Tell them right now that the people they'll eventually work for/with will be idiots with, at twice the age, seemingly much less experience. It comes from talking programming languages almost like they were natural, every other programmer you meet just seems... stupid.
Please, tell the kid this, I only wish someone would have told me back then (I'm 20 now and suffering through courses designed for people with 5% my programming experience)
Whenever I asked something remotely difficult on ubuntuforums like configuring.audiorc so I'd have both upmix and dmix (not functioning by default at the time) or configuring wacom's expresskeys I got zero replies.
Why? I don't know, but my guess is it was just too advanced for ubuntu gurus.
A permanent moonbase has one significant advantage: low gravity.
It's much easier laucnhing stuff deep into space if it's built and launched in low gravity. You can build it larger, you waste less fuel for launch and a bunch of other useful stuff.
Not to be insensitive here, but Macs have changed "sleep mode" for "hibernate" years ago and I can vouch that my Mac has an infinite battery life in what the OS calls sleep mode, and I do believe that's the proper way for going about it, when it's asleep as far as the user is concerned the damn thing is off and shouldn't be wasting batteries.
Now I understand something like Windows can't get out of hibernate as quickly as a mac (or probably linux as well) can, hell when I was toying with hibernate years ago it wouldn't even come out of it at all, but that's also very wrong.
No, I was talking about how Joe Average doesn't really care/know that some vendor quotes realistic battery life on the box while another doesn't, they just see a higher number next to the word "hours" on that other computer and buy that one instead of the one who is lying less. I know realistic battery life quotes are great for us geeks, but they must be a marketer's nightmare until this behaviour becomes standardised and mandatory for some reason.
Just wondering here, how would a move like this affect marketing of computers? The previous model had an up to 10 hour battery life, the new ultra better omgwtfbbq more magnificent version has "Up to 4, but we're not lying to you this time!"
Somehow I just don't see that faring well with Joe Average...
The radio host is providing a service which you requested to be provided in one way or another (for example by tuning into the station). Furthermore most of the content they're beaming they don't own but are licenced to use.
As far as webservers go, their EULAs say I own and am responsible for anything I upload, they do this to cover their arses if I did anything illegal.
When I write in Word, I'm using my computer my stuff yadayada, it should all remain mine.
When I use a host I'm paying for space and they're promising what I put on remains mine and I am the sole person responsible in how it's shown.
When I upload to google I'm adding content to THEIR website, it's theirs. Just like when someone comments on my blog that comment is mine and I can do whatever I want with it. This is because when someone is responsible for the way things are displayed they need licence to be allowed to do stuff with it otherwise they can't display it.
Yes, I understand they are/might be, but I don't care because I post here knowing full well I'm adding content to slashdot and don't even really care who owns the post. But if my browser had an EULA saying everything I do using it becomes somebody's property (or whatever) I'd have a real problem using it to post to my blog, access my bank etc. etc.
Oh great, not only have they "stolen" my stuff, they get to also rub the fact they're making millions off my work without paying me a dime in. Very good yes.
If something like that happened btw, could you sue?
In the modern day that is, sadly, merely a semantic difference. If someone has a royalty-free licence to do anything with something they might as well own it and it woudln't make any difference to them or the author.
There's a difference between having an EULA for google services and an EULA for google browser and they should be different. I can understand anything I upload to google being google's property henceforth, but anything I upload using their browser? Basically... if I use their browser anything I do online becomes their property... how is that good for me or anyone?
This is yet another sign of google's impending world domination. Won't be long before they own everything people use from software, to clothes, to spouses and children.
Well to be honest, VW's aren't that great cars and even though most chav-like people have them real self-respecting citizens opt for something better.
But I digress. Opera has always been free, the fee was just to get rid of the ads or you could, as I used to, go with a little irony and use Opera to find a code for Opera and get rid of the ads for free.
I mean, that's why most people's IE is free, not because it comes with windows.
So they drug themselves up, boo-hoo. Clearly these are inferior competitions if doping is beneficial, just look at any motorsports competition and you'll notice people aren't doping because the sideeffects of anything are too impeding.
They may not want incentives for sources to create stories, but why then are reporters paid? They create stories, "spin" them I believe is the term they use, all the time and we love 'em for it.
You do realise that until not many years ago consumers didn't even consider needing a standard connector for their printers, mice and so on right? The average consumer doesn't know what's best for them until someone finds something better than the status quo.
It does raise a serious issue of why the flying fuck in the sky don't gadgets simply have the same bloody connectors for charging? There's no excuse! If all manufacturers could agree on the USB standard then why can't they make a charger standard?
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Tell them right now that the people they'll eventually work for/with will be idiots with, at twice the age, seemingly much less experience. It comes from talking programming languages almost like they were natural, every other programmer you meet just seems ... stupid.
Please, tell the kid this, I only wish someone would have told me back then (I'm 20 now and suffering through courses designed for people with 5% my programming experience)
Some of us started at 9 you insensitive clod!
