Some might even point out that all of the gas guzzling autos are the cool toys for the younger crowd...just as people might say Joe Camel was targeted at America's youth. I, of course, would not make such a brash statement; but only to say some might.
Did you see any of Chevy's superbowl ads? They're aimed at young people.
When I was in college, I didn't care about free goodies. All that mattered was that someone would talk to me. The most successful companies would engage me in conversation if I spent any time looking at their display.
Look at resumes when people hand them to you. You don't have to read them, but be prepared to offer interviews "on the spot." It's always nice when the guy who you hand your resume to you ends up being a lifelong mentor after two internships.
Your company should also be "established." This means that you need some kind of banner or display with your trademarks and brands. It doesn't need to be fancy or expensive; it needs to convey a message that you've been around long enough to have a clear plan in establishing your startup.
They seriously need to figure out that, when someone buys a game system, we want to PLAY GAMES ON IT. We don't need to watch movies, listen to MP3s, view images, surf the web, do our dishes, and drive to work using the same machine.
A toy isn't the place to showcase an expensive videophile format. Perhaps Sony should have kept BluRay out of the cheaper PS3?
Gasoline will be a bit harder as you don't want long chain parafins, you want branch chained C7 / C8s (seven and eight carbon hydrocarbons) as a straight chain C8 hase an octane number of zero (by definition) while the fully branched C7 has an octance number of 100 (again by definition). Getting octane numbers >90 is difficult without using aromatic compounds (benzene & toluene which have octane numbers in the 120 to 150s).
Disclaimer: I'm not a chemist.
My understanding of how gasoline works is that it's a fluid with specific viscosity and flamability properties. It's typically re-formulated every 10-15 years for environmental (or economic) reasons. Chemically, the gas in my tank is different from the gas my parents used. Thus, gasoline derrived from biological sources could contain different chemicals, as long as it behaves like petroleum-based gasoline.
Reading books on a screen sucks. When I'm reading a book, I like to sit sideways in the armchair, hang over the edge of my bed, or sprawl out on the floor. You can't read a screen like that. Books are also convenient for actually taking places where it would be impractical, expensive, impossible, or maybe just socially unacceptable to take a computer. Usually outside. You know, that big room with the blue ceiling.
Last November, I purchased a 17" Macbook pro with a glossy screen. For the past month, I've found myself reading free e-books in bed. It's surprisingly comfortable, the screen is big enough that I can display two pdf pages side-by-side, and the resolution is high enough that I can't see the pixels. Because the screen is luminescent, I don't have to worry about shadows landing on the page. In addition, the pages stay put without me having to hold the book open. The biggest advantage, though, is that I don't have to find a place to store the book when I'm done!.
Seriously, I really look forward to e-books because I just don't have room to store all my dead trees! (I try to keep every book that I've read.) For all the money that I'd save in moving expenses and Amazon shipping; I'd be able to buy a very fancy e-reader or a second battery for my laptop!
In my experience: I entered my 4-year CS program with significantly more programming experience then my peers. My senior year was the most valuable because I picked up on good theory that I can apply to real-world jobs. As a result, I can design better databases, and I better understand how to design classes. Basically, I can write larger programs with less cruft then I would if I left halfway through my education.
I always like to joke about how I took "Technology of Alpine Skiing" thinking it would be an easy course, yet I took away valuable lessons that my CS curriculum was lacking. You might find more value in interdisinplinary / marketing / management / psycology classes then you expect. These lessons will help you in a CS career.
Hardware paralelism can be beneficial without having to rewrite every application. In some cases, the OS can take advantage of multiple CPUs to make single-threaded applications run faster. In my current job, I run single-threaded tasks in a batch environment. Our system allows us to run one task per core, thus taking advantage of a multi-core environment.
I have a solution for all of you who whine about snipers. It is really simple, 100 percent effective, and completely free. Bid more than you are willing to pay. That's it. If you get outbid, it's no big deal, because you never wanted to pay that much in the first place. If you win at your high bid, you may have spent too much, but you get that joy of winning that you seem so concerned about. Best of all, it requires no changes to anything else, so it couldn't be easier to implement.
I've always considered eBay to be something where the real action happens at the last minute, thus I always try to bid as late as possible. I very rarely bid twice, because usually the item that I'm bidding on is sold by multiple vendors, or will be reposted quickly.
eBay really is a seller's market. It's up to the buyer to bid responsibly. "Shill bidders" are just people who understand how the system works and use it to their advantage. Heck, when I taught my mother how to use eBay, I told her to bid "as late as possible so people have less of a chance to outbid you" and "never bid more then you're willing to pay."
Well, the solution to that is easy. Rip keys from a very prolific hardware player.
Imagine if the keys that got leaked came from, say, the PS3. Can you imagine the shitstorm that Sony would throw if the first million or two buyers couldn't play Blu-Ray movies anymore? Those keys would never get revoked.
I can hardly wait until there's a SETI-style distributed brute-force attack on AACS to get every single player-specific key.
