So a $1,000 camera or so will get you that kind of detail? For years I have just wanted the ability to take close-ups with such detail, but didn't know which camera would give me that (without paying too much, too).
Got any camera suggestions under the $1,000 range to take pictures like that? Thanks!
Someone needs to check their facts. I pay $44CDN (roughly $38 USD) a month for cable-internet alone through Cogeco. And this is for typical broadband speeds.
So I'd say if anyone should be complaining about prices, it should at least be a Canadian author.
In determining what is probable cause . . . [w]e are concerned only with the question whether the affiant had reasonable grounds at the time of his affidavit . . . for the belief that the law was being violated on the premises to be searched; and if the apparent facts set out in the affidavit are such that a reasonably discreet and prudent man would be led to believe that there was a commission of the offense charged, there is probable cause justifying the issuance of a warrant.
I'll put this situation in a few ways:
1) To have a warrant issued for your property, the odds are incredibly minute that you aren't committing a crime. Unless you were an absolutely idiot, you presumed from day one of your operations that your criminal activity may invoke a warrant for your personal property. Anyone who has been involved with crime basically assumes that, at some point, soon or far, their information will be subpoenaed, their property raided, or they will be arrested and charged in the act. This is the risk you prepare for.
2) To have a warrant issued against you follows that there is typically ample suspicion (some founded, some not) and evidence that you are engaging in criminal activity.
3) As seen above, you don't have to be declared guilty to have a warrant issued against you. Same goes for an arrest, detention or charges. As much as we wish an individual's right's are respected, the truth is you were likely engaging in criminal activity and henceforth deserve no such privledge to the know that you are being eyed by law enforcement. This would make cleaning up operations far too easy and further increase criminal activity.
So basically what I am saying is that although you think criminals should be informed that they are going to be raided (the principle of which is just ridiculous, but I'll let it rest), there is a very strong chances that they already knew they would be raided. Anyone who has been involved in criminal operations (and I don't mean robbing a convenience store) prepares for the day that their door gets busted down. It's all part of the risk -- and game. Don't sympathize or fight for this gentlemen's rights because as I see it, it's just fair game. The battle between law enforcement and those above the law is always an interesting one.
I never have any drama in my life. When was the last time you could say that?
Your life must be pretty boring and empty, then, I'd gather. There's no day-dreamer attitude here, the truth of the matter is most girls are not as shallow as you stated. Of course, if the only girls you associate with are those who are at a club or a bar then I can somewhat see your point. But otherwise I think you would realize that the majority of women require a lot more than power and money.
I ain't saying a chick can't be cute and attractive if she's 5'8" and 150lbs... but don't be acting like she's frigging Ashanti or something.
Funny thing is that I never did. I could have shaved 20-30lbs off her weight when I wrote my first reply, but in keeping with our conversation I didn't. Besides the point, Ashanti is too thin anyways. The concept of the ideal-looking woman today will change in due time because right now women are far too thin.
No, I've just had a few girlfriends and one long-term relationship to know what they want. You either associate with the wrong women, or you don't associate with women at all and just assume what they look for is the same as what is seen on television. I'm not disputing there aren't women out there like that, but they are a minority. Practically every union has proven this.
I'm speaking from experience, and I don't think a single person who has replied to me is speaking with experience, just what they think is true.
When was the last time you saw a wealthy man crusing the bars for a fat, ugly 45 year old woman?
When was the last time you had a relationship? Are you mad at the world as well? Does this make sense? A Slashdot follower trying to convince me that women only want good looks, power and money? Give me a break -- this conversation is about as ridiculous and you saying 150lbs is fat.
It is not about being spoiled at all. You have to figure for a company to hire a locally established contractor, it may cost them $80-100hr. Or, they can pay me $50 for a similiar result. The downside is that, in the case of U.S. clients, I may not be able to commute. Furthermore, I received some advice from a fellow who runs his own software company. $50 an hour may seem like a lot to build an application, and on the grounds of this alone, it does seem like a lot. However, you need to factor in how much savings the client will recieve (usually more than the software is worth). So if you are charging $5,000 for a project which may seem extremely high to you, chances are it is not. You are focusing on the present financial situation for the client, that being a steep bill. The client is usually focused on the future financial situation where they begin to make/save money by footing the steep bill up front.
