On the other hand, turning something you love into your full-time job can oftentimes diminish your enjoyment of it. I've been a full-time perl programmer for nearly 10 years, and while I still enjoy it to a certain extent, when I get home at night I'm so sick of looking at perl code that I rarely spend any time just messing around with it anymore.
The important difference might be what kind of tasks the job will entail. If you're working on a few core products there's much more chance of it getting routine. If it's a job where you're facing new challenges with relative frequency, that can make all the difference.
When such additional functionality is needed for Konqueror, on the other hand, it's just written in C++ and integrated with browser. What we end up with are extensions that far more stable, far quicker, and far less memory intensive than the equivalents for Firefox.
..but what you lose is the ease of use that has made Firefox's extensions so popular. Learning enough JavaScript to create an extension is a trivial matter for most people, which is why there are so many to choose from. True, many are probably not stable, could be faster and use less resources, but the payoff is in the massive innovation. Firefox's extensions have opened the doors of F/OSS development to a very broad spectrum of users.
Yes, the way the article is written, that's exactly what it sounds like. However, they mention a "contract dispute", without providing any real details. The situation could have possibly been something along the lines of the contract expired, and the company wanted to jack their rates by 5000%, forcing the city to operate the garage at a financial loss, or not at all.
Without question, the city should have given greater consideration to the terms of the contract, but the motivations of all parties involved are not adequately covered by the article.
NASA is planning on using the SRB as the basis for all their future designs. The new Crew Launch Vehicle is basically an Apollo-era capsule strapped to the top of an SRB. Thank god we invested so much money in this program just to wind up back in the 70s.
The plan is to increase NASA's ability to launch missions by removing the albatross of the shuttle progrm from around its neck. The pace is ridiculously slow with the shuttle program because the shuttles themselves are ridiculously complex, ridiculously expensive and ridiculously dangerous to operate. Their new plan to strap payloads to retrofitted SRBs, while a bit Mad Max, is the best idea they've had in years. Still might be too little too late, though.
Since it would be impossible for Google (or anyone else for that matter) to tell that images on one site are copyrighted by another, short of banning the indexing of images, how can you stop this?
It is not impossible to do this. There are a number of technologies available for embedding copyrights in images, and I'm sure Google would gladly comply with those. Granted, none of these technologies are 100% effective, but most randoms swiping images and posting them on their angelfire webpage aren't likely to be savvy enough to defeat digital watermarks.
However, for companies like this, it is much easier to call the lawers than to not suck in the first place.
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On the other hand, turning something you love into your full-time job can oftentimes diminish your enjoyment of it. I've been a full-time perl programmer for nearly 10 years, and while I still enjoy it to a certain extent, when I get home at night I'm so sick of looking at perl code that I rarely spend any time just messing around with it anymore.
The important difference might be what kind of tasks the job will entail. If you're working on a few core products there's much more chance of it getting routine. If it's a job where you're facing new challenges with relative frequency, that can make all the difference.
When such additional functionality is needed for Konqueror, on the other hand, it's just written in C++ and integrated with browser. What we end up with are extensions that far more stable, far quicker, and far less memory intensive than the equivalents for Firefox.
..but what you lose is the ease of use that has made Firefox's extensions so popular. Learning enough JavaScript to create an extension is a trivial matter for most people, which is why there are so many to choose from. True, many are probably not stable, could be faster and use less resources, but the payoff is in the massive innovation. Firefox's extensions have opened the doors of F/OSS development to a very broad spectrum of users.
Yes, the way the article is written, that's exactly what it sounds like. However, they mention a "contract dispute", without providing any real details. The situation could have possibly been something along the lines of the contract expired, and the company wanted to jack their rates by 5000%, forcing the city to operate the garage at a financial loss, or not at all.
Without question, the city should have given greater consideration to the terms of the contract, but the motivations of all parties involved are not adequately covered by the article.
NASA is planning on using the SRB as the basis for all their future designs. The new Crew Launch Vehicle is basically an Apollo-era capsule strapped to the top of an SRB. Thank god we invested so much money in this program just to wind up back in the 70s.
The plan is to increase NASA's ability to launch missions by removing the albatross of the shuttle progrm from around its neck. The pace is ridiculously slow with the shuttle program because the shuttles themselves are ridiculously complex, ridiculously expensive and ridiculously dangerous to operate. Their new plan to strap payloads to retrofitted SRBs, while a bit Mad Max, is the best idea they've had in years. Still might be too little too late, though.
..we need to authorize the secret project "The Weather Paradigm".
It is not impossible to do this. There are a number of technologies available for embedding copyrights in images, and I'm sure Google would gladly comply with those. Granted, none of these technologies are 100% effective, but most randoms swiping images and posting them on their angelfire webpage aren't likely to be savvy enough to defeat digital watermarks.
However, for companies like this, it is much easier to call the lawers than to not suck in the first place.