N3P offers a two-year college level training in how to become a successful Project Entrepreneur in Open Source or Project Entrepreneur in Omni Communications. Our students will learn not only the technical possibilities, but also how to exploit new business opportunities, manage profitable ideas, and create flourishing businesses.
Each year, N3P admits 80 students-20 at our classrooms in Stockholm City, 20 through a system of advanced distance learning and 40 at our new classrooms in Malmö/Copenhagen. There will be two new classes each year 2006-2008, with the possibility to expand the concept into other regions and markets.
The typical student is between 20 and 30 years old, driven by one of three motivations; 1) the desire for prosperity, 2) independency or 3) to radically innovate. N3P will carefully screen the applicants for doers, not talkers, while persistence, passion and the ever so important ability to sell, are other important criteria.
The training in Stockholm will focus on how to generate business using open source. The training in Malmö/Copenhagen will focus on how to generate business with Omni Communication.
The future will show a great demand for individuals that have the ability to implement necessary changes. They should be entrepreneurs, fluent in new technology, project management and marketing. They also should excel in sales and development of new products and businesses. N3P identifies them as "Project Entreprenerus".
Most of our students will form their own business before graduating, and it is our expectation that many will be very successful.
Students even get free iBooks (the school is run by BSD people), a domain of their own, web space and are encouraged to start doing business immediately.
According to the school, there is an shortage of project managers that knows open source but also how to make business. By releasing 40-80 new project entrepreneurs fluent in open source each year, this will result in a huge push for open source in Scandinavia.
N3P offers a brand new, contrasting and intrepid two-year college level training in how to become a successful Project Entrepreneur in Open Source or Project Entrepreneur in Omni Communications. Our students will learn not only the technical possibilities, but also how to exploit new business opportunities, manage profitable ideas, and create flourishing businesses.
Each year, N3P admits 80 students - 20 at our classrooms in Stockholm City, 20 through a system of advanced distance learning and 40 at out new classrooms in Malmö/Copenhagen. There will be two new classes each year 2006-2008, with the possibility to expand the concept into other regions and markets.
The typical student is between 20 and 30 years old, driven by one of three motivations; 1) the desire for prosperity, 2) independency or 3) to radically innovate. N3P will carefully screen the applicants for doers, not talkers, while persistence, passion and the ever so important ability to sell, are other important criteria.
The training in Stockholm will focus on how to generate business using open source. The training in Malmö/Copenhagen will focus on how to generate business with Omni Communication.
The future will show a great demand for individuals that have the ability to implement necessary changes. They should be entrepreneurs, fluent in new technology, project management and marketing. They also should excel in sales and development of new products and businesses. N3P identifies them as "Project Entreprenerus".
Most of our students will form their own business before graduating, and it is our expectation that many will be very successful.
About N3P
N3P is a privately owned AVE/C - advanced vocational college - financed and accredited by the Swedish Department of Education. The students can apply for loans and grants from the government financing authority, CSN. N3P is no different than other colleges and universities in Sweden, except for the fact that we are encouraged to be as practical and pragmatic as possible, training our students in tough and realistic situations. Our students will not sit down to construct strategies for others - they will roll up the sleeves and do the task for themselves, thereby putting their own stakes at risk.
The school is closely associated with the corporate world and a variety of organizations, thus bringing a stream of interesting speakers, real-life assignments, and advanced uses for the student body's knowledge. The students have two 15-week intervals where they actively work in a select workplace with real-life problems and their solutions. The intense training, although in an educational setting, will have little in common with the traditional traineeship period.
Representatives for companies and organizations are at a majority on the school's Board of Directors. At N3P we are proud to have representatives from the MTG Media Group, Apple Computer, The City of Stockholm, The University of Linkoping, The National Police Board, The National Labor Market Board, Cap Gemini, SonyEricsson, The City of Malmö - as well as ten very successful individual serial entrepreneurs from media, IT and design.
The founders of N3P have worked with training and education in new media and IT for the past 20 years, successfully graduating over 50,000 students. Before N3P, they co-founded the respected MacMeckarna®, Masters of Media and the AcadeMedia group - which is now listed on the Stockholm stock market, and established as one of the largest and most successful education companies in Sweden.
