Thanks for your absolutely heart-warming post! I enjoy the support this board gives me! I have a talking, pink pony which just configured my Linux laptop its WiFi!:D
Just today, I gave a presentation created with Google Docs. WIth the right background and font colors, it was virtually indistinguisable from our usual company its PowerPoint template. Combining all the Google stuff together and you have a situation where you hardly need local storage. So, I'd give the Chrome OS a hearty welcome, even though it might offer too much limitations for others. I've given up my office suite, my IMAP and SMTP server and my webmail. For me personally, it's perfectly usable in business.
Really what you need to do is find something that you want to do. [...] Add a feature to a program you use regularly (an IM program, for instance), write a program that would make your life easier, or fix a random bug from some project's bug tracker.
First you narrate how you created and adapted some really cool games, then you conclude how the question asker could adapt some boring software packages. I'd like to suggest to the question asker that he picks up your first advice. There are plenty of open source games and I would suggest the (relatively) straightforward and very addictive games of Parallel Realities, two brothers creating really cool arcade-like games. Some years ago I did a write-up on how to adjust their Starfighter game to include an additional weapon.
On the other hand, it's not quite good enough to avoid stepping on toys left out by my two year old.
Acoustic expert Juan Antonio Martinez at the University of Alcalà de Henares in Spain says it takes 'Two hours per day for a couple of weeks' to learn echolocation. On the other had, we have the toddler, for which it takes at least 18 years to learn to clean up his garbage after him.
Get business partners. It will greatly increase your chances of success
This very much depends on what kind of person you are. I was wrestling with this question and I've spoken to a couple of entrepreneurs. A lot of them start with a partner, but it's like a marriage. You have to agree on everything and that can be difficult. So you should damn well look at yourself from an outside perspective and think whether you're really a team player or more of a person who'd rather achieve on his own.
Sometimes I have the idea that the approval process consists of an Apple employee typing swearing words into any text field of an app.
We're in the middle of creating an iPhone app for a client and they provide an API for the app. I've actually advised them to filter out a bunch of bad words, so the approval process won't be impeded for some dumb reason.
Ah yes, I can see where you're going. That brings me to an interesting point, by the way. If more customers would use iPhones, then I guess you've already done the hard work, right? I.e. the first creation of the apps. Then "all" that would needed to be done, would be the porting. That might be done more easily by an off-shore developer. Easy to spec: "port this app".
I don't have an iPhone... I have too much invested in the Windows Mobile platform dating back almost a decade to really migrate at this point (plus, I write some of my own little applets and upload to my phone all the time... can't do that with the iPhone without jailbreaking)
Strictly speaking, it's not necessary to jailbreak. If you join the developer program (costs $100), you'll be able to upload your software to your phone. You can authorize other phones too.
Except Windows ME--I think I heard a complaint about that somewhere along the line
Bill, as we all know after the AC outed you, you are a professional, paid internet marketeer working for Microsoft. I'm amazed you mention any complaints about Windows ME. Do you stop at nothing to gain credibility here?
We weren't content with just the billboards that reality already has...
The great thing is, this app will just grey out those billboards with competitors on it! Your great new reality will not be muddled with the useless drivel of our competitors!
Whoops sorry, I have to say I'm ashamed I believed straight-up what that AC wrote. BTW just curious; on what OS do the cable boxes run? Something like VxWorks?
If this works for you and your gf - great. However success of this strategy depends on willingness of the other side to listen to you. It's not something that you can unilaterally adopt.
Very true. It took some physical exercise and 15 feet of rope to implement it. But I'm happy!:D
There is only one way to exit a fight with a woman - by accepting your fault and apologizing
That seems a bit one-sided for me. I'd rather not accept/admit my faults, I'm not that big a man. Instead, I'll try to see it from her perspective and try to verbalize that, i.e.:
She: Would you damnit listen to me for once?! Me: Alright, let's sit down. I bet I went off the other way completely just yet? She: Yes, and I really hate that. Me: OK, I'll try not to do that next time. Give me a hug.
See that there's no sorry there? Small thing for others, big for me.
The last time Mozilla added support for a tag that had some automatic animated behavior, the browser was still called Netscape and the tag was universally reviled. I hope they don't blink again.
The one major downfall of the blink tag was that it did not have support for an interval attribute.
Of course Vikings care about significant digits. Typically it requires four digits on each hand to grip a two-handed battle axe effectively. So I can lose one digit from each hand, no worries, as long as it wasn't a thumb -- I'll still be drinking mead from a skraeling's skull.
Mod parent up. Incidentally, this is the reason that Linux was created in Vikingland. Linux was provided with robust security features by 8-fingered Vikings who counted octal as if it were their destiny to do so. Thus a quick
$ chmod 600/etc/passwd
or an easy
$ chmod 4775/var/www
came quite natural to the eight-fingered Viking hacker dudes.
I'll do better than that. ~10 years ago I visited the racks of a major cable internet provider in the Netherlands. There stood a lonely old Pentium 3 tower, in fading brown/beige colors, between the fancy rackmounted Cisco equipment, providing DHCP for a ~750,000 resident area in which that provider was basically the monopoly for cable internet.
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Thanks for your absolutely heart-warming post! I enjoy the support this board gives me! I have a talking, pink pony which just configured my Linux laptop its WiFi! :D
Just today, I gave a presentation created with Google Docs. WIth the right background and font colors, it was virtually indistinguisable from our usual company its PowerPoint template. Combining all the Google stuff together and you have a situation where you hardly need local storage. So, I'd give the Chrome OS a hearty welcome, even though it might offer too much limitations for others. I've given up my office suite, my IMAP and SMTP server and my webmail. For me personally, it's perfectly usable in business.
