Find someone who needs custom work and do it for them, or use your skills to build yourself tools to make yourself more useful at something than the next guy.
If you can't do either of these things, there's no justification in you getting money to be a full time programmer. Sorry. Go get another job.
I would suggest that you draw inspiration from the patronage system that you refer to in such glowing terms.
Create a name for yourself by creating and sharing until you are in demand, then start hostage selling your work.
Figure out how much money you think you deserve for your time and skill, then indicate that you won't release your newest work until the price has been met by the public at large, at which point you'll release your high-res scans to the world to be shared far and wide copyright free.
There's a business opportunity for you.
Set up a system where the artists can submit their works and prices, while "patrons", large and small, are able to make charitable tax deductible donations towards meeting the cost and donating the work to the public domain.
Establish a relationship with a non-profit group that already has funding for hosting, libraries and national galleries perhaps, or one of the numerous groups that will offer free hosting for copyleft and public domain works, externalizing long term hosting costs.
Make a profit by selling prints and compilation discs to libraries, art galleries, schools, print houses, private sector, etc.
There you go. Free art, paid artists. Build it and get rich, before I do.
There are six billion monkeys on this hunk of rock already, and most of them have access to typewriters.
If you don't want to share freely, don't do it at all. You're not a special and unique person, and you have nothing earth shattering to say that would justify participating in a system that restricts access to information and culture based on money for no justifiable reason whatsoever.
If you have so little passion for what you think and so little pride in what you create that you would prefer not to share it with the rest of us unless you are bribed to do so, then I would suggest you go get a job at MacDonalds and spend you free time on the beach working on your tan.
You're just contributing to the ever growing pile of soulless trite commercially driven crap that dulls the mind and obscures the work that has merit anyways. We won't miss you.
The problem, of course, was that XM promoted the service as having uncensored talk radio, then failed to honour the service they advertised, which means they dealt with their customer base in a fraudulent fashion.
Personally, I've never seen or known of anyone with an XM radio who wasn't driving a taxi, and I've never heard anything come out of the many taxi-installed XM radios but talk.
The moral of the story is that secrets are bad. Secrets represent either conspiracy, incompetence or both. Without fail. They have no place in either government or business. It's time to insist on utter transparency in both.
Publicly execute Bush and his crew and let weapons inspectors into the US. If you don't, you'll see what WWII looked like from the German side before you die with your cities in flames.
If you release software that has bugs in it and don't tell me, I can't decide not to use your software because I don't want to bear the risk.
You're not lying to me because it's in my best interest, you're lying to me because you want to take my money, regardless of my circumstances or how your product negatively impacts them.
If you've got a list of bugs and fixes on your site, but are not putting all the bugs that you're aware of on them, that's actively misleading. It's fraud.
People who engage in this type of behavior should have all their property and assets seized, their source code and internal communications opened up to the public and hosted on a government site so the public at large can recover from their situation, and anyone knowingly involved should be forbidden to work in this field for the rest of their lives because they are not fit to be in a position of trust.
If Microsoft actually pursues any of the claims againts OSS, they are going to get hammered, HARD. IBM notwithstanding, what do you think keeps Google running? OSS has a large field of successful companies that make good money with OSS and will stand up to them, its simply too late to leverage against them.
If their claims are found to have any validity, they could probably force Google to pay a fee for every processor in their server farm. Existing agreements with IBM could be leveraged to keep them from entering the fray at all. There is no reason to think these things couldn't happen. Look what happened to Research In Motion. They almost went out of business. If Google were forced to pass such a cost on to the advertisers while still facing pressure from MS and Yahoo, that could put Google out of business.
The fact that people are already starting to think of Google as another evil empire doesn't help their chances either. This is where I would expect MS to be going with this.
Readability is of absolute importance. If it's not readable, it's not writing, it's just scratches.
But these examples weren't hard to read. They just demanded that the user have the interest to read them. You'd have to be an ignoramus not to be able to read those examples.
It sounds to me like a professional writer complaining about the threat to his livelihood, or that someone didn't do his article on epigenetics for him.
I would personally consider Mario Kart 64 to be the finest racing game ever created by man. Bar none. No other racing game ever made even comes close.
