They are quickly losing relevancy, though. Now they're laced with "Website [xyz] sucks? Try [abc]!" even though [abc] has nothing to do with and is in no way related to [xyz] plus the flurry of completely lame eBay and Trader ads, like the somewhat-famous "Used Women. Find used women! We have what you need and more. authentictraders.com".
The problem is that there is little oversight into these detainees, even in terms of military courts. If they are truly guilty or prisoners of war, list them as such and the entire problem goes away.
I'll start pirating XP in the workplace before I unleash the monstrosity that Vista is upon my users.
I don't have enough time, energy, staff, or money to deal with Vista and my users as well as upgrade nearly every PC to handle it (along with the outrageous license costs).
Google could charge for the clicks. Then they'd make that $1 billion back.
However, they'd also stand to lose a lot of customers. Our AdWords bill is high enough for a small company, paying extra hundreds or thousands a year for fraudulent, worthless clicks would scare me the hell away from AdWords.
Much of AdWords' value to Google is in keeping a high number of subscribers to keep the bid prices up relatively high on popular keywords. Losing popular subscribers could send prices down, costing them even more money than from losing an individual customer.
They are two separate business interests, really. Google's interest is in being able to search and index content. I'm sure they'd love a standard document format that isn't proprietary like their indexing of.DOC files.
Microsoft could embrace ODF. They could integrate it with Microsoft Office, eliminate.DOC, and produce the best ODF tools in the market and maintain their dominance, even in Government. Open Office, while great for the breadth of its tools, is a complicated beast and can be overwhelming for general office staff.
Instead, Microsoft plays these games, giving OpenOffice and others valuable time to play catch up while more and more governments around the world pull back away from the monstrosity Microsoft has created.
As an example of a company with proprietary software doing well with open standards, look at Adobe and the PDF standard. You can download everything about the standard from Adobe's website. There are competing readers (for Windows and other platforms), other PDF tools galore, but people still turn to Adobe products. We still rely on Distiller. We still rely on (now) Live Cycle. When you want crisp viewing of PDFs with good options, you use Adobe Reader (Foxit and others are catching up). Even Microsoft has benefited (Export to PDF in Office 2007 - FINALLY after over a decade without it).
I read somewhere that the mailbox password was something like "blahbob". Really, though, if your organization is so delicate, why are your IMAP/POP3 servers publicly available?
If WinZip had forced purchases, I doubt it would have become so pervasive. Out of the many millions of installations of WinZip, few probably purchase the software.
Also remember, I think people tend to pay more willingly for obscure or specialized software. I don't buy WinZip (or WinRar) because I find them to be basic utilities. If I didn't use WinZip, I could just as easily use some other compression utility and be just as happy. However, I'll drop $25 for a well-built, quality SQL browser/editor. Why? It's more obscure, and more likely written by someone just like me.
If you write your program well, it performs well, and is targeted to corporate users, I don't think you'll run into much piracy that would've otherwise been sales. If you want it deployed in a corporate environment, market it as such -- make it easy for IT to deploy, update, and validate serial numbers or whatever other protections you enable. With any big sale (more than a few licenses) it'd do you well to communicate regularly with the IT department that deployed it to make sure they have no issues, no major user complaints, etc. While it may take time to make those calls, you can find great ideas from users that use it every day and don't think like a programmer.
Please start hiring those damned "C# experts" so they stop flooding my strictly Python job postings. I really don't want them. I even have a template, very curt message:
"I believe you sent me the wrong resume. My job posting listed Python as a requirement, but your resume fails to mention either Python or reading comprehension. Could you please resend? Thank you."
Fortunately for me, very few bother responding back.
Although I did get a photo of a python sent to me once.
True enough.:-) But some of those examples do indicate learning from mistakes. It's sad, some of his original positions actually made more sense than his later ones.
Research and willful learning are beyond most of today's politicians, though, which is sad for all parties and every citizen. They do, unfortunately, represent much of America, though.
That's precisely what drove me crazy about the whole Kerry thing. Granted, Kerry wasn't the best candidate. By far. But being able to reason out various thoughts and change your decisions if the situation merits it is a sign of intelligence. Repeating the same thing over and over is something I'd expect a kid with autism to do, not a President or any other politician.
If a stove burns you every time you touch the hot burner, do you stop touching it and get called a flip-flopper, or learn from the mistake and stop touching it?
Heh, no. Then again it did say 'in the area'. But we're not looking for cow artists. We're in the weight loss 'biz but we don't exactly make art out of 'em.:-)
Yeah that's the other problem. We're not the only company in the area looking for Python devs. =) PT or FT / contract possible options if you're after extra cash. pytechd [a/t] gmail.com or the address in my profile. It's always nice to find local developers even if they don't end up working for you =) I'll be at the Python meetup on Wednesday as well.
It's two-fold. We have code in multiple languages, but the majority of our code is in Python. Thus I search for developers that know Python. I don't have to time or resources (small company) to spend training someone, nor do I have time to not only review every change (100% code review) and at the same time make changes to avoid Python-newbie pitfalls.
