The authors are a condensed matter physicist and a lawyer. No economists there. So the "global financial crisis" they refer to could be that some countries benefit, others lose, that some companies make higher profits and others go bankrupt. How is that different from today's "crises"? An economist could help.
"Getting Things Done" by David Allen is certainly not a computer science book, but many successful computer scientists and entrepreneurs I know have read it and use its principles. GTD helps us organize and maintain their opportunities, plans and intents into a structure. It gets our to-do items out of our heads and into an organized system, so we can focus on one thing at a time. This was one of the most transformative books I've read, and I have a computer science Ph.D.
I hypothesize Google pays for these images, and they are more likely to pay for recent high-res (i.e. more expensive) metropolitan images because there is greater demand (primarily from Google Maps rather than Google Earth). That's why your images are low-res and old. I'm pretty sure Google doesn't own any satellites. It's very expensive to deploy a satellite, and several companies have gone bankrupt with satellite-based products (Iridium is the most notable one, Sirius/XM may soon join the club). If such companies don't recover their costs, they will tank.
I would suggest that you make a case with Digital Globe to see if they will donate images in exchange for some kind of co-promotion. Such as, If you find the downed plane, you will say Digital Globe helped. It's worth a shot.
You should solidify your ownership of the domain immediately, and consider specifics about offers, etc. later.
I had an interesting challenge to my ownership of the Chaco.com domain. We were using it legitimately to host material on Chaco Canyon, as well as hosting our MUD client (formerly owned by our company Chaco Communications). And yet, we were challenged by Chaco Sandals. The challenge was close; we almost lost the domain, just because we were a little sloppy.
Based on my experience, I would suggest that you get all the domain ownership issues in a solid form: Use your own name, make sure the addresses are correct and usable, don't use a "privacy filter" like GoDaddy sells to hide your identity.
That reducing the wealth of people in an area makes them more subservient and dependent on the wealthy? In this case, the state... Sanctions ironically simply cement the power of the powerful. You make people more independent by making them wealthy.
How do you explain Saudi Arabia (wealthy people, subservient)? Or South Africa (wealthy country, converted to broad democracy by sanctions)? Sanctions do work when you can enforce them, but I'm guessing they'll be impossible to enforce with China due to its vast export economy and huge number of trading partners.
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I tried running IPv6 and it works great within the company (Linux, Windows, Mac), but that our ISP did not support IPv6 caused insurmountable problems.
Are ISPs being pressured by anyone to support IPv6?
The CIO skillset is, in some ways, more valuable than that of a CEO. What qualities would we find in an almost-CEO-ready CIO? They can accurate forward-project costs and revenue, they understand market forces and build their plant to be scalable to those forces and their variances. They respect the value of marketing, sales, finance and operations in the context of their job.
Guess what? There are very few such CIOs. If you find one, would you really want to "promote" them to the CEO position, and potentially destroy the productivity engine that they have created?
I have served in the role of CEO, VP Engineering, CIO and CTO. Sometime I feel my strongest value is understanding computer science, software engineering and project planning, so hearing a plan I can confidently say "that's a reasonable thing to do" or "the vendor says you will spend only $1M on that, but I can assure you it will balloon into $10M."
So that begs the question: With so much of the company riding on a good information architecture and good IT decisions, should such a person be the CEO, or left where they do the most good? Maybe the right answer is just to compensate that person like a CEO, since their value in that role is so high.
I don't really care if neighbors use my Wifi. In fact, if the alternative is they get one of their own, I would MUCH rather my neighbors use MY wifi. Reason: Wifi spectrum overlaps somewhat due to harmonics, so even if you and your neighbors use different channels, the interference between nearby channel numbers slows things down.
How about showing a splash-screen with referencing a Paypal account, and ask them to send you $10 a month?
On an unrelated note, I once had a consulting gig in Salt Lake City living at the Brigham Young Apartments, and my husband, bless his gay soul, marked our open SSID as "Nice Gay Married Couple".
I use Linux on a laptop (server development), and the only reason I still (also) carry around a Mac laptop is email and calendaring.
When you are traveling on planes or working on a bus, you cannot use a web email interface. Business people need this capability. Having a good email client with calendaring (Evolution and Thunderbird are not there yet) will make all the difference.
