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Wednesday, March 10th, 2010 |
i my self are a t-shirt entrepreneur and wanna share how to make a t-shirt so i search about how to make a t-shirt at madehow, they explained how to make t-shirt clearly and very complete. check this out
Background
T-shirts are durable, versatile garments with mass appeal that may be worn as outerwear or underwear. Since their creation in 1920, T-shirts have evolved into a two-billion dollar market. T-shirts are available in a variety of colors, patterns, and styles, such as the standard crew neck and V-neck, as well as tank tops and scoop necks. T-shirt sleeves may be short or long, capped, yoked, or raglan. Additional features include pockets and decorative trim. T-shirts are also popular garments on which to display one’s interests, tastes, and affiliations using customized screen prints or heat transfers. Printed shirts may feature political slogans, humor, art, sports, as well as famous people and places. T-shirts are also inexpensive promotional vehicles for products and special events.
T-shirts fit just about anyone in any size, from infants to seniors. Adult sizes are generally small, medium, large, and extra-large, while sizes for toddlers are detennined by month and weight. In addition, to compensate for the larger heads of infants relative to their bodies, shirts are specially designed with shoulder openings that may be fastened with buttons or snaps.
Raw Material
The majority of T-shirts are made of 100% cotton, polyester, or a cotton/polyester blend. Environmentally conscious manufacturers may use organically grown cotton and natural dyes. Stretchable T-shirts are made of knit fabrics, especially jerseys, rib knits, and interlock rib knits, which consist of two ribbed fabrics that are joined together. Jerseys are most frequently used since they are versatile, comfortable, and relatively inexpensive. They also are a popular material for applying screen prints and heat transfers. Some jerseys come in tubular form, simplifying the production process by reducing the number of seams. Rib knit fabrics are often used when a snugger fit is desired. Many higher quality T-shirts are made of durable interlock rib knit fabrics. (more…)
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Tuesday, March 9th, 2010 |
When solved, every face of Rubik’s Cube is a solid color. Once you start turning, twisting and flipping, it’s easy to mix up the colors. Not to worry – Rubik’s Cube can be set right from any mixed-up combination. The following steps will help you solve the puzzle.
When you play with the cube you turn its LAYERS, but you want to make the FACES have solid colors. There are 26 CUBES on the outside of Rubik’s Cube and an invisible “cubie” – which is a rotating mechanism – in the middle. There are 8 corner cubes with 3 colors, and 12 edge cubes with two colors. There are 6 center cubes with one color. The center cubes cannot move, being FIXED. So, if you have the original Rubik’s Cube, the blue center cube is always opposite the green, red is opposite orange, and yellow is opposite white. The color of the center cube determines the color of that face.
Note: we use the color arrangement of the original Rubik’s cube because this is the one Erno Rubik prefers. (i.e. blue is opposite green, red opposite orange, and yellow is opposite to white; if the blue side is on the top, then the red is on the left and the yellow on the right, and so on), The new Rubik’s Cubes currently sold in stores and online are colored differently (i.e. blue is opposite to white, green is opposite to yellow, and red is opposite to orange). If you have a new Rubik’s Cube for all the moves below take it in your hands so that the front face with the logo is towards you.
NOTATION
Moves:
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Turn the front face clockwise (if you have the cube in your hands so that that face is towards you – this also applies to the turns below). |
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Turn the front face anti-clockwise. |
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Turn the back face clockwise. |
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Turn the back face anti-clockwise. |
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Turn the right face clockwise. |
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Turn the right face anti-clockwise. |
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Turn the left face clockwise. |
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Turn the left face anti-clockwise. |
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Turn the top face clockwise. |
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Turn the top face anti-clockwise. |
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Turn the bottom face clockwise. |
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Turn the bottom face anti-clockwise. |
THE SOLUTION
1. Now form a cross on the top of the Rubik’s Cube so that the colors of the edge cubes match the colors of the center cubes!
Usually it is relatively easy to position the edge cubes of the top layer in only 2 or 3 moves. The easiest way is first to put the edge cube to the bottom layer below its place, turning away the middle layer and the layer which is opposite the layer where it will fit. Then move the edge cube to the top, and back the layers you moved away. Then position the top layer again (it may be turned away).
