jwblackwell

Currently, there is a huge incentive for performers and artists to follow this route of distributing their content. It is still seen as novel and championed by fans, resulting in increased exposure that wouldn't of happened if they would of chosen a normal route for selling their products.

Don't get me wrong, it's good to see this stuff happening but I think the more we see of it the less effective it will be for the artists and they may have a tougher time doing so well.

The internet may be easy to disable but to kill it is another ball game

Further from patio11's point - I'm very surprised Dropbox allow this, and wouldn't be surprised at all if they don't. I do a lot of affiliate stuff and 9/10 it is forbidden to used PPC (Adwords) to bid for the brand name, or any variation of it. Normally the advertiser will provide affiliates with a list of stop words that cannot be bid on to prevent this stuff occurring.

Still if there cool with it and you plan on keeping Dropbox for a few years this could prove to be a very cost effective way of getting more space :). Just be warned, if it's against the t's and c's then I would expect people will have their free space revoked.

Very good point. I would have trouble investing in a business that is simply going to reinvest my money in bonds.

I actually think the reversal shows a complete lack of spine and only steers me away from GoDaddy even further.

Agreed, this is hardly surprising and the over inflammatory title is highly unfair.

If you add more information to Facebook then of course this will be improving the appeal of the platforms to advertisers, don't like it? Stop using it. It's not like there selling your address and phone number which MANY brick and mortar companies would do given the chance.

I get to use a great product without having to put my hand in my wallet, Facebook can continue to grow as a business, the end product improves.

20-25 seems to be the norm in London. Unless you're a tube driver when you get 40, 35k and still complain.

I can't wait for the day all trains are auto pilot.

This is great news, but I still feel that more leading industry figures need to step forward the same way PG has and make clear their stance on SOPA.

Hopefully PGs move will encourage others to follow suit.

Need to calculate the cost as I have several domains with them but I plan on moving very shortly.

I'm also based in the U.K.

I've got a feeling Namcheap are going to do pretty well if Go Daddy carries on like this.

China blocks sites, everyone uses a VPS. If peoples favorite sites start going down, i'm pretty sure the majority of users will start working out how to get around the block, and those that don't probably weren't as frequent users anyway.

You have to remember, for a lot of people their online experience ends at facebook, youtube and hotmail. Sites like reddit, stack overflow, digg, all have audiences that generally don't use IE and will also be able to find a way around a SOPA block. Sure, these sites will lose a lot of traffic, but SOPA will FAR from kill them.

China could learn a lot from India

I agree, there are a lot of people that can both very well and to be honest most contractors have to be able to if they want to get work.

I don't think that the skill set required is actually that different, but your right in saying discipline is required in order to excel in both.

Then I think the key point is those that do possess both skills and the discipline/drive to excel at both are usually either doing very well doing their own thing and aren't looking for work.

This is really awesome. I hope you don't have any issues with copyright though. Best of luck with the project!

In defence of PHP:

Firstly, every time I see it getting slammed its nearly ALWAYS PHP in comparison to a framework whether it's rails, django, web2py or whatever. As soon as I see this I can't help but feel the author is just jumping on the "PHP isn't cool bandwagon". PHP isn't a framework, so don't compare it to other frameworks.

Secondly, it is possible to write good code using PHP - and many people do. It powers some of the largest sites in the world and there are more PHP web devs out there than any other working on millions of PHP sites. There are also some excellent frameworks for PHP that are quick to learn, fast and powerful. Codegintier, Yii or Symphony(2) all spring to mind.

Finally, for most web developers who actually need to earn a living writing code to solve problems, PHP is still the most popular choice for good reason. It's easy to earn, easy to deploy, cheap to host and widely used. There are also more PHP jobs (especially in the U.K.) than any other and it isn't changing anytime soon. For the busy developer trying to make a living these type of posts aren't really helpful at best and at worst quite insulting.

I think this shows just how much can be achieved if you work hard and give something your absolute focus.

Call him a programmer or not, it seems he has learnt enough to program professionally and by most definitions, that makes him a programmer.

Design is cool and I love the concept. You seem to have fallen into the (lack of) contrast trap with the text though.

I'm using Carbonite - $59 a year for unlimited backup. Runs automatically in the background and this takes care of all my photos, videos and old documents.

Then I use dropbox for my working folder, this takes care of backups a little quicker and is highly convenient.

This is the problem, I agree more jobs are created and people can retrain but a certain sector of society will simply not be able to do so.

We need to make sure they are looked after.

Unfortunately these things take time. Were at a difficult stage right now and people take time to adjust.

You've solved the problem with your own statement - " I have no idea what I'd be doing if I weren't obsessed with software"

More people need to be like you.

But capital in itself isn't productive. What you saying is you can just produce/distribute/market a product for less than you could previously. I.e. your money goes further.

In order for this to be the case there must be reasons why this capital is so much more productive - one could then easily argue efficiency and/or cheaper labour.

I agree with you on many levels, especially on education. But I can't really compare Capital and labour in the same way you have - it's not either or.

My Dad said to me once that at school his tutors said that everyone should prepare for a future in which they wouldn't be working.

I believe there was even some classes on how people might possibly entertain themselves in the future since computers would be doing everyone's work for them.

Have we really seen this? I think not. What happened was the computers just enabled people to do their jobs faster and those whose jobs were genuinely removed by technology have simply found work elsewhere.

Perhaps we are at a point where efficiency (read computers) are seriously putting people out of work. But the reality is labour forces are actually flexible and over time they adapt. New jobs will and are being created and as long as our labour forces remain educated enough and can harness technology to their advantage there will no problems.

It's those who are incapable or unwilling to adapt to the new world we live in that will fall by the wayside.

And on .co.uk. Probably something to do with local data centres