I think it depends alot on the size of the project. If you are talking 5 or 6 people on a project, then it is pretty easy to decide who should get what, and/or divide it up equally. On the other hand, if you have a project with >20 or so people, contributing various amounts of code, documentation, etc, then it becomes a bit more difficult.
I would say divide it up based on how much each person contributed, and give divide a percent of the earnings equally among the people in that group. for example if you have a project with 25 people contributing, 5 of whom did very little, 15 of whom contributed a moderate amount of work, 10 who contributed a signifigant amount, and 5 who were above and beyond, then you could say for example, 10% of the profit will be divided among the bottom 5, 25% will be divided among the lower middle 15, 15% will be divided among the upper middle 10, and the last 50% to be divided among the top 5. keep in mind these percentages are completely arbitrary.
alternately you could pay per line of code, so if there was x lines of code, and $y profit, and a person contributed n lines of code, they would get n(y/x) dollars.
although there are many other, more technical solutions, may requiring some sort of external power supply, there is a much simplier way to do this.
first you have to get duct tape, a foot or so should do, although as with all things duct tape the more the better
next get a universal remote and find a good, non-intrusive spot on the laptop. make sure you have batteries in the remote and it is programmed for your TV/VCR/DVD Player/etc. Place the remote firmly against the laptop and apply duct tape*.
*note you may need to cut the duct tape into thinner strips to avoid covering any buttons on the remote*
the exact same thing happened to me, I bought an 800mz iBook with a 30gb hard drive two days ago, instead, i'll be getting a 900mz with a 40gb hard drive. w00t!
I once saw something like this, it was a small hand crank generator that you could use to give your cell phone a 1 or 2 minute charge in case of emergencies, I'm too lazy to find a link right now but i'm sure with some googling you could find it.
actually, I was just trying to make a joke to offset the rather bitchy tone of the rest of my statment.
Perhaps a good way to restate that to make a point would be
You know you have a problem when someone in a 300 level programming class does not know what a compiler is, or an interpreter, or still get (,[ and { confused.
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I couldn't agree more, as someone who is currently attending a university, and has several years of programming experience, I have seen this several times.
I'm not sure if the problem stems from instructors reluctance to admit that there is "too much of a good thing", or if it stems from students having never been introduced to anything else.
One big problem I have seen in my own classes is that you have a class full of students, and maybe 1 or 2 of them have any programming experience at all. They go in and are instructed on basic logic and then given a class on Java and the wonder of OOP and they never learn anything else.
We then have (and this problem is not isolated to just the tech industry) a sea of mindless drones being pushed out into the real world and solving all the problems exactly the way they were instructed to without an ounce of actual though or insite.
You combine that with these new paradigms that basically become buzzwords and you have a bunch of people with no real idea what they are doing getting caught up in the "next big thing" without any idea of when to use what.
you know you have a problem when someone in your 300 level programming class asks "what's slashdot?"
gah, you had to say something.
I was just skipping over the link as I often do, but you mentioned something and I thought "how could it be worse than the goatse.cx site". Well it wasn't worse but it was not plesant either.
anyway, thanks for the warning, wish I would have heeded it.
"don't press the red button..."
a couple of my friends have Apex dvd players and I swear they have been enchanted by the "play anything you could ever imagine" fairy, and they are cheap. I would highly recommend them, though the best bet would be to find all your friends with dvd players and try them all out, find a brand that works best for you and buy that brand.
...Instead Only Try to realize the truth
What Truth?
There Is no article. Only then will you see it is not the article you read, but ARTICLE READS YOU
Stupid? yes Pointless? yes
...is often different than when they call a technician for their computer.
If I want to wash my hair, or comb it, or other such regular matenence, I don't go to a salon. Same thing with my car, I don't take it to a mechanic to put gas into it or chage the oil.
The problem is that most people do take their computer in for comparitivly simple things. Reinstalling a driver, reseating ram, things like that are in the same vein as changing oil in your car or combing your hair.
And the last time I checked, you didn't need a license to work at a full service gas station or sell someone shampoo.
yes, DNS, ok so lack of sleep has gotten me
*slaps self*
but I think what I intended to say was still clear.
I think you put it a little better than I did. I'm not sure though if it would be as much a patent as a copyright though.
hmm
really, when we "buy" a domain name, we are paying for a service. specifically for the service of having that domain name point to our IP.
