"Upbringing, networking, persistence, work and a hefty dose of luck."
Upbringing, is part of networking. Growing up with rich people who know you means when you start a company people with money will be more comfortable with buying from you. Also Upbringing means that you will probably be taught from an earlier age what is means to work hard, and be persistent, and that you have high expectations of you, so you need to try to take risks to get the advantage. Although it is a popular way to villainize the wealthy it really isn't a key to success but just a useful tool.
Networking, that is important, I know us geeks hate those sales and marketing people. But you business will not go anywhere if they don't know about you and the more people you are networked with is a good way to get things going, then if you do a good job then you get more cheap and effective word of mouth advertising.
Persistence, you cannot shy away when things get tough. The month of Ramon noodles, working long nights to make sure you meet your promises, and learning from your mistakes and trying again.
Hard Work, That is one of those key things, Hard Work can make up a lot of deficiencies. If everything you did was easy then everyone else would be doing it. However if what you do needs hard work then you have you niche.
Luck, luck is a factor there are some things you cannot predict. However Luck is more of a liability.
That is a bad answer. The greater the risk the greater reward. If you are able to start a business during tough times, when times get better you really prosper a lot. And as your business grows during these tough times, you will hire more people and help make a better economy. Starting your own business means your skills will show off more then what degrees you have or don't have.
During tough times when it is the employers advantage they will suck up all those IT people with real degrees and work experience, the bigger the company the more skilled labor they will suck up. A small company who is hiring is more willing to hire someone who has less formal credentials, and if you prove to be quick on their feet they would train you to be more useful.
It is more of a So What. The BioFuel Truck can travel at 155MPH so what. That thing is puffing out carbon and smog there is no tomorrow . There isn't any words how many MilePerGallon. Yea yea you can regrow the plants and they will take the carbon back... But how much extra carbon will we produce to make the oil. How many Carbon Eating trees will we need to cut down to grow this material.
Our Roads cannot handle 155MPH anyways. Even where there is no speed limit most people don't go that fast.
If you are happy with your lot in life, fine. A lot of people could use More Money, more status, more interesting responsibilities.
I have seen a lot of people who even do work at the office grumbling that they are not getting promoted while those young whipper snappers are grabbing jobs they wanted for years. While they do nothing to get themselves noticed, they just make sure they don't get in trouble.
You make sure the children who could get sick are forced into a living condition where they will get sick.
Yes they are a bunch of idiot parents who think these vaccines will hurt their child more then will help. But by cutting them off won't change their mind, while their logic is flawed their heart is in the right place, and a lot of parents who think these will hurt their children will just suffer with less, and probably putting their child at greater risk.
Why don't we just kill all the poor people. At least that way you not being hypocritical.
Ok the data is encrypted... But the TV's and stuff use it are consumer devices. Many of them are below the $300 mark. So if some guy found a chip that decodes HDMI in a $100.00 device takes it out and wires a new device with a different function and sells it for $300.00 he may be making money without actually decryption the HDMI. I mean my TV is HDMI. and a digital single goes into the DLP chip It would be logical that the DLP data is unencrypted by the time those electrons get there.
The problem is people do not understand the concept of trade-offs and the fact it they effect every decision. And while people have short attention spans they tend to focus more on the long term problems then the short ones on hand.
Right now people are dying from cancer and other illness due to coal power plants, it is adding tones of carbon to the atmosphere. Nuclear solves these immediate problems. Are their potential future problems? Yes they are. But after we fix our current problem we have time to fix the next set of problems.
It isn't a perfect world, But doing nothing will only make it worse.
"Green Energy" isn't quite there yet. The longer we wait putting off those "Greener Energies" in hoping you will get Good "Green Energy".
OK Natural Gas Fraking has an environmental impact. But it is better then strip mining.
Nuclear Energy needs to be highly regulated and maintained and its by products are toxic for thousands of years, but that is better then toxic gasses floating in the air you breath.
Can we get coal to burn even cleaner? How many cars can befit from hybrid technology? We as a world culture is spinning our wheels on trying to get a perfect solution. There isn't one... Sorry... But why don't you get off you butts and stop opposing everything and start supporting better solutions that are available now.
I can see smaller catch up trains for this. They stop at the stations and speed up and catch the train and then stop at the next station. to fill up again.
Well High speed rail won't work in the US like it does in Europe. Population density is the problem. The Subways work great in large cities. But once you leave some people will need to drive 20-30 miles just to get to the nearest station, and if the place you want to go is 100 miles away you figure well I am partially there already so I will keep on going in my car. Vs. waiting hours to be picked up take a train where it needs to stop every 30 miles. And sometimes you need to go from one train to an other. And wait hours to get on board. It is faster to take the car then by high speed train.