"Mac OS X hasn't had any viruses since the OS was launched," says Bill Rosenkrantz, the head of Macintosh products at Symantec, the big antivirus firm. "It's more difficult to attack the Apple system than Windows."
Pro prio: He has done a remarkable job with Apple. From securing the first steps of Maslow, to the rocket Apple is destined to be for the next five years.
Pro secundo: He has won every victory, fighting honestly with QUALITY as the preferred weapon. Pixar never had a "B Team". People invest in Apple because of innovation and quality. People invest in Dell because they are slightly better than other PC distributors when it comes to logistics.
Pro tertio: Steve Jobs ultimate motive is to bring Microsoft to its knees. And he will do that. And he will be using innovation and quality - to prove his point.
From "Pirates of Silicon Valley":
Steve Jobs: We're better than you are! We have better stuff.
Bill Gates: You don't get it, Steve. That doesn't matter!
Oh yes. Guess what. It does matter. And it will bring down the Microsoft empire.
But to bring down Bill Gates - the most skillfull businessman alive - you will have to be outstanding. There are no shortcuts. No quick deals. You will have to be or become smarter, better, more profitable, eventually bigger and in the end richer than Bill Gates. Take away the reason for buying Microsoft products.
Myself, I think the turning point was when Steve Jobs demoed his NeXT, proud as a peacock, showing Illustrator, Framemaker and other major apps. A journalist later asked Bill Gates if Microsoft would develop software for the NeXT and Bill Gates stated Develop for it? I'll piss on it.
Those seven words, that single quote - my friends - is the essence of how our work, our businesses and tools will develop for the next 20 years.
We do live in interesting times. I enjoy every moment.
Regarding the flat fee.. I have a flat fee deal with comviq...
No, you have a fixed fee. You pay 49, 59 or 69 öre per minute depending on your contract.
Tele2/ComvIQ also offers a flat rate of 399 kronor per month. No connection fees. If you have the flat rate deal, you can call your friends and get disconnected as much as you want, it wont cost you another öre.
In Sweden a local landline call was almost 15 cents per minute, now a cell phone call is 5-6 cents per minute depending on your contract.
We also have flat fee for cell phones, call as much as you want to any cell phone operator or landlines, including free SMS and MMS for $45 a month. And free UMTS data traffic for as low as $20. Without a contract! And we are allowed to buy and use almost any phone we can find somewhere in the world - unlike our locked-up American friends, chained to their contracts using branded and crippled last year model phones.
We also have a cell network with almost 100% coverage. Most of my business partners have now canceled their land lines and are only using cell phones for their business.
Governments should think about using the same type of regulation when it comes to digital TV. One standard to help the consumer but completely free market to compete with service and price.
...one wonders what irritating DRM Apple will put in...
Apple doesn't irritate me with DRM. iTunes is a very good ripping machine that doesn't care about what you are doing.
You can even drag folders and folders of illegal MP3s directly into iTunes to be automagically sorted and becoming a first class citizens together with your legally purchased music from iTunes Music Store.
And you can mix. Burn.
And transfer all your files to as many iPods you want.
And you can copy ALL your music - except songs bought from iTMS - to whatever crappy non iPod player or SonyEricsson cell phone you have.
The same goes for podcasts and vodcasts. It is quite easy to make your own iPod compatible videos with open source solutions like mencoder or with QuickTime Pro if you want a pretty GUI.
For me, Apple has choosen the least irritating DRM possible, and ONLY used it to protect the songs and/or videos bought from iTunes Music Store.
The other is the cellphone carriers, or, as I like to call them, "the Soviet ministries," which too often treat their customers as captive and refuse to allow open competition for services they offer over their networks."
Should be The other is the U.S. cellphone carriers... since competition works and takes care of this in all other markets.
In Sweden downloadable music for cellphones is 9 cents (0.69 Swedish Crona) per song from ComvIQ.
Second: No-one outside the U.S. will ever buy music just for their cell phones. Everyone over here uses SonyEricssons excellent K750 or W800i , syncing them with iTunes and MacOSX using scripts like iTMW or apps like Dreamsicle.
