The problem with 'free' is how will the creators get paid, and what is the insentive to create more? Yes some people will create things as a hobby, but we'll have few professionals without some means to compensate them. And thus will end all the new free culture
I didn't realize Mortimer Mouse was based on a Grimm Fairy Tale. But yes a modern film maker still has the same luxuries. A modern filmmaker can still make a movie on John Carter or even one of the Brother Grimm Fairy Tales. Modern Copyright doesn't make it difficult at all.
so what you are saying is, it is ok for big business to take anything a little guy makes? And just because the value of something goes down, doesn't mean it is no longer profitable.
they don't, and they aren't sueing anyone. They send a mail out with some yes no questions. "do you have a scanner?" etc. Then it says you owe 1000 per employee.It sounds like they don't actually want to sue anyone.
I don't know about you, perhaps I am an old fuddy duddy, but I can't imagine that 15% of residents would go for that.
I can. Remember this isn't one of many options, it is the only option. I'd be willing to shell out $20 a month to keep the only theatre in town open, even if I skipped some months. Id hope they would show a diverse set of movies.
What does the weather have to do with cooking temps? F is simple, 100 degrees is HOT and 0 is COLD. Celsius is design for water, and Farenheight is designed for humans.
As for during take off and landing.. I think they should ban the use of iPads, nooks, ereaders, music players, etc. of all types. During takeoff and landing I want passenger attention focused on following instructions in the unlikely event of a problem, not zoning out with headphones stuck in their ears.
All electronics are currently banned during take off and landing. But what isn't banned are headphones, books, sleeping, or talking to your neighbor.
Because we are human beings. If we were water, then Celsius would be perfect. Fahrenheit is a scale based what is hot an cold to humans, not the freezing and boiling point of water
You already heave 5 years of experience programming? At this point in your life a degree is not required. Sure, it might mean your resume won't get looked at by some companies, but you probably don't want to work for those companies. if you are truly worried, then network. But honestly your 5+ years of experience should be enough.
but if you really want a degree, start by getting your basics out of the way, English and other non computer requirements. You can do most of these at a community college at night. But I don't think the time commitment is worth it.
I agree
While the 25 line sample might be perfect, 99% of the class will turn in utter garbage. Nothing that even comes close to that 25 lines of perfection. And then HALF of those people will go out in the real world and get a job. And then continue to write the same crappy software.
While I think a consistent standard is important. A sit down code review is NOT where you argue over the coding standard. In a peer to peer review, or when you first start and your boss/mentor reviews your code.
If someone is noticing your code is never to the standard, then he or your boss should take you aside, OUTSIDE of the code review and mention it. OR make a simple comment in the code review and move on.
Code Reviews aren't were you nitpick over the standard, code reviews are to make sure the code follows the spec and doesn't have bugs.
On the other hand, if your company has a coding standard you should be following it.
That is a personal message. I might not like it, but it is still a personal message (and you know, he could always look you up in the white pages and snail mail you)
BUT what I don't want is impersonal messages from, well from anyone.
One of the biggest proposals to stop spam in email, is to charge a small nominal fee to send a single email message. The small fee is generally a penny or less. And Facebook wants to charge $1. Few spammers will spend that kind of money.
So if someone sends a helpful message to strangers offering to lengthen their pelvic protrusions, or induce mammary hyperplasia, Facebook gets laid... er paid? Very sound business strategy, I should say.
Yes, you do know many corporations ALREADY do this? They pay facebook to send messages.
But really the point is, that person is NOT going to pay $1 to send you a message to lengthen anything. Because it isn't worth it to the spammer than.
But in the real world when you people hear this you start trying to convince me why it's a great service and that I should sign-up.
But in the real world corporations ask you to pay for all manner of services, some of which don't even cost the companies much. It is what corporations do, they offer services, and sometimes they ask you to pay for them.
If you don't like it, you are supposed to vote with your money and take your business elsewhere. That has nothing to do with fanboys and blind crushes, that is just how capitalism works.
The claim is they are returning the money... So what exactly is the scam? What is the website that is competing with kickstarter?
1. Scam people out of money
2. Return said money
3.???
4.Profit!!!
Granting monopolies on ideas is economically counterproductive, morally suspect, and intellectually perverse.
Citation needed.
