How many hours do you honestly think these people are putting into these designs?
Take a fucking look at the site.
I ask for a website and flyer logo for my pizza company and I put a prize up for 300 bucks.
If you are good at using the tools of the trade, and have an awesome idea, you should be able to whip out a rough draft of a design in 2-3 hours.
If the guy likes it, he can comment and make suggestions, and you can go put another hour into changing it.
bam he picks your design out of the 40 others who ended up copying your rough draft and you just made 300 bucks for 4-5 hours of work.
lets say you are decent at this, you know which contests to pick based on your skills, and you keep churning out product.
If your success rate stays at like 25%, and you work 14 hrs a week making submissions, you may submit to 3-4 contests. You win 1, maybe 2 of them, each one was 300 bucks. In a few months, you now have the bankroll to start your own design firm and stop working at the Apple Store.
Isn't this a perfect example of why we need something like the ACTA? (FYI I'm not a fan of the ACTA)
If you can take these expensive design software suites out of their hands, and make them actually pay for it first, they have to price their work accordingly, correct?
The problem is, small companies that are starting out DON'T CARE EITHER.
If I have 2 grand to float a business idea I have, I cannot be spending half of that on the logo design or website design.
I should be putting that towards a patent, a lawyer, or accountant and actually designing the prototype (I am assuming this idea is a tangible product).
If the product hits it off with the target market, I can then get a loan, have a real company come and redesign my site and logo.
If the Internet has taught us anything, it is that catering to the niche markets is where the money is. If you can create loyalty and value within your small niche market, you will have repeat customers and customers who will generally spread praises about you.
The american dream is still alive, but you still need to put in the work and keep pushing ahead.
If you are skilled at Design, why don't you try catering to a specific market? Start going to your local SBA meetings, networking and meeting new people.
If you can make a good impression on these people in person, you can bet your ass they are going to keep coming back to you, and if you give them a solid product for a reasonable price, their company should see growth, thus indirectly growing yours.
I mean I don't want to be using scripts to re-image PCs / push software packages / check compliance.
However at the same time I'm not necessarily a complete fan of what they give me to do this (Altiris).
Hell yes it has saved me a crap ton of time dealing with 400+ windows boxes, but if there were a product that stood up to it on the 10,000+ node level, I would switch in a heartbeat.
I guess windows7 is getting there. However migrating to linux + WINE has been tried and will never get approval even if you could prove it was more reliable than windows XP. Rewriting all the tools using open standards and for the web is honestly the ideal solution, but no one will ever do that.
Note: Just did a speedtest, and I ended up getting 25mbps down, 8mbps up... I am thinking some of those speedtest servers are getting hammered, as torrents will easily upload at 2.5MB/s+ when enough peers are connected.
(some of them were reporting me as only having 5mbps both ways)
I have FioS @ 25/25, and I can EASILY get to that max on a normal basis:
STEAM download: ~3MB/s ISO download from MSDN site (bizspark license): ~2.6MB/s
Clearly browsing an actual site is going to go slower, as you have to take into account a lot more things since it just isn't one large file.
However, did these results take into account video streaming? game playing, etc etc? All of those things would run well above that 2Mbps streaming HD content.
most houses these days have at least a 200AMP service coming in.
I know my apartment that was built in the 20's and doesn't even have plugs with a real ground wire has a 100amp service coming in, and thats 100amps per side of the duplex. (were talking fuse box baby!)
70 a month for: unlimited data usage unlimited calling to any cell phone in ANY network unlimited text messages unlimited nights and weekends 450 anytime minutes; however this only ends up being for landline calls during the day M-F
I have seen Sprint customer bills where their data usage is well over 60GB, with not a single extra charge at all.
Give sprint some time to release WiMAX (which will be easy to upgrade to their frequency of LTE) and add on 20 bucks for the WiMAX fee (a la HTC EVO on sprint), and for 90 a month you have a phone that has been shown to pull 8Mbits/sec off of WiMAX in real world tests.
Notice that the poster put it in kiloBITS not BYTES.
236Kilobits comes to ~30KiloBytes per second.
thats like playing WoW on your cell.
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Why buy hardware when you can rent / lease it from Dell for a 3yr period and then have them take it off your hands and get new towers?
Yeah you may end up paying the full price of the tower over the 3 yr period, but you don't have to pay people to dispose of the towers, move them, deploy them, image them, etc.
