For about 200 Euros, the Germans can take a week vacation at a number of beach resort at Mediterranen or off the coast of Africa. Why would they want to spend the money in an indoor fake place when they can have the real thing?
Plus Germans like their suntan/sun burn. There just isn't enought light for them in there.:)
hmm... I wonder what you would say if people "pirated" your software and not pay any money for it.
Videotaping it was fine because you can't distribute it easily. It was more for personal use.
Now you can distribute everything so easily. That's the difference.
Well, I did read the page. I would say the Nigel actually had a easy time with this copycat guy. I have seen many instances where the copycat just wouldn't back down.
Anyways, this gets me thinking, what happens if the copycat didn't back down and in fact claim he was the real author. (uh oh, did I just give him some ideas?) How would Nigel even prove he is the real author if he went to court?
Actually in this case, it might not be that bad since Nigel would have the source code. But what about open source projects? The copycat would have that as well. How would the real author prove him/herself?
>Would you rather have someone illegally selling copies of your software, or trading illegal copies?
I would say selling copies is the greater evil. The seller is actually making money off my work, taking customer away from me. Most likely he doesn't provide as good a service and he doesn't resepect the privacy of the customers as I would. This would give my product a bad reputation as well. Doing further damage to my business. Furthermore, if the copycat seller would be willing to steal my work, it's very likely that he wouldn't stop at that. He could very well be trying to steal people's credit card or do even worse things.
The people who trade the copies are more likely to be kids who want to play with the software and not potential customers anyways.
>In previous life I experimented with some chip-on-glass embedded LCD controllers, they worked fine for my needs (wristwatch-sized computer.)
That sounds like some interesting stuff, do you have any links for these wristwatch-sized computers? Thanks in advance.
it's easy, there aren't that many deserving kids !
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Well, I say Santa can do this easily. There simply aren't many deserving kids in the world to make him run around that much.:P
I mean have you seen kids these days? Spoiled little brats they are. They get toys and games every week and most are just forgotten or thrown away in a few days. They have no respect for parents or teachers. All they care about is themselves.
So Santa isn't very harding working these days you know.
>I've noticed anecdotaly that some immigrants from racially homogenous countries sometimes have racist views of black Americans.
Hey, real Africans dislike black Americans too. My coworker was a marine. His ship docked at some African country and some of his black shipmates wanted to go see the homeland.
Long story short, they got drunk and rowdy, got into a fight with locals and got stabbed. All the maries were banned from leave.
When I lived in London, all the Africans I knew said they dislike black Americans for making them look bad.
But the vast majority of the work needed to be done in US is on things like the electricity grid and the water network, infrastructures that crumbled under Bush's woeful misrule. Not to mention building things like schools and hospitals which Bush let literally fall apart over the past 4 years. He decided he would rather spend the country's treasury on war with Iraq, than on things like roads and power plants.
Well, to sum it up, Martin Roesch writes Snort, release it as opensource. Snorts gets support and updated. Mr. Roesch start a company that sells a package that includes Snort and GUI. Makes profit.
I am pleased for Mr. Roesch. But what if someone else sees this article and thinks, "Hey, I can do this too." Goes and starts up a company that also sells Snort and a different GUI. Would that be ethical.
Disclaimer: I am not said person. I don't do development; I don't even program. That's right, I am not even much of a nerd. Lynch me if you will.:P
But seriously, what if someone did do a copycat move like that. Or say a big security company like Norton decides to get in the game. I believe that would be totally legal. But would that be ethical?
Someone asked about whether being Canadian helps to get work in EU. If you are Canadian and under age of 28, you should look into something called a Working-holiday or Holiday-maker Visa for going to UK.
You don't need a job offer to apply for it, nor do you need anyone to sponsor. You just have to prove you have some money to sustain you while you are there.
The idea is for you to go to UK for an extended visit of up to 2 years. You can work during that 2 years but not more than 50% of the time.
The process is simple and cheap. see
http://www.britainincanada.org/Visa/working.htm
that's not the governement site BTW, so ask your UK embassy about it.
For anyone who wants to go to Canada. There is a similar VISA for citizens of these coutries:
Australia, Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Republic of Korea, Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden and United Kingdom. See
I lived in UK for two years working on contract. I would say employment agency is your best bet.
I wanted to move to the UK and did my research on the internet, found some openings. But no one wanted to speak to me from half of the world away.
I figured what the heck and decided to go there for a visit. I got a visitor's visa and flew there. Spend a month just travelling and getting used to the country. Then I went in search of a job. It took me about 3 months. Eventually I found 2 agencies that specializes in my field of work. Got 2 interviews which resulted in a pretty good offer. I accepted.