On the other hand, developers in large organizations tend to get pushed into a single project where the code is in one language. Most universities favor one language over another, whether it's C++, Java, or.NET.
I got pulled into Python the way that you mentioned. I am continually teaching myself new languages. Even though I'm not an expert in them all, I can take what I learn from one and apply it to another.
My frequent calls for Python developers usually end up with 90% "PHP Developers" whose "Enterprise" experience constitutes a company newsletter that calls mail() on a database of 10,000 e-mail addresses.
Just so you know, you're the 8th person bitching about this, and the 5th since the turn of the hour's 22nd minute, with a very high probability that future posters will bitch about it too, and will bitch about it at the 2.5 million mark, too, and the 5 million.
And Django isn't limited to blogs, wikis, etc. I run a complete medical management (medical record, inventory, staff tracking, chart/lab tracking, third party medical equipment integration) on Django quite happily out of 20 (and growing) offices across the states.
The only negative side is the lack of Python developers. I've found a handful around here (Tampa) but they seem to be a rarity. I can find a few Ruby developers, but their extent of Ruby is only RoR tutorials, it seems.
They support it because inevitably their huge products will, at some point, infringe on some ridiculous patent owned by anyone, big or little guy. It's a collective agreement to slowly disarm themselves against themselves. It's a win for everyone -- a step in the right direction. Lawyers will be MUCH more careful to accept infringement lawsuits on a percentage-of-winnings basis.
If only honorable knights could show up at every wedding and slay half the family. It'd be a quick, guilt-free way to get rid of that pesky Mother-in-Law that seriously won't stop coming by unannounced ten times a week who manages to break in through your locks despite them being changed and having a deadbolt added and calling your significant other 15 times a day to make sure you're not beating them and are providing enough food and making sure you really do plan to buy a house despite you being in college only to have her chase you down cursing you with things you didn't know full blooded Native Americans still believed in when you decide the relationship just isn't like it used to be.
Sadly, with their relatively low speed, they will probably never find Sarah Connor in time for Fox's upcoming "The Sarah Connor Chronicles."
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I think the problem with djangobook is that they wanted to get some of the sweeping changes done first for the 1.0 release: unicode merge, newforms, and newforms-admin. I think the core developers ran low on time on those branches and 1.0 hasn't come as soon as they had hoped. At least thats what it feels like.
That said, I still love Django. I just wish there were more available Django developers. The media companies keep stealing them.:-(
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Sure. Go to a fair instead of a theme park. Most fairs offer rides a la carte.
You have choice in the matter.
They are quickly losing relevancy, though. Now they're laced with "Website [xyz] sucks? Try [abc]!" even though [abc] has nothing to do with and is in no way related to [xyz] plus the flurry of completely lame eBay and Trader ads, like the somewhat-famous "Used Women. Find used women! We have what you need and more. authentictraders.com".
Ads like that spurred me to block Google Ads.
The problem is that there is little oversight into these detainees, even in terms of military courts. If they are truly guilty or prisoners of war, list them as such and the entire problem goes away.
I'll start pirating XP in the workplace before I unleash the monstrosity that Vista is upon my users.
I don't have enough time, energy, staff, or money to deal with Vista and my users as well as upgrade nearly every PC to handle it (along with the outrageous license costs).
Google could charge for the clicks. Then they'd make that $1 billion back.
However, they'd also stand to lose a lot of customers. Our AdWords bill is high enough for a small company, paying extra hundreds or thousands a year for fraudulent, worthless clicks would scare me the hell away from AdWords.
Much of AdWords' value to Google is in keeping a high number of subscribers to keep the bid prices up relatively high on popular keywords. Losing popular subscribers could send prices down, costing them even more money than from losing an individual customer.
"Please be Diablo 3." * sys.maxint
They are two separate business interests, really. Google's interest is in being able to search and index content. I'm sure they'd love a standard document format that isn't proprietary like their indexing of .DOC files.
.DOC, and produce the best ODF tools in the market and maintain their dominance, even in Government. Open Office, while great for the breadth of its tools, is a complicated beast and can be overwhelming for general office staff.
Microsoft could embrace ODF. They could integrate it with Microsoft Office, eliminate
Instead, Microsoft plays these games, giving OpenOffice and others valuable time to play catch up while more and more governments around the world pull back away from the monstrosity Microsoft has created.
As an example of a company with proprietary software doing well with open standards, look at Adobe and the PDF standard. You can download everything about the standard from Adobe's website. There are competing readers (for Windows and other platforms), other PDF tools galore, but people still turn to Adobe products. We still rely on Distiller. We still rely on (now) Live Cycle. When you want crisp viewing of PDFs with good options, you use Adobe Reader (Foxit and others are catching up). Even Microsoft has benefited (Export to PDF in Office 2007 - FINALLY after over a decade without it).
The music companies obviously aren't in tune with demands, or are in tune, but humming to a different beat than us.
Maybe they need new ear buds to get the tune right.
We'll just start packaging torrents in RFC822 format. :-) No one could ever possibly download 13 million torrents a month.
I read somewhere that the mailbox password was something like "blahbob". Really, though, if your organization is so delicate, why are your IMAP/POP3 servers publicly available?
