I'm a writer, and I agree that more of the book's profits should go to the person who did all the hard work actually writing the text, researching the material etc. Thats not to see that a publisher shouldn't get something; after all, they bind, market and distribute the books, but surely the people who provided the publisher with its profits shouldn't get more money? A friend is a successful author and he gets only 1/17th of the profits of the book. I decided to write my book as an ebook, so that the profits come direct to me and not some pen pushing non entity, but I come across the problems of marketing and publicity.
Moral: authors (unless you are established) just can't win. Makes you wonder why we bother.
as the poster above says, it depends on who you ask: my own stats at
http://www.paullee.com/computers show no usage of Safari 4 at all since the beta was released
You can glean a great deal from historic documents, such as ice reports from Lloyd's List, which could help with this; each years reports are different. I collated the reports for one month in April 1912, and have written up my results here. Theres a Java applet in there showing time evolution of the reports, and I am working on a few bugs in it.
I was born in Nigeria and my dad worked there for many years. He will tell you that the Government then (1971) was corrupt and would sell their own mothers for a belly full of ruin (that is, a glass of whisky). We have seen nothing since then to change our minds.
I've been involved in many software projects that either forced you to wade through pages of documentation (and we're talking WEEKS - hence loss of productivity!) or required reverse engineering of existing code (and this would take ages, as most of the team had left). If they had left API documentation, then great, no downtime. Otherwise, the quickest option is to re-write code. And the cheapest.
I know. I worked for the company when BAE SYSTEMS was announced (it was a directive to write the name in block capitals, since relaxed); the one-way transfer of knowledge and technology was there when I joined in 1999 and was still in force when I left, years later, p*ssing off lots of people. Especially when the Americans would gloat and treat us as a 2nd class company (which is actually not totally unjustified I must add)
I used to work for Bae Systems in Farnborough and the management there would constantly bemoan the fact that the US couldn't/wouldn't share any technological advances with us for x number of years. We, of course, were expected to share with them, lest we sacrifice our special agreements and co-operations.
I think the word "legally" is missing in the write-up. Episodes of some TV shows have been available for quite a while now; I watched an episode of Star Trek Voyager I had missed on YouTube many months ago.
So here we have another piece of software that will eat up my CPU cycles and run innoculously in the background (ha ha). Doesn't Vista run bloody slow enough?
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Moral: authors (unless you are established) just can't win. Makes you wonder why we bother.
as the poster above says, it depends on who you ask: my own stats at http://www.paullee.com/computers show no usage of Safari 4 at all since the beta was released
More examples here
For Christ's sake, spell her name right.
The same twonks behind this story?. I might have considered giving money to them at some point, but now, the answer is a definite no.
Lets hope that events like this can be prevented.
You can glean a great deal from historic documents, such as ice reports from Lloyd's List, which could help with this; each years reports are different. I collated the reports for one month in April 1912, and have written up my results here. Theres a Java applet in there showing time evolution of the reports, and I am working on a few bugs in it.
I was born in Nigeria and my dad worked there for many years. He will tell you that the Government then (1971) was corrupt and would sell their own mothers for a belly full of ruin (that is, a glass of whisky). We have seen nothing since then to change our minds.
I've been involved in many software projects that either forced you to wade through pages of documentation (and we're talking WEEKS - hence loss of productivity!) or required reverse engineering of existing code (and this would take ages, as most of the team had left). If they had left API documentation, then great, no downtime. Otherwise, the quickest option is to re-write code. And the cheapest.
Televisions or Transvestites?
I know. I worked for the company when BAE SYSTEMS was announced (it was a directive to write the name in block capitals, since relaxed); the one-way transfer of knowledge and technology was there when I joined in 1999 and was still in force when I left, years later, p*ssing off lots of people. Especially when the Americans would gloat and treat us as a 2nd class company (which is actually not totally unjustified I must add)
I used to work for Bae Systems in Farnborough and the management there would constantly bemoan the fact that the US couldn't/wouldn't share any technological advances with us for x number of years. We, of course, were expected to share with them, lest we sacrifice our special agreements and co-operations.
Sounds good, except that the cost of IDA Pro puts me off. I think I'll stick with OllyDbg; now what that needs is a "how to" book!
Someone call the Mythbusters! Oh, someone did? Darn.
The same kind of problem was levelled against "Eyes Wide Shut" and its use of a sacred Hindu text.
No scientist should vote for a man who puts a creationist (ie Palin) as his second in command.
hete show that Chrome doesn't even get 0.1%. YMMV, as the saying goes...
The language called "Q" will have all the gadgets? (Hint: think James Bond)
I think the word "legally" is missing in the write-up. Episodes of some TV shows have been available for quite a while now; I watched an episode of Star Trek Voyager I had missed on YouTube many months ago.
So here we have another piece of software that will eat up my CPU cycles and run innoculously in the background (ha ha). Doesn't Vista run bloody slow enough?
Bad memories of Exo Man are flooding into my brain...
Somehow, putting the word "vista" in the same sentence as "succeed", for whatever reason, just seems plain wrong.
So this is where my bandwidth will be going....
....this means no more hot curries for me then :(
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