My sympathies to the author. I had a similar question myself, but simple Googling doesn't really answer the question.
Aren't there some failure modes where RAID 1 doesn't work well? What if a drive doesn't fail, but instead fails to return the correct data?
It seems to me that RAID 5 would determine which of the drives is returning bad data, and correctly mark the drive bad, in situations where RAID 1 might not be able to detect which drive is bad.
Not only was Turing gay, but his society "rewarded" him for his contributions by arresting and convicting him for a homosexual encounter. He was an honest man, and talked about it in court. And so then, the British government subjected him to chemical castration. His suicide followed that conviction.
Please do your bit to stamp out anti-gay bias in your workplace and society. There are a lot of contributing, good people in computer science, and every other field. It's really a shame how most of the world mistreats them.
Those bemoaning the loss of hype aren't thinking very far forward.
The only companies whose hype is actually believed are large companies, not startups. Therefore, forcing people to become legally liable for lying about the capabilities of their software, will improve the chances for small productive companies.
I don't know how software engineers can really defend this practice of hyping. If hype is outlawed, the product of their labor (aka "the true product") becomes more important, and therefore software engineers themselves become more important.
I'm in favor of truth.
I love beautiful fonts, but Mozilla has dropped the ball on downloadable fonts, so this news is only half-relevant to web developers. We can put the font on our personal machines, but I can't build a web site that relies on Vera.
The New York Times and other font-savvy internet publishers have long stated their disinterest in recommending Mozilla because it cannot accurately render documents in some of the fonts they specify.
What is interfering with implementing downloadable fonts in Mozilla? I've heard from Mozilla folks that BitStream is the problem, but here it seems that BitStream has gone to great lengths to help the Gnome folks, which is likely a smaller audience than Mozilla folks.
Flumoxed and grumpy, I nevertheless remain your humble servant.
Startups presently making no money still have a number of advantages in filing as a C Corporation. If you're serious about an eventual multi-million dollar company, you should spend a few hundred and talk to a wise corporate lawyer soon.
First and foremost: If you obtain stock (not options) in a C corp (NOT an S corp or LLC) that is worth less than something like $30M when you get the stock (mine was worth near-zero), and if you hold it for at least 5 years, you can take advantage of a 50% discount on your capital gains taxes.
Remember: a 50% discount can be worth millions of dollars. Even if it's worth only $100,000, it would be worth it. It cut my capital gains from 28% to 14%. This is a reward from the US Govt for having the insight and fortitude to create a company from next-to-nothing. It is called an "83(b) Election", and it requires your shareholders (aka employees, maybe just you) to file an "83(b) Election form" when they file their personal tax forms.
Second: If you have employees, you can deduct taxes on health insurance from the company's expenses. You didn't used to be able to do this with an S corp, but maybe things have changed. This isn't a huge advantage. The big one is the first.
When I formed our C corporation, it really did seem silly to file these 83(b) Election forms, but we did what our lawyers told us to do. I can tell you that the 5 founders of our company are incredibly grateful.
I think we probably spewed $15,000 on legal fees in our first year of no-revenue operation. It took about 3 years before we made anything reasonable in revenue (like more than $100,000). We never made a profit. But we were acquired for a respectable amount of money. And our software is still in wide use.
It took about 5 years for our company to reach liquidity, through 3 mergers. Even after all that rigamarole, that 83(b) Election came through.
It's disappointing to see so many people talking about stuff here that they don't understand, and worse putting you down for not making any money yet. As you can see, the road to success is lined with naysayers. That's always the case with innovators, so don't let it get you down.
I do think that advice to get an accountant is probably reasonable (although I only use accountants for advice, not to do the actual filings).
However, if you are serious about creating a self-sustaining company with lots of revenue, I highly recommend a corporate lawyer. Because I am cheap, I use our corporate lawyers sparingly, asking for contract reviews only on the first contracts of a particular type, asking for patent reviews but writing patents myself (do follow suggestions about Nolo's Patent It Yourself and other Nolo books--very good resources).
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The authors are a condensed matter physicist and a lawyer. No economists there. So the "global financial crisis" they refer to could be that some countries benefit, others lose, that some companies make higher profits and others go bankrupt. How is that different from today's "crises"? An economist could help.
