My motto is, "One of these days I want to be either too important or not important enough to carry a cell phone". I have often thought of quitting because I am required to carry one, not the other way around. Screw em, and regain your sanity is what I say.
It hasn't been a problem for us at Xaraya with the donations, as we reinvest the donations that we receive back into marketing, pr, etc.
We report back the balance of the donations about once a month to the other committers on the project and discuss and have specific goals for the money earmarked.
If you expect to get rich from the donations coming in from a project, remember that there are other much more worthy charities that folks will donat to. Donations are generally $20 to $50 scale and are just nice ways of saying thanks, when someone doesn't have the knowledge to reinvest in the project via code / bug reports / docs.
The RIAA shouldn't target me, the person breaking the copyright law! They should target the software which allows me to pirate without even trying.
It's rather simple to kill someone with advances in technology for weapons as well, but that doesn't mean that gun manufacturers are blamed for the all the murders that take place. Rather extreme analogy, but the uses the same logic.
I have been attending UoP for close to two years now to finish my degree. Much of the criticism that I have seen posted on this article is correct. The instructors for the most part do not care about educating you, nor do they teach, they merely facilitate (very big generalization, I have had a few good instructors). The group work is silly and many times the groups fall apart and it's a group of one or two completing the assignment rather than a group of four or five. The classes are all cookie cutter, and you can expect one paper a week (usually internet research) discussion questions, and some sort of weekly summary about what you learned for the week.
That said I am not attending the classes to learn anything more than a reinforcement of the concepts that I already know. I feel comfortable in most of the subject matter because it is what I do on a daily basis. I am just getting the fancy definitions now. The money for the classes is quite high, but then again you could argue that the time that I am saving by going full time while not sacrificing much more than a couple of hours a day is worth the expense. There is no way that I could do the same yearly course load in a traditional school. I am adult student that is trying to better my career and provide for my family.
So, my advice is to think about the expectations of what you want to learn and the goals that you have for your education. If you are trying to learn completely new concepts then it may not be best education. However, if your intention is to complete a life goal, or move ahead in your career and you are somewhat comfortable with the subject matter that you are going to be presented then it may be the best decision you can make for the sake of the best use of your time and resources.
Do you know how to read? Try reading the GPL. It requires any derivative works to also be GPL. That's a restriction, because it means you can never make software that is available for sale from anything that has been opened as GPL. Pretty serious restriction, if you ask a professional programmer. I am one, I know.
But not a professional reader, I see. The GPL places no restriction on sale of software. Thats not its purpose in the least. It is there to protect your copyright to the code, no more and no less. If I release a silly script of code under the GPL and you use it in a work, there is nothing stopping you from selling that work (including my work). Of course there is nothing stopping me from buying it and then releasing it for free, either since under the license you would of course, be releasing it under the GPL.
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I'm guessing you mean this?
http://www.htdp.org/
Who knew that Romy and Michele also had a hand in creating the internet as well.
Here is a similar application (if not the same one). It is interesting technology.
My motto is, "One of these days I want to be either too important or not important enough to carry a cell phone". I have often thought of quitting because I am required to carry one, not the other way around. Screw em, and regain your sanity is what I say.
It hasn't been a problem for us at Xaraya with the donations, as we reinvest the donations that we receive back into marketing, pr, etc. We report back the balance of the donations about once a month to the other committers on the project and discuss and have specific goals for the money earmarked. If you expect to get rich from the donations coming in from a project, remember that there are other much more worthy charities that folks will donat to. Donations are generally $20 to $50 scale and are just nice ways of saying thanks, when someone doesn't have the knowledge to reinvest in the project via code / bug reports / docs.
Correct link to article (as if anyone reads them;)
http://216.239.41.104/search?q=cache:EjlFNploWcoJ: www.geocities.com/area51/Vault/2371/episodeIII.txt +%22%2Bwww.geocities.%2Bcom/area51/vault/2371/epis odeIII.txt%22&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
For those that missed the first 5 seconds after the article was posted.
The RIAA shouldn't target me, the person breaking the copyright law! They should target the software which allows me to pirate without even trying.
It's rather simple to kill someone with advances in technology for weapons as well, but that doesn't mean that gun manufacturers are blamed for the all the murders that take place. Rather extreme analogy, but the uses the same logic.
I have been attending UoP for close to two years now to finish my degree. Much of the criticism that I have seen posted on this article is correct. The instructors for the most part do not care about educating you, nor do they teach, they merely facilitate (very big generalization, I have had a few good instructors). The group work is silly and many times the groups fall apart and it's a group of one or two completing the assignment rather than a group of four or five. The classes are all cookie cutter, and you can expect one paper a week (usually internet research) discussion questions, and some sort of weekly summary about what you learned for the week.
That said I am not attending the classes to learn anything more than a reinforcement of the concepts that I already know. I feel comfortable in most of the subject matter because it is what I do on a daily basis. I am just getting the fancy definitions now. The money for the classes is quite high, but then again you could argue that the time that I am saving by going full time while not sacrificing much more than a couple of hours a day is worth the expense. There is no way that I could do the same yearly course load in a traditional school. I am adult student that is trying to better my career and provide for my family.
So, my advice is to think about the expectations of what you want to learn and the goals that you have for your education. If you are trying to learn completely new concepts then it may not be best education. However, if your intention is to complete a life goal, or move ahead in your career and you are somewhat comfortable with the subject matter that you are going to be presented then it may be the best decision you can make for the sake of the best use of your time and resources.
Just my take though;)
Do you know how to read? Try reading the GPL. It requires any derivative works to also be GPL. That's a restriction, because it means you can never make software that is available for sale from anything that has been opened as GPL. Pretty serious restriction, if you ask a professional programmer. I am one, I know.
But not a professional reader, I see. The GPL places no restriction on sale of software. Thats not its purpose in the least. It is there to protect your copyright to the code, no more and no less. If I release a silly script of code under the GPL and you use it in a work, there is nothing stopping you from selling that work (including my work). Of course there is nothing stopping me from buying it and then releasing it for free, either since under the license you would of course, be releasing it under the GPL.