WTF is this news? I occasionally mix instant coffee into my brownies for excellent results. It's even more fun when I mix instant coffee into pot brownies; wired stoners are so funny!
This is what the MPAA doesn't quite get. Most people I know over the age of 21 hate going to the theater. It's a fucking hassle.
So when a blockbuster is released like LOTR the options are:
a. suffer in the theater
b. wait half a year for the DVD
c. download the torrent
Just make the first runs available for download and guaranteed the piracy problem will be minimized.
Don't forget TV! A *cough* friend of mine wanted to watch Season 2 of Stargate Atlantis before the season premeire of Season 3. Because there was no legal way for my *cough* friend to obtain Season 2, he had to resort to piracy!
Don't forget, DVD was a huge improvement over VHS, and it was compatible with existing displays.
That's not really true. The DVD standard prevents manufacturers from including an RF output on DVD players. When DVD was released, a significant amount of people had TVs that only had RF inputs.
New employees appreciate some face time. If you have the luxury of a classroom setting in your building, consider running a 1-hour class that covers the same topics. This will save you time, because you get to handle all the employees in one hour. It will also help your new employees meet each other; and those who are more technically savy can help others.
Apparently, the submitter and editor don't truly realize what "open source" is. Selling a PC without anything on it isn't open source; it's selling a computer with nothing on it. This isn't a move to support open source, it's a move to save money by not having to pay the MS tax.
The computers are sold with FreeDos, which is open source.
Actually, Sgt. Pepper's is one of the most expensive rock records ever made (or at least it was when it first came out). On A Day in the Life, for example, they hired a 40-piece orchestra. So you could easily make an album for 10k, but definitely not Sgt. Pepper's.
Today most of the 40-piece orchestra would be replaced with synthesizers. Software synthesizers cost about $400, and rack-mounts can be had for less then $1000.
For example, listen to some of the pieces that I wrote in college. While they don't compare with the Beatles, I was able to get realistic orchestra effects using a consumer mac and a Kurtzweil rack-mount. The total value of the equipment was much less then 10K. http://www.andrewrondeau.com/music.html (Intro to Electro-Acoustic Music, Final Impression; and An Electronic Music Composition are the best examples.)
Man, I'm all for this idea in theory, but do you realize that the Beatles didn't tour from 1966 - 1970? Concerts for generating 100% of the revenue might work for some bands, but if that model had been in place 40 years ago, we'd have no Sgt. Pepper's, White Album, Magical Mystery Tour, Abbey Road. Pretty much all of their best stuff.
At one point in history, composers were funded by wealthy patrons and governments. For example, Handel's Water Music was funded by some king. Wikipedia Perhaps we'll see some future musicians funded by wealthy patrons?
Something to consider: Today, for an investment of about $10,000, one could probably buy enough recording equipment to record an album like Sgt. Pepper's. If Sgt. Pepper's were recorded today, and The Beatles put a "Donate" button on their web site, do you think they'd be able to make a living?
and, I don't have a problem with them trying to get more money for the same music over and over. I do have a problem when we have the government essentially on the take to support this model. It certainly doesn't benefit me as a consumer, and apparently it doesn't benefit the artist either (http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news/2004-05-1 6-royalties-main_x.htm).
Actually, I think a model where we keep paying for the same music will eventually work. Consider two situations: 1: You can download the ENTIRE Beatles catalog for a LOW LOW LOW price of $2.00! 2: You can buy a 1-terrabyte iPod with all the music you could ever want, pre-loaded!
According to Moore's Law, transistor density doubles every 18 months. In 4.5 years, (54 months,) we will have 8 times the number of transistors available. In order to beat Moore's Law, this technology needs to be on the market in less then 4.5 months.
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Did you see any of Chevy's superbowl ads? They're aimed at young people.
When I was in college, I didn't care about free goodies. All that mattered was that someone would talk to me. The most successful companies would engage me in conversation if I spent any time looking at their display.
Look at resumes when people hand them to you. You don't have to read them, but be prepared to offer interviews "on the spot." It's always nice when the guy who you hand your resume to you ends up being a lifelong mentor after two internships.
Your company should also be "established." This means that you need some kind of banner or display with your trademarks and brands. It doesn't need to be fancy or expensive; it needs to convey a message that you've been around long enough to have a clear plan in establishing your startup.
Why not meter bandwidth like electricity? Give everyone a lightly-capped modem at something like $20 / month, and charge something like $0.25 / gig?
After all, if I use twice as much electricity as my neighbor, I pay more! The electric company doesn't drop my service to 90V!
A toy isn't the place to showcase an expensive videophile format. Perhaps Sony should have kept BluRay out of the cheaper PS3?
Disclaimer: I'm not a chemist.
My understanding of how gasoline works is that it's a fluid with specific viscosity and flamability properties. It's typically re-formulated every 10-15 years for environmental (or economic) reasons. Chemically, the gas in my tank is different from the gas my parents used. Thus, gasoline derrived from biological sources could contain different chemicals, as long as it behaves like petroleum-based gasoline.
