10 years of freelance experience also is a "proper job", you know...
You learn plenty of stuff as a freelancer that you don't in a corporate environment. Chief among them, how to get things done on a shoe string budget, and how to pick your customers, contractors and occasional partners.
Not to mention, you get to travel and work outdoor year-round if your job allows it. That's absolutely priceless, considering that most people are too broke to travel at age 20 and too old to do so at age 60.
There's nothing wrong with starting as a freelancer.
Not sure what you mean by multilevel logic, but I'd suggest it screams for multiplexed logic. (By this, I mean using the same gates several times at once by multiplexing, who knows, different wavelengths, polarizations or angular moments.)
Seems to me that there are a gazillion other, better means to launder money... For instance gambling outfits or night clubs, or RE development in 3rd-world countries.
I'm not aware of any data from Apple, but several devs publish their stats. Bloggers periodically aggregate the whole thing and make pretty graphs. Here's what things looked like last March:
"More than 1000 visitors to blogs dedicated to discussions of climate science completed a questionnaire"
I'd agree that it is probably a fairly good representation of those deeply involved in the debate, who read those blogs and are willing to take time to do the survey.
Err... A regular follower of this kind of blog can only be at one or the other end of the climat extremism spectrum.
Not one in the lot will give the honest scientist's answer, which is that nobody has the slightest effing clue for the long term, beyond the fact that weather patterns are -- duh! -- variable and seemingly varying upwards.
Where this argument falls apart lies in the fact that the documentation is seldom written whereas the code actually is.
Typically, this is because the code gets maintained; whereas the documentation/spec, by contrast, seldom is. When it is, it all too often turns into an endless list of how to work around known bugs.
And it's likely all FUD... As far as I've been reading, someone pulled another Mike Daisey, and the MSM is parroting the same source over and over without verifying that the information is correct in the first place
Quelle surprise! Excuse me while I don my shocked face.
Since when isn't there a huge line of candidates waiting for work in front of Foxconn?
I think Apple may be hitting the peak with the iPhone. Unless I am mistaken most people who have an iPhone are pretty happy with what they have. What is there left to drive current users to upgrade again? What is going to be the next Cool killer must have feature?
The primary one, I'd wager, is that phone carrier lets their customers run off with a brand new phone when they renew their contract. Since iPhone owners are reportedly more satisfied than other smartphone owners, and neck-deep in the iOS ecosystem, chances are good that they'll pick a newer iPhone.
Fwiw, Apple's metric for success of late reportedly is for each version to outsell all prior versions combined. Adding to this, dumb phones still outsell smartphones, and customers in developing countries frequently get a smartphone before they get a computer. Bar another dip in the economy (a big if), there's no reason to think the iPhone 5 won't outsell all prior iPhones combined as well.
You're so right. I so forgot to account for the ubiquitous iPhone cable ads that Apple is running, not to mention the Apple Geniuses who are eagerly pushing them onto me when I walk into a store. "You really WANT this iPhone cable!":-)
On a more serious note, take HDMI cables as yard stick. Cursory googling yields prices ranging from a few bucks to 10-20-times-more-hoopla-up-your-ass price points for a 6' cable. Those who are selling cheap cables are, I can only presume, making money. To sell the pricey one, you merely need to have it in store when an impatient end-user walks in with a broken cable on a saturday afternoon -- just like a $10 iPhone cable.
Yeah. And even more fun are case makers who are mass-producing cases based on rumors and mockups, and the shameless iPhone5-like Android clone that got unveiled recently. I'll be laughing out loud if Apple unveils a tear-drop design on the 12th, or if the clone joint sues apple over "their" design.
It may be that they are walking straight into EU regulations with that kind of policy..
Not may. Will. Germany in particular (where most patent litigation is taken in the EU) has a long history of allowing cheap clones of periphericals and consumables. Be it nails, screws, coffee recharges, cables, or otherwise. Ianal, but I'd wager Apple doesn't stand a chance in court if they seek to sue cloned cables out of the market -- especially at that price point.
The most surprising part to me, though, is (assuming the rumors are valid on the new port) that they didn't go for a micro-USB port. The EU directive aimed at getting rid of electronic waste due to redundant and incompatible chargers will shortly make (already makes?) it or an adapter mandatory, so why bother coming up with yet another type of dock connector?
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10 years of freelance experience also is a "proper job", you know...
You learn plenty of stuff as a freelancer that you don't in a corporate environment. Chief among them, how to get things done on a shoe string budget, and how to pick your customers, contractors and occasional partners.
Not to mention, you get to travel and work outdoor year-round if your job allows it. That's absolutely priceless, considering that most people are too broke to travel at age 20 and too old to do so at age 60.
There's nothing wrong with starting as a freelancer.
Ads also drain the battery (download + display).
Not sure what you mean by multilevel logic, but I'd suggest it screams for multiplexed logic. (By this, I mean using the same gates several times at once by multiplexing, who knows, different wavelengths, polarizations or angular moments.)
