So what is it you do that will allow you to retire at 35 and has you worth that much in your 20s?
Because working for someone else (which is what we were talking about, I guess) will never get you there, unless you also live like a pauper. Hell, I could do more/longer of what I do now and it would make no difference, at all.
You and I most likely have very different priorities in life either way, but I'm interested in the anser if only because I genuinely have no idea how you could do that.
"I think you're crazy that you'll settle for doing less than your absolute best and then being able to enjoy the spoils of your hard effort for a long time afterwards."
I work a little under 40 hours a week. I have worked 60+ during times of exceptional need and I think three weeks of that is my current record. But I will never accept that as a normal working week.
If you're being asked to go into emergency mode more than a couple of times a year then your managers are getting things badly wrong. If you're being asked to do 60+ constantly, and agree to, then (IMHO) your priorities in life are all screwed up.
I was born late 70s, so I'm in my 30s. I don't live in the US though, I now live in Australia and previously lived in Europe. Neither place seems to go in for corporate slavery quite as much, praise be.
Umm... that's nothing to do with Vita, Vita is the new handheld.
And 3d is failing for a lot of reasons. Glasses are part of it, sure. Complete lack of content for home users is another big one though. I bought a 3dtv but I'm damned if I can find anything I want to use it for.
True, if you're a pedant. The words "Split Screen Multiplayer" do not define a problem.
However the problem of how to sensibly divide a screen for two players is quite nicely addressed with this tech. Not that I'll be buying it, because I already have a TV and this is a Sony.
Seriously... I don't think I could survive more than a couple of 60 hour weeks in a row, and neither would I want to. if that realyl is the situation where you are then I suggest you might want to look into other lines of work.
And yet here I am with a six figure salary, programming in C, a language that's been around since the 70s.
A good foundation in computer science doesn't become irrelevant. The language of the moment may, which is why it's not always the best idea to heavily teach the current fad.
I'm sorry but I find that somewhat hard to believe. They may well have performed thorough intellectual investigation of thought patterns, of what it means to be human, to be alive etc etc, but I think you credit them with being more influential on the rest of humanity than you can possibly support.
But others do and may wish to play with it, may even do some cool stuff. Of course they may also do risky things, brick devices, burn them out, whatever else.
This is where "disclaimer of warranty" comes in, IMHO. Perfectly fair to say something like - "Here's the source for the firmware, if you change anything and flash your own version your warranty is over. Happy Hacking"
Open firmware is also good, but take it one step at a time eh?
An open source driver for this is great news because it means the driver, and therefore the card, can be rebuilt for different architectures, can be enhanced over time, can do all the stuff that's great about open source. Not to mention serving as a learning aid for others.
Open firmware would be a bonus because then people have the ability to alter the behaviour of the card itself. Some people do care about this stuff so you have projects like Openmoko's Neo phones. There are also sometimes license problems related to distributing closed firmwares if the OS needs to load them into the device.
Driver source is more important IMHO, for now, because without it (or reverse-engineered OSS drivers) some of my projects with linux on ARM would not have been possible. One example was a wireless USB card attached to an NSLU2. Windows drivers through the old ndiswrapper were no good, it's only when open source drivers were available I could proceed.
Do you understand that available precision is only a small part of the deflationary pressure that bitcoin puts itself under?
How low you can go is irrelevant to the general theme that bitcoins are limited, therefore IF (and it's highly unlikely anyway) the currency launches into general use then the value of a bitcoin rockets upwards. As more people join this keeps happening. Goods and services must constantly revise their prices downwards and anyone that does not need to trade in bitcoins (i.e. people who still use another currency) can and will just hoard them. Why would you do anything else?
Not to mention that those who have played the games since the early days become rich as the value rises, which is a disincentive for anyone else to bother joining in now or later.
Even without that effect though, nobody will spend bitcoins as the value will keep rising due to the limited supply... either way I dom't think I'll bother.
Likewise, I've seen this sort of thing before. The gate to the development I used to live in had something like this. To get in, a visitor had to punch the house number into the gate keypad. It would then phone whatever number had been programmed into it for that house.
You could then talk back and forth and decide whether to let them in or not by pressing the button combo for gate opening.
