It's amazing that we, the people, actually vote for people that are willing to do this. Note to politicians: Learn how to balance a budget like 99% of the country has to! Stop spending on crap and realize you cannot keep quietly taxing us. This is living free?
In spirit of OSS, the course should be offered free and all materials related to the course, including but not limited to: Syllabus, materials, software, lecture, notes and office time should all be free.
They buy books the author and publisher have been paid for already and resell them. This is perfectally fine. But if they made facimmile of said books, it would indeed be illegal in the United States.
"And not every library is non-profit--membership libraries are fairly rare these days, but they still exist."
No one is making you join them. They don't get public funding either so they must buy their own books or get them donated.
My whole point is Google wants to make avaialble any book they choose and make a profit from it. How about Google digitizes all these books and gives all this data to some non-profit library who can post them and make them searchable without ad-words? This won't happen? Exactally, because Google would not profit then. I like Google as much as the next guy...well maybe not as much as they filth that hangs around here often, but Google is simply wrong here.
They and you have no right to a vast majority of the content they wish to for all intents and purposes, sell without compensation to authors.
The main issue is that Google will copy all these books and make them available online but also profit from it via ad's, exposure, etc. It is not like a publicly funded library which is supported by and for the people to have access to writing. It is a private enterprise (though publicly held) that wishes to profit via others content.
I have no issue with making available and searchable millions of books, like libraries have been for years, but I do think it is wrong for a company to front like their just doing the public a favor while profiting off the works of others. Libraries are not for profit and Google is definitly for profit...as much as their hands can squeeze.
It should be found unconstitutional to deny someone to accept employment at any company because they worked for a competitor at one time, no matter how recent. This is called the FREE MARKET! You have to pay to play.
Of course if someone is privy to confidential information at a job and then woks for a competitor they should not be allowed to discuss trade secrets etc, but the benefit of the doubt has to be given to them until it can be proved they spilled the beans! You have to prove people guilty in my country I thought.
No company owns their employees. Make them an offer they can't refuse or eat it. These are the values we go to war and die for, after all.
I would fire someone like you as soon as possible. At least the people you are sending your hate mail to can report it to management and have cancers like you released.
$28,000 would be extreamly low in Wisconsin, which is close to Canada in general, but still a hike to BC. I make roughly $45,000 right out of school and have great benefits and a lot of vacation (3.5 weeks in the first year, 4.5 next year and after 5 years 5.5). I'm low on the totem pole of developers and the company isn't really a startup but is growing really fast so hopefully in a couple years there will be room for quick promotion. I'm paid well enough I figure and my benefits rule but I know I could have probably made more money with some other companies but I like my company, it is secure and has upward potential. I've never seen this much money in my life and I'm still young and fresh out of school and unproven so I cannot complain. I think the career department at my school mentioned that about $47,000 was what the average graduate made from my schools program (Computer Science).
Then again, as you mentioned you work for a startup so perhaps you're given other benefits, such as stock or something. I would probably ask for cash over stock but the risk could pay off big time.
In summery I don't know what the average Canadian software developer makes and what your total tax code is, but $28,000 is something I wouldn't work for probably. But not knowing your entire situation it might be a good sallary.
Software is a winner take all game. Once you create the technology and market it well, you dominate nearly without competition and assume ridiculous amount of money. I agree a well planned and executed business/technology plan that relies on open standards, both used and created by you, would ultimately lead to greater assumptions of money, and morality. It can create greater hazard though.
Everything looks ugly compared to the iPod. Apple flat out owns this market and the future looks great...what it can lead to. This is why if you bought Apple stock 3 or 4 years ago for $13.00 it's gone up past $75.00, split and is around $45.00 right now and you're rich.
It's worthless trying to explain this. I graduated with a CS degree and you get people asking if you fix computers for a living. It's amazing. Hardly anyone who hasn't taken a CS program understands it's basically math, a little EE and some raw programming and engineering.
And for the record, I didn't go to college to get "trained" on some technology. Articles like this remind me that JMC students were always some of the dumbest.
Many is the excuse that NASA simply isn't getting enough money. They need passionate scientists that can construct the program as something taxpayers are interested in and demanding more support. It doesn't start with money, it starts with a vision.
I agree but I do think it is important a laptop looks good. Obvious functionality must exist of course, but it's something you take with you and are, ahem, seen with. Sounds lame indeed, but it sells more laptops. Stylized desktop cases are not as popular however for the same reason stylized toilet seats are not.
"A. Open source can never be very easy to use and easy to run. B. The common model of making money with open source is to sell you a support contract. C. If you make an open source OS that is blindingly simple to install and use, you won't get any money from your support contracts."