Not sure where you read this... Per TFA:
[quote]
A NAND gate, which stands for “not and,” returns a “0” output when all its inputs are “1.”
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And the Nature Nanotechnology article's summary says nothing specific.
Seems to me that there are a gazillion other, better means to launder money... For instance gambling outfits or night clubs, or RE development in 3rd-world countries.
Yet another case of bureaucracy gone wild...
I'm not aware of any data from Apple, but several devs publish their stats. Bloggers periodically aggregate the whole thing and make pretty graphs. Here's what things looked like last March:
http://pxldot.com/18754186750
As with a great many things, you can find prior art in ancient Greece:
http://www.eoht.info/page/Thermometer
From one of the linked articles:
"More than 1000 visitors to blogs dedicated to discussions of climate science completed a questionnaire"
I'd agree that it is probably a fairly good representation of those deeply involved in the debate, who read those blogs and are willing to take time to do the survey.
Err... A regular follower of this kind of blog can only be at one or the other end of the climat extremism spectrum.
Not one in the lot will give the honest scientist's answer, which is that nobody has the slightest effing clue for the long term, beyond the fact that weather patterns are -- duh! -- variable and seemingly varying upwards.
Try Germany. You'll get passed while at 200km/h (~125mph) in some areas.
Where this argument falls apart lies in the fact that the documentation is seldom written whereas the code actually is.
Typically, this is because the code gets maintained; whereas the documentation/spec, by contrast, seldom is. When it is, it all too often turns into an endless list of how to work around known bugs.
What's happening in practice is that kids get mum or dad's device when they upgrade.
And it's likely all FUD... As far as I've been reading, someone pulled another Mike Daisey, and the MSM is parroting the same source over and over without verifying that the information is correct in the first place
Quelle surprise! Excuse me while I don my shocked face.
Since when isn't there a huge line of candidates waiting for work in front of Foxconn?
Huh? Say what? Only a handful of EU countries still have conscription:
http://eucitizens.eu/Forum/index.php?topic=1862.0
Uh huh. Tell that to people who ended up harassed by the police or -- worse -- tossed in jail due to DNA evidence.
You could be next, btw.
Can't we get a video?
A better option would have been to avoid publishing misleading ads...
I think Apple may be hitting the peak with the iPhone. Unless I am mistaken most people who have an iPhone are pretty happy with what they have. What is there left to drive current users to upgrade again? What is going to be the next Cool killer must have feature?
The primary one, I'd wager, is that phone carrier lets their customers run off with a brand new phone when they renew their contract. Since iPhone owners are reportedly more satisfied than other smartphone owners, and neck-deep in the iOS ecosystem, chances are good that they'll pick a newer iPhone.
Fwiw, Apple's metric for success of late reportedly is for each version to outsell all prior versions combined. Adding to this, dumb phones still outsell smartphones, and customers in developing countries frequently get a smartphone before they get a computer. Bar another dip in the economy (a big if), there's no reason to think the iPhone 5 won't outsell all prior iPhones combined as well.
You're so right. I so forgot to account for the ubiquitous iPhone cable ads that Apple is running, not to mention the Apple Geniuses who are eagerly pushing them onto me when I walk into a store. "You really WANT this iPhone cable!" :-)
On a more serious note, take HDMI cables as yard stick. Cursory googling yields prices ranging from a few bucks to 10-20-times-more-hoopla-up-your-ass price points for a 6' cable. Those who are selling cheap cables are, I can only presume, making money. To sell the pricey one, you merely need to have it in store when an impatient end-user walks in with a broken cable on a saturday afternoon -- just like a $10 iPhone cable.
Might it be time to dig out the poop steak hoax and turn it into the real thing?
Yeah. And even more fun are case makers who are mass-producing cases based on rumors and mockups, and the shameless iPhone5-like Android clone that got unveiled recently. I'll be laughing out loud if Apple unveils a tear-drop design on the 12th, or if the clone joint sues apple over "their" design.
It may be that they are walking straight into EU regulations with that kind of policy..
Not may. Will. Germany in particular (where most patent litigation is taken in the EU) has a long history of allowing cheap clones of periphericals and consumables. Be it nails, screws, coffee recharges, cables, or otherwise. Ianal, but I'd wager Apple doesn't stand a chance in court if they seek to sue cloned cables out of the market -- especially at that price point.
The most surprising part to me, though, is (assuming the rumors are valid on the new port) that they didn't go for a micro-USB port. The EU directive aimed at getting rid of electronic waste due to redundant and incompatible chargers will shortly make (already makes?) it or an adapter mandatory, so why bother coming up with yet another type of dock connector?
Manufacture for $.10; sell for $10; sue anyone who copies. Mm...
Meh the answer is No in all likelihood.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_Law_of_Headlines
Why not? Have you ever lived there? Where should one go according to you? The US?