Third: I bet a case of beer that SonyEricsson will include iTunes in their cell phones during 2006. The demand is huge and they know they will have to do it, sooner or later. Nokia will also include iTunes as soon as they realize how Real sucks bigtime.
First - I love Microsoft Office. I have been a Microsoft Office lover since Excel was released on Mac. I also love Open Source, but still prefer my Microsoft Office 2004 for MacOS X.
Secondly - Office 12 is suicide. Ordinary users hate GUI changes. It doesn't matter if the new GUI is good or not. There are probably tens of thousands of users here on Slashdot that agree on the problem of persuading people to make even a small jump from Windows 2000 to XP - or even worse the impossible switch to Linux or Mac.
Microsoft fumbling with Vista and Office 12 is to become the worst business miscalculation ever made, and our grandchildren will read about it in Economics 101.
"That would pretty much mean it's not a trojan, but something I decided to install and use."
OK. What should we call it? Piggyback-riding?
Most users don't notice, care or mind that installing iTunes also installs QuickTime - resulting in a huge upswing for QuickTime compared to Real and even the always-included Windows Media.
Which I think is good. The QT7 version of H.264 is absoilutely awesome.
(I'm not sure, but I think other Apple code also piggyback-rides with iTunes, like Bonjour for easy sharing of iTunes music. Maybe more will be "included" as Apple moves to Intel binaries.)
Look at the new video formats supported by iTunes and iPod Video. The H.264 320x240 AAC format will quickly become a standard much like the MP3. Everyone is converting funny videos, music videos, TV-show episodes and full length movies into H.264.
QuickTime is now installed on most Wintel computers from using the trojan horse iTunes. QuickTime is far more popular today than Real and close to Windows Media. And QuickTime 7 with H.264 is fricking excellent. Even Sony disitributes their stuff using QuickTime today.
And you can easily encode your own (and DRM-free) stuff into H.264 with QuickTime or with open source stuff like mencoder. Much like iTunes and iPod allows you to use ripped and even pirated MP3s in your collection
Steve Jobs is a truely excellent player. This part of the game will be really fun to watch.
Captain James T. Kirk: They're animals. Captain Spock: Jim, there is an historic opportunity here. Captain James T. Kirk: Don't believe them. Don't trust them. Captain Spock: They're dying. Captain James T. Kirk: Let them die!
N3P is a two year, government financed (free as in beer) college level training in how to become a successful (free as in speech) Project Entrepreneur in Open Source.
I really, really, really enjoy the extreme and skillful strategic positioning of Apple and MacOS X by the mastermind Steve Jobs.
No matter what Bill Gates will show, Jobs will include a similar, but better version in the next MacOS X update. By doing that, all new features of Windows Vista will look old and outdated when finally released. And give us Mac users ammo for years to come.
This is so beautifully played, someone should make a drama movie about it.
"A class on OSS is a business, legal or philosophy class, not a programming class."
Indeed. N3P offers a new two-year college level training in how to become a successful Project Entrepreneur in Open Source. Students will learn not only the technical possibilities, but also how to exploit new business opportunities, manage profitable ideas, and create flourishing businesses.
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And a battery capacity to power the unit for 4.5 seco...
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Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Color MacBook?
Apple co-founded Adobe and owned part of Adobe.
This would be the perfect deal. And then the sweet "sorry, we're cancelling Photoshop for Windows since there is no demand for a PC version".
They have done that before too.
We live in interesting times. And I love it.
N3P offers a two-year college level training in how to become a successful Project Entrepreneur in Open Source or Project Entrepreneur in Omni Communications. Our students will learn not only the technical possibilities, but also how to exploit new business opportunities, manage profitable ideas, and create flourishing businesses.
Each year, N3P admits 80 students-20 at our classrooms in Stockholm City, 20 through a system of advanced distance learning and 40 at our new classrooms in Malmö/Copenhagen. There will be two new classes each year 2006-2008, with the possibility to expand the concept into other regions and markets.
The typical student is between 20 and 30 years old, driven by one of three motivations; 1) the desire for prosperity, 2) independency or 3) to radically innovate. N3P will carefully screen the applicants for doers, not talkers, while persistence, passion and the ever so important ability to sell, are other important criteria.
