No, that's an incredibly bad idea.
Like it or not, the locus of the public sphere has changed; no longer in the market square, it now exists on social media, as much as anywhere else. The politicians should be there, along with the people that they serve and seek approval from.
Just because TV still exists, doesn't mean politics is restricted to it. The President commands the bully pulpit; and the pulpit is found where the people will hear it.
Datapoint of 1 here, but I've received multiple join notifications on Telegram from friends I had previously only had contact with on WhatsApp.
One of them explicitly mentioned the WhatsApp ToS update as the reason for the switch.
Of course there are people who come to tech from other backgrounds. One of my best ever IT students worked his first 10 years as a baker. Yes, it can happen. But you know what: as a baker, he was always interested in computers. He spent his free time playing around with tech, he taught himself to program for fun. He had the ability and the interest, and finally realized that he would be happier with a career change.
Of course, having a 10-year career as a baker likely meant that they had a significant amount of transferable skills that would be a boon in any field. Add interest and aptitude on top of that, and they can go far.
Pretty much. Engineers are like running backs in the NFL. The average time of an engineer doing "engineering" in their career is about 3.5 years.
The average career length of an RB is 3.6
*: numbers are approximate. I can't recall the source.
Sorry bud, but it is the immutable law of the playground, since time immemorial: You can't pick your own nickname.
Isn't that right, CmdrTaco?
While your memory or search-fu may be impressive, calling this a dupe of a story that's 7 years old is a bit of a stretch. There's a statute of limitations on these things...
> probably for books and movies too
I don't think this will apply to books. How many book-related 'special fan material' do you have? To how many book concerts did you go this year?
This is exactly the problem facing publsihing (and authors) today. While music can get by on concert revenues, what happens to the writers?
While there is some small market for ancilary material for books, is that enough to support an author? Printed works will still be made but they may either be similar to academic work (the funds made from the book are negligible, but they increase status and recognition within their community, increasing the likelihood of academic positions, conference attendance, speaking engagements, or consulting work).
The same may go for tech books as well, though I am not privy to the economics of it, having MS or IBM or Google subsidize the production of the tome to have [author of {blank}] at the company may be of some interest. (Well, maybe a smaller company than those, but the point remains).
I'm not currently seeing a way out for fiction authors at the moment though. Any ideas?
If you "just got started taking Computer Science classes", I'd say its relatively unlikely that you need to be worried about IP theft. Your implementation of 'Hello World' probably isn't going to revolutionize computing.
This doesn't mean that it isn't something to be aware of in the future, especially as you get closer to your senior project or grad school work. Right now however, you probably should be more concerned with other classmates, depending on how draconian your school is with regards to similar / identical code beding submitted for projects. Learn what your institution's policy is, and you'll likely find the answer to your original question as well.
We need a better name for Apple fanboys:
Mac-aroons?
Now why did anyone think this would be different when real money is involved, and thus the incentive to abuse the rules way higher?
Perhaps because those in the "roleplayer" and "policy wonk" sets have almost no-overlap?
While I'm all for using simulations in systems work, thinking the econ crisis is similar to the time your party killed an Ancient Red Dragon and then bought Greyhawk with the loot probably isn't too helpful.
As technology becomes more advanced I am more and more worried about my privacy in all aspects of my life. Unfortunately, whenever I attempt to discuss the matter with my friends, they show little understanding and write me off as a hyper-neurotic IT student. They say they simply don't care that the data they share on social networks may be accessible by others, that some laws passed by governments today might be privacy infringing and dangerous or that they shouldn't use on-line banking with
The moon is made of green cheese. -- John Heywood
