I'd charge by the hour. That way you can work on it whenever you have the time (I'm assuming you're still a student). Keep DETAILED records of when you worked on it and what you did during those times, so they can't come back later and claim fraud. Good luck!
A guy at the Ettain Group did his best for me, and wasn't upset when I chose a full-time job over the contract he offered me. But not knowing where you are, they may not be available to you.
From the article... "All this is a precursor to a massive on-line blackout which will see the Internet handicapped by a privatisation process which had handed over a public commodity to large business interests who are foremost concerned with securing a profit rather than dealing with technical questions and details such as scaling the infrastructure to meet increase demand in terms of users and bandwidth."
Um, I'm trying to understand how power blackouts are going to lead to the death of freedom on the Internet. Unless the blackout affects all the servers that support the Internet.
Having read the books for more years than I care to admit to, I do have a problem with some of the re-writing. It's like Peter Jackson only saw the most superficial layer when he read the books... if he realy ever read them at all.
The changes to Arwen I don't mind too much, since she never came across as a worthy mate to Aragorn in the books. But Aragorn in this movie is barely a worthy mate of the Arwen in this movie! I do miss Aragorn's people (the Rangers), I was disappointed in the sexing up of Helm's Deep (there's a reason Tolkein didn't have Elves there...), and the whole thing with Faramir and the Ring was plain wrong.
But it is gorgeously filmed. I just hope that people who have never read the books don't get too confused or disappointed in the massive changes.
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - A federal court has blocked the national "do not call" list meant to allow consumers to stop unwanted telephone sales calls.
In a ruling filed Tuesday, the District Court in Oklahoma City said the FTC acted without statutory authority in creating and implementing the national do-no-call list.
"The rulemaking process requires an agency to fairly apprise interested parties of all significant subjects and issues involved, so that they can participate in the process," the court paper said. The court said it ruled in favor of the plaintiffs' claims that "that portion of the final amended rule that pertains to the national 'do-not-call' registry is invalid."
The FTC has signed up some 50 million phone numbers for the list, which was due to take effect Oct. 1.
The Direct Marketing Association sued to block the list shortly after Congress approved it in January, saying it would violate free speech laws and discriminate against the telemarketing industry, which employs millions of people.
"The Direct Marketing Association and its fellow plaintiffs are grateful that the Federal District Court in Oklahoma City understood and upheld the industry's belief that the Federal Trade Commission does not have authority to implement and enforce a national do-not-call list," the group said Wednesday in a statement.
An FTC official declined to comment until the agency has a chance to examine the ruling. "We've received it, and we're reviewing it," FTC spokeswoman Cathy MacFarlane said, according to Reuters.
Lawmakers criticized the court's decision, arguing that they had given the FTC the authority to implement the list.
"We are confident this ruling will be overturned and the nearly 50 million Americans who have signed up for the do-not-call list will remain free from unwanted telemarketing calls in the privacy of their own homes," Reps. Billy Tauzin and John Dingell said in a statement, Reuters reported.
When I write, I still hand-write (or, in my case, scribble) into a notebook, then transfer to Notepad. While it's true I haven't tried for something as huge as a novel, my 20+ page (when typed) short stories are still lovingly started by hand.
...of all the people who are going to run out and buy it, who REALLY needs that much juice? This'll just turn into another case of "I gotta have the latest greatest biggest baddest" whatever.
From the article... We aren't trying to penalize everyone for not being up-to-date or security savvy, but the level of attacks which continue to occur daily after any en-masse attack is enormous. It represents a significant lack of awareness by a very large segment of the public, be they individuals or corporations. Financial incentives have proven effective in increasing public awareness for a very long time. Applying them here is simply a logical extension of our social environment.
Right. A person who doesn't know about patching gets fined? An understaffed public library that has no-one to patch their public terminals gets fined?
And last time I checked, speeding tickets didn't stop people from speeding...
Here in South Carolina, some state government agencies are required to physically destroy the hard drive before we send them off to be sold. It usually took approximately 2 minutes to do. At this point, forget the finger pointing and give the lowest IT peon in the bank the job of taking a screwdriver and making gashes in the platters.
