Contrary to popular belief (which is more and more like the communist's), CEOs are not a bunch of money-hungry, power-hungry, soulless jerks (well, some are). I know several people who are in power and none of them share those characteristics; rather, they are all very hard working and somewhat caring. The lack of remose that CEOs have is only because they are acting in their self-interest, more so than others, in that they are doing what it takes to ensure the survivability of the company. Business is a harsh world, which I'm sure you know, so if you want to survive, you have to eliminate competition. That's how they get to be where they are.
I don't deny that the CEO position does tend to attract those who desire power and wealth, but ultimately who get's the job is - usually - the one who is most likely to bring in more profits to the company and keep it going (although having friends in the board helps, but that's aside from the point). Still, assuming that CEOs are (unintentionally, of course) selected for their sociopathy seems far-fetched to me.
The grades are somewhat subjective, but in undergraduate, a C is considered average - about 70-79 percentile, although this varies on the professor and the rest of the class (I once got a 51%, which was a borderline B/B+; yeah it was that hard). But you must also consider grade inflation. Either way, a 2.7 GPA (C+ average) is considered a red-flag for employers.
That said, I do take issue with the "2.7 GPA" part of this. GPAs are overrated. Anyone who interviews with me (I do interviews, I don't own the place) is going to get no brownie points for "perfect attendance", but I don't give a damn what her GPA is. If she can answer my questions well, she'll get a job. If she can't, she won't.
And how many people do you really think you have hired based on their actual skills and ability to learn rather than ability to BS?
I am by no means a cryptography expert, but I do remember hearing a while back that the radio "static" that you hear at "empty" radio frequencies are signals from outer space (and likely also from other stray terrestrial sources); the same for those "static" TV signals.
Could those be used to collect entropy? It should be a cheap and fairly easy solution...
That's not particularly surprising considering Macs are (or at least were) about twice as expensive as their comparable PC counterparts.
You can already get a damn good laptop (or desktop) PC for less than a grand, but a Mac? Forget it.
Just goes to show that they are overpriced.
As a fellow genius wannabe, I have - just like you - come up with several ideas. Some good, some bad, some great but had already been discovered (damn you, Einstein - just kidding;-). But seriously, the way I approach any "good idea" is talk I to people that 1) I trust (family members, friends mostly) and 2) those with some experience in the field (although non-experts can give exciting and diverse points of view). Being unbiased helps.
But on the other hand, as one poster mentioned, ideas are dime a dozen. The problem is (generally) not coming up with the idea per se, but putting it into practice. Having said that, there's a good chance that someone has already thought of it, but is too lazy/busy/worried about other things to pursue it.
All in all, I wouldn't worry *too* much about it, just talk to people you know who are unbiased and get their feedback, then go from there.
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Oh, and since I'm on a roll, Snape kills Dumbledor ;)
Well, good thing I finished reading the book a few hours ago ;-)
Contrary to popular belief (which is more and more like the communist's), CEOs are not a bunch of money-hungry, power-hungry, soulless jerks (well, some are). I know several people who are in power and none of them share those characteristics; rather, they are all very hard working and somewhat caring. The lack of remose that CEOs have is only because they are acting in their self-interest, more so than others, in that they are doing what it takes to ensure the survivability of the company. Business is a harsh world, which I'm sure you know, so if you want to survive, you have to eliminate competition. That's how they get to be where they are.
I don't deny that the CEO position does tend to attract those who desire power and wealth, but ultimately who get's the job is - usually - the one who is most likely to bring in more profits to the company and keep it going (although having friends in the board helps, but that's aside from the point). Still, assuming that CEOs are (unintentionally, of course) selected for their sociopathy seems far-fetched to me.
So...does this mean that we could predict sociopathic behavior from (or before) birth?
The grades are somewhat subjective, but in undergraduate, a C is considered average - about 70-79 percentile, although this varies on the professor and the rest of the class (I once got a 51%, which was a borderline B/B+; yeah it was that hard). But you must also consider grade inflation. Either way, a 2.7 GPA (C+ average) is considered a red-flag for employers.
I am by no means a cryptography expert, but I do remember hearing a while back that the radio "static" that you hear at "empty" radio frequencies are signals from outer space (and likely also from other stray terrestrial sources); the same for those "static" TV signals. Could those be used to collect entropy? It should be a cheap and fairly easy solution...
That's not particularly surprising considering Macs are (or at least were) about twice as expensive as their comparable PC counterparts. You can already get a damn good laptop (or desktop) PC for less than a grand, but a Mac? Forget it. Just goes to show that they are overpriced.
Wait! So, they're saying Windows 7 is actually going to be worse?
As a fellow genius wannabe, I have - just like you - come up with several ideas. Some good, some bad, some great but had already been discovered (damn you, Einstein - just kidding ;-). But seriously, the way I approach any "good idea" is talk I to people that 1) I trust (family members, friends mostly) and 2) those with some experience in the field (although non-experts can give exciting and diverse points of view). Being unbiased helps.
But on the other hand, as one poster mentioned, ideas are dime a dozen. The problem is (generally) not coming up with the idea per se, but putting it into practice. Having said that, there's a good chance that someone has already thought of it, but is too lazy/busy/worried about other things to pursue it.
All in all, I wouldn't worry *too* much about it, just talk to people you know who are unbiased and get their feedback, then go from there.