The training in Stockholm will focus on how to generate business using open source. The training in Malmö/Copenhagen will focus on how to generate business with Omni Communication.
The future will show a great demand for individuals that have the ability to implement necessary changes. They should be entrepreneurs, fluent in new technology, project management and marketing. They also should excel in sales and development of new products and businesses. N3P identifies them as "Project Entreprenerus".
Most of our students will form their own business before graduating, and it is our expectation that many will be very successful.
More interesting stuff at http://n3p.se/en.php.
Students even get free iBooks (the school is run by BSD people), a domain of their own, web space and are encouraged to start doing business immediately.
According to the school, there is an shortage of project managers that knows open source but also how to make business. By releasing 40-80 new project entrepreneurs fluent in open source each year, this will result in a huge push for open source in Scandinavia.
No Mac version. Less functions than Acrobat. Lame.
The Swedes have already done this, but they are also using BSD (as in Darwin, free iBooks for all students):
From their web page: http://n3p.se/en.php
WELCOME TO N3P
N3P offers a brand new, contrasting and intrepid two-year college level training in how to become a successful Project Entrepreneur in Open Source or Project Entrepreneur in Omni Communications. Our students will learn not only the technical possibilities, but also how to exploit new business opportunities, manage profitable ideas, and create flourishing businesses.
Each year, N3P admits 80 students - 20 at our classrooms in Stockholm City, 20 through a system of advanced distance learning and 40 at out new classrooms in Malmö/Copenhagen. There will be two new classes each year 2006-2008, with the possibility to expand the concept into other regions and markets.
The typical student is between 20 and 30 years old, driven by one of three motivations; 1) the desire for prosperity, 2) independency or 3) to radically innovate. N3P will carefully screen the applicants for doers, not talkers, while persistence, passion and the ever so important ability to sell, are other important criteria.
The training in Stockholm will focus on how to generate business using open source. The training in Malmö/Copenhagen will focus on how to generate business with Omni Communication.
The future will show a great demand for individuals that have the ability to implement necessary changes. They should be entrepreneurs, fluent in new technology, project management and marketing. They also should excel in sales and development of new products and businesses. N3P identifies them as "Project Entreprenerus".
Most of our students will form their own business before graduating, and it is our expectation that many will be very successful.
About N3P
N3P is a privately owned AVE/C - advanced vocational college - financed and accredited by the Swedish Department of Education. The students can apply for loans and grants from the government financing authority, CSN. N3P is no different than other colleges and universities in Sweden, except for the fact that we are encouraged to be as practical and pragmatic as possible, training our students in tough and realistic situations. Our students will not sit down to construct strategies for others - they will roll up the sleeves and do the task for themselves, thereby putting their own stakes at risk.
The school is closely associated with the corporate world and a variety of organizations, thus bringing a stream of interesting speakers, real-life assignments, and advanced uses for the student body's knowledge. The students have two 15-week intervals where they actively work in a select workplace with real-life problems and their solutions. The intense training, although in an educational setting, will have little in common with the traditional traineeship period.
Representatives for companies and organizations are at a majority on the school's Board of Directors. At N3P we are proud to have representatives from the MTG Media Group, Apple Computer, The City of Stockholm, The University of Linkoping, The National Police Board, The National Labor Market Board, Cap Gemini, SonyEricsson, The City of Malmö - as well as ten very successful individual serial entrepreneurs from media, IT and design.
The founders of N3P have worked with training and education in new media and IT for the past 20 years, successfully graduating over 50,000 students. Before N3P, they co-founded the respected MacMeckarna®, Masters of Media and the AcadeMedia group - which is now listed on the Stockholm stock market, and established as one of the largest and most successful education companies in Sweden.
Best explanation ever:
"Mac OS X hasn't had any viruses since the OS was launched," says Bill Rosenkrantz, the head of Macintosh products at Symantec, the big antivirus firm. "It's more difficult to attack the Apple system than Windows."
So it goes.