If they had made any effort at all to make it realistic, it would not have been half the game it was.
Games are intended to be fun abstractions that cut out everything not related to the gameplay.
That's why they don't have trees and little houses on chessboards.
This endless pursuit of "an immersive experience" has led to a bunch of boring and trite copycat games that all suck, as far as I'm concerned.
It's like Quake, except with Star Wars! It's like Quake, except with Bond! It's like Quake, except with Pimps! Man, this sports game is different than the other ones... it's PRETTY and has CUTSCENES!
Nice. Except any decent AJAX framework is going to encapsulate the logic they use behind something like:
if XMLHttpRequest then
Mozilla Newer elseif ActiveXObject(Microsoft.XMLDOM) then
IE Newer elseif document.createElement && document.childNodes then
Use a hidden DIV and a 0x0 IFRAME else
You're screwed, sorry end if
AJAX is an overused acronym. It doesn't do anything that you couldn't do with frames or popups anyways.
The limitation was never that the XMLHttpRequest object wasn't around. The limitation was that you had to deal with the realities of sending your pages over modems, creating this pressure for dynamic pages, but older computers were too slow at processing JavaScript to allow you relief by moving much display logic into the client. You'd end up locking the whole browser.
These problems are all dealt with now because of faster networks and faster computers. The tools in this area are just the same old shit with a shiny coat of paint for the most part.
If Sun is successful in releasing Java under the GPL, this could end up being an open source alternative to Flash/Flex and Silverlight. All three of them claim to be THE alternative to AJAX.
We need to start now on the Great Wall of Canada. When global warming kicks in turning Nova Scotia into Florida and the southern US into an uninhabitable hellhole, we're going to need it.
You do realize that this is the attitude all bullies have? "They were clearly in the wrong. Its not my fault, they deserved it."
No.
What I realize is that bullies walk around with the sense that they are entitled to dominate people around them, and they attempt to surround themselves with people who will let them. They create auras of fear around themselves because they surround themselves with people who are afraid of them, and they wield these scared people to achieve more power.
I realize that the bully exists in a state of fear, because they know they are riding the tiger and their strength rests in the tenuous state they have created. And those who surround them, regardless of how tough they seem, are there precisely because they are easily cowed and dominated by someone with a strong will and no fear.
The whole thing is easily torn down if you possess an absolutely heartfelt failure to give a shit and a preparedness to push it as far as it needs to be pushed.
Yeah, that's pretty much what I told her. Also what I believe, and how I live, and how I succeed in the world.
Find good people, engage in win-win relationships with them, do good acts in the world, stay away from bullies if you can, but if anyone tries to belittle you or break you down or trap you in an exploitative system, you fuck them up permanently.
Like I was telling my daughter yesterday, the appropriate thing to do when you meet such a person is to drill them in the nose with your knuckles as hard as you can, unless they outweigh you by a significant margin, in which case you should hit them with a chair until they crumple to the ground.
This is how you deal with bullies.
You certainly don't turn yourself one after another into his bitch and make him rich as reward for his antisocial behavior.
I bet Bill wears an "Everything I needed to take over the world, I learned from the bully in kindergarten" T-shirt to bed as a nightie.
The free market hates a glut. It hates plenty for everyone, and it will modify production to ensure that it never happens.
The free market has a place. It is a good way to handle the distribution of finite resources among many hands.
But it will also lead to such things as monopoly pricing on drugs whose manufacturing costs are insignificant, paying farmers to cap milk production while people go hungry, etc.
Was it when he fraudulently created a site on MySpace? Was it when he tried to gouge Obama for cash in exchange for turning over access to the site?
When you volunteer for politics, you're not "Doing a favour for the candidate". You're following the person you want to lead you and everyone else. If that's NOT what you're doing, you're a scumbag.
But then, the entire US is full of scumbags, so it's all a rather abstract argument. Blow em all up and let the medics sort em out.
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Find someone who needs custom work and do it for them, or use your skills to build yourself tools to make yourself more useful at something than the next guy.
If you can't do either of these things, there's no justification in you getting money to be a full time programmer. Sorry. Go get another job.
I would suggest that you draw inspiration from the patronage system that you refer to in such glowing terms.
Create a name for yourself by creating and sharing until you are in demand, then start hostage selling your work.
