Right now I have 103 clicks since my last Google adsense payment, which will pay me $74.44. That's an average of $0.73 per click. Some clicks pay me over a dollar. Google must be taking a cut for this, advertisers are paying even more.
I started a Google adwords campaign for a company a few years ago, and thought I'd have no problem finding some keywords where I could get a trickle of customers at $0.10. No dice. I had to move to a dollar or two a click before I could even spend my advertising budget.
There's been a tent city moving around the outskirts of Seattle for 6 or 8 months, calling itself Nickelsville (in honor of Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels). It just recently moved to West Seattle: http://westseattleblog.com/blog/?p=17881
A second piece of hardware is a really good idea if it's possible to get. You can apply system updates first to the test environment to make sure it will work before putting them on the production server. You can install new server software versions and make sure the software works on it before upgrading the production system.
Also, it's nice having a complete set of hardware as a backup in case you have some critical component on the production hardware fail that you can't immediately replace. Maybe this guy was clueless, but he had the right idea. Now you have 'educated' yourself out of a proper setup.
"Why does a farmer have a wolf? How can a 5lb chicken eat a 50lb bag of grain? How is he able to prevent the wolf from eating the chicken when he's present?"
Hahah great points. This is how I'm going to answer interview riddle questions in the future!
I didn't post because I hate solutions that don't cover everything. If they don't fit all the requirements they are not a complete solution. So let me take a shot on those requirements:
1) Blogging
If you really want to do up to the minute blogging, it's probably to let people at home know you're ok. Try the following, all funded by money saved from the laptop purchase. 1) Internet cafes, 2) Phone call home to someone important (parents?) who will be kind enough to post a blog for you, using the passwords you've shared with them before you left, 3) Mo-blog from a global mobile phone, or get prepaids or something. You can set up a blog to post from a text message (to an email address), right?
2) Burning DVD's
Get a DVD-burning camcorder, and just mail the original DVD's if you can't find an internet cafe with a burner. They might get lost in the mail, but probably not. If you mail them to your blogging phone buddy (and they are savvy) you might also get a video blog out of it!
I took it as them saying that the electronics necessary to drive and power the display would be stored around the edges.
Though if course detail is available off center, they could make the edges of your vision light up as bright red, so that you'd know you are being shot at (like in video games, haha).
The end of the article comments on how the bee algorithm also allows the data center to save power. It seems like if the data center isn't getting many requests, it can send some servers into power saving standby mode. Much like if there isn't much honey to collect, the bees stay in the hive and save energy.
Are other web data centers able to shut down some servers at night to save power, or is it just because this data center seems configured to allow the servers to each serve any number of websites?
I'm guessing because it takes time and money to produce something worthwhile.
To make money from a show you need to have advertising. You can't convince people to give you money if you have no product and no clear business plan that gives the advertisers some idea of their return on investment.
PS, I bet there are lots of amateur level shows on say, youtube... have you heard of any?
I live in Seattle, WA USA and we have a shared car service called FlexCar which I often use. I've driven hybrids, pickup trucks and even a subaru station wagon, and every car has been clean inside. For $10/hour I can drive a car occasionally, and it's a nicer car than I could afford if I were to maintain my own vehicle.
Aside from the occasional smelly person, the buses are very clean here too, so maybe Seattlites are just better people:)
An intelligent older gentleman told me once that he plays the lotto every week. I thought this was a silly waste of money too, but he explained that he got entertainment value from imagining how he would spend the money. This entertainment he felt was worth far more than he spent on tickets.
Just because you probably won't win doesn't make it worthless. Try buying a ticket. Go on, you won't get addicted to gambling, but you might have fun;)
It is possible to stop a tiny bit faster by threshold braking (not locking the wheels on a car without ABS). It is very, very difficult, even when you are focusing on nothing other than stopping the car as quickly as possible.
If I'm in a panic situation I'd rather slam the brake and let the car do a very good job of braking, then focus all my brain power on driving to avoid a collision.
I don't want to appear to claim that I'm a great web designer, but I would like to say that the page you created is a little boring and difficult to read. If your lines are too long, it's difficult for your eyes to find the next line. And the higher the resolution, the longer the lines, the more difficult it is to read. I think you have generally the right idea though.
I lock my car so that I don't get in to find smelly homeless person / dangerous crazy person in my backseat. This is the same reason I lock the doors to my house. Obviously people can get in if they want to, I'd just like some indication (broken window) that my space has been compromised.
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Three cents for a click is a steal!
Right now I have 103 clicks since my last Google adsense payment, which will pay me $74.44. That's an average of $0.73 per click. Some clicks pay me over a dollar. Google must be taking a cut for this, advertisers are paying even more.
I started a Google adwords campaign for a company a few years ago, and thought I'd have no problem finding some keywords where I could get a trickle of customers at $0.10. No dice. I had to move to a dollar or two a click before I could even spend my advertising budget.
