I think that behavior like this will lead to erring on the side of overprotection. If the first real freedom kids get is moving out of the house at 18, I think the odds of those kids becoming asshole alcoholic sluts just due to experimentation are too high. You want them to have the chance to make those mistakes while you are still readily available to talk to them about it, before they leave home the first time.
I think it mostly depends on whether you have gas appliances or not. When my AC is running I burn up to 1500 kwh a month, but when it's not I max out at 550 (gas heat).
Why should a lawyer be able to do something "on my behalf" without even requiring my discussion or consent? He can publish an ad in a magazine that I don't read, and suddenly he is working for me and I'm bound to whatever agreement he comes up with? No thanks. This should be obviously absurd.
This is the one thing that really annoys me about subversion - it is seriously missing some key bookkeeping here. Yes, I know there are scripts that hack it in, but that's not the same as doing it right in the first place.
I've also been pleased with "AK Designs - Octane PC Gaming and Office Chair", which some Best Buy stores stock so you can easily check it out yourself before deciding. It's very comfortable. Not as good as the much more expensive options I've tried, but also not nearly as expensive.
Humanscale Freedom chair (with headrest option). About the only way to spend more on a computer chair than an Aeron, but it's a better chair. Seat stays level and slides when you lean forward/back, and headrest automatically comes up, so it's easy to adjust position comfortably.
"The terms of the GPL prohibit charging for GPL code ever"
This is a horrible misconception. You can charge whatever people will pay for GPL code. You just can't sell it to them without also granting them the code and the right to redistribute. That's it. Nothing says no money may change hands. This is the difference between "free as in freedom" and "free as in beer". GPL code is free as in freedom, not beer.
When I bought a retail copy of GalCiv2, it made me jump through a bunch of hoops and register on their website and provide keys to prove I owned it before I could upgrade it. They still treated me like a thief, even though I went to the store and bought their game, which disgusted and disappointed me. This is why I didn't buy Sins of a Solar Empire. I hate begging a company for permission to use a product that I legally obtained.
This is a stupid hair to pick based on a dumb decision a long time ago having to do with needing to 'copy' a program into RAM to run it. They sold me something, but then claim it's legally not enough to actually use the something, and I need to then agree to more after the sale to be able to actually use it. This is what should be illegal, it's selling useless goods with one-sided post-sale extortion to make it useful.
They can manufacture it however they want to, but once they have sold it to me they should not legally be allowed to tell me I can't use it or can't resell it. They sold it to me, it's mine now.
I hate how publishers have finally used technological measures to achieve what the courts won't grant them. This should be flat out explicitly illegal.
Pure FUD, throwing in the GPL. The GPL would be valid under any interpretation of copyright law because it grants you rights that you would not otherwise have - specifically, the right to distribute copies. Clickwraps should be totally bogus, for you have already purchased a copy. They rely on some absurd shaky legal garbage that you can't run your program without making another copy into memory, and the purchase doesn't include the right to make that copy. This is like selling you a book but claiming you can't read it because you need to make a copy onto your eyeballs.
Interesting example about cookies. Legally, you do owe sales tax to your home state on the cookie you bought next door. Many states offer reciprocal credit for taxes paid - if you paid sales tax on the cookie next door, your state will likely waive that much tax. But they'll still collect anything beyond that. In practice, it usually doesn't come up on the level of cookies, but you better believe it is enforced at the level of cars. I bought my car in FL, drove it home to GA, and was mailed a bill by GA for the difference in the sales tax between what I paid in FL and what they charge in GA. (I wasn't trying to dodge taxes or anything, FL is just where the car I wanted was available.)
So, your attempt at a lets-not-imagine-the-world-ever-getting-this-crazy example neglects the fact that the world already is exactly that way.:)
I used to believe that the graphics don't matter, but then I played the real Portal and the shockwave flash versions of portal and I had a lot more fun playing the full first person you-are-there good graphics portal. Better graphics made the you-are-there experience better.
Your college should have a Career Services division that specializes in exactly this. Go over and talk to them in person (not just a website or phone call, make an appointment and sit down with someone). Some colleges have co-op and career services departments separate. At my college, my experience with career services was tremendously better than my experience with the co-op department. YMMV.