Doesn't work for business accounts, so no good for folks that put their mobiles under a business account (like many consultants).
"Getting Things Done" by David Allen is certainly not a computer science book, but many successful computer scientists and entrepreneurs I know have read it and use its principles. GTD helps us organize and maintain their opportunities, plans and intents into a structure. It gets our to-do items out of our heads and into an organized system, so we can focus on one thing at a time. This was one of the most transformative books I've read, and I have a computer science Ph.D.
Municipal buses frequently have bike racks. San Francisco bay area bus lines have them. Regional trains allow bikes on board, etc.
I hypothesize Google pays for these images, and they are more likely to pay for recent high-res (i.e. more expensive) metropolitan images because there is greater demand (primarily from Google Maps rather than Google Earth). That's why your images are low-res and old. I'm pretty sure Google doesn't own any satellites. It's very expensive to deploy a satellite, and several companies have gone bankrupt with satellite-based products (Iridium is the most notable one, Sirius/XM may soon join the club). If such companies don't recover their costs, they will tank.
I would suggest that you make a case with Digital Globe to see if they will donate images in exchange for some kind of co-promotion. Such as, If you find the downed plane, you will say Digital Globe helped. It's worth a shot.
You should solidify your ownership of the domain immediately, and consider specifics about offers, etc. later.
I had an interesting challenge to my ownership of the Chaco.com domain. We were using it legitimately to host material on Chaco Canyon, as well as hosting our MUD client (formerly owned by our company Chaco Communications). And yet, we were challenged by Chaco Sandals. The challenge was close; we almost lost the domain, just because we were a little sloppy.
The details are here:
http://domains.adrforum.com/domains/decisions/791739.htm
Based on my experience, I would suggest that you get all the domain ownership issues in a solid form: Use your own name, make sure the addresses are correct and usable, don't use a "privacy filter" like GoDaddy sells to hide your identity.
Good luck.
That reducing the wealth of people in an area makes them more subservient and dependent on the wealthy? In this case, the state... Sanctions ironically simply cement the power of the powerful. You make people more independent by making them wealthy.
How do you explain Saudi Arabia (wealthy people, subservient)? Or South Africa (wealthy country, converted to broad democracy by sanctions)? Sanctions do work when you can enforce them, but I'm guessing they'll be impossible to enforce with China due to its vast export economy and huge number of trading partners.
I tried running IPv6 and it works great within the company (Linux, Windows, Mac), but that our ISP did not support IPv6 caused insurmountable problems.
Are ISPs being pressured by anyone to support IPv6?
The CIO skillset is, in some ways, more valuable than that of a CEO. What qualities would we find in an almost-CEO-ready CIO? They can accurate forward-project costs and revenue, they understand market forces and build their plant to be scalable to those forces and their variances. They respect the value of marketing, sales, finance and operations in the context of their job.
Guess what? There are very few such CIOs. If you find one, would you really want to "promote" them to the CEO position, and potentially destroy the productivity engine that they have created?
I have served in the role of CEO, VP Engineering, CIO and CTO. Sometime I feel my strongest value is understanding computer science, software engineering and project planning, so hearing a plan I can confidently say "that's a reasonable thing to do" or "the vendor says you will spend only $1M on that, but I can assure you it will balloon into $10M."
So that begs the question: With so much of the company riding on a good information architecture and good IT decisions, should such a person be the CEO, or left where they do the most good? Maybe the right answer is just to compensate that person like a CEO, since their value in that role is so high.
I don't really care if neighbors use my Wifi. In fact, if the alternative is they get one of their own, I would MUCH rather my neighbors use MY wifi. Reason: Wifi spectrum overlaps somewhat due to harmonics, so even if you and your neighbors use different channels, the interference between nearby channel numbers slows things down.
How about showing a splash-screen with referencing a Paypal account, and ask them to send you $10 a month?
On an unrelated note, I once had a consulting gig in Salt Lake City living at the Brigham Young Apartments, and my husband, bless his gay soul, marked our open SSID as "Nice Gay Married Couple".
I use Linux on a laptop (server development), and the only reason I still (also) carry around a Mac laptop is email and calendaring.