20k a month for company with 1000 PCs guaranteeing that they have brand new computers every 3 years could easily be worth it...
Say you are a call center, new computers directly relate to how quickly your agents can input info into their systems, retrieve answers for the customer, etc. if it means you can bill the client for an extra 15 minutes of call time a day per seat, that adds up quickly.
(.25 hrs * 900 seats * 25 days = ~5600 hrs extra billed per month at lets say a reasonable rate of 25/hr means you just paid for 7 months of that lease already...)
Don't forget to subtract the money saved by not having your IT folks having to worry about repairing PCs, throwing them out, ordering new parts, etc... all they need to do is call Dell, and then walk the technician to the location of the PC on the floor.
-If you hover over the tiled icon of the app in your taskbar, it will pop up the various windows of that within a second.
-Icons are easier than a huge ass line of text; also if you turn off the live preview stuff, you get the text you want... it even has the name of the app appended at the end of the window name.
-If it is running, it gets a box around it making it look raised... if not it just looks like a icon on your bar. If it is the currently selected app, it looks like it is depressed.
It's called XP Mode... you should try it sometime, does wonders like allowing you to run IE6.
Hell, toss in some GPOs for the XP Mode VM's and even the icons for the IE6 apps can magically appear on your startmenu under "Windows Virtual PC\ Applications"
Sprint seems to be heading in the right direction.
unlimited data, nights and weekends, any mobile to mobile and 450 anytime minutes (basically land line calls during weekday business hours; that's when Google voice comes in).
The question will be how fast can they build out their new network.
TahoeLAFS distributed on every Training & other non production PC using between 20-40GB of the HDD space (between a 40 - 80GB HD in each tower).
That gives me 1.8TB raw storage, but then the way Tahoe works it ends up getting cut into roughly a quarter, leaving me with ~450GB of encrypted, easily recoverable data. (If I were to use production stations, that 450GB would become ~2.6TB).
As long as no more than 4 of the 8 PC's the data is stored on is turned off, you can get the data.
Ignoring the fact that your typical developer who is a Google fan would already know about this, it was still a worthwhile post if only to let others know about the new service they are offering.
I guess it is more about having a good group of a few friends who would play with you... you can all go out to this point, set up shop, start producing some raw materials maybe build something... then fly it back to civilization to sell. As you expand your colony, you will eventually encounter other players and most likely AI controlled players.
I mean how often did the crew on Firefly run into other ships? what about in BSG?
A space game should allow you to literally set a course and log out of the game. If your sensors pick up something while you are flying around, you should get an e-mail, IM, alert on some widget they give you, etc. Something like "Hey we just picked up a class 2 battleship 4 units out, based on its current path, it will intercept your location in 4 hours."
You can then log into the game, choose to change course and avoid it, or maybe increase speed to get to it quicker. Or maybe you decide to turn on your cloak (causing you to slow down) so that you can get close to it and see what the deal is.
I kind of see Infinity turning out to be a mix between Sins of a Solar Empire and Freespace 2 with an EVE like economy in place. It looks like it will also allow players to be as hardcore or as carebear as you want.
I never minded the PvP or the extremely high learning curve...
What I DID hate was that their view of the game is exactly as you say, EVE is a bleak dangerous place... Just like space would be. However, space is also way way bigger than the game models.
Graphics look way way better, and the entire universe is procedurally generated meaning that every single star / planet / moon / asteroid you run into is going to be different than the last one.
They actually took the vastness of space and created a model of it that better represents what it would be like. Gates wouldn't exist (unless created by players) and you could easily just point yourself in one direction for days until you reach some empty corner and setup your own empire... Hire some NPC workers / pilots / researchers etc and soon enough you will have your own empire. Kind of like a 3D, real-time clone of those old text based 4X games
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How many hours do you honestly think these people are putting into these designs?
Take a fucking look at the site.
I ask for a website and flyer logo for my pizza company and I put a prize up for 300 bucks.
If you are good at using the tools of the trade, and have an awesome idea, you should be able to whip out a rough draft of a design in 2-3 hours.
If the guy likes it, he can comment and make suggestions, and you can go put another hour into changing it.
bam he picks your design out of the 40 others who ended up copying your rough draft and you just made 300 bucks for 4-5 hours of work.
lets say you are decent at this, you know which contests to pick based on your skills, and you keep churning out product.
