Consider the difference between hobbyist and professional. A professional must make a living at whatever he/she is doing, while the hobbyist does not. Now, granted, I have seen folks making a living as artists that didn't make very good art. I have also seen brilliant artists who work on their kitchen tables after they come home from work.
The key, though is time/practice. Art is a communication, and like all such usually gets better when the creator has more experience. If art was easy, then everyone would be an artist. But it's not. Talent must be cultivated with technique, and that requires effort. On the whole (there are exceptions) I have seen more "good" art coming from those who work at it all day, than those who can only work part-time.
Professionals who support themselves get this time to practice. There is also the "I married and became an artist" syndrome. It actually works as a valid form of patronage in some cases, but mostly serves to quietly conduit some of a working person's income into the coffers of Dick Blick, Michaels, and the local instructors.
Been there, done that, got what would have been the tee-shirt if it had paid enough to afford one.
An artist lives off of selling their time in the form of their art. There is only so much of it per day, and an artist has to pick and choose what he/she is going to do, as there are always way more ideas than time.
So, the question facing artists is thus: What can I do (that I do...) that will get me the ability to do more? Giving art away for free is not it. Even in the digital age, there is less time for imaging (or painting, etc) if I have to go out and earn bread to feed myself and keep the rent going.
Solve this, and you will have more art than you can stand.
on with open source software tooling, and everyone borrowing things from each other, one would think that the technical folks there would have a clue.
I suspect this is proposed as a way for the larger corporations who attempt to control the Hindi programmer "market" to shut out the smaller split-offs and startups.
Funny. I guess they didn't suffer enough through the British raj and so now they do it to themselves.
... for a tech services company back in the late seventies and earliy eighties, before I got a clue. The company did service contracts on random minis and comms hardware. I have seen (and sometimes fixed):
A mini from which I extracted an extremely mushroomed and fragmented forty-five slug. Ripped up the front case door and five cards before it stopped. The DP manager "Didn't know what happened".
A small desktop micro that was completely trashed. It was sitting on a man's desk right next to an openable third-story window. There were bits of gravel from the parking lot embedded in the plastic. It was plenty obvious that he had simply opened the window and slid that puppy right off his desktop. Wanted it fixed under warranty.
Was asked if I could do anything about a small mini that had been run over multiple times by a forklift in the warehouse. Apparently the company president had gotten a little peeved, and probably a little wasted. Total loss. What had been a two by three by three foot cube was now about six inches tall, and had a considerably larger footprint.
Not to mention all the keyboards and monitors that just magically "stopped working" because of giant cracks in the screen or case
No references online that I know of. I heard about this from the bank staff. I was across the hall whacking on the loans software at that particular moment.
Her account and balance were fixed in record time. There were many apologies from bank management, however she closed the account immediately and moved to a less friendly, more process-oriented bank on the other side of town. Can't say I would blame her. The poor branch manager was a nervous wreck for three days. Never found out if anything ever happened to the father.
Father of a twenty-two year-old woman calls the bank (friendly small-town bank...) and tells them his daughter has died, and then provides all the id, etc. They let him transfer her entire account balance to his.
Turns out the woman had just moved out, against his wishes, and that he was trying to "convince" her to move back in and continue cleaning house, doing laundry, etc.
Should have seen the look on the branch manager's face when she walked in to make a withdrawal...
for some time. Used a wireless hub with remote antenna to move data from my laptop, which was onsite converting pics from a digital camera, to an HP printer located in the car trunk. It let me deliver print orders before I left the site. Sometimes, before I had even packed.
After I had no need of it, I installed this rig in the van, which was lent to one of my friend's teenaged game-mavins. He bought two PCMCIA wireless cards so he could shre with his friends. Apparently a drive-up game of CS is considered cool.
have much in common, particularly the part about options expiring at zero value. It's interesting that the FASB considers this in the same light.
Of course, we all know who gets rich from the lottery, don't we? I never understood people who accepted company stock as bonuses, payment, etc. From where I stand, when the company starts handing out shares instead of cash, it's time to start looking around.