Figure out how much money you think you deserve for your time and skill, then indicate that you won't release your newest work until the price has been met by the public at large, at which point you'll release your high-res scans to the world to be shared far and wide copyright free.
There's a business opportunity for you.
Set up a system where the artists can submit their works and prices, while "patrons", large and small, are able to make charitable tax deductible donations towards meeting the cost and donating the work to the public domain.
Establish a relationship with a non-profit group that already has funding for hosting, libraries and national galleries perhaps, or one of the numerous groups that will offer free hosting for copyleft and public domain works, externalizing long term hosting costs.
Make a profit by selling prints and compilation discs to libraries, art galleries, schools, print houses, private sector, etc.
There you go. Free art, paid artists. Build it and get rich, before I do.
There are six billion monkeys on this hunk of rock already, and most of them have access to typewriters.
If you don't want to share freely, don't do it at all. You're not a special and unique person, and you have nothing earth shattering to say that would justify participating in a system that restricts access to information and culture based on money for no justifiable reason whatsoever.
If you have so little passion for what you think and so little pride in what you create that you would prefer not to share it with the rest of us unless you are bribed to do so, then I would suggest you go get a job at MacDonalds and spend you free time on the beach working on your tan.
You're just contributing to the ever growing pile of soulless trite commercially driven crap that dulls the mind and obscures the work that has merit anyways. We won't miss you.
Any chance you stupid bastards might stop accepting submissions that require registration to read?
The problem, of course, was that XM promoted the service as having uncensored talk radio, then failed to honour the service they advertised, which means they dealt with their customer base in a fraudulent fashion.
Personally, I've never seen or known of anyone with an XM radio who wasn't driving a taxi, and I've never heard anything come out of the many taxi-installed XM radios but talk.
XM fucked up big time. Class action lawsuit?
Where is he supposed to be finding these innocent Americans?
The moral of the story is that secrets are bad. Secrets represent either conspiracy, incompetence or both. Without fail. They have no place in either government or business. It's time to insist on utter transparency in both.
Publicly execute Bush and his crew and let weapons inspectors into the US. If you don't, you'll see what WWII looked like from the German side before you die with your cities in flames.
If you release software that has bugs in it and don't tell me, I can't decide not to use your software because I don't want to bear the risk.
You're not lying to me because it's in my best interest, you're lying to me because you want to take my money, regardless of my circumstances or how your product negatively impacts them.
If you've got a list of bugs and fixes on your site, but are not putting all the bugs that you're aware of on them, that's actively misleading. It's fraud.
People who engage in this type of behavior should have all their property and assets seized, their source code and internal communications opened up to the public and hosted on a government site so the public at large can recover from their situation, and anyone knowingly involved should be forbidden to work in this field for the rest of their lives because they are not fit to be in a position of trust.
If Microsoft actually pursues any of the claims againts OSS, they are going to get hammered, HARD. IBM notwithstanding, what do you think keeps Google running? OSS has a large field of successful companies that make good money with OSS and will stand up to them, its simply too late to leverage against them.
If their claims are found to have any validity, they could probably force Google to pay a fee for every processor in their server farm. Existing agreements with IBM could be leveraged to keep them from entering the fray at all. There is no reason to think these things couldn't happen. Look what happened to Research In Motion. They almost went out of business. If Google were forced to pass such a cost on to the advertisers while still facing pressure from MS and Yahoo, that could put Google out of business.
The fact that people are already starting to think of Google as another evil empire doesn't help their chances either. This is where I would expect MS to be going with this.
Readability is of absolute importance. If it's not readable, it's not writing, it's just scratches.
But these examples weren't hard to read. They just demanded that the user have the interest to read them. You'd have to be an ignoramus not to be able to read those examples.
It sounds to me like a professional writer complaining about the threat to his livelihood, or that someone didn't do his article on epigenetics for him.
I would personally consider Mario Kart 64 to be the finest racing game ever created by man. Bar none. No other racing game ever made even comes close.
If they had made any effort at all to make it realistic, it would not have been half the game it was.
Games are intended to be fun abstractions that cut out everything not related to the gameplay.
That's why they don't have trees and little houses on chessboards.