While I do think that it is good that courts are realizing that ownership of things such as domain names needs to be addressed, I think that at the end of the day, there is really now way to say we can "own" the service. Also the fact that it is sex.com does not help matters much. I think that resonably the best ruling that could be hoped for is that the plaintiff incurred financial losses due to fraud. IANAL btw.
The room of lost souls?
The room of eternal dispair
The "mybosswantedmetocomeupwithanameforthis" Room
The Bathroom
The Transporter Room
The...oh hey look a bunny!
if you are running linux servers
Anarctica
The Penguin Room
If you are running windows servers
The Oh Please God(s) Kill Me Now room
Although I have not used windows at home for a few years, as I recall there is an option in the network configuration settings or modem settings, somewhere in there, where you can tell windows to automatically dial up a connection whenever one is not present. Perhaps this has been selected, if so, change it to never dial a connection, and you should be good. ....or better yet, use this as an excuse to teach your dad linux;-)
...comes a trade off.
There was a time when books were a difficult thing to get ahold of, and so only the best were published, and only a few who truly appreciated them would buy them. A few centuries later we have people like Stephen King pumping out novel after rehashed novel.
The same thing is true of music, which once consisted of greats like Bach and Motzart, but fast forward a century or two, and now we have music industry manufactred stars like Britney Spears and N*Suck.
Movie are the same thing, sure there are very good independent films, but the box offices tend to be ruled by what movie has the highest ratio of explosions and boobs to words spoken.
We must come to accept that Games are slowly joining this mass-media group, and good games are slowly going to become niche, created by idealistic college students, and the box-offices of the next generation (be it download on demand, or the local blockbuster) will sadly be filled with empty games who's only real feat is managing to create a physics engine capable of realistically portraing the bouncing of size 36DD breasts.
looks like we just have to accept that society on a whole will tend to ruin any sufficiently entrenched form of entertainment, so geeks of the world, I challange you, create a new form of entertainment so complicated, that only the purest of geek can enjoy it, so that it may never be tainted by the likes of those people in the rest of society.
Slashdot Mirror
I think it depends alot on the size of the project. If you are talking 5 or 6 people on a project, then it is pretty easy to decide who should get what, and/or divide it up equally. On the other hand, if you have a project with >20 or so people, contributing various amounts of code, documentation, etc, then it becomes a bit more difficult.
I would say divide it up based on how much each person contributed, and give divide a percent of the earnings equally among the people in that group. for example if you have a project with 25 people contributing, 5 of whom did very little, 15 of whom contributed a moderate amount of work, 10 who contributed a signifigant amount, and 5 who were above and beyond, then you could say for example, 10% of the profit will be divided among the bottom 5, 25% will be divided among the lower middle 15, 15% will be divided among the upper middle 10, and the last 50% to be divided among the top 5. keep in mind these percentages are completely arbitrary.
alternately you could pay per line of code, so if there was x lines of code, and $y profit, and a person contributed n lines of code, they would get n(y/x) dollars.
and I was starting to think I was the only person who's first thought upon seeing the topic was "GNOME is fine and all, but what's wrong with KDE?"
first you have to get duct tape, a foot or so should do, although as with all things duct tape the more the better
next get a universal remote and find a good, non-intrusive spot on the laptop. make sure you have batteries in the remote and it is programmed for your TV/VCR/DVD Player/etc. Place the remote firmly against the laptop and apply duct tape*.
*note you may need to cut the duct tape into thinner strips to avoid covering any buttons on the remote*
the exact same thing happened to me, I bought an 800mz iBook with a 30gb hard drive two days ago, instead, i'll be getting a 900mz with a 40gb hard drive. w00t!
I once saw something like this, it was a small hand crank generator that you could use to give your cell phone a 1 or 2 minute charge in case of emergencies, I'm too lazy to find a link right now but i'm sure with some googling you could find it.
not even for this pen?
actually, I was just trying to make a joke to offset the rather bitchy tone of the rest of my statment.
Perhaps a good way to restate that to make a point would be
You know you have a problem when someone in a 300 level programming class does not know what a compiler is, or an interpreter, or still get (,[ and { confused.
I'm not sure if the problem stems from instructors reluctance to admit that there is "too much of a good thing", or if it stems from students having never been introduced to anything else.