Or even better you can make a system that is relatively easy to use, sell support contracts and even make them buy the software. This is why William Gates is so wealthy.
"If I tell you negative information, you'll know less."
Anyone who watches any of the 24 hour cable news networks should know this by now. Well, they probably don't because I'm guessing it's hard to observe information loss...because you won't remember it. This is probably redundant by this point thought, huh?
Indeed. I never used Visual Studio until I got a job working for a company that develops most of their code base in.NET. Intellisense is really great. I used to use XEmacs, gmake, tcsh and a few other tools and thought it was great. Well, it turns out Viual Studio is, at least in my opinion, 100 times better. Features like intellisense allow you to write code quicker, you don't need a reference book and since it is compiling (sort of) as you code, any mistakes you make are discovered immeadiatly.
I don't particularly care for MS but they do know how to make an IDE.
Often times though your questions cannot be answered by Google because it is a system oriented question. For instance, the software company I work at has a few large systems and it takes a long time to really figure out how each layer interacts with the other, etc. In this case it is perfectally acceptable to ask as many questions as you need to, so long as you're listning to the responses.
As for asking a language specific question, I would agree with you that a good person (beyond a good programmer) would hit their favorite search engine. I wouldn't mind fielding questions about the internals of a language but usually that's not too important.
Regarding the Challenger, NASA did in fact know that there could be problems. The head engineer in charge of the faulty O-Rings warned his superiors that they would very possibly not work in the cool conditions and that they were not designed for it and refused to check off on the mission(Note, this is not a NASA employee but an employee from a private business contracted by NASA to design this particular part). His superiors told him to "take off the enginner hat and put on the business mans hat". He finally, foolishly, checked off on it and his superiors let NASA know they were OK.
It happens to be a NASA policy to have all contractors/manufactors "check off" before a shuttle goes up.
The reason the Challenger blew up is because of the greed of unethical, murderous business people and the cowardness and foolishness of an engineer. If it would have launched a couple days later it would have never happened.
With that, I don't think it's ever safe to attach that many explosives to something you're riding on. But many incidents can be avoided.
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It's amazing that we, the people, actually vote for people that are willing to do this. Note to politicians: Learn how to balance a budget like 99% of the country has to! Stop spending on crap and realize you cannot keep quietly taxing us. This is living free?
In spirit of OSS, the course should be offered free and all materials related to the course, including but not limited to: Syllabus, materials, software, lecture, notes and office time should all be free.
Quit wacking it so much, it used to happen it to my roommate all the time.
"What do you think used bookstores do?"
They buy books the author and publisher have been paid for already and resell them. This is perfectally fine. But if they made facimmile of said books, it would indeed be illegal in the United States.
"And not every library is non-profit--membership libraries are fairly rare these days, but they still exist."
No one is making you join them. They don't get public funding either so they must buy their own books or get them donated.
My whole point is Google wants to make avaialble any book they choose and make a profit from it. How about Google digitizes all these books and gives all this data to some non-profit library who can post them and make them searchable without ad-words? This won't happen? Exactally, because Google would not profit then. I like Google as much as the next guy...well maybe not as much as they filth that hangs around here often, but Google is simply wrong here.
They and you have no right to a vast majority of the content they wish to for all intents and purposes, sell without compensation to authors.
The main issue is that Google will copy all these books and make them available online but also profit from it via ad's, exposure, etc. It is not like a publicly funded library which is supported by and for the people to have access to writing. It is a private enterprise (though publicly held) that wishes to profit via others content.
I have no issue with making available and searchable millions of books, like libraries have been for years, but I do think it is wrong for a company to front like their just doing the public a favor while profiting off the works of others. Libraries are not for profit and Google is definitly for profit...as much as their hands can squeeze.
Google is wrong.
True, but in the meantime this person needs to be released with no compensation. These are the important details.
Wouldn't it be really funny if they changed its course to Earth? Someone has to lose their job for that one.
It should be found unconstitutional to deny someone to accept employment at any company because they worked for a competitor at one time, no matter how recent. This is called the FREE MARKET! You have to pay to play.
Of course if someone is privy to confidential information at a job and then woks for a competitor they should not be allowed to discuss trade secrets etc, but the benefit of the doubt has to be given to them until it can be proved they spilled the beans! You have to prove people guilty in my country I thought.
No company owns their employees. Make them an offer they can't refuse or eat it. These are the values we go to war and die for, after all.
Who brings nukes to an Ice-9 fight?
I would fire someone like you as soon as possible. At least the people you are sending your hate mail to can report it to management and have cancers like you released.
