By producing these videos, you've actually given me several years of life by actually reminding me how boring and repetitive WoW really was and why I refuse to waste any money on it.
I actually spent yesterday downloading the entire client (all 20Gigs of it). I was going to revisit to see how things had developed. But I now know that WoW is a waste of lifespan. I think I'd rather do something useful with my free time, like learn a new language, improve my memorization skills, train for a professional certification, even read a book.
I play other games where I can dip in and out like Team Fortress 2. But MMORPGs are a frightening waste of time. If I were unemployed then MMORPGs would help pass the time, but not help me get back into work.
That's why I read Slashdot - somebody else wastes their time so I don't have to.
Because the greatest offshoot of SUSY is string theory. String theory relies on SUSY being true, and academic institutions are stuffed with string theorists making ever more grandiose claims about what string theory predicts (think Sheldon Cooper times a billion) without a single prediction of an experimental result that unambiguously proves string theory is correct.
I expect a petition by string theorists to turn off the Large Hadron Collider any day now.
Please prove that the commenter was bribed by the oil industry, that there exists any attempt by oil industry companies and that any money is on the table. I want receipts, invoices or funding statements in company records.
Otherwise you're just full of shit.
Definitely it's a project worth doing but you've got to put in some work, both legwork and office work to make it work.
You need to go to the regional fiber provider and talk to them about becoming a last mile ISP and what their requirements are to terminate their fiber in your town and likely licensing issues, service contracts and support.
You need to speak to your town hall about permits and applicable laws.
Depending on where the fiber actually is, you need to pick a business unit where the fiber can be terminated and where your fiber can be run from.
In that business unit you're going to need reliable power and UPS backup to create a small datacenter (2 or 3 racks should be plenty) on raised floors for cable runs. (There are companies out there that ship all of this stuff in a single container, meaning that all you have to do is site it and run fiber and power to it)
You'll need to find out how much it will cost to run fiber from your datacenter businesses (who will be the main consumers) and home users. Get maps and start planning. Your regional fiber network provider should be able to put you in touch with the people who put fiber cables down in streets.
You'll need to talk to your local Chamber of Commerce or Better Business Bureau about likely customers as well as schools and colleges (and the town's own infrastructure like the townhall itself) who will be big consumers of fiber bandwidth and likely to be the baseload of your cashflow. Also likely partners in your state who might like to put their systems in your datacenter to provide services to your town such as VOIP providers, cloud services and storage providers etc. (Speak to them under NDA)
You'll need a business plan, a financial planning showing likely costings and cashflow and a project plan to maximize return by hitting major sources of revenue first.
I would suggest that you go for a low cost base based on opensource software and hardware as much as you can (I hear cheers from Slashdotters!)
Once you've got this done, then find out about likely sources of finance, microloans, angel investors who will need to see the proposed balance sheet and cashflow projections. (You might find that the reason there is only a crappy DSL service in your area is that that is all the demand that there is - economics trumps everything else and the whole idea has to make economic sense)
You will need help. Other people have done this on very limited budgets so use Google and network like crazy. Make contacts with technical people willing to pitch in. You will need to look at project plans created by others and business plans created by others and sources of finance used by others.
This isn't to put you off, but to give you an overview on the size of the mountain you're looking at climbing. Others have started where you are now and made great local companies. But the business must be based on sound economics and a steely concentration on a plan of action.
Eve Online is a blatent ripoff of Elite. It startled me how similar they were in initial gameplay, and most of the same ideas of stargates between star systems, mining, trading, pirates and space stations orbiting planets had all been pioneered by Elite.
That being said, the market for MMORPGs is nearly saturated and 1.25 million pound sterling is not going to go very far.
Actually when major earthquakes happen, it is often the case that the seismicity is artificially reduced. That's when stresses build up. Unfortunately this lower seismicity can last for years, causing observers to mistake the lowered seismicity for the normal level.
To the idiot who labelled this a troll, you're the troll.
Cold fusion is exactly the correct response. I've lived long enough to see many.many attempts to make fuel from unconventional sources and all of them fail because of economic and practical arguments that don't go away just because it's claimed to be "carbon-neutral" (it hides the carbon generation further up the supply chain), "provides energy independence" (it never does), "saves the planet"(from what?) and will be fitted into your neighborhood "pretty soon" for cents on the dollar (never happens).
And its not a conspiracy of oil companies. It is a matter of what Bill Clinton memorably phrased as "Arithmetic", better known as Economics Theory 101
According to Kurzweil, my brain filled up by 20, which means that at 47 I'm cannibalizing old skills in order to learn new ones. Last month I learned to memorize all of the Kings and Queens of England, all of the US Presidents and all of the British Prime Ministers. That must mean that in order to do that I must forget how to dress myself, how to stay continent, how to speak...
