Speak for yourself. For me, this is Year 5 of the Linux Desktop, and my "seething" at Microsoft has long since cooled to "very occasionally annoyed when forced to look at someone's Windows box".
Why should news publications not offer any editorials or analysis... as they've been doing for centuries? Raw data in and of itself is not particularly useful.
And why was this modded Informative when in fact it's just the opposite?
...provide editorial support. That last one is kind of important, assuming that you don't want to look like an illiterate clown.
This can be valuable even if you aren't an illiterate clown. I'm an editor as well as an author, but I still find that a good editor's second pair of eyes is extremely helpful and useful in beating my material into a shape suitable for publication.
Giving away advice, articles, etc., is one thing, and I do it all the time. (Some of this is covered by my salary. But nowhere near all of it.)
But when I spend 10 months full-time, writing a 500-page book that developers are going to use to learn or improve skills that will help them make more money, I see absolutely nothing wrong with me getting a share.
As for the original question, my advice is, "Apress and O'Reilly will treat you fairly and professionally. Wrox and Addison-Wesley will do their best to steal you blind."
(NB: I've never actually written for O'Reilly, but I've written several for each of the other three. My colleagues who've written for O'Reilly, however, seem pretty happy about having done so, and their contracts look very reasonable.)
And the writing is sloppy and and vapid and horrid. Normally, I'd suggest to the author, "Don't quit your day job." But in this case, I think it'd be more appropriate to say, "Please quit your day job."
The killer app for SVG would be if someone developed an artist-centric development tool like Flash.
Someone already did... about ten years ago. (Unfortunately, it seems to have been shelved later by Corel after they acquired it, hence the link to the 3rd-party download site.)
Africans (and African-Americans) are a failure because they lack the IQ to succeed. Affirmative action is wrong because their failure is not due to "oppression" from Asians and Whites. Africans are a failure because they lack the intelligence to succeed.
Try telling that to George Washington Carver while you're eating a peanut-butter sandwich.:D
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Um, this isn't a contest.
Or do you really believe that Mac = fail?
WindowMaker is still alive and kicking.
Easy to customise if you want some semi-shinies, and works great for low-end machines and VNC sessions.
It's available in OpenSUSE and (IIRC) Ubuntu, and probably other distros as well.
Speak for yourself. For me, this is Year 5 of the Linux Desktop, and my "seething" at Microsoft has long since cooled to "very occasionally annoyed when forced to look at someone's Windows box".
Why should news publications not offer any editorials or analysis... as they've been doing for centuries? Raw data in and of itself is not particularly useful.
And why was this modded Informative when in fact it's just the opposite?
No, the problem is people who equate the ability to defend oneself with the ability to kill others.
...provide editorial support. That last one is kind of important, assuming that you don't want to look like an illiterate clown.
This can be valuable even if you aren't an illiterate clown. I'm an editor as well as an author, but I still find that a good editor's second pair of eyes is extremely helpful and useful in beating my material into a shape suitable for publication.
No.
Giving away advice, articles, etc., is one thing, and I do it all the time. (Some of this is covered by my salary. But nowhere near all of it.)
But when I spend 10 months full-time, writing a 500-page book that developers are going to use to learn or improve skills that will help them make more money, I see absolutely nothing wrong with me getting a share.
As for the original question, my advice is, "Apress and O'Reilly will treat you fairly and professionally. Wrox and Addison-Wesley will do their best to steal you blind."
(NB: I've never actually written for O'Reilly, but I've written several for each of the other three. My colleagues who've written for O'Reilly, however, seem pretty happy about having done so, and their contracts look very reasonable.)
Have you priced Li batteries recently?
I think the cost/size/weight/availability differential plus a common battery charger would make AAs the hands-down winner.
America needs you, Lawrence Welk, now more than ever!
Dude... What drugs are you on? And where can I get some?
And the writing is sloppy and and vapid and horrid. Normally, I'd suggest to the author, "Don't quit your day job." But in this case, I think it'd be more appropriate to say, "Please quit your day job."
Leave the whooshing to the grownups, sonny-boy.
Political dissent does not directly lead to that sort of harm, ...
"Offer may vary in North Korea and Iran."
Some moderator has a negative sense of humour today, I see.
That's an oldie but a goody (mid to late 70s IIRC, read it as a teenager). Nice to see someone else remembers it.
I always thought there should be an actual "Old Cold Dacron Heart" you could listen to while looking for your car in a big lot on a rainy day.
Mod abuse alert.
Parent is not a troll, but rather Informative.
I did the same thing a couple of years ago... but in my case, it was 4 months in Thailand. :)
I think they actually mean "WyFy", don't they?
Right.
When Firefox runs on my mobile, call me.
And how exactly does this mean that nobody else should use it either, once again? Because I seem to have missed that part the first time round.
The killer app for SVG would be if someone developed an artist-centric development tool like Flash.
Someone already did... about ten years ago. (Unfortunately, it seems to have been shelved later by Corel after they acquired it, hence the link to the 3rd-party download site.)
No problem, amigo -- I know where there's a whole World of Tiers to choose from. :D
Christian Science != Scientology.
Africans (and African-Americans) are a failure because they lack the IQ to succeed. Affirmative action is wrong because their failure is not due to "oppression" from Asians and Whites. Africans are a failure because they lack the intelligence to succeed.
Try telling that to George Washington Carver while you're eating a peanut-butter sandwich. :D
(Use the Google first before modding me off-topic, please.)
No, it's banking on the stupidity of "decision makers", a strategy which appears to have worked quite successfully thus far.