When you are traveling on planes or working on a bus, you cannot use a web email interface. Business people need this capability. Having a good email client with calendaring (Evolution and Thunderbird are not there yet) will make all the difference.
The market > Developers who sit at a desk.
My sympathies to the author. I had a similar question myself, but simple Googling doesn't really answer the question.
Aren't there some failure modes where RAID 1 doesn't work well? What if a drive doesn't fail, but instead fails to return the correct data?
It seems to me that RAID 5 would determine which of the drives is returning bad data, and correctly mark the drive bad, in situations where RAID 1 might not be able to detect which drive is bad.
Could a RAID expert please address this?
Not only was Turing gay, but his society "rewarded" him for his contributions by arresting and convicting him for a homosexual encounter. He was an honest man, and talked about it in court. And so then, the British government subjected him to chemical castration. His suicide followed that conviction. Please do your bit to stamp out anti-gay bias in your workplace and society. There are a lot of contributing, good people in computer science, and every other field. It's really a shame how most of the world mistreats them.
Those bemoaning the loss of hype aren't thinking very far forward. The only companies whose hype is actually believed are large companies, not startups. Therefore, forcing people to become legally liable for lying about the capabilities of their software, will improve the chances for small productive companies. I don't know how software engineers can really defend this practice of hyping. If hype is outlawed, the product of their labor (aka "the true product") becomes more important, and therefore software engineers themselves become more important. I'm in favor of truth.
I love beautiful fonts, but Mozilla has dropped the ball on downloadable fonts, so this news is only half-relevant to web developers. We can put the font on our personal machines, but I can't build a web site that relies on Vera.
The New York Times and other font-savvy internet publishers have long stated their disinterest in recommending Mozilla because it cannot accurately render documents in some of the fonts they specify.
What is interfering with implementing downloadable fonts in Mozilla? I've heard from Mozilla folks that BitStream is the problem, but here it seems that BitStream has gone to great lengths to help the Gnome folks, which is likely a smaller audience than Mozilla folks.
Flumoxed and grumpy, I nevertheless remain your humble servant.
Startups presently making no money still have a number of advantages in filing as a C Corporation. If you're serious about an eventual multi-million dollar company, you should spend a few hundred and talk to a wise corporate lawyer soon.
First and foremost: If you obtain stock (not options) in a C corp (NOT an S corp or LLC) that is worth less than something like $30M when you get the stock (mine was worth near-zero), and if you hold it for at least 5 years, you can take advantage of a 50% discount on your capital gains taxes.
Remember: a 50% discount can be worth millions of dollars. Even if it's worth only $100,000, it would be worth it. It cut my capital gains from 28% to 14%. This is a reward from the US Govt for having the insight and fortitude to create a company from next-to-nothing. It is called an "83(b) Election", and it requires your shareholders (aka employees, maybe just you) to file an "83(b) Election form" when they file their personal tax forms.
Second: If you have employees, you can deduct taxes on health insurance from the company's expenses. You didn't used to be able to do this with an S corp, but maybe things have changed. This isn't a huge advantage. The big one is the first.
When I formed our C corporation, it really did seem silly to file these 83(b) Election forms, but we did what our lawyers told us to do. I can tell you that the 5 founders of our company are incredibly grateful.
I think we probably spewed $15,000 on legal fees in our first year of no-revenue operation. It took about 3 years before we made anything reasonable in revenue (like more than $100,000). We never made a profit. But we were acquired for a respectable amount of money. And our software is still in wide use.
It took about 5 years for our company to reach liquidity, through 3 mergers. Even after all that rigamarole, that 83(b) Election came through.
It's disappointing to see so many people talking about stuff here that they don't understand, and worse putting you down for not making any money yet. As you can see, the road to success is lined with naysayers. That's always the case with innovators, so don't let it get you down.
I do think that advice to get an accountant is probably reasonable (although I only use accountants for advice, not to do the actual filings).
However, if you are serious about creating a self-sustaining company with lots of revenue, I highly recommend a corporate lawyer. Because I am cheap, I use our corporate lawyers sparingly, asking for contract reviews only on the first contracts of a particular type, asking for patent reviews but writing patents myself (do follow suggestions about Nolo's Patent It Yourself and other Nolo books--very good resources).
Good luck.