Europe has a lot of major cities close by and the population is quite dense so if you have a station every 40-50 kilos away you almost always get a lot of people who can use that station so the stop is worth it.
There are still a lot of real hurtles until we can get to a telecommuting environment.
1. Face time with your boss. The difference between the Office Drone and the guy who gets a raise and promoted, is the person who gets more face time with the boss. This isn't a bad thing, I don't mean sucking up to the boss, but being there where he can see what you are doing and you can show him your good job that you are doing. Bad news travels up naturally to the boss. If you have good news you need to push it there.
2. Interaction with other workers, across your department. Normal office chat helps build up teamwork, you learn the strengths and weaknesses of different people and you have a better idea on how to make the best solution with them.
3. Anticipate problems. If you hear something is going on you can have a solution almost done before it gets to your place to be done tomorrow.
4. You are not slacking off as much. We all need a break to clear our mind. But when you are working from home, the comforts from home are quite compelling, especially if you are doing something you don't want to do. In the Office knowing your boss can come over and see you playing WoW or what ever game that is now hip and cool or browsing youtube for hours on end. You will make sure you temper your habits. At home it is much harder. Sure the argument is if I get my work done on time it really doesn't matter. Well it won't get you fired, but the slack off time is a period where you could really prove that you excel.
By agreeing to be a telecommuter you have basically agreed for most companies to stay in your positions for the duration of your employment unless you are much better then most people.
The biggest and most used names will get the most hacking and piracy. Being Open Source, Closes Source. Well designed or poorly designed. Most of the security problems that take a long time to fix are passed off as not that big of a deal. With an easy work around. You expect every software company to be trolling the hacking sites to see if there is a new exploit. It doesn't happen. Even when a hole if found the company cannot just fix it the next day. Because then they will get dinged for making a fix that didn't work and broke the system and people will be less likely to update their computer again. How many of you work for a company that will not push out patches for months because every patch needs to be tested. Because you have been screwed by a Microsoft patch in the past. So if the company patches to soon without without a full analysis and testing period they get yelled at. If they do a full analysis that can take months or years they get yelled yet.
Most supercomputers have changed to a distributive design those round designs means you cannot cram more hardware in an area meaning a longer bus connection per node.
Well supercomputers tend to do look nice. If you are going to pay millions of dollars on a computer it better look pretty darn cool to impress the board of directors who approved it. I use to work with a sales man who worked for Cray. Those old supercomputers with all those blinking lights knobs and buttons were there just to make the computer look impressive. They were not overly functional. Companies who buy these expensive computers would flaunt them and have them quite visible in their organization. Not just stuck in a back room.
It is more to the risk vs. reward. For some companies if they loose a month of data it is expensive to fix but it still may be cheaper then a full time backup strategy.
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I think the Occupy Wall Street protest is called that because they are not protesting Wall Street but Wall Street as a symbol of a larger problem.
Any one farmer is willing to grow and sell as much as they can to make as much money as they can. When you get all of them doing this the supply of food rises and the price drops. So the farmers need to sell more food to make a living. Which ends up the farmers working to death to make ends meat. They will also use up their land creating an environmental mess (Farming isn't green, even Organic Farming), they will plant themselves out of business.
The internet is Open. The specs to communicate over TCP/IP are quite clear. The problem is who owns the infrastructure. Cables, Satellites, and the ability to bring them to peoples location costs money. Then they have the cost of maintaining their routing to other providers. An Add Hock network can only go so far, once you scale larger then you get into more issues. 100 people all maintaining their own routers is fine. 1000 people you may need to find a good techie and pony up to give him a good router. 10000 More techies that you need to maintain the router. And you are start having complains on who's cable go where. Or crazy nuts afraid that their house is getting too much wi-fi radation.
The bigger it gets the most it costs and the more issues that happen. You will start to need Full time people working on this stuff, and they can't starve for the glory of keeping your internet up, they will need to be paid for their work... Then when you are done you either have a set of big ISP that you probably need to pay $20-60 a month too or a government controlled internet, where you will get think of the children people yelling at the government to block whatever seems bad information to them at the time.
I feel sorry for that house in the middle. It looks like a nice one too. But to be placed under massive Tesla coils will greatly reduce resell property. Perhaps it is one of those older houses where the ghetto was built around it.
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You may get paid more for the job...
However you may loose the opportunity to get repeat business.
"Upbringing, networking, persistence, work and a hefty dose of luck."
