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For 3D printing, I lean toward OpenSCAD because it's more like a programming language and you can define your model mathematically with great precision. For importing and tweaking existing models I lean toward Blender. Neither is particularly easy to learn, but both are very powerful (and FREE).
I think if you look at your employees like contractors, paying them by the minute, you will inevitably end up with people who are physically present for 40 hours and mentally present maybe 12 of them.
As an alternative to off-the-shelf software you could create a series of html pages, put them online and let Google index them for you. Create a separate html page for each scanned document with the desired keywords and a link to the document. Create an index page with a link to each of these html pages. link to that page on your home page or blog or any other page that you know Google scans. Wait a few days and search your site via Google.
Build up a two column table in your favorite spreadsheet application with the file name in one column and the keywords in the other. Export as csv, and with a little coding in the programming language of your choice, you can generate the whole set of html in no time.
Cheap free and easy!
OK, seriously. 10 questions per minute is 600 questions per hour. 3 people would have to answer each question in 20 seconds or less just to keep up. What kind of a horrible system requires every user to submit a help desk request three times an hour?!?! Do you by any chance mean 5 to 10 currently pending questions in any given minute? Given multi-minute response times, this seems at least feasible given the size of the user base.
Applets and Flash have their place, (OK, Flash has a place anyway), but for the most part the parent post is right-- don't use them. JavaScript, on the other hand is a must. Server side Java (by which I mean JSP), C# or even VB (by which I mean ASPX) is probably also required.
What worries me most, is the original poster's question about how to learn time estimation. First of all, if you have to ask, don't do anything fixed bid-- EVER. Unfortunately this limits you severely if your rate is above $60/hr.
My advice would be find two partners: A salesperson and a Project Manager. If one of them has grey hair and looks good in a suit, make them President!
All that's really required is for someone to hire you!;-) Seriously, a degree (even an unrelated degree) helps. So does experience. So does professionalism. If you're missing one of those things then stock up on the others.
Some very good points. I don't want to diminish them, but... I can't help but think that if she had accompanied this press release with some documentation and a how-to, the rest of the world could start making inroads with alternate energy tomorrow, not whenever the lawyers finally work out everybody's cut of the loot and a marketing/distribution plan is put in place.
Not really. But it can buy you something that closely approximates love, and that's about as close to hip as microsoft is going to get. Is it worth it? Probably.
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Now is a good time to buy Apple stock.;)
Maybe. That's a long term play tho, at this point. There may be some arbitrage dollars to be made if Steve bounces back into his regular role. But does anyone remember what happened when he left the company the first time? Without Steve's cult of personality, Apple will falter. Badly.
Why do articles always take the position that rasterization and ray tracing are mutually exclusive? They are not. Basically both schemes involve determining which pixels in a 2D canvas should be what colors based on the contents of a 3D canvas. Rasterization techniques typically iterate through the elements in the 3D canvas in order to determine which pixels in the 2D canvas to turn on, while ray tracing typically iterates through the pixels in the 2D canvas determining what color it should be by "shooting a ray" through the 3D canvas. But that's just two of the ways to skin the rendering cat! I've long been a proponent of combining the two: Iterate through the elements in the 3D canvas, determine which pixel in the 2D canvas each point corresponds to and, if that point hasn't been rendered yet, "shoot a ray" through the 3D canvas to determine what color it should be. I've recently uploaded a hastily cobbled together version in both pure java and c with a jni wrapper I call "openrender3D" to sourceforge.net that incorporates this approach.
...so don't make it a core offering. It sounds like you add value for your clients by helping them go from "no clue" to "I have a website" which is a pretty repeatable sell for the market you seem to be going after.
There are no technology requirements for this business model. Small, mostly static websites with limited audiences do not require much hardware. That old Mac Mini on the shelf can host 20 of them. Still, as most of the responses are saying, "Don't do it."
Seriously... concentrate on the sales, hosting is an afterthought. Literally. You get to the end of the process and you turn to your client and say, "So... you wanna host this puppy on GoDaddy or Amazon's EC2?"
...approximately 20%
A government study showed that 21% to 23% of adult Americans were not "able to locate information in text", could not "make low-level inferences using printed materials", and were unable to "integrate easily identifiable pieces of information." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_in_the_United_States)
> I have a friend who has a habit of repeating what was just said using slightly different language. Tell me, do you smoke way too much pot and work at Pizza Hut?
Your friend at Pizza Hut missed his calling. He should be a consultant!
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For 3D printing, I lean toward OpenSCAD because it's more like a programming language and you can define your model mathematically with great precision. For importing and tweaking existing models I lean toward Blender. Neither is particularly easy to learn, but both are very powerful (and FREE).
If you replace the ones with a dot using a monospace font it looks kind of like a double helix..
..00.0...00
.00.0.0.00.
00...0.00..
