At UCLA (at least when I was an Ugrad last century), it was a CokeCampus. Even though you could get a Pepsi in some vending machines, the deal was that all despensed drinks had to be Coke or Coke-bottled (e.g., Dr. Pepper/Sprite).
No large company will buy software that doesn't come with
support. That means you'll have to have someone man the phone. That
means you have to have an office with at least a phone.
Sales
You'll need a web page at a minimum, and a place for your sales
force to live when they're not on the road, meeting rooms,
etc.
Don't forget phones for your sales force -
mobile/office/whatever. Business rates for phones are more than the
$30/month you pay for that extra line in your parent's house,
Timmy.
Distribution/packaging
How are you going to deliver your software? Shrinkwrap, via
internet (see the part about the web page), as a bundled solution?
All those things need cash to get going. Don't THINK you'll get
your stuff into CompUSA without having some way of delivering
CDs
HR/Payroll/Accounting
Someone's gotta keep track of the pay for your employees and
send them their W-2s at the end of the year for taxes. There's that
whole paying-taxes-quarterly-thing that the government seems to be
real sticklers about, too.
Lawyers
If you make it a habit of signing contracts without vetting
them through a lawyer, eventually you will lose big $$$, or even
kill the business. They will also make sure that your employment
agreements and business deals are on the level.
Office space/equipment
Gotta have development, test, and production servers, if you
want to do it right (and ultimately, save money)
You'll need a network that gets backed up properly (i.e., every
day and tapes stored off-site in a secure location---not under the
mattress in your parents' house, Timmy!) because you're storing
your CVS db there, right?
You'll need legitimate copies of purchased software, so if
you're doing.NET, you'll need a real copy of Visual Studio for
every developer.
Printers eat paper and toner.
So do copiers
So do fax machines
Receptionist
Think prospective clients are going to be impressed by your
sloppy self greeting them at the door? Better at least buy a suit
or some nice khakis and a clean golf shirt.
Joel's article is 100% non-Scottish.
Think your shiny resume and cover letter with perfect formatting
and punctuation will get you a job? Think again. You're just one
paper amongst the other hundreds; you're competing with
Bernard Shifman and the guy who paid $3k to send his resume to
3,000 companies. You're not competing with people who know how the
system works, and how to make it work for them. Those people
already have the jobs while you're stuck filling out applications
for HR.
Let us remember why a company is hiring: to use labor to make
money, NOT to distribute jobs for charity. Tell me how, on
god's green earth does a dead piece of paper prove that you're
going to make that employer money?
It doesn't.
By submitting your past list of accomplishments, you're in
effect saying, "Hey, Mrs. Employer, here is what I did in the past.
Please figure out how this applies to the problems you're having
right now, and then pay me to solve them."
So, one, you've added extra work to that hiring manager's plate
(on top of her regular job), and two, you're asking her to do
your job to figure out if you can make them money! No wonder
most managers make the mistake of using HR do all their hiring---it
is "easy(ier)"! Too bad it doesn't work very well. Would you have
someone who knows nothing about the position you're trying to fill
screen out potential candidates? Hmm?
Now then, let us look at how Safety gets a job:
Find a company I want to work for,
Cultivate contacts within that company,
Discover who needs the help that I can provide,
Use contacts to recommend me to the hiring manager,
Research and prepare to answer the question of how hiring me
will make/save money,
During the interview, take control and give presentation; talk
about how I will solve the manager's problems today,
Ask for job at the end of the interview, and
Drop off thank you notes with receptionist.
No resume necessary (except as a security blanket for managers
who don't know how to conduct an interview...but you'll never use
it). Want to know
more?
That would not work, as the spammers would just set up their own sendmail servers and pump out spam to their heart's content.
Effective countermeasures to spam include better spam filters (like Popfile, as you mentioned), and ensuring that all routers drop invalid packets: packets with impossible (from a subnet stance) source or destination addresses. The latter will prevent most forged headers.
Micropayments cannot work unless SMTP is redefined. Switching over the installed base (it has to be all-or-nothing, or it doesn't work because you can't have a micropay server talk to one that is not, or the whole scenario breaks down) will be problematic at best.
I doubt that anyone... well, almost anyone... is dumb enough to accept a bill clearly marked $10 as a $20.