The company sponsored me for a work visa. They had to prove that they couldn't find a UK citizen, nor an EU person to fill the position. That didn't take any time at all since they did have a job posting in the trade paper for a couple weeks.
The company filed the paperwork and I got a visa and started to work in a week.
So, as I was saying. The important thing is to get the job and agencies are very useful for that. There are a lot more agencies in UK than here and they seemed to be very specialized. The tough part was finding the right agency actually. I spent a lot of time in internet cafes and going through a lot of newspaper and phonebooks trying to find one in my field.
I would say work visa isn't nearly as hard to get in UK as it is in US.
I hope my experience is of use to you in Southern Europe. I should point out that the British sometimes don't consider themselves as Europeans. Still I would think the rules are similar.
Good luck! and enjoy the slow pace and long vacations you get there!
Are the two units on the right just differnt modes? Does that mean they TRANSFORM???
Imagine how useful that would be.
Say you sit in your motorcycle, the traffic slows down due to an accident. You transform the bike into your walking suits and go on the sidewalk instead. That would be so useful.
oh, come on, what company doesn't burn some R & D money that ends up junked? I am sure all the "good" companies like IBM and so on have failed projects too.
Now if you are doing this as a showcase of bad ideas, let's link a few more interesting samples.
>a rebuilt alternator at a shop might cost 200 (that's high), and work for a long time. autozone/advance's "rebuilds" are for shit, and in the long run you may be hurting more than helping.
You will hardly find a shop that would do their own rebuilding. More often than not, they just get the cheapest thing from somewhere else similar to Autozone and slap it in. You can get better quality stuff yourself if you do a bit research.
I have had better luck with work by friends or shady tree mechanics than dealerships.
>Not true. It is well-established that ancient Greek (as well as many other classical languages) was written with no spaces between words.
Interesting. Ancient Chinese also did not have spaces. Furthremore, ancient Chinese did not have any punctuations either. No comma, no period. It was a continous paragraph.
Those new meters would sometimes come with a pulsed digital binary output. You connect that output terminal to a controller/computer and read the pulse. Each pulse is like 1/2 kilowatt hour. You can easily rig something up to read the power consumption.
>re we're losing jobs where someone who got paid US$22/hour for turning a bolt on an assembly line for 17 years is losing his job to someone who gets paid US$22/month to do the same job.
hmm.. does that just give us a hint as to why we are losing jobs?
btw, both groups can get what they want if the US government can sign onto Kyoto but put tariff on countries that don't.
>Something worries me about a fleet of tazer wielding robots wandering the house.... Nasty way to lose a piggie. How would you explain that one?
Heh, good thinking, especially since it takes a lot more to kill a roach than to damage/injure a person's bodyparts. I imagine the robot would just have to learn to recognize roaches.
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why don't you wikipedia it and see? There are a number of resolutions to the paradox
"One explanation attempt is that the universe is not transparent......"
"The paradox is resolvable in a variety of ways.
If the universe has existed for only a finite amount of time...."
"...the universe may not be uniformly distributed, but rather fractally like a Cantor dust, thus accounting for large dark areas"
Plus Germans like their suntan/sun burn. There just isn't enought light for them in there. :)
Videotaping it was fine because you can't distribute it easily. It was more for personal use. Now you can distribute everything so easily. That's the difference.
Ok, start the moaning about how Japan has all the cool stuff and we don't. :)
How about let's go and invent something cool first.
Anyways, this gets me thinking, what happens if the copycat didn't back down and in fact claim he was the real author. (uh oh, did I just give him some ideas?) How would Nigel even prove he is the real author if he went to court?
Actually in this case, it might not be that bad since Nigel would have the source code. But what about open source projects? The copycat would have that as well. How would the real author prove him/herself?
I would say selling copies is the greater evil. The seller is actually making money off my work, taking customer away from me. Most likely he doesn't provide as good a service and he doesn't resepect the privacy of the customers as I would. This would give my product a bad reputation as well. Doing further damage to my business. Furthermore, if the copycat seller would be willing to steal my work, it's very likely that he wouldn't stop at that. He could very well be trying to steal people's credit card or do even worse things.
The people who trade the copies are more likely to be kids who want to play with the software and not potential customers anyways.
That sounds like some interesting stuff, do you have any links for these wristwatch-sized computers? Thanks in advance.
I mean have you seen kids these days? Spoiled little brats they are. They get toys and games every week and most are just forgotten or thrown away in a few days. They have no respect for parents or teachers. All they care about is themselves.
