I don't believe to two seconds that there were no indications that she could do this kind of thing. My guess is that you never knew she could do this kind of thing *to you*. You mean to tell me that she never showed that she was self-centered, and didn't take responsibility for her actions in all the time you were together? Seriously? Never turned on one of her friends? Never did something bad and then blamed others when she got caught for it? Never acted like she was entitled to things she didn't earn? Never?
The problem is that people need to understand that you really don't know someone until you see them in a crisis situation, and that can take years. However, watching their general behavior can tell you much. Most people will rationalize their SO's bad behavior by saying "she would never do that to me though".
I have read about DVCS's, and I understand how merges are much easier. However, you say that providing them read-only access will make merges "trivial". Is this true in all cases? What if their work takes several months. And in that time, what if they extensively change an existing class that has been deleted in the main code base? How is the merge trivial in this case?
Here's the thing, if he was going to sacrifice others for his ambitions, he should not have married and had kids. He made an obligation to his wife and kids and showed he was not up to being a man by sacrificing them for his goals. But I am glad you got something out of it, really I am.
No, I'm not an Apple user, I primary develop on Windows, but I do use Apple and Linux products regularly.
It is a widely held belief that "stupid average users" are not smart enough for linux and that is why linux is not popular, but in reality it is because most applications written for linux have a hard to use interface. Even geeks want an easy to use interface. I would posit that is why Ubuntu has made such strides in the linux community, because it has progressed the "just works" bar. However, it still has a long way to go.
Listen, when you have a real job and other priorities in life (a wife, kids, house, etc) and just need to get things done, it no longer becomes a situation about not being smart enough to figure something out, it is having other priorities that need to get done. The more intuitive the user interface, the wider adoption that program is going to have, with geeks and non-geeks alike. As a geek, if I don't use a program regularly, coming back to it 6 or 12 months later means that if it isn't well written, I need to expend a considerable amount of mental energy to accomplish a task. At a certain point, the ROI is no longer there.
Let's say that I want to edit a photo of my kids and "fix" the photo with the tools in discussion (Photoshop and Gimp). Taking cost out of the equation for the moment, if I have the latest Photoshop on my machine, I will look into using whatever it has built in to get the job done. However, if I have to install a plugin for either tool, it is highly likely, even as a geek, that I would say "it is good enough" and move on because the boys want to go outside and play ball.
I understand the logic of your thinking. I really do. I am a software developer, so my "product" is essentially the same as yours.
However, I would suggest that you have a misunderstanding on what you should get paid for. It isn't for the end product, which is not directly comparable to what some other artisan would get paid for in the past (a concrete object). The simple reality of the situation is that bits that have no cost or difficulty being reproduced are just not going to be re-sellable. It is as simple as that.
So what do you and I have that we can "sell"? Our skill. I get paid by my employer for the TIME I spend writing code for them. Your employer? The paying public. Play a gig at a bar or other venue and get paid for that performance. Now you can make a living. It cannot be easily reproduced by other people, so you have a product that its all your own. Will you make millions doing it? Probably not. But it is an honest living.
You do do this because you love it, right? Not for the money?
You're frustrated because your expectations do not match reality. When this happens most people try to change reality. That works in many cases, but in this case I would say this is not going to happen. Changing your expectations is the only way you are going to be happy.
I went back to school when I was 31. I went to a trade school and graduated with an Associates when I was 33. I got a job for about 35k a year (midwest). I am now 41 and make 80k a year.
The main reason I did not get a four year degree is the same reason you are having concerns - at my age I felt I was too old. However, by being ambitious and working hard I feel I am doing as well as I would if I had a bachelors degree.
If IT is what you truly love, then learning on your own is what will drive your career. The degree just gets you your first job. After that it is experience that matters most. There is no job I could not get now even though I don't have a bachelors.
Give me the game for $10 and the first month is free. You can charge $10 a month after that. That way if I don't like your game, I am only out ten bucks. However, if you make a good game, you have the potential of making one hundred or more dollars from me.
This $50 for the game and $15 a month crap is too much.