One drawback is I can't give directions at ALL, but thats minor to me.
My girlfriend can't either, but unfortunately that doesn't stop her at ALL.
No, not just one. It's tortoises all the way down, young man.
Reading back my comment, it comes across as snide/snarky, sorry about that. I totally agree with your point -- the motivation is all important.
Really what you need to do is find something that you want to do. [...] Add a feature to a program you use regularly (an IM program, for instance), write a program that would make your life easier, or fix a random bug from some project's bug tracker.
First you narrate how you created and adapted some really cool games, then you conclude how the question asker could adapt some boring software packages. I'd like to suggest to the question asker that he picks up your first advice. There are plenty of open source games and I would suggest the (relatively) straightforward and very addictive games of Parallel Realities, two brothers creating really cool arcade-like games. Some years ago I did a write-up on how to adjust their Starfighter game to include an additional weapon.
On the other hand, it's not quite good enough to avoid stepping on toys left out by my two year old.
Acoustic expert Juan Antonio Martinez at the University of Alcalà de Henares in Spain says it takes 'Two hours per day for a couple of weeks' to learn echolocation. On the other had, we have the toddler, for which it takes at least 18 years to learn to clean up his garbage after him.
Get business partners. It will greatly increase your chances of success
This very much depends on what kind of person you are. I was wrestling with this question and I've spoken to a couple of entrepreneurs. A lot of them start with a partner, but it's like a marriage. You have to agree on everything and that can be difficult. So you should damn well look at yourself from an outside perspective and think whether you're really a team player or more of a person who'd rather achieve on his own.
Sometimes I have the idea that the approval process consists of an Apple employee typing swearing words into any text field of an app.
We're in the middle of creating an iPhone app for a client and they provide an API for the app. I've actually advised them to filter out a bunch of bad words, so the approval process won't be impeded for some dumb reason.
Ah yes, I can see where you're going. That brings me to an interesting point, by the way. If more customers would use iPhones, then I guess you've already done the hard work, right? I.e. the first creation of the apps. Then "all" that would needed to be done, would be the porting. That might be done more easily by an off-shore developer. Easy to spec: "port this app".
I don't have an iPhone... I have too much invested in the Windows Mobile platform dating back almost a decade to really migrate at this point (plus, I write some of my own little applets and upload to my phone all the time... can't do that with the iPhone without jailbreaking)
Strictly speaking, it's not necessary to jailbreak. If you join the developer program (costs $100), you'll be able to upload your software to your phone. You can authorize other phones too.
Someone mod this guy down, obvious troll ~
Except Windows ME--I think I heard a complaint about that somewhere along the line
Bill, as we all know after the AC outed you, you are a professional, paid internet marketeer working for Microsoft. I'm amazed you mention any complaints about Windows ME. Do you stop at nothing to gain credibility here?
*ducks*
*runs*
We weren't content with just the billboards that reality already has...
The great thing is, this app will just grey out those billboards with competitors on it! Your great new reality will not be muddled with the useless drivel of our competitors!
Whoops sorry, I have to say I'm ashamed I believed straight-up what that AC wrote. BTW just curious; on what OS do the cable boxes run? Something like VxWorks?
up up down down left right left right a b b a.
Then what? "Dancing Queen" started playing?
He should have fully disclosed his credentials.
Yes, but unlike Google, the government's motto is "Do evil." At least I'm pretty sure it is.
They combined and transformed into a small potato that doesn't give a shit.
Ah, when will man learn that all races are equally inferior to robots.
Say what you will, but when the revolution comes, count me in with the robot smashers.
Old AT cases and power supplies should be just about free, [...] you will have a very reliable, well-cooled, very cheap solution.
Two years of constant running could mean that a standard enclosure, consuming less power, is actually cheaper.
If this works for you and your gf - great. However success of this strategy depends on willingness of the other side to listen to you. It's not something that you can unilaterally adopt.
Very true. It took some physical exercise and 15 feet of rope to implement it. But I'm happy! :D
There is only one way to exit a fight with a woman - by accepting your fault and apologizing
That seems a bit one-sided for me. I'd rather not accept/admit my faults, I'm not that big a man. Instead, I'll try to see it from her perspective and try to verbalize that, i.e.:
She: Would you damnit listen to me for once?!
Me: Alright, let's sit down. I bet I went off the other way completely just yet?
She: Yes, and I really hate that.
Me: OK, I'll try not to do that next time. Give me a hug.
See that there's no sorry there? Small thing for others, big for me.
The last time Mozilla added support for a tag that had some automatic animated behavior, the browser was still called Netscape and the tag was universally reviled. I hope they don't blink again.
The one major downfall of the blink tag was that it did not have support for an interval attribute.
Of course Vikings care about significant digits. Typically it requires four digits on each hand to grip a two-handed battle axe effectively. So I can lose one digit from each hand, no worries, as long as it wasn't a thumb -- I'll still be drinking mead from a skraeling's skull.
Mod parent up. Incidentally, this is the reason that Linux was created in Vikingland. Linux was provided with robust security features by 8-fingered Vikings who counted octal as if it were their destiny to do so. Thus a quick
$ chmod 600 /etc/passwd
or an easy
$ chmod 4775 /var/www
came quite natural to the eight-fingered Viking hacker dudes.
I'll do better than that. ~10 years ago I visited the racks of a major cable internet provider in the Netherlands. There stood a lonely old Pentium 3 tower, in fading brown/beige colors, between the fancy rackmounted Cisco equipment, providing DHCP for a ~750,000 resident area in which that provider was basically the monopoly for cable internet.
True story.