I would suspect there is less helium than hydrogen on the moon. The hydrogen will at least combine with other elements and stay put in the form of minerals.
living on the moon, and an occasional bath. To tell the truth, I wasn't considering rocket propellant. I was considering living.
Oh, and to get a high specific impulse, you want your propellant gas to have as low a molecular weight as possible, which is one of the reasons that H2 is used as a rocket fuel. The O2 is just there to heat it up, so to speak.
After all, you never know if a patent is going to be valuable, and they do expire, so an options or futures market might be just the thing for making money off of them.
Darn, I wanted to see the blue sheet on software algorithm patents...
If these are cheap, people will be silly enough to use these in phones, home door controllers, light controllers, alarms, etc.
Wonder what sort of market there will be for the corresponding "box"? And what color should it be? (yellow and black?)
Annoying neighbors? Just hook up your handy-dandy Zigbee emulator to a web page, and invite all of your friends to diddle the neighbor's burglar alarm...
with about the same possibilities of getting your investment back,
What you've got here is a basic piece of research gear, which keeps a team from wasting time building up equipment and backtracking through technology where others have already gone. Depending on exactly you get for your quarter-click, this might be a screaming deal for some university research department.
Not sure I would call it "commercial".
The greatest technology hits of 1979, rerun today.
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They weren't single chip (single board), but they did take bytecodes (and sometimes source code) over a bus and execute them. Sometimes it was BASIC, and sometimes it was PICK assembler, etc.
If this puppy ran bytecodes for a simple BASIC (Which I am sure could be arranged...) then it would be very close to the old MAI Basic-4 minis, which did this on a single(8x12) circuit card.
Method One: Dress nice, get a decent looking date, go to a place that isn't some sort of meat rack with a million screaming "teenangers" trying to crash their way in, lay a fifty on the table, and order. Rarely fails.
Method two: Go to a bar without a license. The company is probably better. Well, at least more interesting.
Is there an underager out there that doesn't know this?
The way the Crown taxes everything...
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Maybe they figure they have to stock up now, before the DRM folk and Inland Revenue figure it out.
Big Money. The goal is no wings and smaller talons
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And possibly no feathers.
A commercial chicken's purpose in life (if you can call it living) is to eat and produce eggs, meat, or more chickens.
When you farm chickens, the goal is to get as much non-human-consumable protein and carbohydrate into salable form as possible. Feathers, beaks, feet, and less desireable parts need to be minimized in order to fulfill the goal.
Gene-spliced chickens can solve some of this, producing more usable foodstuff.
The previous solution, however, was to simply have the USDA regulate that ALL parts of a chicken are "chicken". Remember that the next time you eat a chicken nugget.
that the dark streak and the bright artifact do not meet. The streak looks to be "above" the bright artifact, and continues past it.
Also, the bright artifact has a brighter core that is vertical with respect to the rest of the frame. This could be consistent with a reflection off a cylinder such as a lightpole.
It's probably just the reflection off my tinfoil hat.
Per Inquery or Per Order are really the only ways to sell advertising on the net. The big guy doesn't get ripped off, and the little guy doesn't get run over.
The problem is the amount of labor it takes to track this. There has to be a way for both the advertiser and the advertising firm to track the sales and or actual product inqueries, in a manner that both can trust.
constitute a movement of money and value into India. Don't think our government didn't approve and arrange, possibly at corporate request. Or that corporations at that level didn't talk with each other to arrange it.
Negotiations often bring about strange deals, especially when you can't be forthright about it due to public outcry, treaties, etc.
*Removes colander with antennae and blinking LEDs from head...*
Assuming you get fifty percent coverage, that is still a lot of shadow. I don't know of any research concerning it. Buildings are not the same, as they are not designed to track and block sunlight as a primary objective.
Electrical power transport and intertie are efficient when looked at from a technical basis. Well-designed modern power transmission systems only lose a small percentage of energy during transmission, but after you add up the infrastructure maintenance costs, right-of-way, aquisition and depreciation, etc, and stretch it out over a thirty-year design life you begin to understand why all those train-cars full of coal exist.
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Consider the difference between hobbyist and professional. A professional must make a living at whatever he/she is doing, while the hobbyist does not. Now, granted, I have seen folks making a living as artists that didn't make very good art. I have also seen brilliant artists who work on their kitchen tables after they come home from work.