Varies tremendously by company. Why do you assume that your company is the only valid sample of the 'real world'? I've worked at a major company with billions in revenue and tens of thousands of employees and everyone I worked with in IT there did indeed use vim (or emacs), bash or ksh, etc. I've also worked at several firms where 100% of my coworkers have no idea how to save and exit in vi (or emacs). And one where it was nothing but coldfusion - try finding a four year degree that directly prepares you for that. Or actually, don't. Hopefully universities teach people how to program. It would be tragic if they learned just a particular tool like Visual Studio 2005, because what will they do when MicroSoft scraps and reinvents.net again in two years? Go back for a new four year degree to learn it?
Depends on the business. Lots of businesses are on the Java side of the camp too, particularly when they run 24x7 servers. I've worked for Sun shops and MS shops, and both were very 'real world'.
Summary of your post: Companies with a better image have more people using their software. You spend no money on marketing and enjoy a collegiate atmosphere. Your next step is to get a better image. You're going to get VC and scrap the collegiate atmosphere to do it.
So: Why do you need the VC to have a marketing budget and a better image? Why not just spend some money on marketing and have somebody (yourself in a suit, an imported gray hair, whatever why should it matter who your customers think is in charge if it makes them happy?) present a polished look to the world so that you can get more customers and write more software?
Nothing particularly magical about the VC money. They might have connections, and can probably recommend a respectable looking gray haired new CEO, but you can find those things without them too.
This would mean they would have higher costs, and thus be less willing to settle quietly, so you'd probably see more life-wrecking judgements like the $222,000 against a single mom for sharing 24 songs.
I think you'll find that regions where sms is extremely popular don't have unlimited voice plans. I would think that cost was a much more likely explanation than cars.
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I think that behavior like this will lead to erring on the side of overprotection. If the first real freedom kids get is moving out of the house at 18, I think the odds of those kids becoming asshole alcoholic sluts just due to experimentation are too high. You want them to have the chance to make those mistakes while you are still readily available to talk to them about it, before they leave home the first time.
They have a huge incentive - namely, to land the contract in the first place.
I think it mostly depends on whether you have gas appliances or not. When my AC is running I burn up to 1500 kwh a month, but when it's not I max out at 550 (gas heat).
Why should a lawyer be able to do something "on my behalf" without even requiring my discussion or consent? He can publish an ad in a magazine that I don't read, and suddenly he is working for me and I'm bound to whatever agreement he comes up with? No thanks. This should be obviously absurd.
Subversion stores merge history? Where? If it does, why do the instructions tell you to manually track the merge revision numbers yourself? http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/ch04s04.html#svn-ch-4-sect-4.1
This is the one thing that really annoys me about subversion - it is seriously missing some key bookkeeping here. Yes, I know there are scripts that hack it in, but that's not the same as doing it right in the first place.
I've also been pleased with "AK Designs - Octane PC Gaming and Office Chair", which some Best Buy stores stock so you can easily check it out yourself before deciding. It's very comfortable. Not as good as the much more expensive options I've tried, but also not nearly as expensive.
Humanscale Freedom chair (with headrest option). About the only way to spend more on a computer chair than an Aeron, but it's a better chair. Seat stays level and slides when you lean forward/back, and headrest automatically comes up, so it's easy to adjust position comfortably.
"The terms of the GPL prohibit charging for GPL code ever"
This is a horrible misconception.
You can charge whatever people will pay for GPL code.
You just can't sell it to them without also granting them the code and the right to redistribute. That's it. Nothing says no money may change hands.
This is the difference between "free as in freedom" and "free as in beer". GPL code is free as in freedom, not beer.
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
When I bought a retail copy of GalCiv2, it made me jump through a bunch of hoops and register on their website and provide keys to prove I owned it before I could upgrade it.
They still treated me like a thief, even though I went to the store and bought their game, which disgusted and disappointed me.
This is why I didn't buy Sins of a Solar Empire. I hate begging a company for permission to use a product that I legally obtained.
