However, most state legislatures have a few members on a clean up committee, usually called something like a "Legislative Review Committee," to recommend changes to existing law.
I strongly recommend you find out who they are for CA and encourage Slashdotters to lobby them.
you're buying postage stamps and they want to photograph you??? wtf for???
Sir,
Each stamp has a unique ID embedded in the stamp. Your photograph is stored with the stamp ID. Whenever there's a postal crime, we merely display your picture in the post-office and the good citizens of your community will help us hunt you down.
Tin-foil hats $5
Tin-foil hasts with proper grounding cords = PRICELESS
Assumming the coder also brings innovation, good analysis, intermediate business literacy (legal, accounting, etc.) organization and personal discipline, there's plenty of room in this market for lone coders.
Note that few coders will meet this criteria.
Advice:
1. Incorporate.
2. Insure the business.
3. Be very organized.
4. Outsource stuff you suck at, like tele-sales, to someone very good at it.
5. Have enough control over your ego to blame yourself (and fix it) before getting mad at others.
Big organizations have to struggle to feed big overheads (like their patent departments).
As a small business, OPP (Other People's Patents) are one of your lowest risks while you're still small. Don't worry about things you can't control. You'll be much too busy for that!
If you truly violate a patent, negotiate a truce in good faith. Sometimes, partnerships come out of it.
Rather than ridicule to level of expertise, I think it's important for IT management types to have their imagination fired up about clusters.
They're the one's that can get funding and support for you to put one together.
Can it be made rechargable?
I'd think the basic concept of increasing the surface area should work with rechargable formulations as well.
The challenge is in the engineering to turn that concept into a reality. Some materials are easier to manipulate that others.
You might want to research scholarships fron the "Association of Information Technology Professionals" http://www.aitp.org and "Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association" http://www.afcea.org. I know my employer actively supports two groups which raise funds for scholarships.
Sometimes it's a deal. When I'm billable, my company charges my time at $125/hr. How many minutes do I have to save before its a deal? If I can save 15 minutes driving to a spot with a network jack, I've saved people money.
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It was mandatory for us to switch to Mozilla. Problem is all our financial vendors make use of Active-X.
Result: Now we use Mozilla for casual browsing and use insecure products only when conducting important business!
Fatally flawed.
However, most state legislatures have a few members on a clean up committee, usually called something like a "Legislative Review Committee," to recommend changes to existing law.
I strongly recommend you find out who they are for CA and encourage Slashdotters to lobby them.
Are you saying you don't talk about Slashdot articles around the water cooler the next day?
Neither do I.
That's because the internet is my socializing time, you inconsiderate clod!
you're buying postage stamps and they want to photograph you??? wtf for???
Sir,
Each stamp has a unique ID embedded in the stamp. Your photograph is stored with the stamp ID. Whenever there's a postal crime, we merely display your picture in the post-office and the good citizens of your community will help us hunt you down.
Tin-foil hats $5
Tin-foil hasts with proper grounding cords = PRICELESS
Kind of makes ya want to wear a Burka in public.
1. covers you up
2. covered by freedom of religion
It depends on what you mean by lone coder.
I've been there, done that, got the T-shirt.
Assumming the coder also brings innovation, good analysis, intermediate business literacy (legal, accounting, etc.) organization and personal discipline, there's plenty of room in this market for lone coders.
Note that few coders will meet this criteria.
Advice:
1. Incorporate.
2. Insure the business.
3. Be very organized.
4. Outsource stuff you suck at, like tele-sales, to someone very good at it.
5. Have enough control over your ego to blame yourself (and fix it) before getting mad at others.
Big organizations have to struggle to feed big overheads (like their patent departments). As a small business, OPP (Other People's Patents) are one of your lowest risks while you're still small. Don't worry about things you can't control. You'll be much too busy for that!
If you truly violate a patent, negotiate a truce in good faith. Sometimes, partnerships come out of it.
Rather than ridicule to level of expertise, I think it's important for IT management types to have their imagination fired up about clusters.
They're the one's that can get funding and support for you to put one together.
Beamed? That means SETI must have found an E.T. I'm putting my tin-foil hat back on.
Can it be made rechargable? I'd think the basic concept of increasing the surface area should work with rechargable formulations as well. The challenge is in the engineering to turn that concept into a reality. Some materials are easier to manipulate that others.
...obviously, the CEO needs a raise... Slashing costs is a good way to get a raise.
That issue has been fixed in next year's model, which has many more electronic features. It no longer makes sense for us to support last year's model.
They can't take away my camera. I'm an American!
Karma whores have their uses. I for one, appreciate it...for sites that are slow to load. It was a small amount of text.
You might want to research scholarships fron the "Association of Information Technology Professionals" http://www.aitp.org and "Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association" http://www.afcea.org. I know my employer actively supports two groups which raise funds for scholarships.
Sometimes it's a deal. When I'm billable, my company charges my time at $125/hr. How many minutes do I have to save before its a deal? If I can save 15 minutes driving to a spot with a network jack, I've saved people money.