There's been a tent city moving around the outskirts of Seattle for 6 or 8 months, calling itself Nickelsville (in honor of Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels). It just recently moved to West Seattle: http://westseattleblog.com/blog/?p=17881
A second piece of hardware is a really good idea if it's possible to get. You can apply system updates first to the test environment to make sure it will work before putting them on the production server. You can install new server software versions and make sure the software works on it before upgrading the production system.
Also, it's nice having a complete set of hardware as a backup in case you have some critical component on the production hardware fail that you can't immediately replace. Maybe this guy was clueless, but he had the right idea. Now you have 'educated' yourself out of a proper setup.
Any suggestions for excellent embedded video viewer?
Any idea how widely compatible they are?
Thanks!
What kind of work do you do for those two months?
This is my thought, exactly.
I didn't post because I hate solutions that don't cover everything. If they don't fit all the requirements they are not a complete solution. So let me take a shot on those requirements:
1) Blogging
If you really want to do up to the minute blogging, it's probably to let people at home know you're ok. Try the following, all funded by money saved from the laptop purchase. 1) Internet cafes, 2) Phone call home to someone important (parents?) who will be kind enough to post a blog for you, using the passwords you've shared with them before you left, 3) Mo-blog from a global mobile phone, or get prepaids or something. You can set up a blog to post from a text message (to an email address), right?
2) Burning DVD's
Get a DVD-burning camcorder, and just mail the original DVD's if you can't find an internet cafe with a burner. They might get lost in the mail, but probably not. If you mail them to your blogging phone buddy (and they are savvy) you might also get a video blog out of it!
I took it as them saying that the electronics necessary to drive and power the display would be stored around the edges.
Though if course detail is available off center, they could make the edges of your vision light up as bright red, so that you'd know you are being shot at (like in video games, haha).
But you would also need a way for people to verify that their serial number hasn't been duplicated.
I thought they were going to shut down Arecibo or move to an array of smaller antenna's or something? Did the plan change or am I making this up?
haha, that is amazing, thank you!
So how many drops of water is the Library of Congress?
The end of the article comments on how the bee algorithm also allows the data center to save power. It seems like if the data center isn't getting many requests, it can send some servers into power saving standby mode. Much like if there isn't much honey to collect, the bees stay in the hive and save energy.
Are other web data centers able to shut down some servers at night to save power, or is it just because this data center seems configured to allow the servers to each serve any number of websites?
I'm guessing because it takes time and money to produce something worthwhile.
To make money from a show you need to have advertising. You can't convince people to give you money if you have no product and no clear business plan that gives the advertisers some idea of their return on investment.
PS, I bet there are lots of amateur level shows on say, youtube... have you heard of any?
I clicked through and saw the Number 8 off switch, took one look at the picture and thought THAT IS A TURN OFF!
Then they started talking about Data having an off switch in his leg. Wasn't it on his back?
Wouldn't the FBI be able to do something at the Federal level?
I live in Seattle, WA USA and we have a shared car service called FlexCar which I often use. I've driven hybrids, pickup trucks and even a subaru station wagon, and every car has been clean inside. For $10/hour I can drive a car occasionally, and it's a nicer car than I could afford if I were to maintain my own vehicle.
:)
Aside from the occasional smelly person, the buses are very clean here too, so maybe Seattlites are just better people
An intelligent older gentleman told me once that he plays the lotto every week. I thought this was a silly waste of money too, but he explained that he got entertainment value from imagining how he would spend the money. This entertainment he felt was worth far more than he spent on tickets.
;)
Just because you probably won't win doesn't make it worthless. Try buying a ticket. Go on, you won't get addicted to gambling, but you might have fun
It is possible to stop a tiny bit faster by threshold braking (not locking the wheels on a car without ABS). It is very, very difficult, even when you are focusing on nothing other than stopping the car as quickly as possible.
If I'm in a panic situation I'd rather slam the brake and let the car do a very good job of braking, then focus all my brain power on driving to avoid a collision.
Also, the janitor can let you back into your office after you accidentally lock yourself out late at night! I LOVE that guy!
I remember MST3k as being really funny. I just watched about a dozen samples from RiffTrax and found them not very funny. Is it just me?
I don't want to appear to claim that I'm a great web designer, but I would like to say that the page you created is a little boring and difficult to read. If your lines are too long, it's difficult for your eyes to find the next line. And the higher the resolution, the longer the lines, the more difficult it is to read. I think you have generally the right idea though.
I agree with the parent. Just because you are able to do something, doesn't mean it's right.
Actually people who work all the time we call 'workaholics'. Balance is healthy, any one thing in excess is not.
I lock my car so that I don't get in to find smelly homeless person / dangerous crazy person in my backseat. This is the same reason I lock the doors to my house. Obviously people can get in if they want to, I'd just like some indication (broken window) that my space has been compromised.