I had a guy walk into my bank and turn over a check with my account number on it (and nothing at all like my signature) and I lost five hundred bucks and couldn't sort out a way to convince them that it wasn't my signature so give me my darned money back. I ended up losing the money. I probably could have fought more, but you have no idea how miserable and frustrating this was - as far as the bank was concerned, they had a signed check so they turned over cash so it was done. As near as I can tell, there is very little protection in the physical check world. This is why I prefer digital money - if I can help it, nobody will ever see my checkbook, because as long as I stay digital there is actual real fraud protection readily available to me.
Why? What are the odds? It's simple gambling from the poker table, good old pot odds. If you have a 10% chance of saving $3500 immediately, you break even on spending $350 now. If you have a 1% chance, it needs to be of saving $35000. But then there is the fact that money now is worth more than the same money later (inflation, interest), so you need a 1% chance of saving $70000+ if it's 7+ years from now. In practice, it's probably a.001% chance of saving a few million later... which starts turning into lottery odds. You might as well just skip the lawyer and instead do the best you can on your own without supporting the silly notion that reasonable humans can't make rational decisions without paying somebody else first. Buy a lottery ticket while you're at it if you really want to even out the odds.
Erring on the side of caution has a cost, and it's often not a cost worth paying.
If somebody pays you to do work, they should own the work. You seem to assume by default that this is bad, but I don't see the problem here. They are taking on all the risk - you get paid whether they manage to make money on what you make or not. If you would prefer to arrange things differently, then you get to take on the risk - make something yourself, or find investors who you negotiate terms with, and sort out how to make the money yourself. But expecting to have your cake and eat your cake - having somebody else pay you to make things for yourself, thereby eliminating your risk without also giving them a reasonable reward - seems a bit unreasonable.
It also gets incredibly hard to sort out ownership in a team environment, and anything interesting is going to require a team environment. How do you expect to sort out which portions you own versus which belong to your coworkers? Easy: It all belongs to the company paying you. If it doesn't require a team, you should just do it in your spare time, then you don't need to worry about any of this.
Get started with what you have now. Buying a new tool won't make you a better programmer, you already have a computer of some sort so you have all that you need to get started. Just get started. After a while, if you like it, and do well, and think a better computer would help you be more productive, then consider maybe buying hardware. But don't look at it as a prerequisite, you don't need to start off that way. If you want to buy something now, it should be a book.
So you think that only certain special people deserve privacy? *Every* patient and *every* cellphone customer should be treated the same, no special lists and extra protections for the important ones.
Maybe he had someone call about his bill? It's not like cell phone companies are famous for getting bills perfect. I'm sure the way this report was done was that somebody simply listed their full audit table, saw it had a bunch of entries in it, and put everyone in the audit table on leave before checking whether they were actually looking into something for the customer.
Why not encourage traditional gender roles? They seem to work out decently well. I dislike the default assumption that traditional gender roles = bad; where is the evidence?
Georgia Tech's "Career Services" was very useful when I was there. In contrast, the co-op office was horrible. I'd definitely make an appointment with career services and talk to them about this.
Why? You think you can't lift a finger without government to help do it for you? Pick them up and reuse them or throw them away yourself, don't make some government agency waste time and money driving out to do it.
They don't need an ftp site. They just need to ship the source on the machines somewhere. You, the end user, don't need access to it - only whoever owns the voting machine does.
I tried Spring, and it just wasn't fun. It's supposed to be a game. Games should be fun. I don't understand the excitement about it, what am I missing?
Yes, people buy based on the number after the product name. So compromise. Use the year instead of a version number. Say that it will encourage regular upgrades. Works great as long as you can hit the target year; if you might slip into the next year though, you'll end up with egg on your face.
You need an employer who truly is hiring for entry level positions, since your experience is not judged relevant. Sometimes an ad saying "entry level" actually means "we will pay you like garbage but expect you to be perfect from day 1". Your best bets will be things like college career fairs and leads from your college's career services department - these will be employers who really are looking for recent grads. Even then they will prefer experience, such as from a co-op program or internships, but at least it's somewhere to start.
Cash patent bonus programs appear to be common. Public companies will mention them in their 10-K filings as it is often part of executive compensation (generally not limited to just executives, it just gets mentioned with executive compensation because they have to report on executive compensation.) Just google '"annual report" "patent bonus"' and '10-k "patent bonus"' and '"executive compensation" "patent bonus"'.
I don't see the problem. It's for character development. It's an essential part of telling a story. They can either force the omg it's my fault moment on your character regardless of your choice, take away your choice and have you watch a movie where it just happens to your character, or give up on telling a story and just make digital ping pong because they can't force the character into any interesting situations.
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I had a guy walk into my bank and turn over a check with my account number on it (and nothing at all like my signature) and I lost five hundred bucks and couldn't sort out a way to convince them that it wasn't my signature so give me my darned money back. I ended up losing the money. I probably could have fought more, but you have no idea how miserable and frustrating this was - as far as the bank was concerned, they had a signed check so they turned over cash so it was done.