If your success rate stays at like 25%, and you work 14 hrs a week making submissions, you may submit to 3-4 contests. You win 1, maybe 2 of them, each one was 300 bucks. In a few months, you now have the bankroll to start your own design firm and stop working at the Apple Store.
Isn't this a perfect example of why we need something like the ACTA?
(FYI I'm not a fan of the ACTA)
If you can take these expensive design software suites out of their hands, and make them actually pay for it first, they have to price their work accordingly, correct?
The problem is, small companies that are starting out DON'T CARE EITHER.
If I have 2 grand to float a business idea I have, I cannot be spending half of that on the logo design or website design.
I should be putting that towards a patent, a lawyer, or accountant and actually designing the prototype (I am assuming this idea is a tangible product).
If the product hits it off with the target market, I can then get a loan, have a real company come and redesign my site and logo.
If the Internet has taught us anything, it is that catering to the niche markets is where the money is. If you can create loyalty and value within your small niche market, you will have repeat customers and customers who will generally spread praises about you.
The american dream is still alive, but you still need to put in the work and keep pushing ahead.
If you are skilled at Design, why don't you try catering to a specific market? Start going to your local SBA meetings, networking and meeting new people.
If you can make a good impression on these people in person, you can bet your ass they are going to keep coming back to you, and if you give them a solid product for a reasonable price, their company should see growth, thus indirectly growing yours.
Not the case ALL_THE_TIME.
I mean I don't want to be using scripts to re-image PCs / push software packages / check compliance.
However at the same time I'm not necessarily a complete fan of what they give me to do this (Altiris).
Hell yes it has saved me a crap ton of time dealing with 400+ windows boxes, but if there were a product that stood up to it on the 10,000+ node level, I would switch in a heartbeat.
I guess windows7 is getting there. However migrating to linux + WINE has been tried and will never get approval even if you could prove it was more reliable than windows XP. Rewriting all the tools using open standards and for the web is honestly the ideal solution, but no one will ever do that.
Is what will this be attached to? If it goes on its own, I would imagine Obama would give it the big red VETO
wrong, your mission is to make money for your shareholders.
This means you, as a company have no qualms with cutting corners in areas to keep that profit going.
Yes you may be a power company, but you are still a publicly shared company.
Also, if you want to keep that government certification or whatnot, you'll add that box or get audited to hell and back.
Space my friend... give it time.
Will end up like Gundam Wing though
Note: Just did a speedtest, and I ended up getting 25mbps down, 8mbps up... I am thinking some of those speedtest servers are getting hammered, as torrents will easily upload at 2.5MB/s+ when enough peers are connected.
(some of them were reporting me as only having 5mbps both ways)
I have FioS @ 25/25, and I can EASILY get to that max on a normal basis:
STEAM download: ~3MB/s
ISO download from MSDN site (bizspark license): ~2.6MB/s
Clearly browsing an actual site is going to go slower, as you have to take into account a lot more things since it just isn't one large file.
However, did these results take into account video streaming? game playing, etc etc? All of those things would run well above that 2Mbps streaming HD content.
wish I had mod points for this!
most houses these days have at least a 200AMP service coming in.
I know my apartment that was built in the 20's and doesn't even have plugs with a real ground wire has a 100amp service coming in, and thats 100amps per side of the duplex. (were talking fuse box baby!)
except if they [Sprint] change their rates on you during your contract, you aren't obligated to stay with them, and they can't charge you an ETF.
Why I switched to sprint!
70 a month for:
unlimited data usage
unlimited calling to any cell phone in ANY network
unlimited text messages
unlimited nights and weekends
450 anytime minutes; however this only ends up being for landline calls during the day M-F
I have seen Sprint customer bills where their data usage is well over 60GB, with not a single extra charge at all.
Give sprint some time to release WiMAX (which will be easy to upgrade to their frequency of LTE) and add on 20 bucks for the WiMAX fee (a la HTC EVO on sprint), and for 90 a month you have a phone that has been shown to pull 8Mbits/sec off of WiMAX in real world tests.
b = bit; B = byte.
83MB = 84922KB (83MB * 1024 = KB)
Notice that the poster put it in kiloBITS not BYTES.
236Kilobits comes to ~30KiloBytes per second.
thats like playing WoW on your cell.
Why buy hardware when you can rent / lease it from Dell for a 3yr period and then have them take it off your hands and get new towers?
