Elton John, Lebo M, Tim Rice and Hans Zimmer worked on The Lion King together. Unfortunately, it's the pop artists that often get all the credit, and the soundtrack itself is overlooked. Likewise with 'Spirit'- everyone remembers "Here I am' by Bryan Adams. That doesn't mean he wrote B.A. wrote the score.
John Williams has done music for pretty much every blockbuster of the past 30+ years
Although I appreciate John W's work (especially Schindlers list, Seven years in Tibet), he's not the only composer on the block. It seems somehow you've missed Hans Zimmer then. With well over 100 soundtracks under his belt, I'm surprised you managed to overlook him. Some block busters that carry his name are:
- Rain Man
- Gladiator
- The Davinci Code
- The Lion King
- Backdraft
- Pearl Harbor
- Pirates of the Carribean
- Simpsons - the movie
- Thunderbirds
- Batman Begins
- The Dark Knight
- Madagscar
- Kung Fu Panda
- Black Hawk Down
- Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
Visit freecycle/freegle and arrange a free scanner instead of using the wrong software to fix problems caused by using the wrong hardware. Seriously. You'll be glad you did.
In fact, I have a redundant scanner here, which I'll gladly mail to you at no more than shipping costs.
If you wanna be happy... learn to cook damnit. It's not that hard. Start with coq au vin, and work your way up from there. Then use those mad skills to impress.
Even though the source of the trojan is made GPL, we won't see Skype support in Pidgin anytime soon;
rather than decoding the audio stream, the code
intercepts the already-decoded audio.
That is, the trojan author did not reverse-
engineer any parts of the Skype protocol.
Too bad- unfortunately this means I'll still need to be running multiple messenging clients. Fortunately my Skype contact list is rather short.
I've published a book ('Growing Better Software') through Lulu. It was straightforward to get my book 'out there' on all popular book sites, while maintaining ownership and thus control over pricing etc.
Getting the book published is the easy part. The hard part is to get the world to know that the book is out there and not to spend more on the marketing than the sales will earn you- unless it is more important to you that the book is out there than to earn back the time you invested in it.
Did your 'traditional publisher' help you out with the marketing? Over 30000 copies sold sounds like a decent marketing job to me. You may be able to get a higher percentage in royalties on a self-publishing site, but you're likely to be mostly on your own for the marketing. Sure, Lulu offers marketing services- but they consider a book a best-seller when it sells 500 copies.
That's because you've chosen to make it expensive.
Unit costs for a 300 page paperback on publisher-grade paper, black and white contents, full-color cover, perfect bound is only 7 dollars for a single unit, or 6.50 for 1000- and that's for on-demand printing.
As primary key, a UUID makes more sense than a number such as an SSN which can change (yes it can- I'm down to my third by now). No need to make that UUID public or even let people know what it is; you *can* look people up by (a combination of ) other bits of information. If someone doesn't want to provide their SSN, you can use their Full Name+Date of Birth for searching - this combination will usually render very few collisions.
Technical solutions aside, I'm with the GP- places that have no business knowing your SSN shouldn't.
You seem to have a problem with remote work. Why would giving your network admins physical access to systems make them less likely to abuse the system, leak data, etc than working remotely? In fact, they'll have MORE tools to do so then. If you don't trust your network admins, maybe you shouldn't have hired them in the first place.
In fact, the value is so enormous that no one can afford it...
If you're a techie, you should use be more accurate in your use of language. Substituting the word 'price' for 'value' is something you should only do in sleazy sales pitches.
When the President wants to *force* rich people to pay for health insurance for the poor
It's called TAX. Everyone in the world pays it. And it only makes sense that people with higher incomes are taxed more than people who can't- that's why income tax is generally higher for rich people.
Charity isn't in the interest of the poor, because of *who* decides where the money goes; in the case of tax, everyone decides (it's called democracy). In the case of charity, only the rich have decision power- and if you're poor and left out of this so-called charity you're just going to have to suck it up.
After a dentist visit with local anesthesia, I got bitten by a mosquito which caused a terrible itch on my cheek- but I couldn't feel my scratching to relief it. NOT FUN.
where the major number is 0 before the software is feature complete (based on original roadmap), 1 means feature complete, and this tends to increment when a full rewrite is done; minor are various milestones, and 'revision' are bugfix releases.
XY may be 'alpha','alpha2','alpha3', 'beta','rc1'.
So if you see a version number 0.9.3beta, you'll know it is an almost feature complete version, third bugfix but otherwise untested (beta) release. I tend to use 'alpha' if I *KNOW* there are serious bugs in the software (even if this technically not what alpha is supposed to mean).