This is a stupid hair to pick based on a dumb decision a long time ago having to do with needing to 'copy' a program into RAM to run it. They sold me something, but then claim it's legally not enough to actually use the something, and I need to then agree to more after the sale to be able to actually use it. This is what should be illegal, it's selling useless goods with one-sided post-sale extortion to make it useful.
They can manufacture it however they want to, but once they have sold it to me they should not legally be allowed to tell me I can't use it or can't resell it. They sold it to me, it's mine now.
I hate how publishers have finally used technological measures to achieve what the courts won't grant them. This should be flat out explicitly illegal.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine
Pure FUD, throwing in the GPL.
The GPL would be valid under any interpretation of copyright law because it grants you rights that you would not otherwise have - specifically, the right to distribute copies.
Clickwraps should be totally bogus, for you have already purchased a copy. They rely on some absurd shaky legal garbage that you can't run your program without making another copy into memory, and the purchase doesn't include the right to make that copy. This is like selling you a book but claiming you can't read it because you need to make a copy onto your eyeballs.
Interesting example about cookies. Legally, you do owe sales tax to your home state on the cookie you bought next door. Many states offer reciprocal credit for taxes paid - if you paid sales tax on the cookie next door, your state will likely waive that much tax. But they'll still collect anything beyond that. In practice, it usually doesn't come up on the level of cookies, but you better believe it is enforced at the level of cars. I bought my car in FL, drove it home to GA, and was mailed a bill by GA for the difference in the sales tax between what I paid in FL and what they charge in GA. (I wasn't trying to dodge taxes or anything, FL is just where the car I wanted was available.)
:)
So, your attempt at a lets-not-imagine-the-world-ever-getting-this-crazy example neglects the fact that the world already is exactly that way.
No, nuke it from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.
99% could be unpatented, it only takes one patent to ruin you.
I used to believe that the graphics don't matter, but then I played the real Portal and the shockwave flash versions of portal and I had a lot more fun playing the full first person you-are-there good graphics portal. Better graphics made the you-are-there experience better.
Your college should have a Career Services division that specializes in exactly this. Go over and talk to them in person (not just a website or phone call, make an appointment and sit down with someone).
Some colleges have co-op and career services departments separate. At my college, my experience with career services was tremendously better than my experience with the co-op department. YMMV.
If critical mass was the most important thing in the search space, Yahoo would have beat Altavista who would have beat Google.
Quality results are all that matter in the search space.
Varies tremendously by company. Why do you assume that your company is the only valid sample of the 'real world'? I've worked at a major company with billions in revenue and tens of thousands of employees and everyone I worked with in IT there did indeed use vim (or emacs), bash or ksh, etc. I've also worked at several firms where 100% of my coworkers have no idea how to save and exit in vi (or emacs). And one where it was nothing but coldfusion - try finding a four year degree that directly prepares you for that. Or actually, don't. .net again in two years? Go back for a new four year degree to learn it?
Hopefully universities teach people how to program. It would be tragic if they learned just a particular tool like Visual Studio 2005, because what will they do when MicroSoft scraps and reinvents
Less OO. More get-stuff-done-quickly. Better debugger.
Depends on the business. Lots of businesses are on the Java side of the camp too, particularly when they run 24x7 servers. I've worked for Sun shops and MS shops, and both were very 'real world'.
Summary of your post:
Companies with a better image have more people using their software. You spend no money on marketing and enjoy a collegiate atmosphere. Your next step is to get a better image. You're going to get VC and scrap the collegiate atmosphere to do it.
So:
Why do you need the VC to have a marketing budget and a better image? Why not just spend some money on marketing and have somebody (yourself in a suit, an imported gray hair, whatever why should it matter who your customers think is in charge if it makes them happy?) present a polished look to the world so that you can get more customers and write more software?
Nothing particularly magical about the VC money. They might have connections, and can probably recommend a respectable looking gray haired new CEO, but you can find those things without them too.
This would mean they would have higher costs, and thus be less willing to settle quietly, so you'd probably see more life-wrecking judgements like the $222,000 against a single mom for sharing 24 songs.
I think you'll find that regions where sms is extremely popular don't have unlimited voice plans. I would think that cost was a much more likely explanation than cars.