2. Position the edge cubes of the middle layer with your chosen color orientation!
Use the EDGE SWITCHER or the EDGE SWITCHER WITH FLIP sequence. If you want only to flip two neighboring edge cubes, but you don’t want to change their color orientation, use the EDGE SWITCHER sequence. Find an edge cube on the middle layer. The colors of two center cubes determine the colors of an edge cube. The edge cubes that belong to the middle layer will now be in the middle or bottom layer.
The EDGE SWITCHER sequence.
Hold the cube like this before performing this sequence. This sequence swaps two edge cubes, but keeps the colors untouched. It forces two corner cubes on the bottom layer to switch as well, but we need not consider them for the moment. The sequence keeps every other cube in place.
The moves of the EDGE SWITCHER sequence (advance from left to right):
If you want to flip the cubes as well, use the EDGE SWITCHER WITH FLIP sequence.
The EDGE SWITCHER WITH FILIP sequence
Hold the cube like this before performing the moves. This sequence switches two edge cubes changes their color orientation, and forces two corner cubes to switch as well, but we won’t consider that right now. The sequence keeps every other cube in place.
The moves of the EDGE SWITCHER WITH FLIP sequence (advance from left to right):
2.1. If the edge cube of the middle layer is in the correct spot but the color orientation is wrong, move it to the bottom layer with an EDGE SWITCHER, then back with the appropriate EDGE SWITCHER sequence.
2.2. To position an edge cube, which is just next to its place in the bottom layer, use the EDGE SWITCHER once, or the EDGE SWITCHER WITH FLIP sequence if you want to change the color-succession as well.
2.3. If the edge cube you want to position is not beside its place, but two steps away on the bottom layer (see the image below, where the cube has been turned to illustrate the solution clearly so that the original bottom layer is on the top), use the EDGE SWITCHER sequence to move it next to its place. Alternatively you can use a simple quarter twist of the down face (you can unscramble it later). Now go to 2.2.
2.4. If the edge cube you would like to position is opposite its location in the middle layer, then you have to move it to the bottom layer next to its place using the EDGE SWITCHER sequence (to illustrate the image below turns the whole cube so that the original top layer – with the blue center cube – is the back layer). Then go to 2.1.
2.5. The last alternative case is that the edge cube is on the other side of your Rubik’s Cube in the middle layer. In this case you have to use the sequence to move it closer to it’s correct spot, and then place the edge cube next to its correct spot with a quarter twist or an EDGE SWITCHER. Then another EDGE SWITCHER to solve the cube.
Now your cube must look like this:
3. Place the edge cubes of the bottom layer in correct color orientation!
To achieve this use one of the two EDGE SWITCHER sequences without forgetting that now you have to position the 4 bottom edge cubes and work on the bottom layer only!
Hold your cube like this before performing an EDGE SWITCHER sequence. In this image the two edge cubes of the bottom layer can be seen on the right, as the whole cube has been turned left.
First check whether or not you can use one or two simple quarter twists to position cubes.
There are two cases:
3.1. The edge cube you would like to position should be just next to where you want it. Use the EDGE SWITCHER (or the EDGE SWITCHER WITH FLIP sequence, if you want to change the color-orientation as well) once you have turned the whole cube as indicated in the image above.
3.2. If the edge cube is opposite where you want it, use the EDGE SWITCHER to position it next to its place, and then perform this or the EDGE SWITCHER WITH FLIP sequence depending whether you want to change colors as well.
If you have completed these sequences, your cube should bear a crusader’s cross on every face. It is possible that some corner cubes are in their correct spots with matching colors as well, that’s fine.
4. Place the corner cubes, but don’t worry about their orientation yet!
The SWITCH THREE CORNERS sequence will help you.
The SWITCH THREE CORNERS sequence.
Hold the cube like this before performing this sequence. This sequence switches three corners, but keeps every other cube untouched.
The moves of the SWITCH THREE CORNERS sequence (advance from left to right):
Again there are a number of possible starting patterns:
4.1. If you have two neighboring corners you can position them using the SWITCH THREE CORNERS sequence (do not worry about the color orientation). Be sure to hold the whole cube so that the three corner cubes you want to switch are on top before performing the sequence.
4.2. If there is only a center cube “between” the corner cube and its correct place perform the SWITCH THREE CORNERS sequence, do this twice if you want to keep the fourth cube “behind” the three moving cubes during the sequence.
4.3. If the corner cube is not in the same layer, use the SWITCH THREE CORNERS sequence twice. First to move the corner to the same layer, and then go to 4.2. or 4.1. to perform one or two more sequences. Turn your Rubik’s Cube so the 3 corners are on the top before each SWITCH THREE CORNERS move sequence.
