influential people in the delphi community promoted the use of stackoverflow partly to raise the profile of the language. Delphi is not dead and all that.
When I look back at previous christmases I have great difficulty recalling anything I was given. But I can remember the things we did, stuffed ourselves with lovely food and no guilt, prolonged low level alcohol intoxication and then on the day after christmas hill-walking and off to see a football match afterwards. I'll have that again thanks
I am going to have to disagree with bananarama here. It IS what you do and NOT the way that you do it. If an architect spends his time considering his choice of pencils he's either in the wrong job or bored with his current project
Creative flow is easily disruptible. A programmer having to use a different editor, or becoming conscious of a different keyboard than the one it replaced is disruptive.
He may want to use the right pencil, the one that feels right in his hand so he can muster the subconscious forces that drive his talent.
Programmers are no more assembly-line workers than architects.
There was a time when America was noted for record breaking achievements like this, Chicago towards the end of the 19th century springs to mind.
They weren't too bothered back then about worker safety and the like, much like China today
I guess that's a little like saying: i jumped off a cliff into the sea and didn't get hurt, countless people do and don't get hurt. At the same time though, there's a great risk of me hitting something on the way down if it's very windy or me drowning because I landed awkwardly in the water(I've experinced this one jumping from about 10ft as a child).
Reading pdfs, including product documentation, is one of the main uses I hope to use a kindle for. I never considered trimming the margins though, I suppose there are similar tools that will do this on windows.
Great, that's what I was hoping to hear. I find a lot of programming books seriously hard on my wrists to the extent that I have to read them sitting at a desk. I believe the kindle may transform my current negative opinion of pdfs which I find to be a pain to read on a PC/laptop.
2 copies. If we all did that think how much money JK Rowling would have.
Although legally you are a pirate what you really are is a patron of the arts.
I am sure JK Rowling would still make a lot of money from American if the US had not signed a copyright reciprocity treaty with UK in the late 19th century.
I imagine that Rowling would sell her manuscript to US publishers in an auction house before putting her work on sale globally.
Who knows? She probably make a few million dollars on the low side and much more if the US publishers are real crazy about it.
Heck, this lead to a premises of my next novel(for the moment, I am writing a novel on a bunch of subversive robots). An American publisher/pirate decides to get into the mechanical computer business. He purchased an invention from a mother of an inventor and proceed to violate the inventor's patent by selling it to the average UK consumer, and then the world, ushering in the computer revolution.