You guys just don't get it. BSG is good because of the story, the plot, and the gritty realism, but most importantly, it is good because the of the direction and the acting ability of the actors. The actors are good, but the director must be doing a simply amazing job of getting the most out of them. I rarely find myself popping out of mode saying "wow, that was poorly acted". I believe when someone has strong emotional scenes. I feel their pain and suffering, therefore I feel for the characters. I simply can't wait to find out what happens when season 3 starts.
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If you do not understand the underlying structure of your high level language and the low level mathmatical theory below that you liable to make grevious mistakes in first selecting your high level tools, then in the specific models that you impliment with your code and then in your code itself.
Grevious? As in General Grevious? You were thinking of the lightsaber post above, weren't you?
This is very intriguing and I personally have thought of doing this as well. The thing is, I then think of how annoying those people are who do this and it keeps me from doing it myself.
I can't middle click on results to load them in a new tab in Firefox. That is the single biggest thing I do when doing to reference search on google. Do search, middle click relevant-looking pages, then check them one at a time since they are all loaded in the background.
iTunes ripped CDs have zero DRM in them. nothing. nada. iTunes *downloaded* tunes do.
How many conversions does the music have to go through for this? If you want the file in a non-drm format you have to, at the very least, go from a lossy AAC->CD->lossy mp3. Just like with a jpeg image, the more times you save it in a lossy format, the lower quality it becomes. One conversion from lossless to lossy (the conversion to AAC in this case) is the max you should expect, imho. Anything more to get it to a non-drm lossy is going to cost you, so to speak.
All the more reason to buy in a lossless CD format, imo. This way you can convert to any lossy format you want (AAC, MP3, OGG) multiple times with the least amount of degradation.
Wow, I feel dumber just having watched that. I almost forgot how to navigate away from the page before it was over, but managed to do it before my IQ was reduced to that of my cat.
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I don't believe to two seconds that there were no indications that she could do this kind of thing. My guess is that you never knew she could do this kind of thing *to you*. You mean to tell me that she never showed that she was self-centered, and didn't take responsibility for her actions in all the time you were together? Seriously? Never turned on one of her friends? Never did something bad and then blamed others when she got caught for it? Never acted like she was entitled to things she didn't earn? Never?
The problem is that people need to understand that you really don't know someone until you see them in a crisis situation, and that can take years. However, watching their general behavior can tell you much. Most people will rationalize their SO's bad behavior by saying "she would never do that to me though".
I have read about DVCS's, and I understand how merges are much easier. However, you say that providing them read-only access will make merges "trivial". Is this true in all cases? What if their work takes several months. And in that time, what if they extensively change an existing class that has been deleted in the main code base? How is the merge trivial in this case?
Here's the thing, if he was going to sacrifice others for his ambitions, he should not have married and had kids. He made an obligation to his wife and kids and showed he was not up to being a man by sacrificing them for his goals. But I am glad you got something out of it, really I am.
Spoken like a true self-centered son-of-a-bitch. Fuck everyone as long as I get mine, right?
But then you don't get automatic notification of updates, which can be frequent.
No, I'm not an Apple user, I primary develop on Windows, but I do use Apple and Linux products regularly.
It is a widely held belief that "stupid average users" are not smart enough for linux and that is why linux is not popular, but in reality it is because most applications written for linux have a hard to use interface. Even geeks want an easy to use interface. I would posit that is why Ubuntu has made such strides in the linux community, because it has progressed the "just works" bar. However, it still has a long way to go.
Listen, when you have a real job and other priorities in life (a wife, kids, house, etc) and just need to get things done, it no longer becomes a situation about not being smart enough to figure something out, it is having other priorities that need to get done. The more intuitive the user interface, the wider adoption that program is going to have, with geeks and non-geeks alike. As a geek, if I don't use a program regularly, coming back to it 6 or 12 months later means that if it isn't well written, I need to expend a considerable amount of mental energy to accomplish a task. At a certain point, the ROI is no longer there.
Let's say that I want to edit a photo of my kids and "fix" the photo with the tools in discussion (Photoshop and Gimp). Taking cost out of the equation for the moment, if I have the latest Photoshop on my machine, I will look into using whatever it has built in to get the job done. However, if I have to install a plugin for either tool, it is highly likely, even as a geek, that I would say "it is good enough" and move on because the boys want to go outside and play ball.