Having completed that move the 8 corner cubes will be in the correct spot. Some of them will have the right color orientation; most of them won’t!
5. Finally correct the colors of the corner cubes!
Use the CORNER FLIPPER RIGHT or CORNER FLIPPER LEFT sequence. The CORNER FLIPPER RIGHT rotates one corner cube clockwise in place, and forces the next corner to rotate in the other direction. The CORNER FLIPPER LEFT rotates one corner cube anti-clockwise in its place, and forces the next corner to rotate in the other direction. Note that the CORNER FLIPPER RIGHT is equal to two CORNER FLIPPER LEFTs; so if you only want to learn 4 move sequences instead of 5, you can leave out one of the two CORNER FLIPPER sequences.
The CORNER FLIPPER RIGHT move sequence. Hold the whole cube like this before performing the sequence. Make sure the corner cube you want to make the right color is at the front!
The moves of the CORNER FLIPPER RIGHT sequence (advance from left to right):
The CORNER FLIPPER LEFT sequence. Hold the whole cube like this before performing the sequence. Make sure the corner cube you want to make the right color is at the front!
The moves of the CORNER FLIPPER LEFT sequence (advance from left to right):
Here you have to advance step by step zigzagging through the corner cubes. Choose the first to correct randomly or start next to an already correct corner.
There are three possibilities here:
5.1. If only one of the two corners rotated with the sequence gets the right color orientation, turn your Rubik’s Cube so that the remaining wrong color corner cube is on the front at the top.
5.2. If both corner cubes get the right color orientation, use the sequence on one after the other of the corner cubes. Hold the whole cube carefully.
5.3. If two opposite corner cubes are the wrong colors, but the other two corners of the same layer are right, don’t get frustrated. Use one of the CORNER FLIPPER sequences on one of the wrong and on one of the right corner cubes. This will make one corner right and the other corner wrong. Use the sequence on the corner that is now wrong and the corner that was wrong.
Ensure the cube you want to color-orientate is at the front and on top.
When only two corner cubes have the wrong color-orientation both will be OK if you have used the proper CORNER FLIPPER sequence. If you have done that you have solved the cube.
CONGRATULATIONS!
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Tuesday, March 9th, 2010 |
An inventor with a penchant for explosives has designed a set of rockets in the shape of a giant box of crayons.
John Coker has always enjoyed building things that explode and after a friend mentioned that his creations looked like Crayola crayons he started building the crayon-shaped rockets.
Mr Coker started building the colourful rockets in 1998 as one of his first projects.
John Coker in Nevada’s Black Rock desert where he tested his crayon rockets
Lift-off: Mr Coker’s rockets are launched, but only four of the eight take off
Work resumed in August 2004, and more than six years later, the project was finally completed.
He recently headed out to Nevada’s Black Rock desert to test them out.
Based on the small eight-pack of crayons, the three-and-a-half foot long rockets were launched from a box designed to look like the classic yellow and green Crayola box.
But, despite looking like child’s play, the mission was only a partial success with just four of the eight rockets blasting into the sky.
Inexplicably, the green, brown, yellow and orange crayons remained in the box.
Of the four rockets that went off, the violet crayon was found with a broken fin.The other three were found without major damage.
The wacky inventor stands proudly with his rockets
Inexplicably, the green, brown, yellow and orange crayons remained in the box
Mr Coker has hinted that he will test the crayon-shaped rockets again.
Mr Coker said: ‘I used to enjoy building rockets when I was a kid, but after a 20-year absence I found a much-expanded hobby with much larger, more exciting and more dangerous rockets for bigger boys.
‘Since a friend pointed out that my rockets looked like a crayon, I’ve had the idea in back of my mind to build a crayon rocket.
‘Not just a crayon rocket, but a pack of Crayola crayon rockets.
‘On the day, the crayons went pretty high and we think they got to 2928 feet.
‘This was a great project and the flight was a crowd pleaser. It was a shame that only four of the rockets flew.’
It would seem the rockets are a one-off and given the length of time it took Mr Coker to make one pack, you can see why.
Preparing for launch: Mr Coker makes final adjustments to the project he started in 1998
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Tuesday, March 9th, 2010 |
Are you fascinated by global indigenous culture and biodiversity? Then take a look at New Zealand tours by Auckland tourism company TIME Unlimited Tours.