It's not a bad idea, but it's not a new one either. At 13 I'm still impressed, but if the kid was older I wouldn't be.
Actually in the UK no school gives out diplomas, the students of private schools just pay a fee to sit the same exams from the same exam boards as everyone else does. (I'm not sure why they should have to pay a fee when everyone else gets to sit the exams at the expense of the taxpayer)
Anyway, in the US do high schools seriously get to adjudicate and hand out their own diplomas? Isn't that system just perfectly set up for abuse, variability, cheating and anything else you can think of?
"How many charities are founded by rich people? By their very nature, almost all of them."
Nonsense. There are millions of charities in the world. The number set up by some rich guy with an endowment is miniscule compared to all the grass roots efforts.
This is a good reason for session keys and Diffie-Hellman style key exchange. Using those there is no way to decrypt a captured datastream afterwards (assuming each end lives up to their end of the bargain and discards key data at connection end).
this doesn't mean you won't still get a wrench to the face, but SSL has done kit's job by then;)
You, and 99% of the people who neither know nor care about privacy, are all fine. standard os, standard browser, no uniqueness.
the like of me on debian wheezy with iceweasel and a few privacy plugins, conversely, are east to track. turns out blending into the crowd is effective. who knew?
How did you leap from my assertion - taking away all government and taxation is not the easy answer to society's woes that libertarians seem to think it is - to the idea that I approve of government controlling what I watch or buy?
There are middle roads, shades of grey here. Humans and absolutes are not a good combination. We are squishy and imprecise.
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Nope, roughly a third of the entire supply that there will ever be is out there already.
If you think the democrats in the US are anywhere near socialist then you have problems...
They are less right wing than the other lot, but not by much, they just have slightly different special interests pulling the strings.
So what is it you do that will allow you to retire at 35 and has you worth that much in your 20s?
Because working for someone else (which is what we were talking about, I guess) will never get you there, unless you also live like a pauper. Hell, I could do more/longer of what I do now and it would make no difference, at all.
You and I most likely have very different priorities in life either way, but I'm interested in the anser if only because I genuinely have no idea how you could do that.
"I think you're crazy that you'll settle for doing less than your absolute best and then being able to enjoy the spoils of your hard effort for a long time afterwards."
I'm enjoying them now.
Now there's a man who has his priorities sorted out!
Then you're crazy, IMHO.
I work a little under 40 hours a week. I have worked 60+ during times of exceptional need and I think three weeks of that is my current record. But I will never accept that as a normal working week.
If you're being asked to go into emergency mode more than a couple of times a year then your managers are getting things badly wrong. If you're being asked to do 60+ constantly, and agree to, then (IMHO) your priorities in life are all screwed up.
I was born late 70s, so I'm in my 30s. I don't live in the US though, I now live in Australia and previously lived in Europe. Neither place seems to go in for corporate slavery quite as much, praise be.
Umm... that's nothing to do with Vita, Vita is the new handheld.
And 3d is failing for a lot of reasons. Glasses are part of it, sure. Complete lack of content for home users is another big one though. I bought a 3dtv but I'm damned if I can find anything I want to use it for.
True, if you're a pedant. The words "Split Screen Multiplayer" do not define a problem.
However the problem of how to sensibly divide a screen for two players is quite nicely addressed with this tech. Not that I'll be buying it, because I already have a TV and this is a Sony.
You're doing it wrong?
Seriously... I don't think I could survive more than a couple of 60 hour weeks in a row, and neither would I want to. if that realyl is the situation where you are then I suggest you might want to look into other lines of work.
Badly written too. FTFA -
"In 2007 the Department of Homeland Security reached out to Prince, essentially asking him if he had any idea what technology that he owned."
WFT?
And yet here I am with a six figure salary, programming in C, a language that's been around since the 70s.
A good foundation in computer science doesn't become irrelevant. The language of the moment may, which is why it's not always the best idea to heavily teach the current fad.
Really?
They actually introduced new ways of thinking?
I'm sorry but I find that somewhat hard to believe. They may well have performed thorough intellectual investigation of thought patterns, of what it means to be human, to be alive etc etc, but I think you credit them with being more influential on the rest of humanity than you can possibly support.