You may have stopped learning a long time ago Ray, but I'm not even peaking.
I'm 47 and was a Novell consultant until 3 years ago. I managed to persuade a friend who owned a small ISP to let me virtualize his infrastructure (5+ years old crappy boxes that miraculously had not fallen over in that time).
Bought 2 hosts and a SAN from an IBM reseller. Built it all completely from scratch learning from a book (this one) using iSCSI to connect to the SAN. Rebuilt it twice or three times to make sure I'd captured all the steps.
Put it into production, virtualizing all the server that would be virtualizable (and old Slackware definitely wasn't one of those) and creating new Centos templates for easy deployment of the stuff that was on Slackware. Added QNAP boxes for Disaster Recovery.
After 8-9 weeks my friend's business model had changed beyond all recognition and I had brand-new up-to-date skills in virtualization and a reference site.
I'm now working for a consultancy doing VMware, SANs and Office365 migrations. My skills and experience are improving every day and Novell is far behind in the junkpile.
Oh and I'm going to get certified for Windows 2012 because [fighting words on Slashdot]Windows 2012 and Hyper-V rocks[/fighting words on Slashdot] and it cannot be ignored even by Linuxheads like me. My company wants my skills and my long experience to make them money, and I want them to let me gain skills and experience and get paid for it. Eventually I'll move on.
There's a ton of free stuff (Microsoft Virtual Academy, for example) for people to learn new stuff and even Microsoft let you play with Windows 2012 and Azure for a few months at no cost. Playing with Xen or KVM or Openstack costs nothing
Bottom line? 40 is a state of mind for people clinging to their 30s. It's not anywhere near the junkpile unless you do nothing about your situation except be afraid to change. Oh, and the key to re-engineering your skillset and your life in your 40s is mens sana in corpore sano. Tone down the drinking, leave the drugs alone and learn new stuff
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It has more mass.
Does Octave or SciLab run on an Android tablet?
Or Maple you insensitive clod!
How will I find out what schizophrenics are saying to each other?!!!
So much taxation would avert "dangerous climate change" and how long would we have to wait in order to be sure that the fix worked?
You'll just get modded down by lunatics.
By producing these videos, you've actually given me several years of life by actually reminding me how boring and repetitive WoW really was and why I refuse to waste any money on it.
I actually spent yesterday downloading the entire client (all 20Gigs of it). I was going to revisit to see how things had developed. But I now know that WoW is a waste of lifespan. I think I'd rather do something useful with my free time, like learn a new language, improve my memorization skills, train for a professional certification, even read a book.
I play other games where I can dip in and out like Team Fortress 2. But MMORPGs are a frightening waste of time. If I were unemployed then MMORPGs would help pass the time, but not help me get back into work.
That's why I read Slashdot - somebody else wastes their time so I don't have to.
Thanks Slashdot!
Well played.
Because the greatest offshoot of SUSY is string theory. String theory relies on SUSY being true, and academic institutions are stuffed with string theorists making ever more grandiose claims about what string theory predicts (think Sheldon Cooper times a billion) without a single prediction of an experimental result that unambiguously proves string theory is correct.
I expect a petition by string theorists to turn off the Large Hadron Collider any day now.
If we won't credit carbon dioxide with these extra superpowers, then the terrorists win.
Or alternatively, the People know that the global warming story is white middle-class hysteria and refuse to fund fantasies any more.
Please prove that the commenter was bribed by the oil industry, that there exists any attempt by oil industry companies and that any money is on the table. I want receipts, invoices or funding statements in company records. Otherwise you're just full of shit.
tl;dr
Definitely it's a project worth doing but you've got to put in some work, both legwork and office work to make it work.
You need to go to the regional fiber provider and talk to them about becoming a last mile ISP and what their requirements are to terminate their fiber in your town and likely licensing issues, service contracts and support.
You need to speak to your town hall about permits and applicable laws.
Depending on where the fiber actually is, you need to pick a business unit where the fiber can be terminated and where your fiber can be run from.
In that business unit you're going to need reliable power and UPS backup to create a small datacenter (2 or 3 racks should be plenty) on raised floors for cable runs. (There are companies out there that ship all of this stuff in a single container, meaning that all you have to do is site it and run fiber and power to it)
You'll need to find out how much it will cost to run fiber from your datacenter businesses (who will be the main consumers) and home users. Get maps and start planning. Your regional fiber network provider should be able to put you in touch with the people who put fiber cables down in streets.