Plenty of PS stuff exists as plugins. Does that mean they don't exist either?
Yes, to the average user it does.
My bad, it looks like the legal definition below is different.
Its libel if it makes the plaintiff look bad, which is fairly irrelevant to truth or falsehood.
The Free Dictionary would seem to disagree with this definition
I understand the logic of your thinking. I really do. I am a software developer, so my "product" is essentially the same as yours.
However, I would suggest that you have a misunderstanding on what you should get paid for. It isn't for the end product, which is not directly comparable to what some other artisan would get paid for in the past (a concrete object). The simple reality of the situation is that bits that have no cost or difficulty being reproduced are just not going to be re-sellable. It is as simple as that.
So what do you and I have that we can "sell"? Our skill. I get paid by my employer for the TIME I spend writing code for them. Your employer? The paying public. Play a gig at a bar or other venue and get paid for that performance. Now you can make a living. It cannot be easily reproduced by other people, so you have a product that its all your own. Will you make millions doing it? Probably not. But it is an honest living.
You do do this because you love it, right? Not for the money?
You're frustrated because your expectations do not match reality. When this happens most people try to change reality. That works in many cases, but in this case I would say this is not going to happen. Changing your expectations is the only way you are going to be happy.
Hell, even Pacman cost $100K to develop in the 80s.
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I went back to school when I was 31. I went to a trade school and graduated with an Associates when I was 33. I got a job for about 35k a year (midwest). I am now 41 and make 80k a year.
The main reason I did not get a four year degree is the same reason you are having concerns - at my age I felt I was too old. However, by being ambitious and working hard I feel I am doing as well as I would if I had a bachelors degree.
If IT is what you truly love, then learning on your own is what will drive your career. The degree just gets you your first job. After that it is experience that matters most. There is no job I could not get now even though I don't have a bachelors.
Oh, how I wish I could mod you up. My fav show of all time has become Grey's in Space. It is a sad time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9XHmj-dPEY
Give me the game for $10 and the first month is free. You can charge $10 a month after that. That way if I don't like your game, I am only out ten bucks. However, if you make a good game, you have the potential of making one hundred or more dollars from me.
This $50 for the game and $15 a month crap is too much.
You guys just don't get it. BSG is good because of the story, the plot, and the gritty realism, but most importantly, it is good because the of the direction and the acting ability of the actors. The actors are good, but the director must be doing a simply amazing job of getting the most out of them. I rarely find myself popping out of mode saying "wow, that was poorly acted". I believe when someone has strong emotional scenes. I feel their pain and suffering, therefore I feel for the characters. I simply can't wait to find out what happens when season 3 starts.
Grevious? As in General Grevious? You were thinking of the lightsaber post above, weren't you?
Were you thinking of grievous perhaps?
You mean something like, say... Spring and Hibernate? What a good idea! Why didn't he think of that??
This is very intriguing and I personally have thought of doing this as well. The thing is, I then think of how annoying those people are who do this and it keeps me from doing it myself.
"They give, but won't give to me" makes them evil? They are not required to give to anybody. The fact that they give at all is fairly noble, imo.
I can't middle click on results to load them in a new tab in Firefox. That is the single biggest thing I do when doing to reference search on google. Do search, middle click relevant-looking pages, then check them one at a time since they are all loaded in the background.
ROFL, I wish I had mod points...
How many conversions does the music have to go through for this? If you want the file in a non-drm format you have to, at the very least, go from a lossy AAC->CD->lossy mp3. Just like with a jpeg image, the more times you save it in a lossy format, the lower quality it becomes. One conversion from lossless to lossy (the conversion to AAC in this case) is the max you should expect, imho. Anything more to get it to a non-drm lossy is going to cost you, so to speak.
All the more reason to buy in a lossless CD format, imo. This way you can convert to any lossy format you want (AAC, MP3, OGG) multiple times with the least amount of degradation.
Wow, I feel dumber just having watched that. I almost forgot how to navigate away from the page before it was over, but managed to do it before my IQ was reduced to that of my cat.
All I see are a bunch of boxes with Fancy F's in them...