This endless pursuit of "an immersive experience" has led to a bunch of boring and trite copycat games that all suck, as far as I'm concerned.
It's like Quake, except with Star Wars! It's like Quake, except with Bond! It's like Quake, except with Pimps! Man, this sports game is different than the other ones... it's PRETTY and has CUTSCENES!
How fucking boring.
Nice. Except any decent AJAX framework is going to encapsulate the logic they use behind something like:
if XMLHttpRequest then
Mozilla Newer
elseif ActiveXObject(Microsoft.XMLDOM) then
IE Newer
elseif document.createElement && document.childNodes then
Use a hidden DIV and a 0x0 IFRAME
else
You're screwed, sorry
end if
AJAX is an overused acronym. It doesn't do anything that you couldn't do with frames or popups anyways.
The limitation was never that the XMLHttpRequest object wasn't around. The limitation was that you had to deal with the realities of sending your pages over modems, creating this pressure for dynamic pages, but older computers were too slow at processing JavaScript to allow you relief by moving much display logic into the client. You'd end up locking the whole browser.
These problems are all dealt with now because of faster networks and faster computers. The tools in this area are just the same old shit with a shiny coat of paint for the most part.
If Sun is successful in releasing Java under the GPL, this could end up being an open source alternative to Flash/Flex and Silverlight. All three of them claim to be THE alternative to AJAX.
We need to start now on the Great Wall of Canada. When global warming kicks in turning Nova Scotia into Florida and the southern US into an uninhabitable hellhole, we're going to need it.
You do realize that this is the attitude all bullies have? "They were clearly in the wrong. Its not my fault, they deserved it."
No.
What I realize is that bullies walk around with the sense that they are entitled to dominate people around them, and they attempt to surround themselves with people who will let them. They create auras of fear around themselves because they surround themselves with people who are afraid of them, and they wield these scared people to achieve more power.
I realize that the bully exists in a state of fear, because they know they are riding the tiger and their strength rests in the tenuous state they have created. And those who surround them, regardless of how tough they seem, are there precisely because they are easily cowed and dominated by someone with a strong will and no fear.
The whole thing is easily torn down if you possess an absolutely heartfelt failure to give a shit and a preparedness to push it as far as it needs to be pushed.
Yeah, that's pretty much what I told her. Also what I believe, and how I live, and how I succeed in the world.
Find good people, engage in win-win relationships with them, do good acts in the world, stay away from bullies if you can, but if anyone tries to belittle you or break you down or trap you in an exploitative system, you fuck them up permanently.
Why was my post modded funny?
It was a test. And you failed. All of us.
Like I was telling my daughter yesterday, the appropriate thing to do when you meet such a person is to drill them in the nose with your knuckles as hard as you can, unless they outweigh you by a significant margin, in which case you should hit them with a chair until they crumple to the ground.
This is how you deal with bullies.
You certainly don't turn yourself one after another into his bitch and make him rich as reward for his antisocial behavior.
I bet Bill wears an "Everything I needed to take over the world, I learned from the bully in kindergarten" T-shirt to bed as a nightie.
We would all be better off if they did. Go right ahead.
The free market hates a glut. It hates plenty for everyone, and it will modify production to ensure that it never happens.
The free market has a place. It is a good way to handle the distribution of finite resources among many hands.
But it will also lead to such things as monopoly pricing on drugs whose manufacturing costs are insignificant, paying farmers to cap milk production while people go hungry, etc.
Capitalism hurts humanity.
Moral of the story: Have your meetings by conference call like normal people and save the video games for playtime. Bloody retards.
Was it when he fraudulently created a site on MySpace? Was it when he tried to gouge Obama for cash in exchange for turning over access to the site?
When you volunteer for politics, you're not "Doing a favour for the candidate". You're following the person you want to lead you and everyone else. If that's NOT what you're doing, you're a scumbag.
But then, the entire US is full of scumbags, so it's all a rather abstract argument. Blow em all up and let the medics sort em out.
Regina Lee, why don't you go get pregnant and do something useful with your life.
With feminists like these, it's not a crime... it's a responsibility.
Actually, i DO agree the laws are wrong ( in both cases, thats why i used the drug example ), but that doesnt make them magically go away.
Then stop being an asshat.