Also, $30hr is I'm guessing the below-average fee for a programmer these days. If you work full-time for a company, then it may be lower, but otherwise it's a decent rate. If you are bidding $5-10hr for a job, why are you even bothering? You can make more at McDonalds. The whole idea of a 'specialized' trade is that you can charge more for your services. Anyone can work at McDonalds and make $5/hr, but not everyone can meet the demands for programming. Hence the much higher rate.
Furthermore, $50hr is considerably low in comparison to many other programmers. It is high in comparison to the average wage of all folks, but that's the spoils of being a programmer (one of the few!).
I would suggest bumping up your rate to at least $30. By the sounds of it, you are working too hard for too little money. Once you are making $30/hr, you won't find yourself spoiled but you will realize that you are still making less money than most programmers. Good luck:)
Can the anonymous coward tough-guy posting to Slashdot.org on the Internet regarding the dating scene please step up and inform me of the ways of the dating world? I guess I missed out on this 'contemporary' age of dating, seeing as I missed it just six years ago!
Oh and I suppose 150 pounds is a butter-troll fat-fuck in this contemporary age?
Also I forgot to mention that I emailed hundreds of companies and people looking for developers, and some bit. The hours I spent mass-emailing eventually paid off after my first couple hours of work.
The best advice I can give to you is to get your name out on forums (for job postings), check classifieds (like craigslist), check regular job sites (devbistro, etc.) and pursue every avenue to get your name and skillset in the public eye.
I tried sites similiar to RentACoder years ago which never amounted to anything. However, I did post my contact information and resume on various websites. To this day, I still get emails for contract opportunities. The little bit of effort I put forth to submit my name to various websites resulted in excellent contracts with clients in the U.S. and Canada (and I reside in Canada). Now I have been working for the same clients for several years -- the business is repeat.
While my approach may not be the greatest, when clients went looking, they somehow stumbled on me. That beat's bidding against foreigners who can make it seem as if you are overcharging. How can $50 an hour (or whatever your rate is) compete with $8 to 10? It's difficult when you can't accurately sell yourself online.
I guess if you're ugly and have no money, power or charisma, then you try to hope there is some other random element involved, but you know deep down that you're kidding yourselves.
Why didn't you include yourself in that statement? Seriously, judging by the content of your post you have absolutely no idea of what men and women want. I've been with the same woman for six years now and I'll be damned if good-looks kept us alive. And neither of us have money -- we work together for that.
When you have forgiven the world (and all the attractive men) for not giving you a loving girlfriend, I'm sure your view on this will change very quickly.
Apparantely for his visit tommorow to the University of Waterloo (Ontario), tickets sold out extremely fast and students were trying very hard to get in on the presentation. No doubt, I would listen to the richest man in the world. I'm sure there's advice in there somewhere worth hearing.
Oil... organized crime... american businesses... I think you just described ExxonMobil, ChevronTexaco et al. Now what were you saying about respectable?:)
An OSS company being profitable is a rarity. For every OSS company and every OSS developer, the chances of profitability are slim. Contrast this with a typical proprietary software company, and there simply is no comparison.
When more than a select few companies (only three listed) prove to be capable of pulling a profit, then I'd call it a trend. But considering that most open source development teams pursue their software with little to no financing, it's far too early to even call this a trend. I'd call this the beginnings of a foundation that may begin to include other viable open source products.
If you think we made such an oversight such as this (in light of tight airport restrictions) without a hint of precaution, your way off. But I do follow the statement -- it just so happens that this version isn't as 'critical' as the main product, and was limited precautiously.
Over two years ago myself (an independent contractor) and a software company (which shall go unlinked and unnamed, and you know why) which produces critical software for airports around the world (Toronto, NY, Boston, Seattle, etc.) realized that a version of its desktop product may be more distributable -- and easier to manage -- if it were web-based. I ended up developing a web application which looked and acted little different than the desktop version. This was very cool, because as far as I'd known, I'd never seen anything like it. Every airport had their own database. It allowed clients the freedom of a deskstop app from home or work -- why stay late and enter data when you can log in from home and work on the exact same database? Of course, if the Internet was down, they could log things locally and batch upload once the connection came back. It was a beautiful system, and I think in a really small, unknown way, we pioneered a bit.