As near as I can tell, there is very little protection in the physical check world. This is why I prefer digital money - if I can help it, nobody will ever see my checkbook, because as long as I stay digital there is actual real fraud protection readily available to me.
Why? What are the odds? .001% chance of saving a few million later... which starts turning into lottery odds. You might as well just skip the lawyer and instead do the best you can on your own without supporting the silly notion that reasonable humans can't make rational decisions without paying somebody else first. Buy a lottery ticket while you're at it if you really want to even out the odds.
It's simple gambling from the poker table, good old pot odds. If you have a 10% chance of saving $3500 immediately, you break even on spending $350 now. If you have a 1% chance, it needs to be of saving $35000. But then there is the fact that money now is worth more than the same money later (inflation, interest), so you need a 1% chance of saving $70000+ if it's 7+ years from now. In practice, it's probably a
Erring on the side of caution has a cost, and it's often not a cost worth paying.
If somebody pays you to do work, they should own the work. You seem to assume by default that this is bad, but I don't see the problem here. They are taking on all the risk - you get paid whether they manage to make money on what you make or not. If you would prefer to arrange things differently, then you get to take on the risk - make something yourself, or find investors who you negotiate terms with, and sort out how to make the money yourself. But expecting to have your cake and eat your cake - having somebody else pay you to make things for yourself, thereby eliminating your risk without also giving them a reasonable reward - seems a bit unreasonable.
It also gets incredibly hard to sort out ownership in a team environment, and anything interesting is going to require a team environment. How do you expect to sort out which portions you own versus which belong to your coworkers? Easy: It all belongs to the company paying you. If it doesn't require a team, you should just do it in your spare time, then you don't need to worry about any of this.
Get started with what you have now. Buying a new tool won't make you a better programmer, you already have a computer of some sort so you have all that you need to get started. Just get started. After a while, if you like it, and do well, and think a better computer would help you be more productive, then consider maybe buying hardware. But don't look at it as a prerequisite, you don't need to start off that way. If you want to buy something now, it should be a book.
So you think that only certain special people deserve privacy? *Every* patient and *every* cellphone customer should be treated the same, no special lists and extra protections for the important ones.
Maybe he had someone call about his bill? It's not like cell phone companies are famous for getting bills perfect.
I'm sure the way this report was done was that somebody simply listed their full audit table, saw it had a bunch of entries in it, and put everyone in the audit table on leave before checking whether they were actually looking into something for the customer.
The timeclock is on a webpage.
Why not encourage traditional gender roles? They seem to work out decently well.
I dislike the default assumption that traditional gender roles = bad; where is the evidence?
The U.S. didn't accept Berne convention copyright rules until March 1, 1989. So how they would apply to a 1963 movie is beyond me.
Why not?
Georgia Tech's "Career Services" was very useful when I was there. In contrast, the co-op office was horrible. I'd definitely make an appointment with career services and talk to them about this.
If it makes you happy, why not change *your* schedule by an hour, instead of requiring it of everybody?
Why? You think you can't lift a finger without government to help do it for you? Pick them up and reuse them or throw them away yourself, don't make some government agency waste time and money driving out to do it.
They don't need an ftp site. They just need to ship the source on the machines somewhere. You, the end user, don't need access to it - only whoever owns the voting machine does.
I tried Spring, and it just wasn't fun. It's supposed to be a game. Games should be fun. I don't understand the excitement about it, what am I missing?
How does Dojo compare to Yahoo UI (YUI)?
Latest release of SVN has improved branching/merging a good bit. You might want to look into it again.
I still prefer Perforce, but it's expensive.
Yes, people buy based on the number after the product name. So compromise. Use the year instead of a version number. Say that it will encourage regular upgrades. Works great as long as you can hit the target year; if you might slip into the next year though, you'll end up with egg on your face.
TiVo didn't patent just being able to pause TV only because Pause Technologies, Inc. already did.
http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPATRE36801
You need an employer who truly is hiring for entry level positions, since your experience is not judged relevant. Sometimes an ad saying "entry level" actually means "we will pay you like garbage but expect you to be perfect from day 1". Your best bets will be things like college career fairs and leads from your college's career services department - these will be employers who really are looking for recent grads. Even then they will prefer experience, such as from a co-op program or internships, but at least it's somewhere to start.
In my opinion, AT&T Wireless got a lot better when Cingular bought them.
Cash patent bonus programs appear to be common. Public companies will mention them in their 10-K filings as it is often part of executive compensation (generally not limited to just executives, it just gets mentioned with executive compensation because they have to report on executive compensation.) Just google '"annual report" "patent bonus"' and '10-k "patent bonus"' and '"executive compensation" "patent bonus"'.
The government figured out they could make about 20 billion dollars by squeezing the space used by TV broadcasts and auctioning off the previously used space.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/700_MHz_wireless_spectrum_auction
I don't see the problem. It's for character development. It's an essential part of telling a story. They can either force the omg it's my fault moment on your character regardless of your choice, take away your choice and have you watch a movie where it just happens to your character, or give up on telling a story and just make digital ping pong because they can't force the character into any interesting situations.
"Gun accidentally pointed at wrong car" would be an easy one. Just because the radar says 62, doesn't mean *you* were doing 62.