"Passion will get you further than talent any day of the week."
I agree that passion and talent will get you further than passion alone, but all passion and no talent is useless. For instance, I am passionate about playing pool. Practice has made me better, but there are people I know that just have a talent for seeing what is going to happen. Their talent lets them start at a level that is higher than I can reach through practice.
Where passion works is when people have a natural talent that happens to coincide with a passion that they have.
What I love about this whole topic is the people that have no clue about what is really happening. All these posts about HDTV, ignore them. They are at best misinformed. The switch that is going to take place has nothing to do with HDTV. Yes, HDTV is a form of digital programming signal, but it is not the one that is being mandated. You already recieve many programs in digital, provided that you have a cable box, or a satellite system. With digital broadcasting you can cram several channels into the spot allocated for one analog channel. That is what will free up the bandwitdh. Conversitions of 6:1 or 8:1 or not uncommon thus allowing for 6 or 8 channels to be broadcast in the slot available for one analog channel.
Also, it is not the cable companies that are the hold up. Once again, ignorace reigns supreme. Cable companies are not the content producers. They simply pass the programming along to subscribers. The hold up is the cost of equipment to produce the content in digital format and distribute it to the cable companies. Most cable companies and satellite companies have already in place an infrastructure that will support the distribution of many more stations then are currently in use.
The consumer information on this is available at fcc.gov here: http://ftp.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/digitaltv.htm l and here: http://www.dtv.gov/
See the problems with your statement is that it assumes that the person is getting tats/piercings/whatever to show a sign of individuality or an ability to think outside out the box. I would argue that very few people have the capabilities to think outside the box or be an individual. Our society simlpy does not breed that kind of people, and people by nature are social animals more likely to conform to some set of standards that makes them part of some social group. If you have a group of pierced/tattooed/whatever people they are not unique nor do they think outside the box. They just conform to whatever the standard for their social group is. Think of it in terms of any school setting. You have your jocks, granolas, whatever. Guess what, most jocks share the same interests. The same can be said for the other social groups. As sad as it may be to face there are an amazingly few number of people that can truely think outside the box. Any attempt to believe that you or I are one of them is futile. To think outside the box you need to be truly dynamic and able to grasp faster/easier then others and that is simply not common.
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"Passion will get you further than talent any day of the week."
I agree that passion and talent will get you further than passion alone, but all passion and no talent is useless. For instance, I am passionate about playing pool. Practice has made me better, but there are people I know that just have a talent for seeing what is going to happen. Their talent lets them start at a level that is higher than I can reach through practice.
Where passion works is when people have a natural talent that happens to coincide with a passion that they have.
What I love about this whole topic is the people that have no clue about what is really happening. All these posts about HDTV, ignore them. They are at best misinformed. The switch that is going to take place has nothing to do with HDTV. Yes, HDTV is a form of digital programming signal, but it is not the one that is being mandated. You already recieve many programs in digital, provided that you have a cable box, or a satellite system. With digital broadcasting you can cram several channels into the spot allocated for one analog channel. That is what will free up the bandwitdh. Conversitions of 6:1 or 8:1 or not uncommon thus allowing for 6 or 8 channels to be broadcast in the slot available for one analog channel.m l and here: http://www.dtv.gov/
Also, it is not the cable companies that are the hold up. Once again, ignorace reigns supreme. Cable companies are not the content producers. They simply pass the programming along to subscribers. The hold up is the cost of equipment to produce the content in digital format and distribute it to the cable companies. Most cable companies and satellite companies have already in place an infrastructure that will support the distribution of many more stations then are currently in use.
The consumer information on this is available at fcc.gov here: http://ftp.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/digitaltv.ht
See the problems with your statement is that it assumes that the person is getting tats/piercings/whatever to show a sign of individuality or an ability to think outside out the box. I would argue that very few people have the capabilities to think outside the box or be an individual. Our society simlpy does not breed that kind of people, and people by nature are social animals more likely to conform to some set of standards that makes them part of some social group. If you have a group of pierced/tattooed/whatever people they are not unique nor do they think outside the box. They just conform to whatever the standard for their social group is. Think of it in terms of any school setting. You have your jocks, granolas, whatever. Guess what, most jocks share the same interests. The same can be said for the other social groups. As sad as it may be to face there are an amazingly few number of people that can truely think outside the box. Any attempt to believe that you or I are one of them is futile. To think outside the box you need to be truly dynamic and able to grasp faster/easier then others and that is simply not common.