Judging by the value of your money you're very very poor in comparisson to us (Europe), likewise there is many more people in China.
Why on earth would anyone else even want to go into the US after their recent-ish track record? There is nothing of interest there.
Whenever I asked something remotely difficult on ubuntuforums like configuring .audiorc so I'd have both upmix and dmix (not functioning by default at the time) or configuring wacom's expresskeys I got zero replies.
Why? I don't know, but my guess is it was just too advanced for ubuntu gurus.
Targeted ads man! You don't advertise designer clothes to those people, you advertise bacon and water and stuff.
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Space ships of course.
A permanent moonbase has one significant advantage: low gravity.
It's much easier laucnhing stuff deep into space if it's built and launched in low gravity. You can build it larger, you waste less fuel for launch and a bunch of other useful stuff.
*In sleep mode.
Not to be insensitive here, but Macs have changed "sleep mode" for "hibernate" years ago and I can vouch that my Mac has an infinite battery life in what the OS calls sleep mode, and I do believe that's the proper way for going about it, when it's asleep as far as the user is concerned the damn thing is off and shouldn't be wasting batteries.
Now I understand something like Windows can't get out of hibernate as quickly as a mac (or probably linux as well) can, hell when I was toying with hibernate years ago it wouldn't even come out of it at all, but that's also very wrong.
No, I was talking about how Joe Average doesn't really care/know that some vendor quotes realistic battery life on the box while another doesn't, they just see a higher number next to the word "hours" on that other computer and buy that one instead of the one who is lying less. I know realistic battery life quotes are great for us geeks, but they must be a marketer's nightmare until this behaviour becomes standardised and mandatory for some reason.
Just wondering here, how would a move like this affect marketing of computers? The previous model had an up to 10 hour battery life, the new ultra better omgwtfbbq more magnificent version has "Up to 4, but we're not lying to you this time!"
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Somehow I just don't see that faring well with Joe Average
By your logic why are drug traffickers held accountable?
The radio host is providing a service which you requested to be provided in one way or another (for example by tuning into the station). Furthermore most of the content they're beaming they don't own but are licenced to use.
As far as webservers go, their EULAs say I own and am responsible for anything I upload, they do this to cover their arses if I did anything illegal.
When I write in Word, I'm using my computer my stuff yadayada, it should all remain mine.
When I use a host I'm paying for space and they're promising what I put on remains mine and I am the sole person responsible in how it's shown.
When I upload to google I'm adding content to THEIR website, it's theirs. Just like when someone comments on my blog that comment is mine and I can do whatever I want with it. This is because when someone is responsible for the way things are displayed they need licence to be allowed to do stuff with it otherwise they can't display it.
Yes, I understand they are/might be, but I don't care because I post here knowing full well I'm adding content to slashdot and don't even really care who owns the post. But if my browser had an EULA saying everything I do using it becomes somebody's property (or whatever) I'd have a real problem using it to post to my blog, access my bank etc. etc.
Oh great, not only have they "stolen" my stuff, they get to also rub the fact they're making millions off my work without paying me a dime in. Very good yes.
If something like that happened btw, could you sue?
In the modern day that is, sadly, merely a semantic difference. If someone has a royalty-free licence to do anything with something they might as well own it and it woudln't make any difference to them or the author.
There's a difference between having an EULA for google services and an EULA for google browser and they should be different. I can understand anything I upload to google being google's property henceforth, but anything I upload using their browser? Basically ... if I use their browser anything I do online becomes their property ... how is that good for me or anyone?
This is yet another sign of google's impending world domination. Won't be long before they own everything people use from software, to clothes, to spouses and children.
Well to be honest, VW's aren't that great cars and even though most chav-like people have them real self-respecting citizens opt for something better.
But I digress. Opera has always been free, the fee was just to get rid of the ads or you could, as I used to, go with a little irony and use Opera to find a code for Opera and get rid of the ads for free.
I mean, that's why most people's IE is free, not because it comes with windows.
So they drug themselves up, boo-hoo. Clearly these are inferior competitions if doping is beneficial, just look at any motorsports competition and you'll notice people aren't doping because the sideeffects of anything are too impeding.
If that were the case then it would've been offered in Slovenian ... we use firefox quite extensively.
That's like saying politicians don't lie.
Any story can be written so it comes out meaning something completely different to what really happens even if what you write isn't a lie per se.
They may not want incentives for sources to create stories, but why then are reporters paid? They create stories, "spin" them I believe is the term they use, all the time and we love 'em for it.
You do realise that until not many years ago consumers didn't even consider needing a standard connector for their printers, mice and so on right? The average consumer doesn't know what's best for them until someone finds something better than the status quo.
It does raise a serious issue of why the flying fuck in the sky don't gadgets simply have the same bloody connectors for charging? There's no excuse! If all manufacturers could agree on the USB standard then why can't they make a charger standard?