Without patents, a significant number of products we see today would not exist. Very few people would spend research and development on something that someone else could just simply copy. Companies would spend more time and money developing products that couldn't be copied, opened, backward engineered.
NOT giving a monopoly is economically counterproductive, morally suspect, and intellectually perverse. I say the last because a lot of people would say... oooh I have a cool idea, but it isn't worth investigating it, cause someone will just steal it from me.
More detail: It should not be possible to get a patent on a connector!!! All connectors and other standard ways of doing things like file system organizations must be in the public domain. Otherwise there are numerous opportunities for abuse.
Why not? As long as the device follows patent rules, why shouldn't it be patented. What makes it more special than any other portion of the device?
Yeah it sucks. The current trend towards unifying power cords is nice. My last cell phone I purchased because I lost the proprietary power supply for the previous one. New Power supply $50, new phone $80 (with power supply). This last summer I took two cords on my vacation. One for my iPad, one for everything else.
Standardized cables are nice for the customers, but the supplier makes less money. BUT I still fail to see why you can't patent a power cord, if it is novel.
Actually that is part of the problem. The Ribbon isn't intuitive. Well more the organization, but I go to the insert menu to insert something. But no that command is on another tab. I go to the data tab to work with some data, again the item is on another tab.
Just because non computer people use them immediately (what else are they supposed to do?) doesn't mean they are better. A ribbon is basically a sticky menu.
Metro does take a while to get used to but like the ribbon it grows on you after a while.
The ribbon doesn't grow on you, I loathe it now, just as much as I loathed it when it was being designed.
Metro has a couple of problems. It works ok with a touch device, but not so much with a mouse. This needs to be solved.
A lack of a start menu is HUGE for people who primarily use the desktop (and don't go into this 'use only half the OS thing, some programs are desktop only) Metro is a very poor replacement for a start menu. And not just because it is full screen.
Solving these two issues will make Win 8 a much more usable OS. At least from a desktop perspective. There are other issues from a touch perspective.
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The problem with 'free' is how will the creators get paid, and what is the insentive to create more? Yes some people will create things as a hobby, but we'll have few professionals without some means to compensate them. And thus will end all the new free culture
I didn't realize Mortimer Mouse was based on a Grimm Fairy Tale. But yes a modern film maker still has the same luxuries. A modern filmmaker can still make a movie on John Carter or even one of the Brother Grimm Fairy Tales. Modern Copyright doesn't make it difficult at all.
so what you are saying is, it is ok for big business to take anything a little guy makes? And just because the value of something goes down, doesn't mean it is no longer profitable.
they don't, and they aren't sueing anyone. They send a mail out with some yes no questions. "do you have a scanner?" etc. Then it says you owe 1000 per employee.It sounds like they don't actually want to sue anyone.
I don't know about you, perhaps I am an old fuddy duddy, but I can't imagine that 15% of residents would go for that.
I can. Remember this isn't one of many options, it is the only option. I'd be willing to shell out $20 a month to keep the only theatre in town open, even if I skipped some months. Id hope they would show a diverse set of movies.
What does the weather have to do with cooking temps? F is simple, 100 degrees is HOT and 0 is COLD. Celsius is design for water, and Farenheight is designed for humans.
As for during take off and landing.. I think they should ban the use of iPads, nooks, ereaders, music players, etc. of all types. During takeoff and landing I want passenger attention focused on following instructions in the unlikely event of a problem, not zoning out with headphones stuck in their ears.
All electronics are currently banned during take off and landing. But what isn't banned are headphones, books, sleeping, or talking to your neighbor.
I just landed on the moon, and now I am going to Disneyland,
Because we are human beings. If we were water, then Celsius would be perfect. Fahrenheit is a scale based what is hot an cold to humans, not the freezing and boiling point of water
You already heave 5 years of experience programming? At this point in your life a degree is not required. Sure, it might mean your resume won't get looked at by some companies, but you probably don't want to work for those companies. if you are truly worried, then network. But honestly your 5+ years of experience should be enough.
but if you really want a degree, start by getting your basics out of the way, English and other non computer requirements. You can do most of these at a community college at night. But I don't think the time commitment is worth it.
I agree
While the 25 line sample might be perfect, 99% of the class will turn in utter garbage. Nothing that even comes close to that 25 lines of perfection. And then HALF of those people will go out in the real world and get a job. And then continue to write the same crappy software.