I must have installed debian on my eee 901 fifteen times by now, and all with USB sticks and netinstall.
Never have suffered from that. How long ago did you do this?
IIRC there are options towards the end of the install to tell it which drive/partition grub should go on.
Me? No I don't have that expertise.
But others do and may wish to play with it, may even do some cool stuff. Of course they may also do risky things, brick devices, burn them out, whatever else.
This is where "disclaimer of warranty" comes in, IMHO. Perfectly fair to say something like - "Here's the source for the firmware, if you change anything and flash your own version your warranty is over. Happy Hacking"
Open firmware is also good, but take it one step at a time eh?
An open source driver for this is great news because it means the driver, and therefore the card, can be rebuilt for different architectures, can be enhanced over time, can do all the stuff that's great about open source. Not to mention serving as a learning aid for others.
Open firmware would be a bonus because then people have the ability to alter the behaviour of the card itself. Some people do care about this stuff so you have projects like Openmoko's Neo phones. There are also sometimes license problems related to distributing closed firmwares if the OS needs to load them into the device.
Driver source is more important IMHO, for now, because without it (or reverse-engineered OSS drivers) some of my projects with linux on ARM would not have been possible. One example was a wireless USB card attached to an NSLU2. Windows drivers through the old ndiswrapper were no good, it's only when open source drivers were available I could proceed.
Do you understand that available precision is only a small part of the deflationary pressure that bitcoin puts itself under?
How low you can go is irrelevant to the general theme that bitcoins are limited, therefore IF (and it's highly unlikely anyway) the currency launches into general use then the value of a bitcoin rockets upwards. As more people join this keeps happening. Goods and services must constantly revise their prices downwards and anyone that does not need to trade in bitcoins (i.e. people who still use another currency) can and will just hoard them. Why would you do anything else?
Not to mention that those who have played the games since the early days become rich as the value rises, which is a disincentive for anyone else to bother joining in now or later.
Not infinite, but near enough, sure.
Even without that effect though, nobody will spend bitcoins as the value will keep rising due to the limited supply... either way I dom't think I'll bother.
That's exactly the situation! Good guess...
Chromium is the (Google-run) open source project. Google then take this, build in flash, and deliver it as Chrome
Likewise, I've seen this sort of thing before. The gate to the development I used to live in had something like this. To get in, a visitor had to punch the house number into the gate keypad. It would then phone whatever number had been programmed into it for that house.
You could then talk back and forth and decide whether to let them in or not by pressing the button combo for gate opening.
It's not a bad idea, but it's not a new one either. At 13 I'm still impressed, but if the kid was older I wouldn't be.
Actually in the UK no school gives out diplomas, the students of private schools just pay a fee to sit the same exams from the same exam boards as everyone else does.
(I'm not sure why they should have to pay a fee when everyone else gets to sit the exams at the expense of the taxpayer)
Anyway, in the US do high schools seriously get to adjudicate and hand out their own diplomas? Isn't that system just perfectly set up for abuse, variability, cheating and anything else you can think of?
"How many charities are founded by rich people? By their very nature, almost all of them."
Nonsense. There are millions of charities in the world. The number set up by some rich guy with an endowment is miniscule compared to all the grass roots efforts.
This is a good reason for session keys and Diffie-Hellman style key exchange. Using those there is no way to decrypt a captured datastream afterwards (assuming each end lives up to their end of the bargain and discards key data at connection end).
this doesn't mean you won't still get a wrench to the face, but SSL has done kit's job by then ;)
You, and 99% of the people who neither know nor care about privacy, are all fine. standard os, standard browser, no uniqueness.
the like of me on debian wheezy with iceweasel and a few privacy plugins, conversely, are east to track. turns out blending into the crowd is effective. who knew?
How did you leap from my assertion - taking away all government and taxation is not the easy answer to society's woes that libertarians seem to think it is - to the idea that I approve of government controlling what I watch or buy?
There are middle roads, shades of grey here. Humans and absolutes are not a good combination. We are squishy and imprecise.
All I see there is the standard libertarian fantasy - taking away government necessarily means everything will be just peachy.
It's bullshit now as it ever has been.