It is very easy. Ever been to a football game? Ever try to get to the concessions stand at 1/2-time? Imagine in all that crush of people that you slip a frankenbill to the worker? Think he'll notice? Heck no--he's too busy trying to add up the cost of your Pretzel, Hot Dog, Chips, Candy and Beer. This is why some places have different people handle the cash than those who take the orders.
~ you can't photocopy currency on photocopiers. They just come out black.
That is an urban legend.
My first job while in High School was working at a print shop. After hours, the printer (this 1,000 year old man who knew...everything about printing) would show me how to do all kinds of things. One day we made red one-dollar bills (so that if somehow we got caught, we'd only get 5 years instead of 20:)) to see if we could do it. What we came up with was very close, and considering that we used last-century's technology, very impressive. After the experiment was over, we burned the results.
If you want to get going with a major operation, you'd need plates (a home printer/professional printer can't get the fine dots that you get from plates) and a good supply of the special rag bond they use. The most important thing, and the hardest to reproduce, is the seal where they imprint two colors (green and black) in the same spot. Now with the watermark and embedded strip, you'd need to treat the paper to get those features before you printed the image.
EVEN EASIER: (I've seen this happen several times) Take a twenty and a ten. Rip the short edges off (the part that has the denomination numbers) and swap. Now your bill with 70% ten and 30% twenty is a twenty. Take the rest of the twenty to the bank to get a new one (as long as it is 51%+, they'll do it), and use the franken-bill at a shop for $20 worth of goods!
~ the products/projects involved looked very good from a resume standpoint.
I would never put any of that stuff on my resume, because no employer cares what I did in the past. They all care what I can do for them in the present/future. When I present my business plan to them for how I will increase profits, I may use XSLT as part of the solution, but never as a standalone thing.
What ever happened to that guy who tried to sell an iTunes song on eBay?
-:-
Slow Down Cowboy!
Slashdot editors could never type faster than 10 pecks a minute, so since you type godawfully fast, we're going to punish you by forcing you to wait an arbitrary amount of time. That will teach you to be uppity in the presence of your betters!
It's been around a minute since you, the user, aka "scum," last successfully, intentionally, deliberately, previously, redundantly posted a comment on the web service/system known as Slashdot or "/."
Chances are, you've been already moderated as a Troll or "off-topic" and had your account slapped with the $rtbl; so that your kind is kept where you belong. After a while, you'll get used to only posting a few times a day, because, hey, your opinion is crap anyway. Please try again. The posting, you dolt. If the problem persists, and all other options have been tried, the beach has lots of sand you can pound.
a) Anyone can get one; you hire a lawyer, just like you hire a doctor to set your broken leg; it is called "pay as you go." If you're rich or own a business, then you get one on retainer. b) If you're 17 years old (assuming you're in the US), then you're legally able to work, so you ask "do you want fries with that?" for a couple of days and get cash. You than locate a laywer (lawyer.com/findlaw.com/phone book/etc.) that practices law in the field you're dealing with; you can easily find a lawyer who will do a first time consultation (about 1/2 hour) for $50-100. Showing the laywer the letter and asking, "What are my options?" and making him/her explain the consequences of each will leave you informed, so you can make the right decision.
The key point is that you don't know anything about the law. Playing "lawyer for the day" can cause you to lose things you own (money, car, your Pokeymon card collection), including your freedom. When confronted with a letter from a law firm/lawyer, you never, ever respond or ignore it without getting some advice, because Bad Things might happen to you.
You are correct in that this guy is only 17 years old, so he doesn't know a whole lot. Well, this whole experience is a great lesson, 'cause now he knows more. And so do you.;)
Spending an entire year "pretending to be busy" while my skills atrophied was really depressing, but some people would see it as the dream job.
That was your choice. I just got off a year-long contract where I literally did about 45 minutes of "work" a week. The rest of the time, I sat in my office and coded my own utilities and apps to keep my skills going. I learned XSLT, read a few books on-line, etc.
I've found more and more over the years that I spend less time at some of the "big" sites and find more value in the content from smaller organizations.
Joe and Mary sixpack do not look for the subversive, "hacker" sites. They stick with News You Can Trust, like MSNBC.com, CNN.com, and Foxnews.com.
99.9% of the web users are clueless users who suffer spam, popups, "hit the monkey" banners, and all the other dregs of the web. For them, this will be another annoyance they will have to live through. Some, like Pavlov's puppy, will "enjoy" the adverts and eagerly look forward to more (remember BMW Films?).