I agree.. Mac Mini makes the best media pc. Make sure you have VLC in addition to the apple/itunes juggernaut and you should be good to go.
I think if you look at your employees like contractors, paying them by the minute, you will inevitably end up with people who are physically present for 40 hours and mentally present maybe 12 of them.
As an alternative to off-the-shelf software you could create a series of html pages, put them online and let Google index them for you. Create a separate html page for each scanned document with the desired keywords and a link to the document. Create an index page with a link to each of these html pages. link to that page on your home page or blog or any other page that you know Google scans. Wait a few days and search your site via Google. Build up a two column table in your favorite spreadsheet application with the file name in one column and the keywords in the other. Export as csv, and with a little coding in the programming language of your choice, you can generate the whole set of html in no time. Cheap free and easy!
...it's that my hands are so BIG!
OK, seriously. 10 questions per minute is 600 questions per hour. 3 people would have to answer each question in 20 seconds or less just to keep up. What kind of a horrible system requires every user to submit a help desk request three times an hour?!?! Do you by any chance mean 5 to 10 currently pending questions in any given minute? Given multi-minute response times, this seems at least feasible given the size of the user base.
Applets and Flash have their place, (OK, Flash has a place anyway), but for the most part the parent post is right-- don't use them. JavaScript, on the other hand is a must. Server side Java (by which I mean JSP), C# or even VB (by which I mean ASPX) is probably also required. What worries me most, is the original poster's question about how to learn time estimation. First of all, if you have to ask, don't do anything fixed bid-- EVER. Unfortunately this limits you severely if your rate is above $60/hr. My advice would be find two partners: A salesperson and a Project Manager. If one of them has grey hair and looks good in a suit, make them President!
All that's really required is for someone to hire you! ;-) Seriously, a degree (even an unrelated degree) helps. So does experience. So does professionalism. If you're missing one of those things then stock up on the others.
I dunno about thirteen or seven years olds, but I'm middle-aged and I want a Rovio!
There. Now you know.
No, but the questionnaire (sans Obama's answers) is in the Google cache: http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:DOSUp8r9r2IJ:sharp.sefora.org/presidential-candidates-questionnaire/+candidate+questionnaire+site:sefora.org&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us
Some very good points. I don't want to diminish them, but... I can't help but think that if she had accompanied this press release with some documentation and a how-to, the rest of the world could start making inroads with alternate energy tomorrow, not whenever the lawyers finally work out everybody's cut of the loot and a marketing/distribution plan is put in place.
Not really. But it can buy you something that closely approximates love, and that's about as close to hip as microsoft is going to get. Is it worth it? Probably.
Just announced BOGO for $48!
Now is a good time to buy Apple stock. ;)
Maybe. That's a long term play tho, at this point. There may be some arbitrage dollars to be made if Steve bounces back into his regular role. But does anyone remember what happened when he left the company the first time? Without Steve's cult of personality, Apple will falter. Badly.
Now that's just silly. They try to keep the bigass guns IN FRONT of them.
Why do articles always take the position that rasterization and ray tracing are mutually exclusive? They are not. Basically both schemes involve determining which pixels in a 2D canvas should be what colors based on the contents of a 3D canvas. Rasterization techniques typically iterate through the elements in the 3D canvas in order to determine which pixels in the 2D canvas to turn on, while ray tracing typically iterates through the pixels in the 2D canvas determining what color it should be by "shooting a ray" through the 3D canvas. But that's just two of the ways to skin the rendering cat! I've long been a proponent of combining the two: Iterate through the elements in the 3D canvas, determine which pixel in the 2D canvas each point corresponds to and, if that point hasn't been rendered yet, "shoot a ray" through the 3D canvas to determine what color it should be. I've recently uploaded a hastily cobbled together version in both pure java and c with a jni wrapper I call "openrender3D" to sourceforge.net that incorporates this approach.
...so don't make it a core offering. It sounds like you add value for your clients by helping them go from "no clue" to "I have a website" which is a pretty repeatable sell for the market you seem to be going after. There are no technology requirements for this business model. Small, mostly static websites with limited audiences do not require much hardware. That old Mac Mini on the shelf can host 20 of them. Still, as most of the responses are saying, "Don't do it." Seriously... concentrate on the sales, hosting is an afterthought. Literally. You get to the end of the process and you turn to your client and say, "So... you wanna host this puppy on GoDaddy or Amazon's EC2?"
...approximately 20% A government study showed that 21% to 23% of adult Americans were not "able to locate information in text", could not "make low-level inferences using printed materials", and were unable to "integrate easily identifiable pieces of information." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_in_the_United_States)
That's a horrible metaphor! Whether you shoot the conductor or the violinist, the rest of the orchestra will scatter, trust me!
> I have a friend who has a habit of repeating what was just said using slightly different language. Tell me, do you smoke way too much pot and work at Pizza Hut?
Your friend at Pizza Hut missed his calling. He should be a consultant!