I never stop my career while I learn, and I never stop learning in the middle of climbing the corporate ladder
I first entered the work force when I was in my primary school, working part time, during the evening hours, earned money to help my family, which was dirt poor
But I did not drop out of school
All my "holidays" became working fulltime - while my classmates went for vacations, I worked and worked
From primary school to secondary, to university, I worked while study.
Even after I obtained my first university degree, and landed a relatively comfortably paying job, I never stopped studying - I enrolled in graduate schools, as part time student
I obtained my graduate degrees that way
Now that I'm running my own businesses, and have a lot of people working with me, I still cannot stop learning - I guess the minute I stop learning is the minute I die
For the liquidity issues, you might have noticed in the last 3 weeks a large number of chinese firms suddenly dumping stocks.
That happened for a couple of reasons:
1. Insider information
2. Tightening of credits
3. Flight of money out of China
4. Political instability - hard liners from the communist (consist of the "tai zhi dang", princes and princesses of old high ranking comrades) are trying to grab power from the moderates
Of course, there are other reasons as well, but I only list the 4 major ones
I do follow China closely, for many of my businesses is in there
This is nothing more than political maneouvering by the ruling government.
It's been done before, and will continue to be done. Especially because a General Election is coming up. If you read that link I posted, it was reported that the Malaysian prime minister said "Whatever we do, we must put people first,". If that were truly the case, why wasn't that position taken in the first place before the law was passed?
Basically: 1. Pass draconian law 2. Wait for public outcry 3. Repeal draconian law 4. Look like a hero 5. Profit!
That regime that controls Malaysia for 55 years can do that, time and time again, simply because the average IQ of the Malaysians - especially that of the majority Malays - is below 75
If you follow the following links, you will understand how easy it is to manipulate the majority Muslim Malays -
Not only flying is too energy intensive, the concept of flying cars poses a HUGE RISK in this world we live in today, where there are people who are crazy enough to blow themselves up just so that people around them die with them
Imagine you have flying cars zipping around buildings - how are you to ensure that no one load up one (or more) flying car(s) with strong explosives and then slam it/them into an office building?
If I had been one of the victims, I would have sued the site directly in Singapore court. A small tax haven and tax shelter like Singapore is much more likely to want to encourage this type of industry and therefore encourage straight dealings in those types of transactions.
Dear Sir,
I do not know where you get the notion that Singapore being a tax heaven
Before anybody else gets hurt, I need to say that Singapore is NO tax heaven.
Never was, never is, and the way it looks, not likely to be in the future, either
... but I'm going to go with blaming the victim on this one. There have been a rash of thefts surrounding BitCoin wallets in some of the stupidest ways (any number of BitCoin sites, for God knows what reason, have been using MySQL for their backend, and more than a few have been using PHP) -> show of hands on/., if you were designing / developing a website that dealt primarily with money, would you use MySQL? And why not?
While I agree with you that the victims on this case should share a portion of the blame, we need to understand that not all the bitcoin users are super tech-savvy
Sure, compare with the Joe Sixpacks on the back alleys the average bitcoin users do comprehend more tech terms, but that does not make them super-tech-savvy - I bet that there _are_ users who do not know which database engine a particular site they visit is using
Actually that happened in real life - not floating-point round-off, of course, but there were cases (back in the 1980's, if I remember correctly) of bank insiders setting up fake accounts collecting pennies from the banking transactions and ending up with sums worth millions of dollars
Bitcoin can't exist by itself - the world we live in, whether we like it or not, still runs on cash (fiat money) and at the places where bitcoins are converted into real cold-hard-cash that makes it traceable.
But that also opens up one new possibility, for some one to set up a untraceable (or not that easy to trace) bitcoin/cash exchange.
Personally I do not know if that could ever become a reality, tho.
The Bitcoin infrastructure might be secured, it's just that the weakest link is in the server
When the server is hacked, and all the info (Bitcoin is made up of encrypted information, please correct me if I am wrong) contained within it is stolen, it's as good as the Bitcoins were stolen and can be used elsewhere
Therefore, the one crucial thing for the Bitcoin infrastructure designers to do is to find ways to shore up the security of the Bitcoin servers, and make it as difficult as possible (it's impossible to make _any_ server 100% guarantee secured, I know) to be hacked
In this scenario the "soldiers" are the developers and marketing people working at Facebook who will be directionless and end up running around in circles as the complete incompetent psycho from their team who hates everyone gets put in charge because he's the only one who steps up immediately to fill the gap.
