Clearly this isn't the case, or he was rejected elsewhere. My guess is that it's standard practice, and that there's a reason for it. Probably that most of the money on that $40 book gets divided up between printing, distributing and promoting the book... all the labor, risk, fronted cash, etc. of others that goes into that book. The content of the book is more like a big start on the way to a successful product.
Otherwise someone else would have done what you mentioned and annihilated all competition. We're not the first ones to think it up.:)
Also note that traditional publishing has not disappeared in the face of self-publishing, on-demand publishing, etc. There are good reasons for that.
Every time I have to have javascript to submit a form that results in a page load anyway, I know that somewhere out there a big fucking idiot designed a website. Every time I have to load a flash movie to navigate a website, the web dies a little.
This is a little harsh..Net forms and their button controls frequently use javascript for client side validation before server side validation on submit. They fail gracefully in browsers with javascript disabled. That's not developer incompetence, that's a good thing. It prevents unnecessary page reloads, server hits, etc. Flash navigation I'm a not a fan of, but it does often look nicer than anything that can be done without it. Among other things I think people avoid it now for spidering reasons.
I hope you get to do that too. Then you can be one of the tiny handful of lawyers on planet earth that don't deserve to be beaten with a claw hammer and left to bleed out in a disgusting street gutter where everyone can walk past and gleefully ignore their suffering as their black entrails ooze into a storm drain.
Agreed. Back in my day we levels that increased in difficulty and had some fancy games with "Easy", "Medium" and "Hard" settings. And we LIKED it that way.
So it's a bit like the Facebook platform only less social, fewer eyes, and years late? I know that's being awfully critical, but c'mon... Yahoo! has had the day-late, dollar-short affliction for a long time now.
"dictionary.reference.com"? As the wiki puts it, "When used in reference to consumer electronics, 'brick' describes a device that cannot function in any capacity (such as a device with damaged firmware)."
For example, the entire ASP.NET API suffers from a similar mismatch of encodings flaw: All of the data binding controls fail to properly HTML encode strings coming from a database. This makes virtually all ASP.NET applications ripe for exploits via XSS or other script injection attacks.
I would be pretty upset if everything I pulled from DB was automagically HTML encoded. I protect against XSS where it needs to be done. There are places where HTML encoding your data would not work. I do, however, always use parameterized inserts to protect against sql injection on top of an appropriate string cleaning function. Few things aggravate me like shitty ad-hoc inserts and the absence of string cleaning tied to a client-driven interface.
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Don't laugh too hard, he probably got a contractual gajillion dollar check on his way out the door.
I'd love to, but /. tags don't work in Google Chrome.
Clearly this isn't the case, or he was rejected elsewhere. My guess is that it's standard practice, and that there's a reason for it. Probably that most of the money on that $40 book gets divided up between printing, distributing and promoting the book... all the labor, risk, fronted cash, etc. of others that goes into that book. The content of the book is more like a big start on the way to a successful product.
Otherwise someone else would have done what you mentioned and annihilated all competition. We're not the first ones to think it up. :)
Also note that traditional publishing has not disappeared in the face of self-publishing, on-demand publishing, etc. There are good reasons for that.
Every time I have to have javascript to submit a form that results in a page load anyway, I know that somewhere out there a big fucking idiot designed a website. Every time I have to load a flash movie to navigate a website, the web dies a little.
This is a little harsh. .Net forms and their button controls frequently use javascript for client side validation before server side validation on submit. They fail gracefully in browsers with javascript disabled. That's not developer incompetence, that's a good thing. It prevents unnecessary page reloads, server hits, etc. Flash navigation I'm a not a fan of, but it does often look nicer than anything that can be done without it. Among other things I think people avoid it now for spidering reasons.
I hope you get to do that too. Then you can be one of the tiny handful of lawyers on planet earth that don't deserve to be beaten with a claw hammer and left to bleed out in a disgusting street gutter where everyone can walk past and gleefully ignore their suffering as their black entrails ooze into a storm drain.
I have donated to the EFF on multiple occasions. Unfortunately that has nothing to do with the issues they pursue.
Apple only pays if you break $250 for each region, not for all regions combined
That's evil. This sounds like one of PayPal.com's schemes to boost ledger numbers by locking up other peoples' money.
Psssh, the lengths they'll go to with these silly excuses. I say stop being lazy and get the damned thing working already!
Agreed. Back in my day we levels that increased in difficulty and had some fancy games with "Easy", "Medium" and "Hard" settings. And we LIKED it that way.
I see... women in porn is the same as putting a black man in chains and using him as a beast of labor?
There might be a minor fucking gap in this logic.
Careful, this conversation is a TRAAAAP.
Apparently you either agree that there's rampant sexism in the FOSS community or you're "displaying similar levels of denial, abuse, and ignorance".
The documentation out there is poor and cryptic.
I see what you did there.
There's a special place in my heart for Frozen Bubble.
Puzzle Pirates and A Tale in the Desert are good fun too. Not your typical FPS though.
So it's a bit like the Facebook platform only less social, fewer eyes, and years late? I know that's being awfully critical, but c'mon... Yahoo! has had the day-late, dollar-short affliction for a long time now.
Easily the most reasonable (and likely to be implemented) suggestion yet.
I've wondered about how Facebook handles this. I've taken names for FB apps that I should really release, as I've never actually developed the apps.
STOP ADVERTISING TO ME WHEN I'VE ALREADY PAID FOR YOUR PRODUCT, ASSHOLE.
Tell that to movie makers while you're at it. I HATE the idea that I have to watch a commercial to see a movie I payed $11 to see in the first place.
Or when their ISP tells them they have an infection they'll look at the BestBuy Geek Squad ad right next to it and take their machine in.
$500 cameras and hookers so awesome in bed its worth being repeatedly robbed over?
Can I have your life when you're done with it?
Nah... bricked means bricked.
"dictionary.reference.com"? As the wiki puts it, "When used in reference to consumer electronics, 'brick' describes a device that cannot function in any capacity (such as a device with damaged firmware)."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brick_(electronics)
It has always meant that.
He is the most interesting man alive, and when he drinks beer, he always drinks dos equis.
Do you work for Apple?
For example, the entire ASP.NET API suffers from a similar mismatch of encodings flaw: All of the data binding controls fail to properly HTML encode strings coming from a database. This makes virtually all ASP.NET applications ripe for exploits via XSS or other script injection attacks.
I would be pretty upset if everything I pulled from DB was automagically HTML encoded. I protect against XSS where it needs to be done. There are places where HTML encoding your data would not work. I do, however, always use parameterized inserts to protect against sql injection on top of an appropriate string cleaning function. Few things aggravate me like shitty ad-hoc inserts and the absence of string cleaning tied to a client-driven interface.
Bonus points for the space invaders noises it apparently makes.
Don't panic. Read the text of the FTC guidelines, most of your questions are answered there.
PLEASE let this be the end of those goddamn Extenze commercials.