One big problem I have seen in my own classes is that you have a class full of students, and maybe 1 or 2 of them have any programming experience at all. They go in and are instructed on basic logic and then given a class on Java and the wonder of OOP and they never learn anything else.
We then have (and this problem is not isolated to just the tech industry) a sea of mindless drones being pushed out into the real world and solving all the problems exactly the way they were instructed to without an ounce of actual though or insite.
You combine that with these new paradigms that basically become buzzwords and you have a bunch of people with no real idea what they are doing getting caught up in the "next big thing" without any idea of when to use what.
you know you have a problem when someone in your 300 level programming class asks "what's slashdot?"
gah, you had to say something.
I was just skipping over the link as I often do, but you mentioned something and I thought "how could it be worse than the goatse.cx site". Well it wasn't worse but it was not plesant either.
anyway, thanks for the warning, wish I would have heeded it.
"don't press the red button..."
I'm sure this was intended as funny, but I really think it deserves a +1 insightful
...any tool becomes a hammer
it might not be long untill we need this or something like it to protect us from our own homland security KGB.
a couple of my friends have Apex dvd players and I swear they have been enchanted by the "play anything you could ever imagine" fairy, and they are cheap. I would highly recommend them, though the best bet would be to find all your friends with dvd players and try them all out, find a brand that works best for you and buy that brand.
just set up a cr0n job ;-)
...Instead Only Try to realize the truth
What Truth?
There Is no article. Only then will you see it is not the article you read, but ARTICLE READS YOU
Stupid? yes Pointless? yes
mod parent up +1 funny
....we can have foo foo drinks.
...is often different than when they call a technician for their computer.
If I want to wash my hair, or comb it, or other such regular matenence, I don't go to a salon. Same thing with my car, I don't take it to a mechanic to put gas into it or chage the oil.
The problem is that most people do take their computer in for comparitivly simple things. Reinstalling a driver, reseating ram, things like that are in the same vein as changing oil in your car or combing your hair.
And the last time I checked, you didn't need a license to work at a full service gas station or sell someone shampoo.
yes, DNS, ok so lack of sleep has gotten me
*slaps self*
but I think what I intended to say was still clear.
I think you put it a little better than I did. I'm not sure though if it would be as much a patent as a copyright though.
hmm
really, when we "buy" a domain name, we are paying for a service. specifically for the service of having that domain name point to our IP.
While I do think that it is good that courts are realizing that ownership of things such as domain names needs to be addressed, I think that at the end of the day, there is really now way to say we can "own" the service. Also the fact that it is sex.com does not help matters much. I think that resonably the best ruling that could be hoped for is that the plaintiff incurred financial losses due to fraud.
IANAL btw.
Bastard! where can I get one of these so called "chairs"?
The room of eternal dispair
The "mybosswantedmetocomeupwithanameforthis" Room
The Bathroom
The Transporter Room
The...oh hey look a bunny!
if you are running linux servers
Anarctica
The Penguin Room
If you are running windows servers
The Oh Please God(s) Kill Me Now room
and my personal favorite...
over/down/up there
BZ Flag Is an open source multiplayer tank shooting game, runs on just about anything.
We played it all the time during class last year at my school.
...comes a trade off.
There was a time when books were a difficult thing to get ahold of, and so only the best were published, and only a few who truly appreciated them would buy them. A few centuries later we have people like Stephen King pumping out novel after rehashed novel.
The same thing is true of music, which once consisted of greats like Bach and Motzart, but fast forward a century or two, and now we have music industry manufactred stars like Britney Spears and N*Suck.
Movie are the same thing, sure there are very good independent films, but the box offices tend to be ruled by what movie has the highest ratio of explosions and boobs to words spoken.
We must come to accept that Games are slowly joining this mass-media group, and good games are slowly going to become niche, created by idealistic college students, and the box-offices of the next generation (be it download on demand, or the local blockbuster) will sadly be filled with empty games who's only real feat is managing to create a physics engine capable of realistically portraing the bouncing of size 36DD breasts.
looks like we just have to accept that society on a whole will tend to ruin any sufficiently entrenched form of entertainment, so geeks of the world, I challange you, create a new form of entertainment so complicated, that only the purest of geek can enjoy it, so that it may never be tainted by the likes of those people in the rest of society.