2. Understand that BIGGER is not always BETTER. Trying to get in with Microsoft, Google and those guys is a huge task, but if you're one small fish in a very big pond, is there a likelihood that you'll get far? Consider talking with smaller companies -- even much smaller companies. The most successful friends I know are ones who "interned" with small companies and then struck out to start their own: stock brokers, accountants and even retail store owners that all worked in much smaller corporations.
I disagree. I think working for a large company has many benifits early in a career where esentially you have no experience. They usually have the capabilites to train you if you show the desire.
While you are correct the likely hood of working from a lowly jr level coder to a ceo in a company like microsoft is next to null, getting the experience from a large company then moving to a much smaller comapny will increase those chances. However you do gamble with small companies. Its almost like playing with stock. You could get lucky and get in on the ground floor of the next apple or you could be stuck with a company that promises to go somewhere and never does...
Sounds like you should just join em. Keep your invetory, buy cheap space where realestate is cheap (ie where window shoppers dont go.. or hell to start this venture move to your garage). Get a internet connection and open a online store;-).
With some decent marketing using google adsense you will have customers in no time.
So wait, you were able to succesfully compete with online retailers AND make a profit but your shutting your doors just because you don't like giving the state money?
That doesn't make any sort of buisness sense as you stated 2005 was your best year (and you also pointed out you did very well financially.)
This is just screaming Marvin the paranoid android.
Marvin: Here I am, brain the size of a planet, and they ask me to take you to the bridge. Call that job satisfaction, 'cause I don't.
Further down the page... his custom build arcade machine... my favorite:
It has all custom graphics, brushed aluminum side panels and a LED coin counting display that also computes how many cases of beer the money stash will buy.
Well I was mearly trying to point out that its a Company not the US itself in "control" of the internet. A goverment should never be in acctuall control of the internet.
Since US corporate policy favors freedom of speech I see no issue with keeping it this way.
For those interested the livejournal people released a while ago their source code for memory cache.
Imemcached is a high-performance, distributed memory object caching system, generic in nature, but intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load.
There is a huge difference between Games, Tv etc. which I feel falls under media which in turn is freedom of speech and hard drugs/weapons.
But anyways these above items already have a warning label (ie violent games are often rated m for mature) meaning it IS the parents fault they are letting their kids buy these games because they chose to ignore the warning label.
Granted not all kids are the same (some being way more mature then others) but if a kid can't handle mature content then his parents shouldn't be buying him the games labled so.
No but making me a kid at one point of my life does allow me to make my argument.
I might not have had the perfect parents and I did my fair share of stuff that would of gotten me grounded forever that I never got caught for, but I learned enough from them (most of the lesons not learned till several years after moving away from them) to allow myself to make fair and good judgements.
You are right, you can't watch a kid 24 hours a day but you have to draw the line. There are plenty of bad parents who instead of allowing themselves to be at fault for raising "bad" children choose to blame the companys.
You can allow your children to play violent video games and listen to bad music as long as you have taught them so they know where the "line" is drawn. (aka they can play grand theft auto and realize they can't act that way in society).
I stand by my claim.
Granted I am completly for laws governing that companys should place applicable labels on their products to allow parents to make wise decisions.
What pisses me off though is this law is obiously slated at Grant Theft auto which was already rated M which means no kids under 18 should have been playing it unless their parents let them.
As I have said before.... its not McDonald's fault the kid is fat; It's not 50 Cent's fault the kid is listening to gansta rap; It's not RockStar Game's fault the kid is playing a ultra-violent game.
I can not count how many times I have driven through the "projects" in America and seen every single window with a DirectTV satellite and cars costing most likely 10x their annual salary with rims costing even more.
My point is most people in this situation are abusing the system leaving the people who really need it out in the cold.
Henry Frankenstein: Look! It's moving. It's alive. It's alive... It's alive, it's moving, it's alive, it's alive, it's alive, it's alive, IT'S ALIVE!
Victor Moritz: Henry -- In the name of God!
Henry Frankenstein: Oh, in the name of God! Now I know what it feels like to be God!
Now:
Doctor Waldman: You have created a monster, and it will destroy you!
Yea I remember when apple first released their G4. Since it was declared a "super computer" aka did 1 gigaflop a second, it couldn't be sent to a lot of countries because of security concerns.
Granted they could have just come here and bought one then sent it back....
If you notice that it requires someone to turn the pages. While tedious it would protect some of the much older books google will be scanning. If there is a automated soltion I do not know....
The thing though with MMORPG if you study how hacking type programs work there is no easy way to detect client side on what hacking programs are on your computer.
I can think of just about every single major hack for the above mentioned game that easily side steps GameGuard. They even have complety third party clients for the game that completly side step GameGuard entirely and instead are somehow emulating the authenication method it uses.
A much easier solution and much less troublesome for the user would be to develop server side detection methods that would attempt to analize player behavior and attempt to make a logical choice on if its a human or a machine (And then of course have a human detect if it is really a bot or a player).