When I worked for DHEC in Columbia, SC, they bought a Honda Insight and a Toyota Prius. A co-worker and I took the Insight on a 3-day trip to Charlotte and back, and we used exactly 6 gallons of gas.
I wanted to buy one a year or so ago, and the list was about $20,000. My only real complaint about the one I drove (a 2000 model, I believe) was that the shocks didn't absorb much of the rough roads.
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I'd charge by the hour. That way you can work on it whenever you have the time (I'm assuming you're still a student). Keep DETAILED records of when you worked on it and what you did during those times, so they can't come back later and claim fraud. Good luck!
A guy at the Ettain Group did his best for me, and wasn't upset when I chose a full-time job over the contract he offered me. But not knowing where you are, they may not be available to you.
From the article... "All this is a precursor to a massive on-line blackout which will see the Internet handicapped by a privatisation process which had handed over a public commodity to large business interests who are foremost concerned with securing a profit rather than dealing with technical questions and details such as scaling the infrastructure to meet increase demand in terms of users and bandwidth."
Um, I'm trying to understand how power blackouts are going to lead to the death of freedom on the Internet. Unless the blackout affects all the servers that support the Internet.
Having read the books for more years than I care to admit to, I do have a problem with some of the re-writing. It's like Peter Jackson only saw the most superficial layer when he read the books... if he realy ever read them at all.
The changes to Arwen I don't mind too much, since she never came across as a worthy mate to Aragorn in the books. But Aragorn in this movie is barely a worthy mate of the Arwen in this movie! I do miss Aragorn's people (the Rangers), I was disappointed in the sexing up of Helm's Deep (there's a reason Tolkein didn't have Elves there...), and the whole thing with Faramir and the Ring was plain wrong.
But it is gorgeously filmed. I just hope that people who have never read the books don't get too confused or disappointed in the massive changes.
In a ruling filed Tuesday, the District Court in Oklahoma City said the FTC acted without statutory authority in creating and implementing the national do-no-call list.
"The rulemaking process requires an agency to fairly apprise interested parties of all significant subjects and issues involved, so that they can participate in the process," the court paper said. The court said it ruled in favor of the plaintiffs' claims that "that portion of the final amended rule that pertains to the national 'do-not-call' registry is invalid."
The FTC has signed up some 50 million phone numbers for the list, which was due to take effect Oct. 1.
The Direct Marketing Association sued to block the list shortly after Congress approved it in January, saying it would violate free speech laws and discriminate against the telemarketing industry, which employs millions of people.
"The Direct Marketing Association and its fellow plaintiffs are grateful that the Federal District Court in Oklahoma City understood and upheld the industry's belief that the Federal Trade Commission does not have authority to implement and enforce a national do-not-call list," the group said Wednesday in a statement.
An FTC official declined to comment until the agency has a chance to examine the ruling. "We've received it, and we're reviewing it," FTC spokeswoman Cathy MacFarlane said, according to Reuters.
Lawmakers criticized the court's decision, arguing that they had given the FTC the authority to implement the list.
"We are confident this ruling will be overturned and the nearly 50 million Americans who have signed up for the do-not-call list will remain free from unwanted telemarketing calls in the privacy of their own homes," Reps. Billy Tauzin and John Dingell said in a statement, Reuters reported.
-- Reuters contributed to this story.
When I write, I still hand-write (or, in my case, scribble) into a notebook, then transfer to Notepad. While it's true I haven't tried for something as huge as a novel, my 20+ page (when typed) short stories are still lovingly started by hand.
Right. A person who doesn't know about patching gets fined? An understaffed public library that has no-one to patch their public terminals gets fined?
And last time I checked, speeding tickets didn't stop people from speeding...
I wanted to buy one a year or so ago, and the list was about $20,000. My only real complaint about the one I drove (a 2000 model, I believe) was that the shocks didn't absorb much of the rough roads.
-jls