But everyone is free to use various numbering schemes. Odd numbers for unstable releases? Go ahead, but personally I just find that a bit odd.
If you want a simpler version number scheme, just show the build number (or version control revision number) in your software.
Less tax payers money being wasted. Also, part of releasing your code under a liberal license is that you permit others to use it free of charge under certain conditions. This happened, and those conditions were fulfilled. Quite a nice win for open source- What more do you want?
This would best approximate the concept that the money "generated" from driving on Road A goes back to the repair of Road A.
You misunderstood the point of having a tax system: The people collect money, which is then invested in the public interest. As a result of this, some win, some lose. Tough luck if you're on the losing end when it comes to road tax; you'll probably benefit in other areas.
Also, just because you do not travel on certain busy broken roads, it doesn't mean that you're not USING those roads; Every time you go to the supermarket, you're using the public road infrastructure. Whichever roads you travel on, the money collected by the public is invested in maintenance of this infrastructure- in everyone's interest. You DON'T just pay tax to use the bit of road that you use for your daily commute.
How's this: What about cars coming FROM Canada and driving around in the US? What's to stop you from buying a car in Canada and using it to drive to and from work in the US?
I think you're overestimating the percentage of people in the US to which that would be practical. Politics is a game of large numbers- unless a significant percentage of people abuse 'the system' to get an unfair advantage, there's no need to change it. For this reason, the 'what about cars driving abroad?' is also a moot point, because it is a Very Small Fraction of the total road usage. And, obviously, foreign cars pay fuel tax on US roads as well when they refuel in the US. As for driving a car that you bought abroad, there are regulations stating how long you're allowed to drive a foreign car before being obliged to offically import it (not sure about the US, but in many countries it is a maximum of 6 months).
It would be so much cheaper to just raise the fuel tax. The mechanism is already in place (gas stations collect it, just change the amount if you need more money)
This is EXACTLY the reaction the politicians want from you.
Politician A: Let's raise the fuel tax!
Politician B: We can't, the people will revolt!
Politician A: Okay, let's propose installing GPS in every car then- people will be only too happy to accept a higher fuel tax instead!
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Elton John, Lebo M, Tim Rice and Hans Zimmer worked on The Lion King together. Unfortunately, it's the pop artists that often get all the credit, and the soundtrack itself is overlooked. Likewise with 'Spirit'- everyone remembers "Here I am' by Bryan Adams. That doesn't mean he wrote B.A. wrote the score.
Although I appreciate John W's work (especially Schindlers list, Seven years in Tibet), he's not the only composer on the block. It seems somehow you've missed Hans Zimmer then. With well over 100 soundtracks under his belt, I'm surprised you managed to overlook him. Some block busters that carry his name are:
- Rain Man
- Gladiator
- The Davinci Code
- The Lion King
- Backdraft
- Pearl Harbor
- Pirates of the Carribean
- Simpsons - the movie
- Thunderbirds
- Batman Begins
- The Dark Knight
- Madagscar
- Kung Fu Panda
- Black Hawk Down
- Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
Difficult to ignore, I'd say.
Visit freecycle/freegle and arrange a free scanner instead of using the wrong software to fix problems caused by using the wrong hardware. Seriously. You'll be glad you did. In fact, I have a redundant scanner here, which I'll gladly mail to you at no more than shipping costs.
I recommend you get unxutils from sourceforge.
I only manage to satiate my 480 Mbps USB2.0 link when I've had (way) too much coffee.
by it is service?
If you wanna be happy... learn to cook damnit. It's not that hard. Start with coq au vin, and work your way up from there. Then use those mad skills to impress.
Yeah, everybody knows skydiving without chute is painless. What hurts is hitting the ground.
Even though the source of the trojan is made GPL, we won't see Skype support in Pidgin anytime soon; rather than decoding the audio stream, the code intercepts the already-decoded audio. That is, the trojan author did not reverse- engineer any parts of the Skype protocol. Too bad- unfortunately this means I'll still need to be running multiple messenging clients. Fortunately my Skype contact list is rather short.
I've published a book ('Growing Better Software') through Lulu. It was straightforward to get my book 'out there' on all popular book sites, while maintaining ownership and thus control over pricing etc.
Getting the book published is the easy part. The hard part is to get the world to know that the book is out there and not to spend more on the marketing than the sales will earn you- unless it is more important to you that the book is out there than to earn back the time you invested in it.