Yeah you may end up paying the full price of the tower over the 3 yr period, but you don't have to pay people to dispose of the towers, move them, deploy them, image them, etc.
20k a month for company with 1000 PCs guaranteeing that they have brand new computers every 3 years could easily be worth it...
Say you are a call center, new computers directly relate to how quickly your agents can input info into their systems, retrieve answers for the customer, etc. if it means you can bill the client for an extra 15 minutes of call time a day per seat, that adds up quickly.
(.25 hrs * 900 seats * 25 days = ~5600 hrs extra billed per month at lets say a reasonable rate of 25/hr means you just paid for 7 months of that lease already...)
Don't forget to subtract the money saved by not having your IT folks having to worry about repairing PCs, throwing them out, ordering new parts, etc... all they need to do is call Dell, and then walk the technician to the location of the PC on the floor.
-If you hover over the tiled icon of the app in your taskbar, it will pop up the various windows of that within a second.
-Icons are easier than a huge ass line of text; also if you turn off the live preview stuff, you get the text you want... it even has the name of the app appended at the end of the window name.
-If it is running, it gets a box around it making it look raised... if not it just looks like a icon on your bar. If it is the currently selected app, it looks like it is depressed.
Note to self: this was probably a troll.
It's called XP Mode... you should try it sometime, does wonders like allowing you to run IE6.
Hell, toss in some GPOs for the XP Mode VM's and even the icons for the IE6 apps can magically appear on your startmenu under "Windows Virtual PC\ Applications"
True, but from a marketing POV, inhuman_4 has the right idea.
Much easier to sell the "Fusion 6400: 6 CPU and 4 GPU cores all on one die with a 250W TDP"
Sprint seems to be heading in the right direction.
unlimited data, nights and weekends, any mobile to mobile and 450 anytime minutes (basically land line calls during weekday business hours; that's when Google voice comes in).
The question will be how fast can they build out their new network.
TahoeLAFS distributed on every Training & other non production PC using between 20-40GB of the HDD space (between a 40 - 80GB HD in each tower).
That gives me 1.8TB raw storage, but then the way Tahoe works it ends up getting cut into roughly a quarter, leaving me with ~450GB of encrypted, easily recoverable data.
(If I were to use production stations, that 450GB would become ~2.6TB).
As long as no more than 4 of the 8 PC's the data is stored on is turned off, you can get the data.
Phidgets If you would like a bit of an easier ride.
Version 2.0 of their Phidgets SBC is going to be really slick, but don't expect it anytime soon.
Ignoring the fact that your typical developer who is a Google fan would already know about this, it was still a worthwhile post if only to let others know about the new service they are offering.
Anybody have a current count of their followers now?
Blocked at work :(
Good question...
I guess it is more about having a good group of a few friends who would play with you... you can all go out to this point, set up shop, start producing some raw materials maybe build something... then fly it back to civilization to sell. As you expand your colony, you will eventually encounter other players and most likely AI controlled players.
I mean how often did the crew on Firefly run into other ships? what about in BSG?
A space game should allow you to literally set a course and log out of the game. If your sensors pick up something while you are flying around, you should get an e-mail, IM, alert on some widget they give you, etc. Something like "Hey we just picked up a class 2 battleship 4 units out, based on its current path, it will intercept your location in 4 hours."
You can then log into the game, choose to change course and avoid it, or maybe increase speed to get to it quicker. Or maybe you decide to turn on your cloak (causing you to slow down) so that you can get close to it and see what the deal is.
I kind of see Infinity turning out to be a mix between Sins of a Solar Empire and Freespace 2 with an EVE like economy in place. It looks like it will also allow players to be as hardcore or as carebear as you want.
I never minded the PvP or the extremely high learning curve...
What I DID hate was that their view of the game is exactly as you say, EVE is a bleak dangerous place... Just like space would be. However, space is also way way bigger than the game models.
I will be waiting for Infinity
Graphics look way way better, and the entire universe is procedurally generated meaning that every single star / planet / moon / asteroid you run into is going to be different than the last one.
They actually took the vastness of space and created a model of it that better represents what it would be like. Gates wouldn't exist (unless created by players) and you could easily just point yourself in one direction for days until you reach some empty corner and setup your own empire... Hire some NPC workers / pilots / researchers etc and soon enough you will have your own empire. Kind of like a 3D, real-time clone of those old text based 4X games