$28,000 would be extreamly low in Wisconsin, which is close to Canada in general, but still a hike to BC. I make roughly $45,000 right out of school and have great benefits and a lot of vacation (3.5 weeks in the first year, 4.5 next year and after 5 years 5.5). I'm low on the totem pole of developers and the company isn't really a startup but is growing really fast so hopefully in a couple years there will be room for quick promotion. I'm paid well enough I figure and my benefits rule but I know I could have probably made more money with some other companies but I like my company, it is secure and has upward potential. I've never seen this much money in my life and I'm still young and fresh out of school and unproven so I cannot complain. I think the career department at my school mentioned that about $47,000 was what the average graduate made from my schools program (Computer Science).
Then again, as you mentioned you work for a startup so perhaps you're given other benefits, such as stock or something. I would probably ask for cash over stock but the risk could pay off big time.
In summery I don't know what the average Canadian software developer makes and what your total tax code is, but $28,000 is something I wouldn't work for probably. But not knowing your entire situation it might be a good sallary.
Software is a winner take all game. Once you create the technology and market it well, you dominate nearly without competition and assume ridiculous amount of money. I agree a well planned and executed business/technology plan that relies on open standards, both used and created by you, would ultimately lead to greater assumptions of money, and morality. It can create greater hazard though.
Everything looks ugly compared to the iPod. Apple flat out owns this market and the future looks great...what it can lead to. This is why if you bought Apple stock 3 or 4 years ago for $13.00 it's gone up past $75.00, split and is around $45.00 right now and you're rich.
It's worthless trying to explain this. I graduated with a CS degree and you get people asking if you fix computers for a living. It's amazing. Hardly anyone who hasn't taken a CS program understands it's basically math, a little EE and some raw programming and engineering.
And for the record, I didn't go to college to get "trained" on some technology. Articles like this remind me that JMC students were always some of the dumbest.
I have never been able to figure out why that is ironic. Can anyone fill me in?
I just think it's cool I can finally buy Nazi figures. :P
Many is the excuse that NASA simply isn't getting enough money. They need passionate scientists that can construct the program as something taxpayers are interested in and demanding more support. It doesn't start with money, it starts with a vision.
Invest in crocodiles!
I agree but I do think it is important a laptop looks good. Obvious functionality must exist of course, but it's something you take with you and are, ahem, seen with. Sounds lame indeed, but it sells more laptops. Stylized desktop cases are not as popular however for the same reason stylized toilet seats are not.
"A. Open source can never be very easy to use and easy to run.
B. The common model of making money with open source is to sell you a support contract.
C. If you make an open source OS that is blindingly simple to install and use, you won't get any money from your support contracts."
Or even better you can make a system that is relatively easy to use, sell support contracts and even make them buy the software. This is why William Gates is so wealthy.
Wouldn't one be more than willing to allow people the ability to easily install and run any of their wares?
"If I tell you negative information, you'll know less."
Anyone who watches any of the 24 hour cable news networks should know this by now. Well, they probably don't because I'm guessing it's hard to observe information loss...because you won't remember it. This is probably redundant by this point thought, huh?
Indeed. I never used Visual Studio until I got a job working for a company that develops most of their code base in .NET. Intellisense is really great. I used to use XEmacs, gmake, tcsh and a few other tools and thought it was great. Well, it turns out Viual Studio is, at least in my opinion, 100 times better. Features like intellisense allow you to write code quicker, you don't need a reference book and since it is compiling (sort of) as you code, any mistakes you make are discovered immeadiatly.
I don't particularly care for MS but they do know how to make an IDE.
Often times though your questions cannot be answered by Google because it is a system oriented question. For instance, the software company I work at has a few large systems and it takes a long time to really figure out how each layer interacts with the other, etc. In this case it is perfectally acceptable to ask as many questions as you need to, so long as you're listning to the responses.
As for asking a language specific question, I would agree with you that a good person (beyond a good programmer) would hit their favorite search engine. I wouldn't mind fielding questions about the internals of a language but usually that's not too important.
Regarding the Challenger, NASA did in fact know that there could be problems. The head engineer in charge of the faulty O-Rings warned his superiors that they would very possibly not work in the cool conditions and that they were not designed for it and refused to check off on the mission(Note, this is not a NASA employee but an employee from a private business contracted by NASA to design this particular part). His superiors told him to "take off the enginner hat and put on the business mans hat". He finally, foolishly, checked off on it and his superiors let NASA know they were OK.
It happens to be a NASA policy to have all contractors/manufactors "check off" before a shuttle goes up.
The reason the Challenger blew up is because of the greed of unethical, murderous business people and the cowardness and foolishness of an engineer. If it would have launched a couple days later it would have never happened.
With that, I don't think it's ever safe to attach that many explosives to something you're riding on. But many incidents can be avoided.