Did your 'traditional publisher' help you out with the marketing? Over 30000 copies sold sounds like a decent marketing job to me. You may be able to get a higher percentage in royalties on a self-publishing site, but you're likely to be mostly on your own for the marketing. Sure, Lulu offers marketing services- but they consider a book a best-seller when it sells 500 copies.
That's because you've chosen to make it expensive.
Unit costs for a 300 page paperback on publisher-grade paper, black and white contents, full-color cover, perfect bound is only 7 dollars for a single unit, or 6.50 for 1000- and that's for on-demand printing.
As primary key, a UUID makes more sense than a number such as an SSN which can change (yes it can- I'm down to my third by now). No need to make that UUID public or even let people know what it is; you *can* look people up by (a combination of ) other bits of information. If someone doesn't want to provide their SSN, you can use their Full Name+Date of Birth for searching - this combination will usually render very few collisions.
Technical solutions aside, I'm with the GP- places that have no business knowing your SSN shouldn't.
You seem to have a problem with remote work. Why would giving your network admins physical access to systems make them less likely to abuse the system, leak data, etc than working remotely? In fact, they'll have MORE tools to do so then. If you don't trust your network admins, maybe you shouldn't have hired them in the first place.
If you're a techie, you should use be more accurate in your use of language. Substituting the word 'price' for 'value' is something you should only do in sleazy sales pitches.
``Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.''
It's called TAX. Everyone in the world pays it. And it only makes sense that people with higher incomes are taxed more than people who can't- that's why income tax is generally higher for rich people.
Charity isn't in the interest of the poor, because of *who* decides where the money goes; in the case of tax, everyone decides (it's called democracy). In the case of charity, only the rich have decision power- and if you're poor and left out of this so-called charity you're just going to have to suck it up.
After a dentist visit with local anesthesia, I got bitten by a mosquito which caused a terrible itch on my cheek- but I couldn't feel my scratching to relief it. NOT FUN.
Remember to 'sudo'
Does it strike anyone as disturbing that while the left hand talks of disarming and reducing nukes, the right hand is developing new bombs?
At least development has been going on since Bushie- at least we'll know who's to blame.
Either way I'm glad I live outside the US, and not in Korea.
Find anti-gravity already. I want my flying car!
Personally I use the following numbering scheme:
major.minor.revisionXY
where the major number is 0 before the software is feature complete (based on original roadmap), 1 means feature complete, and this tends to increment when a full rewrite is done; minor are various milestones, and 'revision' are bugfix releases.
XY may be 'alpha','alpha2','alpha3', 'beta','rc1'.
So if you see a version number 0.9.3beta, you'll know it is an almost feature complete version, third bugfix but otherwise untested (beta) release. I tend to use 'alpha' if I *KNOW* there are serious bugs in the software (even if this technically not what alpha is supposed to mean).
But everyone is free to use various numbering schemes. Odd numbers for unstable releases? Go ahead, but personally I just find that a bit odd.
If you want a simpler version number scheme, just show the build number (or version control revision number) in your software.
Less tax payers money being wasted. Also, part of releasing your code under a liberal license is that you permit others to use it free of charge under certain conditions. This happened, and those conditions were fulfilled. Quite a nice win for open source- What more do you want?
You misunderstood the point of having a tax system: The people collect money, which is then invested in the public interest. As a result of this, some win, some lose. Tough luck if you're on the losing end when it comes to road tax; you'll probably benefit in other areas.
Also, just because you do not travel on certain busy broken roads, it doesn't mean that you're not USING those roads; Every time you go to the supermarket, you're using the public road infrastructure. Whichever roads you travel on, the money collected by the public is invested in maintenance of this infrastructure- in everyone's interest. You DON'T just pay tax to use the bit of road that you use for your daily commute.
I think you're overestimating the percentage of people in the US to which that would be practical. Politics is a game of large numbers- unless a significant percentage of people abuse 'the system' to get an unfair advantage, there's no need to change it. For this reason, the 'what about cars driving abroad?' is also a moot point, because it is a Very Small Fraction of the total road usage. And, obviously, foreign cars pay fuel tax on US roads as well when they refuel in the US.
As for driving a car that you bought abroad, there are regulations stating how long you're allowed to drive a foreign car before being obliged to offically import it (not sure about the US, but in many countries it is a maximum of 6 months).
This is EXACTLY the reaction the politicians want from you.
Politician A: Let's raise the fuel tax!
Politician B: We can't, the people will revolt!
Politician A: Okay, let's propose installing GPS in every car then- people will be only too happy to accept a higher fuel tax instead!