The Pragmatic Progammers sell the PDFs of their books with no DRM and they seem to be doing okay. That is to say, the books aren't all over Google.
That is before you just slashdotted 'em.;)
6*9 = something fundamentally wrong with the universe
TFA alluded to one of the reasons being that women found it too stressful to maintain a tight grip on the ever-changing IT landscape and shoulder the burden of running the household, children, et. al. While I didn't take maternity leave when my kids were born, I've had full custody of my youngest daughter since shortly after she was born. It *is* a lot of responsibility and a certain amount of balance has to be maintained between work and family. But, I'm certainly not running for the IT fire exit. Nor do I think it would send women running and screaming.
That being said, the "statistics" referenced in TFA are flawed at best, fraud at worst./I'd enumerate them, but I have to go patch a security leak in the baby's diaper.
Perhaps I'm missing something, but I don't see where these kids did anything so reprehensible as to deserve to be blackballed out of hand. There was no malice, no intent to gain monetarily, no attempt at exploiting illicit information, and no nefarious plot to harm any other applicants. They simply learned of a method to beat the mailman. And this was done, not by performing some brute force (or other) attack on the Admission's Office's database servers, but by clicking a link and typing in their *own* Username/Password/PIN whatever.
I find it interesting that throughout this discussion, I have seen no mention of Project Gutenberg. They've been working on this kind of thing for a very long time.http://www.gutenberg.org/
I always like PCMCIA
People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms
Seriously, the military was always infamous for using excessive acronyms as does the computer industry today. I picture some staffer sitting around bouncing acro-friendly names around the congressional offices thinking, "They'll eat this up if you speak to 'em in their own language."
I believe that every American does, in fact, greatly value their "freedom". It's just that we are a diverse people with different ideologies and perspectives on what 'freedom' means.
As he pointed out, the Vietnamese were fighting for their *freedom*. It certainly doesn't jibe with most Americans idyll of the word, but it doesn't lessen it's veracity in the individual.
I was laid off/outsourced about a year and a half ago after working for HP nee Compaq nee DEC for nearly 10 years.
Paybacks are hell.
Now she's gonna have to live without those Gulfstreams they bought with the "savings" from the layoffs.
Sigs? I don't need no stinking sigs.
It's been a long time since I read the books, but as I recall, it was revealed in the last book that the answer was, in fact: 43.
---Life. Don't tell me about life.
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The Pragmatic Progammers sell the PDFs of their books with no DRM and they seem to be doing okay. That is to say, the books aren't all over Google. That is before you just slashdotted 'em. ;)
6*9 = something fundamentally wrong with the universe
Google announces that they *may* be working on releasing a USB recovery device. /I can smell the front page dollars rolling in.
TFA alluded to one of the reasons being that women found it too stressful to maintain a tight grip on the ever-changing IT landscape and shoulder the burden of running the household, children, et. al. While I didn't take maternity leave when my kids were born, I've had full custody of my youngest daughter since shortly after she was born. It *is* a lot of responsibility and a certain amount of balance has to be maintained between work and family. But, I'm certainly not running for the IT fire exit. Nor do I think it would send women running and screaming. That being said, the "statistics" referenced in TFA are flawed at best, fraud at worst. /I'd enumerate them, but I have to go patch a security leak in the baby's diaper.
Next variable = 8-Track or Cassette?
Perhaps I'm missing something, but I don't see where these kids did anything so reprehensible as to deserve to be blackballed out of hand. There was no malice, no intent to gain monetarily, no attempt at exploiting illicit information, and no nefarious plot to harm any other applicants. They simply learned of a method to beat the mailman. And this was done, not by performing some brute force (or other) attack on the Admission's Office's database servers, but by clicking a link and typing in their *own* Username/Password/PIN whatever.
I find it interesting that throughout this discussion, I have seen no mention of Project Gutenberg. They've been working on this kind of thing for a very long time.http://www.gutenberg.org/
I always like PCMCIA People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms Seriously, the military was always infamous for using excessive acronyms as does the computer industry today. I picture some staffer sitting around bouncing acro-friendly names around the congressional offices thinking, "They'll eat this up if you speak to 'em in their own language."
I believe that every American does, in fact, greatly value their "freedom". It's just that we are a diverse people with different ideologies and perspectives on what 'freedom' means. As he pointed out, the Vietnamese were fighting for their *freedom*. It certainly doesn't jibe with most Americans idyll of the word, but it doesn't lessen it's veracity in the individual.
I was laid off/outsourced about a year and a half ago after working for HP nee Compaq nee DEC for nearly 10 years. Paybacks are hell. Now she's gonna have to live without those Gulfstreams they bought with the "savings" from the layoffs. Sigs? I don't need no stinking sigs.
It's been a long time since I read the books, but as I recall, it was revealed in the last book that the answer was, in fact: 43. ---Life. Don't tell me about life.