While I think a consistent standard is important. A sit down code review is NOT where you argue over the coding standard. In a peer to peer review, or when you first start and your boss/mentor reviews your code.
If someone is noticing your code is never to the standard, then he or your boss should take you aside, OUTSIDE of the code review and mention it. OR make a simple comment in the code review and move on.
Code Reviews aren't were you nitpick over the standard, code reviews are to make sure the code follows the spec and doesn't have bugs.
On the other hand, if your company has a coding standard you should be following it.
Newspapers and other similar places that employee lots of writers, do indeed have a writing style.
That is a personal message. I might not like it, but it is still a personal message (and you know, he could always look you up in the white pages and snail mail you)
BUT what I don't want is impersonal messages from, well from anyone.
One of the biggest proposals to stop spam in email, is to charge a small nominal fee to send a single email message. The small fee is generally a penny or less. And Facebook wants to charge $1. Few spammers will spend that kind of money.
So if someone sends a helpful message to strangers offering to lengthen their pelvic protrusions, or induce mammary hyperplasia, Facebook gets laid... er paid? Very sound business strategy, I should say.
Yes, you do know many corporations ALREADY do this? They pay facebook to send messages.
But really the point is, that person is NOT going to pay $1 to send you a message to lengthen anything. Because it isn't worth it to the spammer than.
But in the real world when you people hear this you start trying to convince me why it's a great service and that I should sign-up.
But in the real world corporations ask you to pay for all manner of services, some of which don't even cost the companies much. It is what corporations do, they offer services, and sometimes they ask you to pay for them.
If you don't like it, you are supposed to vote with your money and take your business elsewhere. That has nothing to do with fanboys and blind crushes, that is just how capitalism works.
Why? What does patent reform have to do with this?
Beautifully designed high capacity charger with built-in retractable cords that will power an iPad, iPhone, Android & more
It was a scam all along.
The claim is they are returning the money... So what exactly is the scam? What is the website that is competing with kickstarter?
1. Scam people out of money
2. Return said money
3.???
4.Profit!!!
Granting monopolies on ideas is economically counterproductive, morally suspect, and intellectually perverse.
Citation needed.
Without patents, a significant number of products we see today would not exist. Very few people would spend research and development on something that someone else could just simply copy. Companies would spend more time and money developing products that couldn't be copied, opened, backward engineered.
NOT giving a monopoly is economically counterproductive, morally suspect, and intellectually perverse. I say the last because a lot of people would say... oooh I have a cool idea, but it isn't worth investigating it, cause someone will just steal it from me.
More detail: It should not be possible to get a patent on a connector!!! All connectors and other standard ways of doing things like file system organizations must be in the public domain. Otherwise there are numerous opportunities for abuse.
Why not? As long as the device follows patent rules, why shouldn't it be patented. What makes it more special than any other portion of the device?
Yeah it sucks. The current trend towards unifying power cords is nice. My last cell phone I purchased because I lost the proprietary power supply for the previous one. New Power supply $50, new phone $80 (with power supply). This last summer I took two cords on my vacation. One for my iPad, one for everything else.
Standardized cables are nice for the customers, but the supplier makes less money. BUT I still fail to see why you can't patent a power cord, if it is novel.
Ribbon are incredibly intuitive.
Actually that is part of the problem. The Ribbon isn't intuitive. Well more the organization, but I go to the insert menu to insert something. But no that command is on another tab. I go to the data tab to work with some data, again the item is on another tab.
Just because non computer people use them immediately (what else are they supposed to do?) doesn't mean they are better. A ribbon is basically a sticky menu.
Metro does take a while to get used to but like the ribbon it grows on you after a while.
The ribbon doesn't grow on you, I loathe it now, just as much as I loathed it when it was being designed.
Metro has a couple of problems. It works ok with a touch device, but not so much with a mouse. This needs to be solved.
A lack of a start menu is HUGE for people who primarily use the desktop (and don't go into this 'use only half the OS thing, some programs are desktop only) Metro is a very poor replacement for a start menu. And not just because it is full screen.
Solving these two issues will make Win 8 a much more usable OS. At least from a desktop perspective. There are other issues from a touch perspective.
Well not because he knows what he is talking about