As for you cerebral, "733t" "h4x0r5," your day will come when you get a nice cell in Camp X-ray for stealing internet content without paying by watching the adverts as you were told to do!
"They [Microsoft Laywers] responded to this email by offering to give me all of my out-of-pocket expenses in return for the domain name. ~. I responded by asking for $10,000, which I regret doing now ~."
Here is a tip: if you receive a letter from a Lawyer, and want to respond, always have your own laywer vet your response.
Their entire existence is based on advertising revenue ~.
...and the same networks' entire marketing departments are full of no-nothing, oxygen deprived Epsilons.
If they were Betas, perhaps, they would realize that by dumping the commerical break in favor of using product placement, "Picture-in-picture," or some other advertisement method, they would give people what they want (uninterruped, longer shows), and still get their revenue.
And the corresponding way around it is to exchange for the same title ("unopened," of course), then either come back later or to a different store and get the refund.
I believe schools can even recind degrees they've awarded if evidence of wrongdoing comes up.
This is correct. At UVA, three graduates got their degrees revoked about a year and a half ago. There are other examples.
The bottom line is you have to be a pretty dim bulb to cheat in that way. Part of the point of doing so many papers is so you increase your writing skills. If you stake through the course by pinching other folks' stuff, what are you going to do when it comes time for the in-class essay?
Those who cheat to learn only learn to cheat. -- The Sphinx
Nissan (the car company) sued Uzi Nissan (a technology company owner) to get his website. They [car corp] "lost" in the sense that they didn't get the domain name, but they convinced the court to totally neuter it: it cannot host any commercial content, nor can it link to any site that hosts commercial content.
Slashdot Mirror
At UCLA (at least when I was an Ugrad last century), it was a CokeCampus. Even though you could get a Pepsi in some vending machines, the deal was that all despensed drinks had to be Coke or Coke-bottled (e.g., Dr. Pepper/Sprite).
Warning to /.ers: your going to hav too read the instructions on how too work it good, or it won't. LOL WTF!!!!!!111
Obligatory nerd tie-in: That's why Mozilla kicks IE's little tin arse. Quicklink "dict knive" --> no entry for knive.
Here's another source for servers.
I've got karma to burn, so here goes.
Joel's article is 100% non-Scottish. Think your shiny resume and cover letter with perfect formatting and punctuation will get you a job? Think again. You're just one paper amongst the other hundreds; you're competing with Bernard Shifman and the guy who paid $3k to send his resume to 3,000 companies. You're not competing with people who know how the system works, and how to make it work for them. Those people already have the jobs while you're stuck filling out applications for HR.
Let us remember why a company is hiring: to use labor to make money, NOT to distribute jobs for charity. Tell me how, on god's green earth does a dead piece of paper prove that you're going to make that employer money?
It doesn't.
By submitting your past list of accomplishments, you're in effect saying, "Hey, Mrs. Employer, here is what I did in the past. Please figure out how this applies to the problems you're having right now, and then pay me to solve them."
So, one, you've added extra work to that hiring manager's plate (on top of her regular job), and two, you're asking her to do your job to figure out if you can make them money! No wonder most managers make the mistake of using HR do all their hiring---it is "easy(ier)"! Too bad it doesn't work very well. Would you have someone who knows nothing about the position you're trying to fill screen out potential candidates? Hmm?
Now then, let us look at how Safety gets a job:
No resume necessary (except as a security blanket for managers who don't know how to conduct an interview...but you'll never use it). Want to know more?
Effective countermeasures to spam include better spam filters (like Popfile, as you mentioned), and ensuring that all routers drop invalid packets: packets with impossible (from a subnet stance) source or destination addresses. The latter will prevent most forged headers.
Micropayments cannot work unless SMTP is redefined. Switching over the installed base (it has to be all-or-nothing, or it doesn't work because you can't have a micropay server talk to one that is not, or the whole scenario breaks down) will be problematic at best.
Officer, this here fibre is part of the 1/2 bill I showed you, so give me my money!
Okay, whatever. You're still not ripping off the serial numbers, so by your criteria, you'll still get your $20 back.
Damn, I'm good.