The key, though is time/practice. Art is a communication, and like all such usually gets better when the creator has more experience. If art was easy, then everyone would be an artist. But it's not. Talent must be cultivated with technique, and that requires effort. On the whole (there are exceptions) I have seen more "good" art coming from those who work at it all day, than those who can only work part-time.
Professionals who support themselves get this time to practice. There is also the "I married and became an artist" syndrome. It actually works as a valid form of patronage in some cases, but mostly serves to quietly conduit some of a working person's income into the coffers of Dick Blick, Michaels, and the local instructors.
Been there, done that, got what would have been the tee-shirt if it had paid enough to afford one.
An artist lives off of selling their time in the form of their art. There is only so much of it per day, and an artist has to pick and choose what he/she is going to do, as there are always way more ideas than time.
So, the question facing artists is thus: What can I do (that I do...) that will get me the ability to do more? Giving art away for free is not it. Even in the digital age, there is less time for imaging (or painting, etc) if I have to go out and earn bread to feed myself and keep the rent going.
Solve this, and you will have more art than you can stand.
when you speak in english? Is the preferred term Indians?
on with open source software tooling, and everyone borrowing things from each other, one would think that the technical folks there would have a clue.
I suspect this is proposed as a way for the larger corporations who attempt to control the Hindi programmer "market" to shut out the smaller split-offs and startups.
Funny. I guess they didn't suffer enough through the British raj and so now they do it to themselves.
... for a tech services company back in the late seventies and earliy eighties, before I got a clue. The company did service contracts on random minis and comms hardware. I have seen (and sometimes fixed):
A mini from which I extracted an extremely mushroomed and fragmented forty-five slug. Ripped up the front case door and five cards before it stopped. The DP manager "Didn't know what happened".
A small desktop micro that was completely trashed. It was sitting on a man's desk right next to an openable third-story window. There were bits of gravel from the parking lot embedded in the plastic. It was plenty obvious that he had simply opened the window and slid that puppy right off his desktop. Wanted it fixed under warranty.
Was asked if I could do anything about a small mini that had been run over multiple times by a forklift in the warehouse. Apparently the company president had gotten a little peeved, and probably a little wasted. Total loss. What had been a two by three by three foot cube was now about six inches tall, and had a considerably larger footprint.
Not to mention all the keyboards and monitors that just magically "stopped working" because of giant cracks in the screen or case
...you lose your turn.
No references online that I know of. I heard about this from the bank staff. I was across the hall whacking on the loans software at that particular moment.
Her account and balance were fixed in record time. There were many apologies from bank management, however she closed the account immediately and moved to a less friendly, more process-oriented bank on the other side of town. Can't say I would blame her. The poor branch manager was a nervous wreck for three days. Never found out if anything ever happened to the father.
I have seen the following in the banking world:
Father of a twenty-two year-old woman calls the bank (friendly small-town bank...) and tells them his daughter has died, and then provides all the id, etc. They let him transfer her entire account balance to his.
Turns out the woman had just moved out, against his wishes, and that he was trying to "convince" her to move back in and continue cleaning house, doing laundry, etc.
Should have seen the look on the branch manager's face when she walked in to make a withdrawal...
for some time. Used a wireless hub with remote antenna to move data from my laptop, which was onsite converting pics from a digital camera, to an HP printer located in the car trunk. It let me deliver print orders before I left the site. Sometimes, before I had even packed.
After I had no need of it, I installed this rig in the van, which was lent to one of my friend's teenaged game-mavins. He bought two PCMCIA wireless cards so he could shre with his friends. Apparently a drive-up game of CS is considered cool.
Granted, not as slick as designed-in...
have much in common, particularly the part about options expiring at zero value. It's interesting that the FASB considers this in the same light.
Of course, we all know who gets rich from the lottery, don't we? I never understood people who accepted company stock as bonuses, payment, etc. From where I stand, when the company starts handing out shares instead of cash, it's time to start looking around.