Notice the bolded part?
Why should that happen in the first place?
How come nice people can't be the first one to put is feet forward?
Of course, I'm assuming that there _are_ plenty of good people left in fb
I guess B&N understand that they have no chance to compete on feature on the Nooks (vs other Android tablets) that's why they decide on dropping the price
And why do people call high level execs "talent" anyway?
Dear Sir,
You have asked a pertinent question
It's a social hierarchy thingy - When you're an exec of a company as famous as fb (or M$ or Google or Apple) ppl will automatically associate you with the successes of that company
Slashdot Mirror
I never stop my career while I learn, and I never stop learning in the middle of climbing the corporate ladder
I first entered the work force when I was in my primary school, working part time, during the evening hours, earned money to help my family, which was dirt poor
But I did not drop out of school
All my "holidays" became working fulltime - while my classmates went for vacations, I worked and worked
From primary school to secondary, to university, I worked while study.
Even after I obtained my first university degree, and landed a relatively comfortably paying job, I never stopped studying - I enrolled in graduate schools, as part time student
I obtained my graduate degrees that way
Now that I'm running my own businesses, and have a lot of people working with me, I still cannot stop learning - I guess the minute I stop learning is the minute I die
But for IT, I'd be looking at Singapore.
You must be kidding !!
Singapore's IT business is shit
Their best shining star is Creative Labs, the maker of sound cards, and it's going nowhere - with its share prices tanked, and tanked further
If you are really serious about IT (and I mean, serious IT, not the "facebook" kind of kid-script IT), look to Eastern Europe
For the liquidity issues, you might have noticed in the last 3 weeks a large number of chinese firms suddenly dumping stocks.
That happened for a couple of reasons:
1. Insider information
2. Tightening of credits
3. Flight of money out of China
4. Political instability - hard liners from the communist (consist of the "tai zhi dang", princes and princesses of old high ranking comrades) are trying to grab power from the moderates
Of course, there are other reasons as well, but I only list the 4 major ones
I do follow China closely, for many of my businesses is in there
If you still have doubt on the savagery of the regime that has controlled Malaysia for the past 55 years, read the following:
http://web.archive.org/web/20040712015617/http://www.waseda-coe-cas.jp/jcas/images/shinozaki_jocas.pdf
......
0 surreptitiously post defamatory content in the names/ip addresses for all the members of malaysian parliment.
1 ???
2 profit
Oh, the regime that controlled Malaysia for the past 55 years already have a ready-made solution for that
They will create a race-riot, then declare martial law, then dissolve the entire elected parliament
They had done that before - in 1969
Read the following - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13_May_incident
When China arrested its dissidents, USA protested
When Russia harassed its dissidents, USA protested
When Syria threatened its dissidents, USA protested
But when Vietnam did that, USA just keep quite, very very quite
Why??
This is nothing more than political maneouvering by the ruling government.
It's been done before, and will continue to be done. Especially because a General Election is coming up. If you read that link I posted, it was reported that the Malaysian prime minister said "Whatever we do, we must put people first,". If that were truly the case, why wasn't that position taken in the first place before the law was passed?
Basically:
1. Pass draconian law
2. Wait for public outcry
3. Repeal draconian law
4. Look like a hero
5. Profit!
That regime that controls Malaysia for 55 years can do that, time and time again, simply because the average IQ of the Malaysians - especially that of the majority Malays - is below 75
If you follow the following links, you will understand how easy it is to manipulate the majority Muslim Malays -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_racism#Malaysian_institutional_racism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_head_protests
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_attacks_against_places_of_worship_in_Malaysia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Shaariibuugiin_Altantuyaa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mt5qR98-jE8
http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/Scorpenes-Sting-Liberation-Publishes-Expose-re-Malaysias-Bribery-Murder-Scandal-05347/
http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htmurph/20091224.aspx
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBIgmdMNE7Q
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Lalang
Malaysia is an Islamic country
From Saudi Arabia to Malaysia to Iran to Bangladesh, we see a pattern --- Islamic countries aren't actually famous for their tolerance of free speech
But of course, not all countries that do not allow free speech are Islamic countries. North Korea and Cuba are not Islamic, but then, they are commies
I guess the commies are in bed with the Islamists on their quest to snuff out all free speech
Not only flying is too energy intensive, the concept of flying cars poses a HUGE RISK in this world we live in today, where there are people who are crazy enough to blow themselves up just so that people around them die with them
Imagine you have flying cars zipping around buildings - how are you to ensure that no one load up one (or more) flying car(s) with strong explosives and then slam it/them into an office building?
