Essential Craftsman is fantastic. For anyone who doesn't know, the concept is that he is building a spec house and walking you through every step of the process, from surveying the site, to getting permits, all the way through building it.
Strongly agree. I'd like to point out that his Spec House project is only one of many things he's involved with. The blacksmithing, woodworking, and other videos are equally great. One video in particular is ostensibly about construction work ethic, but I like to think applies quite well to software development:
One of the strangest business practices Greyhound has is the $18 Gift Ticket Fee [1]. Want someone to buy a ticket for you online? That will cost an extra. Think you can avoid it buy going to the station and buying it in person? Nope, the fee still applies.
Last month the network CEO and Mayor of Chattanooga did an AMA where they discussed setting up the fiber network and how they overcame cable operators attempts to block the network.
When online sales first took off, credit card theft was a huge concern. Even though nothing would go wrong for the vast majority of people fear was enough to make users and vendors go to great lengths to protect data. Not a perfect analogy but conceptually similar.
The reason Blackboard doesn't have competition is due to the patents they hold. They have made a commitment not to sue free, open source projects, but as soon as you start charging money they are ready to protect their IP rights.
That's standard practice in education. It's very hard to sell new products in that market, and customers rarely switch products regardless of how badly they're treated. Acquisitions are the only way to grow quickly. Every large company serving the education market is a patchwork of milch cows acquired over the years and squeezed until dry.
Once they start messing with that, legal or not, I feel there will be a huge political backlash. While the confrontation will be fascinating to watch, I believe the "stop messing with the cell phone" party will win.
It really depends on if you can prove malicious intent. I know in the back of Wal Mart, for example, my cell reception is terrible. There are metal walls everywhere, thick metal shelves, and the back of the store is made of concrete and rebar. When I go into a store, I really expect my cell service to drop out. I expect a lot of people have the same expectation.
Only if they use electronic methods such as jammers. As far as I can tell there is no law against making a building a large faraday cage isn't prohibited.
It's going to take him a long time, but anyone who wants to catch up he has a playlist of the first 32 episodes at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRZePj70B4IwyNn1ABhJW...