I would suspect there is less helium than hydrogen on the moon. The hydrogen will at least combine with other elements and stay put in the form of minerals.
living on the moon, and an occasional bath. To tell the truth, I wasn't considering rocket propellant. I was considering living.
Oh, and to get a high specific impulse, you want your propellant gas to have as low a molecular weight as possible, which is one of the reasons that H2 is used as a rocket fuel. The O2 is just there to heat it up, so to speak.
After all, you never know if a patent is going to be valuable, and they do expire, so an options or futures market might be just the thing for making money off of them.
Darn, I wanted to see the blue sheet on software algorithm patents...
This is good in at least we won't need to ship the O2, but where are we going to find the other little necessities of life (and most rocket fuel)?
If these are cheap, people will be silly enough to use these in phones, home door controllers, light controllers, alarms, etc.
Wonder what sort of market there will be for the corresponding "box"? And what color should it be? (yellow and black?)
Annoying neighbors? Just hook up your handy-dandy Zigbee emulator to a web page, and invite all of your friends to diddle the neighbor's burglar alarm...
with about the same possibilities of getting your investment back,
What you've got here is a basic piece of research gear, which keeps a team from wasting time building up equipment and backtracking through technology where others have already gone. Depending on exactly you get for your quarter-click, this might be a screaming deal for some university research department.
Not sure I would call it "commercial".
They weren't single chip (single board), but they did take bytecodes (and sometimes source code) over a bus and execute them. Sometimes it was BASIC, and sometimes it was PICK assembler, etc.
If this puppy ran bytecodes for a simple BASIC (Which I am sure could be arranged...) then it would be very close to the old MAI Basic-4 minis, which did this on a single(8x12) circuit card.
Makes me feel sort of, uhm, nostalgic...
Anybody know when an oil company will be going there? In a place like that, there has to be something really good...
Method One: Dress nice, get a decent looking date, go to a place that isn't some sort of meat rack with a million screaming "teenangers" trying to crash their way in, lay a fifty on the table, and order. Rarely fails.
Method two: Go to a bar without a license. The company is probably better. Well, at least more interesting.
Is there an underager out there that doesn't know this?
Maybe they figure they have to stock up now, before the DRM folk and Inland Revenue figure it out.
And possibly no feathers.
A commercial chicken's purpose in life (if you can call it living) is to eat and produce eggs, meat, or more chickens.
When you farm chickens, the goal is to get as much non-human-consumable protein and carbohydrate into salable form as possible. Feathers, beaks, feet, and less desireable parts need to be minimized in order to fulfill the goal.
Gene-spliced chickens can solve some of this, producing more usable foodstuff.
The previous solution, however, was to simply have the USDA regulate that ALL parts of a chicken are "chicken". Remember that the next time you eat a chicken nugget.
that the dark streak and the bright artifact do not meet. The streak looks to be "above" the bright artifact, and continues past it.
Also, the bright artifact has a brighter core that is vertical with respect to the rest of the frame. This could be consistent with a reflection off a cylinder such as a lightpole.
It's probably just the reflection off my tinfoil hat.
Per Inquery or Per Order are really the only ways to sell advertising on the net. The big guy doesn't get ripped off, and the little guy doesn't get run over.
The problem is the amount of labor it takes to track this. There has to be a way for both the advertiser and the advertising firm to track the sales and or actual product inqueries, in a manner that both can trust.
*Smiles as he views business possibilities*
constitute a movement of money and value into India. Don't think our government didn't approve and arrange, possibly at corporate request. Or that corporations at that level didn't talk with each other to arrange it.
Negotiations often bring about strange deals, especially when you can't be forthright about it due to public outcry, treaties, etc.
*Removes colander with antennae and blinking LEDs from head...*
Assuming you get fifty percent coverage, that is still a lot of shadow. I don't know of any research concerning it. Buildings are not the same, as they are not designed to track and block sunlight as a primary objective.
Electrical power transport and intertie are efficient when looked at from a technical basis. Well-designed modern power transmission systems only lose a small percentage of energy during transmission, but after you add up the infrastructure maintenance costs, right-of-way, aquisition and depreciation, etc, and stretch it out over a thirty-year design life you begin to understand why all those train-cars full of coal exist.