life easier - a custom data entry program for a database I'd like to keep, for example - but I don't know how to write a program in Java, let alone in Android's GUI. "Draw box with the following five questions and text-entry boxes, and then transmit that information to a web page, which will then save it in a MySQL database" is the kind of task that should be trivial by now. Why isn't it? And if it is, where can I learn how to do that?
I'll settle for fusion that can produce electricity on a commercial scale, room temperature be damned.
Because Livingston is in English Protestant Louisiana, not French Catholic Louisiana, and you Catholics are a bunch of idol worshippers who strayed from the true faith a long time ago? Papists.
What you do at a party never really was private.
True, but in the past there wasn't a lot of evidence one way or another.