If you pay me by the project, I'll fix the bugs until you sign off on it and pay me. Simple as that.

If you pay my by the hour, I'll charge you for each minute I'm working on your project whether it is for bugs, features or anything else you ask me to do.

You can't have it both ways. Choose one, and stick with it. The first option removes all risk from you, but at the same time you remove any chance of making additional profit. The second option has lots of risk, but if things work out right, you reap the rewards.

Just about every farmer's market that I've been to in the last four or five years in the midwest have had at least ONE vendor who offers anti-bacterial, "organic" meats. Heck, I don't live in a very large metropolitan area and there are at least 6 different farmer markets within a 25 minute drive each weekend. I'm sure most of the normal grocers in this area don't carry any of this type of food, but that's why I don't go out of my way to shop there either...

Anybody who works for a company or organization becomes an "agent of the company" legally. The actions of that individual represent the company, whether they were authorized to do it or not. The company can choose to terminate the employment of the individual, but they still have to live with their actions.

You agree to the TOS of the service by using the service. If you produce applications that use Youtube content, there is a click-through that you agree to that gives you the info so you can develop for it. In Youtube's case the TOS is also listed as a link on the bottom of every page. This is no different than any other service on the internet...

This is the same in that Google has the right to not serve content to W8 phone devices if they feel like it. It wouldn't be a smart move, but its a move they could do if they feel that their content is misused. Remember, this is how Youtube makes money, and is no different than Microsoft handing out guns and ski masks in front of a gas station.

Except... the apps still run on the desktop -- they are only distributed through the cloud. No need to RTFM, just go and assume Adobe made an HTML5 version of photoshop.

Every day at 8:45 my cell phone still has full bars, but can't place or receive phone calls. Turns out a train carrying 600 people is sitting right outside my window at the train stop. 20 minutes later, it get better when it moves on. Trust me, the explanation is often a lot easier if you look at it holistically.

It has nothing to do with a higher density of devices and people than what the system in the area was built for... Not at all. It has to mean that they are blocking and jamming the cell service. Yup.

Essentially, the client can request a bitmap representation of an element, or the native UI component. For example, common UI components are sent as UIElements and SkinParts. SkinParts can be sent as vector items (like gradients, lines, etc), or bitmaps themselves. So, for example if you run calc.exe, the client can request the app as a stack of UI elements (essentially, how the GDI plans on drawing the components to the screen). All the buttons, etc. are sent as a component package which describes how the element should look. If it uses a bitmap as a part of its chrome, it is sent as a separate SkinPart.

You can also get bitmap representations of components if the OS thinks it is too difficult to draw them (or the developer just threw a bunch of bitmaps together to represent common UI components). When this happens, calls into the GDI update the RDP server to let it know that a component of size X/Y at X/Y has updated. It's a lot smarter than VNC which has to watch the screen and updates the screen in a 1/x method.

X11 is a bit more primitive... It expects the UI components to be created and skinned by the client. This is really only useful/consistent if both the client and the server are running the same WM. Users of RDP get the same experience regardless of their client.

A few things :
  - Microsoft RDP clients are pre-installed on every Windows based client since Windows XP/Server 2003. This means that a majority of non-slashdot-reading admins have all the tools they need to connect to it already installed.
  - Microsoft RDP is a lot faster than VNC/X11 forwarding. For one, they do smart bitmap-caching. VNC is screen-shots only (using some sensing of what has changed on the screen to send the diffs), and X11 forwarding were pretty much just UI elements, which made interacting with certain applications difficult or ackward.
  - Later RDP versions allow you to forward just specific applications, in addition to the entire workspace. I don't know if FreeRDP supports this feature yet, but it is built into the protocol.

Except, the APIs were not public until AFTER this entire kerfufle came out. No non-apple apps were allowed to use those hidden APIs, including competing video editing suites (Like Avid or Adobe's suite).

As soon as the APIs became available in 10.8, Adobe started using them. They decode encrypted traffic and then write them to the GPU buffers, like the API allows them. It is still slower than the Windows (and Linux) implementation, but it is what they have to use in order to use the PUBLIC APIs that Apple offered.

-Nick

And you can't advance yourself from a $10/hr job in those 20 years, it would be a real, crying shame.

I went to school to learn. I did side projects and ran my own business at the same time to be creative. I would never have been successful in my own business had it not been for school.

If you don't go to school, you will forever rely on people who have been to do some very basic things (accounting? engineering?). Sure, you may be comfortable with a certain job, but you won't become a CEO who understands what is really going on.

All the guys that are sited for not having a college degree (Gates, Zucks, etc) all had taken at least SOME college. They got the basics. In fact, in all of their stories, they wouldn't have gotten where they were had it not been for the connections they made while in school.

Genius doesn't get you the basics of business.

My organization got sued just last year because we passed over a lovely african american women who thought she was entitled to the job (she claimed that being in a protected class and a little bit of experience is all she needed to get the job). She didn't have a chance because we practice a very objective way of paring down our candidates (with paperwork to back it) and very clear documentation as to who we hired from those we interviewed. She didn't happen to have half the experience of the person we did hire.

Lucky I didn't have to spend the time in court (our HR rep did), and she didn't win. Had we not had paperwork to back it up, we could have been in trouble.

It happens. Lucky it doesn't happen often, but it does. Some people think that is an easy way to get a pay day. Especially from a large. billion dollar organization.

Sorry, but if your wife was a genius in her field, she would be known by the employers already. People and businesses would seek her out. Geniuses are the people that are known, and known well in the field. These are the people who take their spare time and write books, do lectures, teach others, etc.

I'm not saying she isn't good at her job -- but chances are she is equally as good as somebody else. The thing that sets her aside from the somebody else is she hasn't done the job in a few years. The other person is fresh and most likely knows it better.

The reason why having a hole in her resume is a red flag is because it leaves lots of questions. Why did she leave the last job? Did she get fired? Did she burn out? Was it because she was in jail during that time? Being able to fill those void with things like "ran a consulting business" or "dedicated my time doing running my etsy shop" answer those questions and make those holes palatable. If she sat in front of the couch the entire time then she will reek of laziness and may not be ready to enter the job market again.

Stop blaming the system and learn to work with it. Don't blame others or "the system". Fix it.

I work for an organization that employs 12,000 people. At any given time, we have about 100 postings. We have 20 HR people who's sole job is to interact with applicants. For legal reasons, I can't do the first filter (most of the jobs I hire for are under utilized for minorities and women). How do I help the HR people cut down the number of applicants to a manageable number so I can process them in a reasonable time? 100 resumes I can process. More than that I can't even make it through.

If you lined 100 people up, how would you sort them? Ask them who is the smartest? Ask who would be best for the job? You HAVE to come up with a way to find the best person out of the mix. Looking for those who are at least motivated enough to do SOME education that the state didn't force onto them is one way.

Why waste the time for those 10 seconds then? Why not let a computer throw those out?

The last job I just hired for (2 weeks ago), netted > 150 resumes AFTER the filters I setup. Had I not setup those filters, I would have thrown out them out anyway because those were the first things I would have sorted on.

Completing college is one way to say that you are not a complete idiot. You were at least smart enough to pass some basic math, science, and reading classes.

The last time I didn't filter on a college degree, I had a dozen people walk through the door who couldn't read a basic technical document. They needed help with a writing sample. These are things that they managed to get away with while graduating high school. College IS the new high-school. You apparently can graduate HS without learning to read, write or speak English.