So Santa isn't very harding working these days you know.
I am particularly interested in the science projects and the electronics stuff from the description here.
And yes, I know you can still get Legos. I would appreciate links for some of the rare ones please.
What's the tax rate at those countries? Do you like them better than Canada?
Just curious, have you lived outside of Canada? Specificly, have you lived anywhere that has just 15% flat tax?
Hey, real Africans dislike black Americans too. My coworker was a marine. His ship docked at some African country and some of his black shipmates wanted to go see the homeland.
Long story short, they got drunk and rowdy, got into a fight with locals and got stabbed. All the maries were banned from leave.
When I lived in London, all the Africans I knew said they dislike black Americans for making them look bad.
People everywhere are racist I guess. :)
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For cost of living stuff, don't bother converting. That would give you a better idea of what the true cost is relative to salary.
For example, DSL is $30 USD in US, $30 CND in Canada.
I am pleased for Mr. Roesch. But what if someone else sees this article and thinks, "Hey, I can do this too." Goes and starts up a company that also sells Snort and a different GUI. Would that be ethical.
Disclaimer: I am not said person. I don't do development; I don't even program. That's right, I am not even much of a nerd. Lynch me if you will. :P
But seriously, what if someone did do a copycat move like that. Or say a big security company like Norton decides to get in the game. I believe that would be totally legal. But would that be ethical?
You don't need a job offer to apply for it, nor do you need anyone to sponsor. You just have to prove you have some money to sustain you while you are there.
The idea is for you to go to UK for an extended visit of up to 2 years. You can work during that 2 years but not more than 50% of the time.
The process is simple and cheap. see
http://www.britainincanada.org/Visa/working.htm
that's not the governement site BTW, so ask your UK embassy about it.
For anyone who wants to go to Canada. There is a similar VISA for citizens of these coutries:
Australia, Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Republic of Korea, Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden and United Kingdom. See
http://www.workpermit.com/canada/working_holiday.h tm
in general, these two sites are good
http://www.workpermit.com/
http://www.anyworkanywhere.com/
Ok, enough Karma whoring for me.
I wanted to move to the UK and did my research on the internet, found some openings. But no one wanted to speak to me from half of the world away.
I figured what the heck and decided to go there for a visit. I got a visitor's visa and flew there. Spend a month just travelling and getting used to the country. Then I went in search of a job. It took me about 3 months. Eventually I found 2 agencies that specializes in my field of work. Got 2 interviews which resulted in a pretty good offer. I accepted.
The company sponsored me for a work visa. They had to prove that they couldn't find a UK citizen, nor an EU person to fill the position. That didn't take any time at all since they did have a job posting in the trade paper for a couple weeks.
The company filed the paperwork and I got a visa and started to work in a week.
So, as I was saying. The important thing is to get the job and agencies are very useful for that. There are a lot more agencies in UK than here and they seemed to be very specialized. The tough part was finding the right agency actually. I spent a lot of time in internet cafes and going through a lot of newspaper and phonebooks trying to find one in my field.
I would say work visa isn't nearly as hard to get in UK as it is in US.
I hope my experience is of use to you in Southern Europe. I should point out that the British sometimes don't consider themselves as Europeans. Still I would think the rules are similar.
Good luck! and enjoy the slow pace and long vacations you get there!
Imagine how useful that would be.
Say you sit in your motorcycle, the traffic slows down due to an accident. You transform the bike into your walking suits and go on the sidewalk instead. That would be so useful.
Hello, Robotech!
Now if you are doing this as a showcase of bad ideas, let's link a few more interesting samples.
You will hardly find a shop that would do their own rebuilding. More often than not, they just get the cheapest thing from somewhere else similar to Autozone and slap it in. You can get better quality stuff yourself if you do a bit research.
I have had better luck with work by friends or shady tree mechanics than dealerships.
Interesting. Ancient Chinese also did not have spaces. Furthremore, ancient Chinese did not have any punctuations either. No comma, no period. It was a continous paragraph.
Those new meters would sometimes come with a pulsed digital binary output. You connect that output terminal to a controller/computer and read the pulse. Each pulse is like 1/2 kilowatt hour. You can easily rig something up to read the power consumption.
Ahh, more cool stuff from Japan that we don't get. Is there any cool stuff we get here in North America that Japan doesn't have?
hmm.. does that just give us a hint as to why we are losing jobs?
btw, both groups can get what they want if the US government can sign onto Kyoto but put tariff on countries that don't.
Heh, good thinking, especially since it takes a lot more to kill a roach than to damage/injure a person's bodyparts. I imagine the robot would just have to learn to recognize roaches.