Are my assumptions correct?
Last November, I purchased a 17" Macbook pro with a glossy screen. For the past month, I've found myself reading free e-books in bed. It's surprisingly comfortable, the screen is big enough that I can display two pdf pages side-by-side, and the resolution is high enough that I can't see the pixels. Because the screen is luminescent, I don't have to worry about shadows landing on the page. In addition, the pages stay put without me having to hold the book open. The biggest advantage, though, is that I don't have to find a place to store the book when I'm done!.
Seriously, I really look forward to e-books because I just don't have room to store all my dead trees! (I try to keep every book that I've read.) For all the money that I'd save in moving expenses and Amazon shipping; I'd be able to buy a very fancy e-reader or a second battery for my laptop!
In my experience: I entered my 4-year CS program with significantly more programming experience then my peers. My senior year was the most valuable because I picked up on good theory that I can apply to real-world jobs. As a result, I can design better databases, and I better understand how to design classes. Basically, I can write larger programs with less cruft then I would if I left halfway through my education.
I always like to joke about how I took "Technology of Alpine Skiing" thinking it would be an easy course, yet I took away valuable lessons that my CS curriculum was lacking. You might find more value in interdisinplinary / marketing / management / psycology classes then you expect. These lessons will help you in a CS career.
Hardware paralelism can be beneficial without having to rewrite every application. In some cases, the OS can take advantage of multiple CPUs to make single-threaded applications run faster. In my current job, I run single-threaded tasks in a batch environment. Our system allows us to run one task per core, thus taking advantage of a multi-core environment.
I've always considered eBay to be something where the real action happens at the last minute, thus I always try to bid as late as possible. I very rarely bid twice, because usually the item that I'm bidding on is sold by multiple vendors, or will be reposted quickly.
eBay really is a seller's market. It's up to the buyer to bid responsibly. "Shill bidders" are just people who understand how the system works and use it to their advantage. Heck, when I taught my mother how to use eBay, I told her to bid "as late as possible so people have less of a chance to outbid you" and "never bid more then you're willing to pay."
If I could buy "The Daily Show" and "The Colbert Report" as soon as they're broadcast; I'd cancel my cable subscription NOW.
I can hardly wait until there's a SETI-style distributed brute-force attack on AACS to get every single player-specific key.
It's the flickering that's going to be the deathblow of DLP.
WTF is this news? I occasionally mix instant coffee into my brownies for excellent results. It's even more fun when I mix instant coffee into pot brownies; wired stoners are so funny!
Don't forget TV! A *cough* friend of mine wanted to watch Season 2 of Stargate Atlantis before the season premeire of Season 3. Because there was no legal way for my *cough* friend to obtain Season 2, he had to resort to piracy!
That's not really true. The DVD standard prevents manufacturers from including an RF output on DVD players. When DVD was released, a significant amount of people had TVs that only had RF inputs.
New employees appreciate some face time. If you have the luxury of a classroom setting in your building, consider running a 1-hour class that covers the same topics. This will save you time, because you get to handle all the employees in one hour. It will also help your new employees meet each other; and those who are more technically savy can help others.
For $15, I'd rather buy a dead tree. I know I can print it, but my time is more valuable.
The computers are sold with FreeDos, which is open source.
My guess is less then SETI. I wonder if such a task could be accomplished using distributed computing?
I hear there's a bunch of programs that run under VMWare. ;)
(With my limited understanding of how AACS works) I predict that someone will brute-force decode all of the AACS player-specific keys and post them.
Today most of the 40-piece orchestra would be replaced with synthesizers. Software synthesizers cost about $400, and rack-mounts can be had for less then $1000.
For example, listen to some of the pieces that I wrote in college. While they don't compare with the Beatles, I was able to get realistic orchestra effects using a consumer mac and a Kurtzweil rack-mount. The total value of the equipment was much less then 10K. http://www.andrewrondeau.com/music.html (Intro to Electro-Acoustic Music, Final Impression; and An Electronic Music Composition are the best examples.)
At one point in history, composers were funded by wealthy patrons and governments. For example, Handel's Water Music was funded by some king. Wikipedia Perhaps we'll see some future musicians funded by wealthy patrons?
Something to consider: Today, for an investment of about $10,000, one could probably buy enough recording equipment to record an album like Sgt. Pepper's. If Sgt. Pepper's were recorded today, and The Beatles put a "Donate" button on their web site, do you think they'd be able to make a living?
Actually, I think a model where we keep paying for the same music will eventually work. Consider two situations: 1: You can download the ENTIRE Beatles catalog for a LOW LOW LOW price of $2.00! 2: You can buy a 1-terrabyte iPod with all the music you could ever want, pre-loaded!
According to Moore's Law, transistor density doubles every 18 months. In 4.5 years, (54 months,) we will have 8 times the number of transistors available. In order to beat Moore's Law, this technology needs to be on the market in less then 4.5 months.