My first job while in High School was working at a print shop. After hours, the printer (this 1,000 year old man who knew...everything about printing) would show me how to do all kinds of things. One day we made red one-dollar bills (so that if somehow we got caught, we'd only get 5 years instead of 20 :)) to see if we could do it. What we came up with was very close, and considering that we used last-century's technology, very impressive. After the experiment was over, we burned the results.
If you want to get going with a major operation, you'd need plates (a home printer/professional printer can't get the fine dots that you get from plates) and a good supply of the special rag bond they use. The most important thing, and the hardest to reproduce, is the seal where they imprint two colors (green and black) in the same spot. Now with the watermark and embedded strip, you'd need to treat the paper to get those features before you printed the image.
EVEN EASIER: (I've seen this happen several times) Take a twenty and a ten. Rip the short edges off (the part that has the denomination numbers) and swap. Now your bill with 70% ten and 30% twenty is a twenty. Take the rest of the twenty to the bank to get a new one (as long as it is 51%+, they'll do it), and use the franken-bill at a shop for $20 worth of goods!
-:-
Slow Down Cowboy!
Slashdot editors could never type faster than 10 pecks a minute, so since you type godawfully fast, we're going to punish you by forcing you to wait an arbitrary amount of time. That will teach you to be uppity in the presence of your betters!
It's been around a minute since you, the user, aka "scum," last successfully, intentionally, deliberately, previously, redundantly posted a comment on the web service/system known as Slashdot or "/."
Chances are, you've been already moderated as a Troll or "off-topic" and had your account slapped with the $rtbl; so that your kind is kept where you belong. After a while, you'll get used to only posting a few times a day, because, hey, your opinion is crap anyway. Please try again. The posting, you dolt. If the problem persists, and all other options have been tried, the beach has lots of sand you can pound.
a) Anyone can get one; you hire a lawyer, just like you hire a doctor to set your broken leg; it is called "pay as you go." If you're rich or own a business, then you get one on retainer.
b) If you're 17 years old (assuming you're in the US), then you're legally able to work, so you ask "do you want fries with that?" for a couple of days and get cash. You than locate a laywer (lawyer.com/findlaw.com/phone book/etc.) that practices law in the field you're dealing with; you can easily find a lawyer who will do a first time consultation (about 1/2 hour) for $50-100. Showing the laywer the letter and asking, "What are my options?" and making him/her explain the consequences of each will leave you informed, so you can make the right decision.
The key point is that you don't know anything about the law. Playing "lawyer for the day" can cause you to lose things you own (money, car, your Pokeymon card collection), including your freedom. When confronted with a letter from a law firm/lawyer, you never, ever respond or ignore it without getting some advice, because Bad Things might happen to you.
You are correct in that this guy is only 17 years old, so he doesn't know a whole lot. Well, this whole experience is a great lesson, 'cause now he knows more. And so do you. ;)
99.9% of the web users are clueless users who suffer spam, popups, "hit the monkey" banners, and all the other dregs of the web. For them, this will be another annoyance they will have to live through. Some, like Pavlov's puppy, will "enjoy" the adverts and eagerly look forward to more (remember BMW Films?).
As for you cerebral, "733t" "h4x0r5," your day will come when you get a nice cell in Camp X-ray for stealing internet content without paying by watching the adverts as you were told to do!
If you had a DVR, you could pause the programme any time you wanted to chat or shag, then resume when finished. ;)
You can check out which music is RIAA-free at RIAA Radar. They even have a Top-hundred RIAA-free List
If they were Betas, perhaps, they would realize that by dumping the commerical break in favor of using product placement, "Picture-in-picture," or some other advertisement method, they would give people what they want (uninterruped, longer shows), and still get their revenue.
And the corresponding way around it is to exchange for the same title ("unopened," of course), then either come back later or to a different store and get the refund.
The bottom line is you have to be a pretty dim bulb to cheat in that way. Part of the point of doing so many papers is so you increase your writing skills. If you stake through the course by pinching other folks' stuff, what are you going to do when it comes time for the in-class essay?
Those who cheat to learn only learn to cheat. -- The Sphinx
Nissan (the car company) sued Uzi Nissan (a technology company owner) to get his website. They [car corp] "lost" in the sense that they didn't get the domain name, but they convinced the court to totally neuter it: it cannot host any commercial content, nor can it link to any site that hosts commercial content.