It already exists and is called The Pirate Bay.
If WinZip had forced purchases, I doubt it would have become so pervasive. Out of the many millions of installations of WinZip, few probably purchase the software.
Also remember, I think people tend to pay more willingly for obscure or specialized software. I don't buy WinZip (or WinRar) because I find them to be basic utilities. If I didn't use WinZip, I could just as easily use some other compression utility and be just as happy. However, I'll drop $25 for a well-built, quality SQL browser/editor. Why? It's more obscure, and more likely written by someone just like me.
If you write your program well, it performs well, and is targeted to corporate users, I don't think you'll run into much piracy that would've otherwise been sales. If you want it deployed in a corporate environment, market it as such -- make it easy for IT to deploy, update, and validate serial numbers or whatever other protections you enable. With any big sale (more than a few licenses) it'd do you well to communicate regularly with the IT department that deployed it to make sure they have no issues, no major user complaints, etc. While it may take time to make those calls, you can find great ideas from users that use it every day and don't think like a programmer.
Fortunately for me, very few bother responding back.
Although I did get a photo of a python sent to me once.
True enough. :-) But some of those examples do indicate learning from mistakes. It's sad, some of his original positions actually made more sense than his later ones.
Research and willful learning are beyond most of today's politicians, though, which is sad for all parties and every citizen. They do, unfortunately, represent much of America, though.
That's precisely what drove me crazy about the whole Kerry thing. Granted, Kerry wasn't the best candidate. By far. But being able to reason out various thoughts and change your decisions if the situation merits it is a sign of intelligence. Repeating the same thing over and over is something I'd expect a kid with autism to do, not a President or any other politician.
If a stove burns you every time you touch the hot burner, do you stop touching it and get called a flip-flopper, or learn from the mistake and stop touching it?
Heh, no. Then again it did say 'in the area'. But we're not looking for cow artists. We're in the weight loss 'biz but we don't exactly make art out of 'em. :-)
Yeah that's the other problem. We're not the only company in the area looking for Python devs. =) PT or FT / contract possible options if you're after extra cash. pytechd [a/t] gmail.com or the address in my profile. It's always nice to find local developers even if they don't end up working for you =) I'll be at the Python meetup on Wednesday as well.
It's two-fold. We have code in multiple languages, but the majority of our code is in Python. Thus I search for developers that know Python. I don't have to time or resources (small company) to spend training someone, nor do I have time to not only review every change (100% code review) and at the same time make changes to avoid Python-newbie pitfalls.
.NET.
On the other hand, developers in large organizations tend to get pushed into a single project where the code is in one language. Most universities favor one language over another, whether it's C++, Java, or
I got pulled into Python the way that you mentioned. I am continually teaching myself new languages. Even though I'm not an expert in them all, I can take what I learn from one and apply it to another.
My frequent calls for Python developers usually end up with 90% "PHP Developers" whose "Enterprise" experience constitutes a company newsletter that calls mail() on a database of 10,000 e-mail addresses.
Just so you know, you're the 8th person bitching about this, and the 5th since the turn of the hour's 22nd minute, with a very high probability that future posters will bitch about it too, and will bitch about it at the 2.5 million mark, too, and the 5 million.
And Django isn't limited to blogs, wikis, etc. I run a complete medical management (medical record, inventory, staff tracking, chart/lab tracking, third party medical equipment integration) on Django quite happily out of 20 (and growing) offices across the states.
The only negative side is the lack of Python developers. I've found a handful around here (Tampa) but they seem to be a rarity. I can find a few Ruby developers, but their extent of Ruby is only RoR tutorials, it seems.
The police won't admit or deny they placed them. The owner of the cars most certainly own them.
I would've attached them to a police car, though. Or a public bus. Or some kid's tricycle.
They support it because inevitably their huge products will, at some point, infringe on some ridiculous patent owned by anyone, big or little guy. It's a collective agreement to slowly disarm themselves against themselves. It's a win for everyone -- a step in the right direction. Lawyers will be MUCH more careful to accept infringement lawsuits on a percentage-of-winnings basis.
If only honorable knights could show up at every wedding and slay half the family. It'd be a quick, guilt-free way to get rid of that pesky Mother-in-Law that seriously won't stop coming by unannounced ten times a week who manages to break in through your locks despite them being changed and having a deadbolt added and calling your significant other 15 times a day to make sure you're not beating them and are providing enough food and making sure you really do plan to buy a house despite you being in college only to have her chase you down cursing you with things you didn't know full blooded Native Americans still believed in when you decide the relationship just isn't like it used to be.
What.. me? Bitter? Oh no. Not at all.
Sadly, with their relatively low speed, they will probably never find Sarah Connor in time for Fox's upcoming "The Sarah Connor Chronicles."
I think the problem with djangobook is that they wanted to get some of the sweeping changes done first for the 1.0 release: unicode merge, newforms, and newforms-admin. I think the core developers ran low on time on those branches and 1.0 hasn't come as soon as they had hoped. At least thats what it feels like.
:-(
That said, I still love Django. I just wish there were more available Django developers. The media companies keep stealing them.