Upbringing, is part of networking. Growing up with rich people who know you means when you start a company people with money will be more comfortable with buying from you. Also Upbringing means that you will probably be taught from an earlier age what is means to work hard, and be persistent, and that you have high expectations of you, so you need to try to take risks to get the advantage. Although it is a popular way to villainize the wealthy it really isn't a key to success but just a useful tool.
Networking, that is important, I know us geeks hate those sales and marketing people. But you business will not go anywhere if they don't know about you and the more people you are networked with is a good way to get things going, then if you do a good job then you get more cheap and effective word of mouth advertising.
Persistence, you cannot shy away when things get tough. The month of Ramon noodles, working long nights to make sure you meet your promises, and learning from your mistakes and trying again.
Hard Work, That is one of those key things, Hard Work can make up a lot of deficiencies. If everything you did was easy then everyone else would be doing it. However if what you do needs hard work then you have you niche.
Luck, luck is a factor there are some things you cannot predict. However Luck is more of a liability.
That is a bad answer.
The greater the risk the greater reward. If you are able to start a business during tough times, when times get better you really prosper a lot. And as your business grows during these tough times, you will hire more people and help make a better economy. Starting your own business means your skills will show off more then what degrees you have or don't have.
During tough times when it is the employers advantage they will suck up all those IT people with real degrees and work experience, the bigger the company the more skilled labor they will suck up. A small company who is hiring is more willing to hire someone who has less formal credentials, and if you prove to be quick on their feet they would train you to be more useful.
New Jersey isn't know for corruption, what is next the quaint little city of Chicago?
That is where the IT Department goes.
I don't know if you should be condemned or rewarded for killing off a large percentage of German readers.
It is more of a So What. The BioFuel Truck can travel at 155MPH so what. That thing is puffing out carbon and smog there is no tomorrow . There isn't any words how many MilePerGallon. Yea yea you can regrow the plants and they will take the carbon back... But how much extra carbon will we produce to make the oil. How many Carbon Eating trees will we need to cut down to grow this material.
Our Roads cannot handle 155MPH anyways. Even where there is no speed limit most people don't go that fast.
It isn't as much you cannot be trusted, more the point I do not see you excelling.
If you are happy with your lot in life, fine. A lot of people could use More Money, more status, more interesting responsibilities.
I have seen a lot of people who even do work at the office grumbling that they are not getting promoted while those young whipper snappers are grabbing jobs they wanted for years. While they do nothing to get themselves noticed, they just make sure they don't get in trouble.
You make sure the children who could get sick are forced into a living condition where they will get sick.
Yes they are a bunch of idiot parents who think these vaccines will hurt their child more then will help. But by cutting them off won't change their mind, while their logic is flawed their heart is in the right place, and a lot of parents who think these will hurt their children will just suffer with less, and probably putting their child at greater risk.
Why don't we just kill all the poor people. At least that way you not being hypocritical.
Ok the data is encrypted... But the TV's and stuff use it are consumer devices. Many of them are below the $300 mark.
So if some guy found a chip that decodes HDMI in a $100.00 device takes it out and wires a new device with a different function and sells it for $300.00 he may be making money without actually decryption the HDMI. I mean my TV is HDMI. and a digital single goes into the DLP chip It would be logical that the DLP data is unencrypted by the time those electrons get there.
How many people died from nuclear exposure?
How many people died from big stuff smashing them?
The problem is people do not understand the concept of trade-offs and the fact it they effect every decision. And while people have short attention spans they tend to focus more on the long term problems then the short ones on hand.
Right now people are dying from cancer and other illness due to coal power plants, it is adding tones of carbon to the atmosphere. Nuclear solves these immediate problems. Are their potential future problems? Yes they are. But after we fix our current problem we have time to fix the next set of problems.
It isn't a perfect world, But doing nothing will only make it worse.
"Green Energy" isn't quite there yet. The longer we wait putting off those "Greener Energies" in hoping you will get Good "Green Energy".
OK Natural Gas Fraking has an environmental impact. But it is better then strip mining.
Nuclear Energy needs to be highly regulated and maintained and its by products are toxic for thousands of years, but that is better then toxic gasses floating in the air you breath.
Can we get coal to burn even cleaner? How many cars can befit from hybrid technology? We as a world culture is spinning our wheels on trying to get a perfect solution. There isn't one... Sorry... But why don't you get off you butts and stop opposing everything and start supporting better solutions that are available now.
I can see smaller catch up trains for this. They stop at the stations and speed up and catch the train and then stop at the next station. to fill up again.
Well High speed rail won't work in the US like it does in Europe.
Population density is the problem. The Subways work great in large cities. But once you leave some people will need to drive 20-30 miles just to get to the nearest station, and if the place you want to go is 100 miles away you figure well I am partially there already so I will keep on going in my car. Vs. waiting hours to be picked up take a train where it needs to stop every 30 miles. And sometimes you need to go from one train to an other. And wait hours to get on board. It is faster to take the car then by high speed train.