Now, before this time we had never considered the concept, but once we did, it really opened doors for possibilities. I remember thinking to myself it is only a matter of time before more people start doing this. And now, a few years later, here we are with Google and Sun claiming they will change the world with this. The are a little late in books, and not far enough into the project to claim the world will change. Nevertheless, it will be cool to see it done (if it works well).
I'm thinking you either work for yourself, or work for a company that doesn't monitor your programming habits. Otherwise, software reuse can be time-saving and is widely used. Even though knowledge of previously written code isn't always passed on to the next developer in such a way that they completely understand it, that usually does not warrant a complete rewrite. Code that is written to be reused, however ambiguous, usually can fufill its purpose.
Newspapers, not the online version of that newspaper. A lot of extra coverage is available online, a lot of it never making it to print. Minor point anyway...
Come on folks. As Michael Geist's website says, the major Canadian newspaper's (Globe & Mail, Ottawa Citizen, etc.) aren't even covering the article. Even though a lot of bullshit stories get printed and tossed in your yard, this one is just weighing in too heavy with idiocy.
Here's a few links I pulled up which should give you an idea of how to write an IP contract, in the event you decide not to pursue legal counsel. At the very least, they can provide some foundation (copy/paste;p) to writing your own
Definetely. But so is pretty much every other common password. It is an alternative, however, to trying to conjure up meaningless passwords that you have to write down to remember.
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OMG, WTF, BBQ?
Got any camera suggestions under the $1,000 range to take pictures like that? Thanks!
So I'd say if anyone should be complaining about prices, it should at least be a Canadian author.
I'll put this situation in a few ways:
1) To have a warrant issued for your property, the odds are incredibly minute that you aren't committing a crime. Unless you were an absolutely idiot, you presumed from day one of your operations that your criminal activity may invoke a warrant for your personal property. Anyone who has been involved with crime basically assumes that, at some point, soon or far, their information will be subpoenaed, their property raided, or they will be arrested and charged in the act. This is the risk you prepare for.
2) To have a warrant issued against you follows that there is typically ample suspicion (some founded, some not) and evidence that you are engaging in criminal activity.
3) As seen above, you don't have to be declared guilty to have a warrant issued against you. Same goes for an arrest, detention or charges. As much as we wish an individual's right's are respected, the truth is you were likely engaging in criminal activity and henceforth deserve no such privledge to the know that you are being eyed by law enforcement. This would make cleaning up operations far too easy and further increase criminal activity.
So basically what I am saying is that although you think criminals should be informed that they are going to be raided (the principle of which is just ridiculous, but I'll let it rest), there is a very strong chances that they already knew they would be raided. Anyone who has been involved in criminal operations (and I don't mean robbing a convenience store) prepares for the day that their door gets busted down. It's all part of the risk -- and game. Don't sympathize or fight for this gentlemen's rights because as I see it, it's just fair game. The battle between law enforcement and those above the law is always an interesting one.
Your life must be pretty boring and empty, then, I'd gather. There's no day-dreamer attitude here, the truth of the matter is most girls are not as shallow as you stated. Of course, if the only girls you associate with are those who are at a club or a bar then I can somewhat see your point. But otherwise I think you would realize that the majority of women require a lot more than power and money.
I ain't saying a chick can't be cute and attractive if she's 5'8" and 150lbs... but don't be acting like she's frigging Ashanti or something.
Funny thing is that I never did. I could have shaved 20-30lbs off her weight when I wrote my first reply, but in keeping with our conversation I didn't. Besides the point, Ashanti is too thin anyways. The concept of the ideal-looking woman today will change in due time because right now women are far too thin.
I'm speaking from experience, and I don't think a single person who has replied to me is speaking with experience, just what they think is true.
When was the last time you saw a wealthy man crusing the bars for a fat, ugly 45 year old woman?
When was the last time you had a relationship? Are you mad at the world as well? Does this make sense? A Slashdot follower trying to convince me that women only want good looks, power and money? Give me a break -- this conversation is about as ridiculous and you saying 150lbs is fat.