A lot of Asian nation has no capital gain tax
Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Indonesia all have no capital gain tax
How do I know?
I own businesses in all those countries
Your neighbor is not that important
Methinks the Very Large Telescope should be used to observe the following:
1. The Second Coming of Jesus (maybe this time He is coming on a flying saucer or something like that)
2. ET - and maybe this time the ET knows how to use mobile phone to "call home"
If I had been one of the victims, I would have sued the site directly in Singapore court. A small tax haven and tax shelter like Singapore is much more likely to want to encourage this type of industry and therefore encourage straight dealings in those types of transactions.
Dear Sir,
I do not know where you get the notion that Singapore being a tax heaven
Before anybody else gets hurt, I need to say that Singapore is NO tax heaven.
Never was, never is, and the way it looks, not likely to be in the future, either
That $500 million price tag tells me one thing - someone is making a killing !
While I agree with you that the victims on this case should share a portion of the blame, we need to understand that not all the bitcoin users are super tech-savvy
Sure, compare with the Joe Sixpacks on the back alleys the average bitcoin users do comprehend more tech terms, but that does not make them super-tech-savvy - I bet that there _are_ users who do not know which database engine a particular site they visit is using
Actually that happened in real life - not floating-point round-off, of course, but there were cases (back in the 1980's, if I remember correctly) of bank insiders setting up fake accounts collecting pennies from the banking transactions and ending up with sums worth millions of dollars
What you said rings true.
Bitcoin can't exist by itself - the world we live in, whether we like it or not, still runs on cash (fiat money) and at the places where bitcoins are converted into real cold-hard-cash that makes it traceable.
But that also opens up one new possibility, for some one to set up a untraceable (or not that easy to trace) bitcoin/cash exchange.
Personally I do not know if that could ever become a reality, tho.
Dear Sir,
Thank you for a very insightful and very thoughtful reply.
It definitely deserves an equally thoughtful reply, which unfortunately my brain isn't qualified to do so, at this junction of time.
However, I will give it a very detail and step-by-step re-thinking and hopefully I may be able to find some new insights.
Thank you again, Sir (or Madam) !
The Bitcoin infrastructure might be secured, it's just that the weakest link is in the server
When the server is hacked, and all the info (Bitcoin is made up of encrypted information, please correct me if I am wrong) contained within it is stolen, it's as good as the Bitcoins were stolen and can be used elsewhere
Therefore, the one crucial thing for the Bitcoin infrastructure designers to do is to find ways to shore up the security of the Bitcoin servers, and make it as difficult as possible (it's impossible to make _any_ server 100% guarantee secured, I know) to be hacked
The curious thing is why would you care so much? Are you an investor or prospective investor?
The term "used to be" suits the most, regarding investment on fb
I love this part:
Steve Ballmer still throwing chairs at the tree
If I was foolish enough to have bought FB stock I'd be pretty panicky around now.
LOL !!
We were allotted a part of fb for something that we'd done for them
All the shares under my name (not that much, btw) got sold out the first day of the IPO
Based on my own experience (since the 1970's in the tech field) I do not see any bright future for fb
In this scenario the "soldiers" are the developers and marketing people working at Facebook who will be directionless and end up running around in circles as the complete incompetent psycho from their team who hates everyone gets put in charge because he's the only one who steps up immediately to fill the gap.
Notice the bolded part?
Why should that happen in the first place?
How come nice people can't be the first one to put is feet forward?
Of course, I'm assuming that there _are_ plenty of good people left in fb
Please tell me if I'm wrong
As I said before, I can't disclose too much on what we are working on
One can compete in two manners ---
On feature / service
or
On price
I guess B&N understand that they have no chance to compete on feature on the Nooks (vs other Android tablets) that's why they decide on dropping the price
And why do people call high level execs "talent" anyway?
Dear Sir,
You have asked a pertinent question
It's a social hierarchy thingy - When you're an exec of a company as famous as fb (or M$ or Google or Apple) ppl will automatically associate you with the successes of that company