Doing above is much easier then you think as I have done similiar data mining on computer log files to filter out machine users from human users to detect when a human was wrongly using a machine account. Granted my above method is aimed more at a MMORPG enviroment where you already have GameMasters on hand that can go and look at a player to see if he is cheating or not so mileage may vary.
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While you are correct the likely hood of working from a lowly jr level coder to a ceo in a company like microsoft is next to null, getting the experience from a large company then moving to a much smaller comapny will increase those chances. However you do gamble with small companies. Its almost like playing with stock. You could get lucky and get in on the ground floor of the next apple or you could be stuck with a company that promises to go somewhere and never does ...
Sounds like you should just join em. Keep your invetory, buy cheap space where realestate is cheap (ie where window shoppers dont go .. or hell to start this venture move to your garage). Get a internet connection and open a online store ;-).
With some decent marketing using google adsense you will have customers in no time.
That doesn't make any sort of buisness sense as you stated 2005 was your best year (and you also pointed out you did very well financially.)
It sucked while I lived in tennesee since just about every retailer had a distro center in Memphis because of fedex.
When I got it it had a wall-mini usb charger and I bought a car - mini usb charger.
So they did exist in 2004.
This is just screaming Marvin the paranoid android.
Marvin: Here I am, brain the size of a planet, and they ask me to take you to the bridge. Call that job satisfaction, 'cause I don't.
It has all custom graphics, brushed aluminum side panels and a LED coin counting display that also computes how many cases of beer the money stash will buy.
Awesome.
Since US corporate policy favors freedom of speech I see no issue with keeping it this way.
If the other parts of the world want control of it they should have invented it first ;-)
Because its written in C++ ... if it sucks why does Slashdot use it?
Imemcached is a high-performance, distributed memory object caching system, generic in nature, but intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load.
There is a huge difference between Games, Tv etc. which I feel falls under media which in turn is freedom of speech and hard drugs/weapons.
But anyways these above items already have a warning label (ie violent games are often rated m for mature) meaning it IS the parents fault they are letting their kids buy these games because they chose to ignore the warning label.
Granted not all kids are the same (some being way more mature then others) but if a kid can't handle mature content then his parents shouldn't be buying him the games labled so.
I might not have had the perfect parents and I did my fair share of stuff that would of gotten me grounded forever that I never got caught for, but I learned enough from them (most of the lesons not learned till several years after moving away from them) to allow myself to make fair and good judgements.
You are right, you can't watch a kid 24 hours a day but you have to draw the line. There are plenty of bad parents who instead of allowing themselves to be at fault for raising "bad" children choose to blame the companys.
You can allow your children to play violent video games and listen to bad music as long as you have taught them so they know where the "line" is drawn. (aka they can play grand theft auto and realize they can't act that way in society).
I stand by my claim.
Granted I am completly for laws governing that companys should place applicable labels on their products to allow parents to make wise decisions.
What pisses me off though is this law is obiously slated at Grant Theft auto which was already rated M which means no kids under 18 should have been playing it unless their parents let them.
Its the parent's fault.
I can not count how many times I have driven through the "projects" in America and seen every single window with a DirectTV satellite and cars costing most likely 10x their annual salary with rims costing even more.
My point is most people in this situation are abusing the system leaving the people who really need it out in the cold.
Henry Frankenstein: Look! It's moving. It's alive. It's alive... It's alive, it's moving, it's alive, it's alive, it's alive, it's alive, IT'S ALIVE!
Victor Moritz: Henry -- In the name of God!
Henry Frankenstein: Oh, in the name of God! Now I know what it feels like to be God!
Now:
Doctor Waldman: You have created a monster, and it will destroy you!
Granted they could have just come here and bought one then sent it back ....
Too many pages require IE for Firefox to be 100% usefull (although thankfully thats declining).
Its online .... print.google.com
I wonder who will be the first to car jack this million dollar test car and take it to Mexico.
newzbin rocks!
http://www.imageware.de/
1.Connect to google.
2.Download a rare book only found in a handfull of libraries.
3.Go read it....
http://www.rod-neep.co.uk/books/production/scan/ scanning.htm
If you notice that it requires someone to turn the pages. While tedious it would protect some of the much older books google will be scanning. If there is a automated soltion I do not know ....
I can think of just about every single major hack for the above mentioned game that easily side steps GameGuard. They even have complety third party clients for the game that completly side step GameGuard entirely and instead are somehow emulating the authenication method it uses.
A much easier solution and much less troublesome for the user would be to develop server side detection methods that would attempt to analize player behavior and attempt to make a logical choice on if its a human or a machine (And then of course have a human detect if it is really a bot or a player).
Doing above is much easier then you think as I have done similiar data mining on computer log files to filter out machine users from human users to detect when a human was wrongly using a machine account. Granted my above method is aimed more at a MMORPG enviroment where you already have GameMasters on hand that can go and look at a player to see if he is cheating or not so mileage may vary.