Europe has a lot of major cities close by and the population is quite dense so if you have a station every 40-50 kilos away you almost always get a lot of people who can use that station so the stop is worth it.
There are still a lot of real hurtles until we can get to a telecommuting environment.
1. Face time with your boss. The difference between the Office Drone and the guy who gets a raise and promoted, is the person who gets more face time with the boss. This isn't a bad thing, I don't mean sucking up to the boss, but being there where he can see what you are doing and you can show him your good job that you are doing. Bad news travels up naturally to the boss. If you have good news you need to push it there.
2. Interaction with other workers, across your department. Normal office chat helps build up teamwork, you learn the strengths and weaknesses of different people and you have a better idea on how to make the best solution with them.
3. Anticipate problems. If you hear something is going on you can have a solution almost done before it gets to your place to be done tomorrow.
4. You are not slacking off as much. We all need a break to clear our mind. But when you are working from home, the comforts from home are quite compelling, especially if you are doing something you don't want to do. In the Office knowing your boss can come over and see you playing WoW or what ever game that is now hip and cool or browsing youtube for hours on end. You will make sure you temper your habits. At home it is much harder. Sure the argument is if I get my work done on time it really doesn't matter. Well it won't get you fired, but the slack off time is a period where you could really prove that you excel.
By agreeing to be a telecommuter you have basically agreed for most companies to stay in your positions for the duration of your employment unless you are much better then most people.
The biggest and most used names will get the most hacking and piracy.
Being Open Source, Closes Source. Well designed or poorly designed.
Most of the security problems that take a long time to fix are passed off as not that big of a deal. With an easy work around.
You expect every software company to be trolling the hacking sites to see if there is a new exploit. It doesn't happen.
Even when a hole if found the company cannot just fix it the next day. Because then they will get dinged for making a fix that didn't work and broke the system and people will be less likely to update their computer again.
How many of you work for a company that will not push out patches for months because every patch needs to be tested. Because you have been screwed by a Microsoft patch in the past.
So if the company patches to soon without without a full analysis and testing period they get yelled at. If they do a full analysis that can take months or years they get yelled yet.
Most supercomputers have changed to a distributive design those round designs means you cannot cram more hardware in an area meaning a longer bus connection per node.
Well supercomputers tend to do look nice. If you are going to pay millions of dollars on a computer it better look pretty darn cool to impress the board of directors who approved it.
I use to work with a sales man who worked for Cray. Those old supercomputers with all those blinking lights knobs and buttons were there just to make the computer look impressive. They were not overly functional. Companies who buy these expensive computers would flaunt them and have them quite visible in their organization. Not just stuck in a back room.
Ok ok something that will run a flash version of Crysis running off of firefox at an acceptable frame rate.
It is more to the risk vs. reward.
For some companies if they loose a month of data it is expensive to fix but it still may be cheaper then a full time backup strategy.
I think the Occupy Wall Street protest is called that because they are not protesting Wall Street but Wall Street as a symbol of a larger problem.
These other ones are just being stupid.
The reason is simple.
Any one farmer is willing to grow and sell as much as they can to make as much money as they can.
When you get all of them doing this the supply of food rises and the price drops.
So the farmers need to sell more food to make a living.
Which ends up the farmers working to death to make ends meat.
They will also use up their land creating an environmental mess (Farming isn't green, even Organic Farming), they will plant themselves out of business.
Subsidies keeps the balance.
The internet is Open. The specs to communicate over TCP/IP are quite clear. The problem is who owns the infrastructure. Cables, Satellites, and the ability to bring them to peoples location costs money. Then they have the cost of maintaining their routing to other providers.
An Add Hock network can only go so far, once you scale larger then you get into more issues.
100 people all maintaining their own routers is fine.
1000 people you may need to find a good techie and pony up to give him a good router.
10000 More techies that you need to maintain the router. And you are start having complains on who's cable go where. Or crazy nuts afraid that their house is getting too much wi-fi radation.
The bigger it gets the most it costs and the more issues that happen. You will start to need Full time people working on this stuff, and they can't starve for the glory of keeping your internet up, they will need to be paid for their work...
Then when you are done you either have a set of big ISP that you probably need to pay $20-60 a month too or a government controlled internet, where you will get think of the children people yelling at the government to block whatever seems bad information to them at the time.
I feel sorry for that house in the middle. It looks like a nice one too. But to be placed under massive Tesla coils will greatly reduce resell property. Perhaps it is one of those older houses where the ghetto was built around it.