These guys use their royalties to hire taxi to drive them around checking on who is playing music or not.
The laws should be changed that when you put something in the public domain (such as airwaves) it is public. This kind of rulings degrade the respect that people have for laws in general.
Finns also pay tax on CD-ROM and tapes that go to Finnish recording artists as do the royalties that taxis pay,(sorry Britney...) so when I burn CD for my clients that contains software that I have written I'm supporting the music industry.
Since foreign material is a large part of the music played here in Finland Finnish recording artist receive royalties for work that they haven't created.
I guess taxi drivers in Finland have to use earphones to save a few euros. This actually a good ruling since my taste in music rarely matches that of the driver.
I have Nokia 6310i triple band phone w bluetooth and a socket bluetooth cf card. GPRS works fine and is supposed to work in US too in most of the urban areas although my operator lists them as untested. Downside is that my operator charges 16 (about equal in $)/ 1MB of data / month and 1 for additional MB's
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Since smut vendors seem to be the most thriving content providers on the internet (at least compared to Hollywood) it is logical that gambling establishment will be the security providers. Our triumphs come from our vices not our virtues.
On the pro side I'd say that you'll learn to type faster since you can't stare at the keyboard anymore.
On the con side nobody will buy software from you since you don't look like a geek any more, but the babes will love you.
Cheers,
LB
It might be true, but it's the labor costs of coders!!! How ever since most companies save on coding, it takes a huge marketing effort to sell the crap they produce.
Consumers are bombarded with contracts today. While browsing internet soon something pops up: a "new and improved" ad-plugin that scrolls down an agreement, which can be 30 pages long, and somewhere in it says that you agree that the program can send private data from you computer to some off shore corporation, do you want to install. Can't get a cup of coffee without the side of it being printed full of text warning you about loss of life and limb is drinking it same as signing your name. If GM shrink wraps its SUV does it mean that FORD can't peak in and check out the new designs?
Please don't tell me clicking a button or opening a piece of plastic garbage is same as signing it come on. If someone is so afraid that their cool ideas will be stolen let them write it in a diary and lock it in the attic. We all build our thoughts on somebody elses.
Signing should be concious effort. I'm not against digital signatures there are very good standards and algorithms for that, but putting a product out for open market and then telling people that you can't look at it and gather ideas or even copy it is just plain stupid.
I've seen a lot of code that has been documented and even more that hasn't been. Problem usually isn't that the code is hard to read or that the structure of the application is somehow messy.
Following things always make me take an extra coffee break.
If you write a library. Please don't just write class reference library with your doxygen. I can see what the classes are and what they are derived from. Write also a cook book that explains how you think this library should be used.
If you wan't to write something using a certain technique please learn it first before attempting it on a time critical task that everybody else is relaying on. Too many times have I seen somebody attempt to write STL style template library for some trivial problem.
Draw pictures for goodness sake... Two boxes that connect to each other via line whether UML or just some word scrible tell me in a second more that two paragraphs of jibba jabba fancy SC lingo...
Any how I don't think the documentation and code should mix at all.
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Eh eh, they flie is dead...
These guys use their royalties to hire taxi to drive them around checking on who is playing music or not. The laws should be changed that when you put something in the public domain (such as airwaves) it is public. This kind of rulings degrade the respect that people have for laws in general. Finns also pay tax on CD-ROM and tapes that go to Finnish recording artists as do the royalties that taxis pay,(sorry Britney...) so when I burn CD for my clients that contains software that I have written I'm supporting the music industry. Since foreign material is a large part of the music played here in Finland Finnish recording artist receive royalties for work that they haven't created. I guess taxi drivers in Finland have to use earphones to save a few euros. This actually a good ruling since my taste in music rarely matches that of the driver.
First them scientist claim that man is decended from monkeys. Now they think that everything is made out of shoestrings. Hope she is right...
I have Nokia 6310i triple band phone w bluetooth and a socket bluetooth cf card. GPRS works fine and is supposed to work in US too in most of the urban areas although my operator lists them as untested. Downside is that my operator charges 16 (about equal in $)/ 1MB of data / month and 1 for additional MB's
Since smut vendors seem to be the most thriving content providers on the internet (at least compared to Hollywood) it is logical that gambling establishment will be the security providers. Our triumphs come from our vices not our virtues.
On the pro side I'd say that you'll learn to type faster since you can't stare at the keyboard anymore. On the con side nobody will buy software from you since you don't look like a geek any more, but the babes will love you. Cheers, LB
It might be true, but it's the labor costs of coders!!! How ever since most companies save on coding, it takes a huge marketing effort to sell the crap they produce.
Please don't tell me clicking a button or opening a piece of plastic garbage is same as signing it come on. If someone is so afraid that their cool ideas will be stolen let them write it in a diary and lock it in the attic. We all build our thoughts on somebody elses.
Signing should be concious effort. I'm not against digital signatures there are very good standards and algorithms for that, but putting a product out for open market and then telling people that you can't look at it and gather ideas or even copy it is just plain stupid.
How true, didn't think of that and it's uphill too.
Nah, I can't get three times 2,174,286 Newtons of thrust out of my Nokia... Stuff about engines
Or better yet have the astronauts just lift the clutch and step on it.
Let that cell leak into your briefcase so it fills half air half hydrogen. Thenk introduce spark and se what happens...
Following things always make me take an extra coffee break.
- If you write a library. Please don't just write class reference library with your doxygen. I can see what the classes are and what they are derived from. Write also a cook book that explains how you think this library should be used.
- If you wan't to write something using a certain technique please learn it first before attempting it on a time critical task that everybody else is relaying on. Too many times have I seen somebody attempt to write STL style template library for some trivial problem.
- Draw pictures for goodness sake... Two boxes that connect to each other via line whether UML or just some word scrible tell me in a second more that two paragraphs of jibba jabba fancy SC lingo...
Any how I don't think the documentation and code should mix at all.