You'll need to talk to your local Chamber of Commerce or Better Business Bureau about likely customers as well as schools and colleges (and the town's own infrastructure like the townhall itself) who will be big consumers of fiber bandwidth and likely to be the baseload of your cashflow. Also likely partners in your state who might like to put their systems in your datacenter to provide services to your town such as VOIP providers, cloud services and storage providers etc. (Speak to them under NDA)
You'll need a business plan, a financial planning showing likely costings and cashflow and a project plan to maximize return by hitting major sources of revenue first.
I would suggest that you go for a low cost base based on opensource software and hardware as much as you can (I hear cheers from Slashdotters!)
Once you've got this done, then find out about likely sources of finance, microloans, angel investors who will need to see the proposed balance sheet and cashflow projections. (You might find that the reason there is only a crappy DSL service in your area is that that is all the demand that there is - economics trumps everything else and the whole idea has to make economic sense)
You will need help. Other people have done this on very limited budgets so use Google and network like crazy. Make contacts with technical people willing to pitch in. You will need to look at project plans created by others and business plans created by others and sources of finance used by others.
This isn't to put you off, but to give you an overview on the size of the mountain you're looking at climbing. Others have started where you are now and made great local companies. But the business must be based on sound economics and a steely concentration on a plan of action.
Eve Online is a blatent ripoff of Elite. It startled me how similar they were in initial gameplay, and most of the same ideas of stargates between star systems, mining, trading, pirates and space stations orbiting planets had all been pioneered by Elite. That being said, the market for MMORPGs is nearly saturated and 1.25 million pound sterling is not going to go very far.
...the "Gregory House Paradox"
...should be Half-Life 2 Episode 4: The Search for Episode 3
Actually when major earthquakes happen, it is often the case that the seismicity is artificially reduced. That's when stresses build up. Unfortunately this lower seismicity can last for years, causing observers to mistake the lowered seismicity for the normal level.
To the idiot who labelled this a troll, you're the troll.
Cold fusion is exactly the correct response. I've lived long enough to see many.many attempts to make fuel from unconventional sources and all of them fail because of economic and practical arguments that don't go away just because it's claimed to be "carbon-neutral" (it hides the carbon generation further up the supply chain), "provides energy independence" (it never does), "saves the planet"(from what?) and will be fitted into your neighborhood "pretty soon" for cents on the dollar (never happens).
And its not a conspiracy of oil companies. It is a matter of what Bill Clinton memorably phrased as "Arithmetic", better known as Economics Theory 101
Well said.
According to Kurzweil, my brain filled up by 20, which means that at 47 I'm cannibalizing old skills in order to learn new ones. Last month I learned to memorize all of the Kings and Queens of England, all of the US Presidents and all of the British Prime Ministers. That must mean that in order to do that I must forget how to dress myself, how to stay continent, how to speak...
You may have stopped learning a long time ago Ray, but I'm not even peaking.
Try that same argument with pedophilia. Now the proposition doesn't work any more.
Same here. Mental attitude and physical health (and you have to start taking more care of yourself starting in 40s) are the keys.
You forgot to say "Now get off my lawn!".
Kudos to you. Old is when you can't adapt because you won't (not can't) learn new stuff.
I'm 47 and was a Novell consultant until 3 years ago. I managed to persuade a friend who owned a small ISP to let me virtualize his infrastructure (5+ years old crappy boxes that miraculously had not fallen over in that time).
Bought 2 hosts and a SAN from an IBM reseller. Built it all completely from scratch learning from a book (this one) using iSCSI to connect to the SAN. Rebuilt it twice or three times to make sure I'd captured all the steps.
Put it into production, virtualizing all the server that would be virtualizable (and old Slackware definitely wasn't one of those) and creating new Centos templates for easy deployment of the stuff that was on Slackware. Added QNAP boxes for Disaster Recovery.
After 8-9 weeks my friend's business model had changed beyond all recognition and I had brand-new up-to-date skills in virtualization and a reference site.
I'm now working for a consultancy doing VMware, SANs and Office365 migrations. My skills and experience are improving every day and Novell is far behind in the junkpile.
Oh and I'm going to get certified for Windows 2012 because [fighting words on Slashdot]Windows 2012 and Hyper-V rocks[/fighting words on Slashdot] and it cannot be ignored even by Linuxheads like me. My company wants my skills and my long experience to make them money, and I want them to let me gain skills and experience and get paid for it. Eventually I'll move on.
There's a ton of free stuff (Microsoft Virtual Academy, for example) for people to learn new stuff and even Microsoft let you play with Windows 2012 and Azure for a few months at no cost. Playing with Xen or KVM or Openstack costs nothing
Bottom line? 40 is a state of mind for people clinging to their 30s. It's not anywhere near the junkpile unless you do nothing about your situation except be afraid to change. Oh, and the key to re-engineering your skillset and your life in your 40s is mens sana in corpore sano. Tone down the drinking, leave the drugs alone and learn new stuff