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N3P : Two-year college level training in how to become a successful Project Entrepreneur in Open Source and (soon) Project Entrepreneur in OmniCom!
Great. Another fiasco.
Google isn't fun anymore (tm). Unclear strategy. Bows for dictators. New pathetic services like Google Video.
What's next?
Working together with looser companies like Napster 2 and lame shit like AOL?
Eh, wait a minute...
Google isn't fun anymore (tm).
Steve Jobs.
Pro prio: He has done a remarkable job with Apple. From securing the first steps of Maslow, to the rocket Apple is destined to be for the next five years.
Pro secundo: He has won every victory, fighting honestly with QUALITY as the preferred weapon. Pixar never had a "B Team". People invest in Apple because of innovation and quality. People invest in Dell because they are slightly better than other PC distributors when it comes to logistics.
Pro tertio: Steve Jobs ultimate motive is to bring Microsoft to its knees. And he will do that. And he will be using innovation and quality - to prove his point.
From "Pirates of Silicon Valley":
Steve Jobs: We're better than you are! We have better stuff.
Bill Gates: You don't get it, Steve. That doesn't matter!
Oh yes. Guess what. It does matter. And it will bring down the Microsoft empire.
But to bring down Bill Gates - the most skillfull businessman alive - you will have to be outstanding. There are no shortcuts. No quick deals. You will have to be or become smarter, better, more profitable, eventually bigger and in the end richer than Bill Gates. Take away the reason for buying Microsoft products.
Myself, I think the turning point was when Steve Jobs demoed his NeXT, proud as a peacock, showing Illustrator, Framemaker and other major apps. A journalist later asked Bill Gates if Microsoft would develop software for the NeXT and Bill Gates stated Develop for it? I'll piss on it.
Those seven words, that single quote - my friends - is the essence of how our work, our businesses and tools will develop for the next 20 years.
We do live in interesting times. I enjoy every moment.
This is it. Never Microsoft Windows again. Not one more second of pain.
I could do that on my Commodore 1541 Floppy Drive.
Fuck, I'm old. Sigh.
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N3P: Two-year college level training in how to become a successful Project Entrepreneur in Open Source!
Regarding the flat fee.. I have a flat fee deal with comviq...
No, you have a fixed fee. You pay 49, 59 or 69 öre per minute depending on your contract.
Tele2/ComvIQ also offers a flat rate of 399 kronor per month. No connection fees. If you have the flat rate deal, you can call your friends and get disconnected as much as you want, it wont cost you another öre.
Yes, but Sweden is still larger than California. And we have way better coverage than our Californian friends.
Independent regulation works perfect.
In Sweden a local landline call was almost 15 cents per minute, now a cell phone call is 5-6 cents per minute depending on your contract.
We also have flat fee for cell phones, call as much as you want to any cell phone operator or landlines, including free SMS and MMS for $45 a month. And free UMTS data traffic for as low as $20. Without a contract! And we are allowed to buy and use almost any phone we can find somewhere in the world - unlike our locked-up American friends, chained to their contracts using branded and crippled last year model phones.
We also have a cell network with almost 100% coverage. Most of my business partners have now canceled their land lines and are only using cell phones for their business.
Governments should think about using the same type of regulation when it comes to digital TV. One standard to help the consumer but completely free market to compete with service and price.
Apple doesn't irritate me with DRM. iTunes is a very good ripping machine that doesn't care about what you are doing.
You can even drag folders and folders of illegal MP3s directly into iTunes to be automagically sorted and becoming a first class citizens together with your legally purchased music from iTunes Music Store.
And you can mix. Burn.
And transfer all your files to as many iPods you want.
And you can copy ALL your music - except songs bought from iTMS - to whatever crappy non iPod player or SonyEricsson cell phone you have.
The same goes for podcasts and vodcasts. It is quite easy to make your own iPod compatible videos with open source solutions like mencoder or with QuickTime Pro if you want a pretty GUI.
For me, Apple has choosen the least irritating DRM possible, and ONLY used it to protect the songs and/or videos bought from iTunes Music Store.
The other is the cellphone carriers, or, as I like to call them, "the Soviet ministries," which too often treat their customers as captive and refuse to allow open competition for services they offer over their networks."
