How much mail do you really send that you are still buying stamps?
Outside of a dozen or two holiday cards, maybe three or four pieces a year.
I realize lots of businesses still send things out usps, but they are probably printing their own postage at this point anyway and not using actual stamps.
I've yet to see a solution suitable for home users.
determine most monkeys are right handed.
Well that's good to know.
The great ideas of the ages have come from people who weren't paid to have great ideas, but were paid to be teachers or patent clerks or petty officials, or were not paid at all. The great ideas came as side issues.
I'd really feel better if he had some actual data here, instead of speculation. The legacy of Bell Labs kind of runs contrary to this idea, because they were not only paid to come up with ideas, but also told to come up with ideas that would be profitable. Then there were the guys in the Advanced Institute who got paid to do nothing else but come up with great ideas.
The only thing I would even dare venture to guess is that the great ideas of the ages have come from people who were looking for things, even if they found something other than what they were looking for (like Penicillin).
Read this article about one presumably successful effort. [npr.org] And let's look at the assumptions these efforts make, and their solutions.
What bothers me about the article is how little they talk about actually enjoying computer science. They talk about editing Darth Vader's voice, or having all the answers to a quiz be 42, but......what about the actual subject? If you don't enjoy it, maybe you should go to a different field. Because I can tell you, once you've graduated, the real world isn't going to be gamified.
Do you remember the last time Obama declared that we "don't have a plan" because the conditions in Syria were complex and required addition time to evaluate the various options?
It would have helped if he'd used that time to actually come up with a plan........
We knew what was going on when you ran your anti-IBM campaign, sometimes even positioning yourself as arguing on behalf of our community. It was a way to lend credence to IBM and MS arguments during the SCO issue. To state otherwise is deceptive, perhaps even self-deceptive.
Florian, you would not be devoting all of this text to explaining yourself if you didn't feel the need to paint your actions in a positive light. That comes from guilt, whether you admit it to yourself or not.
Go write your app, and if you actually get to make any money with it you can give thanks, because it will happen despite what you worked for previously. Keep a low profile otherwise because your credibility is well and truly blown and you can only make things worse. And maybe someday you can really move past this part of your life. But I am not holding out much hope.
People pay for Visual Studio?
Only if you consider corporations people......
i kan(t) read:
You know very well that Tim hits various events and videotapes whomever or whatever he considers interesting. If we were paid for running "video ads," each one would be clearly marked "ad" or "sponsored content."
Should we interview you? Know someone else we should interview? Email me with contact info. Maybe we will.
DEA would be singing a hell of a different tune.
We're above the law and you can't sue. Doo-Da, Doo-Da!"
Actually, if the government ignores the Constitution, it ceases to be the government. It's just another pack of thugs. Thus everything they do is illegal, it's just that there's nobody to arrest and prosecute them at this time.
Or using regular sales techniques on someone who is clearly trying to kick the habit?
Perhaps hoping to trigger an impulse buy?
Cop dresses like dealer, someone asks to buy drugs: not entrapment. Cop dresses like dealer and offers you drugs: entrapment
"Money is the root of all money." -- the moving finger
