The argument centers on a fee levied in France on sales of blank CDs, tapes, hard disks and other hardware that can be used to copy music. The proceeds go to musicians and other rights holders who lose money to piracy.
So, I wrote this song, which I called Three Hours of My/dev/urandom Device. Actually, its a whole album. The article says that the proceeds go to artists, so maybe I can get paid for it. Now all I have to do is convince some people to pirate it.
Just buy books when you know for sure you need them. I think the majority of my CS classes "require" books, but most never use them. Perhaps if professors are so eager to keep down textbook costs, they could try not requiring books unless they plan on making it worthwhile.
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The argument centers on a fee levied in France on sales of blank CDs, tapes, hard disks and other hardware that can be used to copy music. The proceeds go to musicians and other rights holders who lose money to piracy.
/dev/urandom Device. Actually, its a whole album. The article says that the proceeds go to artists, so maybe I can get paid for it. Now all I have to do is convince some people to pirate it.
So, I wrote this song, which I called Three Hours of My
Considering the titles of the books this guy has written:
Mastering ASP.Net with Visual C#
.NET Programming 10-Minute Solutions
Mastering ASP.NET with VB.NET
Visual Basic Developer's Guide to Asp and IIS
I'd say it sounds much more like someone with an active interest in the success of Microsoft and their business model.
Just buy books when you know for sure you need them. I think the majority of my CS classes "require" books, but most never use them. Perhaps if professors are so eager to keep down textbook costs, they could try not requiring books unless they plan on making it worthwhile.
It'll be just like running Win3.1...only uglier.