Also, $30hr is I'm guessing the below-average fee for a programmer these days. If you work full-time for a company, then it may be lower, but otherwise it's a decent rate. If you are bidding $5-10hr for a job, why are you even bothering? You can make more at McDonalds. The whole idea of a 'specialized' trade is that you can charge more for your services. Anyone can work at McDonalds and make $5/hr, but not everyone can meet the demands for programming. Hence the much higher rate.
Furthermore, $50hr is considerably low in comparison to many other programmers. It is high in comparison to the average wage of all folks, but that's the spoils of being a programmer (one of the few!).
I would suggest bumping up your rate to at least $30. By the sounds of it, you are working too hard for too little money. Once you are making $30/hr, you won't find yourself spoiled but you will realize that you are still making less money than most programmers. Good luck :)
5'9, but I'm sure its too fat anyways.
Oh and I suppose 150 pounds is a butter-troll fat-fuck in this contemporary age?
I just sold a 256mb of SDRAM I had lying around for months for $20 on eBay.
Also I forgot to mention that I emailed hundreds of companies and people looking for developers, and some bit. The hours I spent mass-emailing eventually paid off after my first couple hours of work.
I tried sites similiar to RentACoder years ago which never amounted to anything. However, I did post my contact information and resume on various websites. To this day, I still get emails for contract opportunities. The little bit of effort I put forth to submit my name to various websites resulted in excellent contracts with clients in the U.S. and Canada (and I reside in Canada). Now I have been working for the same clients for several years -- the business is repeat.
While my approach may not be the greatest, when clients went looking, they somehow stumbled on me. That beat's bidding against foreigners who can make it seem as if you are overcharging. How can $50 an hour (or whatever your rate is) compete with $8 to 10? It's difficult when you can't accurately sell yourself online.
Why didn't you include yourself in that statement? Seriously, judging by the content of your post you have absolutely no idea of what men and women want. I've been with the same woman for six years now and I'll be damned if good-looks kept us alive. And neither of us have money -- we work together for that.
When you have forgiven the world (and all the attractive men) for not giving you a loving girlfriend, I'm sure your view on this will change very quickly.
I think you meant dating skipped you :)
Apparantely for his visit tommorow to the University of Waterloo (Ontario), tickets sold out extremely fast and students were trying very hard to get in on the presentation. No doubt, I would listen to the richest man in the world. I'm sure there's advice in there somewhere worth hearing.
Oil... organized crime... american businesses... I think you just described ExxonMobil, ChevronTexaco et al. Now what were you saying about respectable? :)
When more than a select few companies (only three listed) prove to be capable of pulling a profit, then I'd call it a trend. But considering that most open source development teams pursue their software with little to no financing, it's far too early to even call this a trend. I'd call this the beginnings of a foundation that may begin to include other viable open source products.
If you think we made such an oversight such as this (in light of tight airport restrictions) without a hint of precaution, your way off. But I do follow the statement -- it just so happens that this version isn't as 'critical' as the main product, and was limited precautiously.
Now, before this time we had never considered the concept, but once we did, it really opened doors for possibilities. I remember thinking to myself it is only a matter of time before more people start doing this. And now, a few years later, here we are with Google and Sun claiming they will change the world with this. The are a little late in books, and not far enough into the project to claim the world will change. Nevertheless, it will be cool to see it done (if it works well).
I'm thinking you either work for yourself, or work for a company that doesn't monitor your programming habits. Otherwise, software reuse can be time-saving and is widely used. Even though knowledge of previously written code isn't always passed on to the next developer in such a way that they completely understand it, that usually does not warrant a complete rewrite. Code that is written to be reused, however ambiguous, usually can fufill its purpose.
See this
Newspapers, not the online version of that newspaper. A lot of extra coverage is available online, a lot of it never making it to print. Minor point anyway...
Come on folks. As Michael Geist's website says, the major Canadian newspaper's (Globe & Mail, Ottawa Citizen, etc.) aren't even covering the article. Even though a lot of bullshit stories get printed and tossed in your yard, this one is just weighing in too heavy with idiocy.
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Definetely. But so is pretty much every other common password. It is an alternative, however, to trying to conjure up meaningless passwords that you have to write down to remember.