Should be The other is the U.S. cellphone carriers... since competition works and takes care of this in all other markets.
In Sweden downloadable music for cellphones is 9 cents (0.69 Swedish Crona) per song from ComvIQ.
Second: No-one outside the U.S. will ever buy music just for their cell phones. Everyone over here uses SonyEricssons excellent K750 or W800i , syncing them with iTunes and MacOSX using scripts like iTMW or apps like Dreamsicle.
Third: I bet a case of beer that SonyEricsson will include iTunes in their cell phones during 2006. The demand is huge and they know they will have to do it, sooner or later. Nokia will also include iTunes as soon as they realize how Real sucks bigtime.
First - I love Microsoft Office. I have been a Microsoft Office lover since Excel was released on Mac. I also love Open Source, but still prefer my Microsoft Office 2004 for MacOS X.
Secondly - Office 12 is suicide. Ordinary users hate GUI changes. It doesn't matter if the new GUI is good or not. There are probably tens of thousands of users here on Slashdot that agree on the problem of persuading people to make even a small jump from Windows 2000 to XP - or even worse the impossible switch to Linux or Mac.
Microsoft fumbling with Vista and Office 12 is to become the worst business miscalculation ever made, and our grandchildren will read about it in Economics 101.
I want Sony top management crying, blurbin and apologizing on primetime TV.
They should apologize to us their customers as well to Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita.
Goddammit, is this once so great company now totally run by morons?
I got one of the European units and it works, it is nice, I can use AbiWord and play most of my ScummVM games.
But why the hell did they include a Real Player as the one and only media player?
Will somebody please for the love of God compile a better media player that handles MP4 and H.264?
OK. What should we call it? Piggyback-riding?
Most users don't notice, care or mind that installing iTunes also installs QuickTime - resulting in a huge upswing for QuickTime compared to Real and even the always-included Windows Media.
Which I think is good. The QT7 version of H.264 is absoilutely awesome.
(I'm not sure, but I think other Apple code also piggyback-rides with iTunes, like Bonjour for easy sharing of iTunes music. Maybe more will be "included" as Apple moves to Intel binaries.)
Look at the new video formats supported by iTunes and iPod Video. The H.264 320x240 AAC format will quickly become a standard much like the MP3. Everyone is converting funny videos, music videos, TV-show episodes and full length movies into H.264.
QuickTime is now installed on most Wintel computers from using the trojan horse iTunes. QuickTime is far more popular today than Real and close to Windows Media. And QuickTime 7 with H.264 is fricking excellent. Even Sony disitributes their stuff using QuickTime today.
And you can easily encode your own (and DRM-free) stuff into H.264 with QuickTime or with open source stuff like mencoder. Much like iTunes and iPod allows you to use ripped and even pirated MP3s in your collection
Steve Jobs is a truely excellent player. This part of the game will be really fun to watch.
About Dell selling Windows-free PCs:
Captain James T. Kirk: They're animals.
Captain Spock: Jim, there is an historic opportunity here.
Captain James T. Kirk: Don't believe them. Don't trust them.
Captain Spock: They're dying.
Captain James T. Kirk: Let them die!
N3P is a two year, government financed (free as in beer) college level training in how to become a successful (free as in speech) Project Entrepreneur in Open Source.
N3P
"Yeah all 39 of you..."
Hey, there are now 57 of us. Apple reported a 48 percent year-over-year growth in Mac shipments in Q4.
I really, really, really enjoy the extreme and skillful strategic positioning of Apple and MacOS X by the mastermind Steve Jobs.
No matter what Bill Gates will show, Jobs will include a similar, but better version in the next MacOS X update. By doing that, all new features of Windows Vista will look old and outdated when finally released. And give us Mac users ammo for years to come.
This is so beautifully played, someone should make a drama movie about it.
"A class on OSS is a business, legal or philosophy class, not a programming class."
Indeed. N3P offers a new two-year college level training in how to become a successful Project Entrepreneur in Open Source. Students will learn not only the technical possibilities, but also how to exploit new business opportunities, manage profitable ideas, and create flourishing businesses.
All students are using Apple iBooks.