Recently, the company won the global Indigenous Tourism and Biodiversity Website Award 2010, a collaboration between Planeta.com and the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity/UNEP (CBD) and Heidehof Foundation.
This award is presented to an indigenous tourism operation “which has a website that promotes sustainable practices and educates visitors on cultural protocols and biodiversity conservation.”
TIME Unlimited Tours was established in 2005 by couple Ceillhe and Néill Sperath (above). Ceillhe Tewhare Teneti Hema Sperath is tangata whenua, a direct descendant of the famous Ngapuhi chief Patuone. Néill is tauiwi, of Irish and German origin. The TIME in TIME Unlimited Tours is an acronym for “To Integrate Maori Experiences”.
Says Ceillhe Sperath:
“TIME Unlimited Tours is founded on three essential pou, or pillars, of Maoritanga (Maori culture); manaakitanga (hospitality), whakawhanaungatanga (relationships) and kaitiakitanga (guardianship). On their tours, Manaakitanga translates into welcoming, respectful, caring, reliable and punctual service. Whanaungatanga means sharing experiences, finding common ground, forging links, making friends and becoming like family. Kaitiakitanga means ensuring respect, care and protection for the environment – the streets, parks and institutions, the land, beaches, sea and bush that they pass through.”
The company’s guided tours available in Auckland, New Zealand include:
- Auckland Personal Guided Tours.
- Interactive Maori Culture Experiences.
- Private Auckland and NZ Tours.
For more info, check out TIME Unlimited Tours.
Images courtesy of TIME Unlimited Tours
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Saturday, March 6th, 2010 |
here i brought you a simple tips to monetize your blog so you can can get a few dollar from internet and then you can start renovate your living room design 
. this tips are taken from another website, don’t mind to copy it but i hope it is useful to all daydaily.com readers. the tips will be explained in ten points.
I’m co-leading a discussion session at Wordcamp about Monetizing Blogs, so I thought I’d also touch on it here with a post about 10 Ways to Monetize Your Blog.
First, I should preface this discussion by saying you first need to seriously evaluate whether you want to work at monetizing your blog. Steve Pavlina has a very thorough post that goes over what’s necessary to really do this well, and why the majority of people who try end up not generating significant income.
Second, you have to make sure that making money from your blog directly is your goal. For example, for this blog direct income isn’t my goal. I didn’t have ads at all untli recently, and the only reason I added them was to use the ad network management application I’ve been working on called RMX Direct. It’s quite possible that your blogging goals may just to network, write about something you’re interested in, or serve some business purpose that isn’t direct income generation.
With that out of the way, let’s get started:
1. Contextual Advertising
Surprise, surprise. Advertising is easily the most popular blog monetization tactic, mostly due to it being the easiest thing to implement. Advertising comes in many forms, and contextual advertising is the most popular due to Google Adsense and it’s general success with blogs and niche sites.
I’m going to assume everyone reading this is familiar with it, but I think it should be mentioned that too many bloggers assume that Adsense is the best solution for their blog. For some blogs and topics it works great, for others, not very well at all.
My advice is to not limit your blog to one ad network or just one form of advertising. Other contextual options include the Yahoo Publisher Network, Chitika, Clicksor, AdSonar, and others. It’s not easy to manually test all these though if you’re shuffling ad tags around and randomly allocating your impressions to them, using a ad network management tool like RMX Direct can help you manage, evaluate, and control your various ad networks.
2. Display Advertising
As I mentioned above, contextual networks aren’t always the best solution for blogs. In some cases there aren’t enough advertisers in niche topics, and in others the users just isn’t likely to click. In this case, you want to be working with ad networks that provide CPM display advertising. This means you get paid something for every ad viewed, opposed to only getting paid per click.
Just like with contextual networks, it’s important to use multiple display ad networks to get more variety from your ads, to not let any one network control your inventory, and to make sure you’re earning the most amount of money possible.
3. Targeted Advertising
The most desirable form of advertising is having companies that wish to pay good rates to advertise on your blog directly whether it’s text or image ads. Many bloggers feel that this is a pipe dream, but I speak from experience from running a wakeboarding blog for many years that you can make solid income from targeted advertising without having insane amounts of traffic.
There are a number of key things you have to do though in order to get this type of advertising:
- Have a blog with leading content in your niche and a professional design
- Create a “media kit” which is essentially a page on your blog that explains that you take targeted advertising, what your rates are, demographics of your users, your traffic levels, examples of the types of ads people can run, testimonials from any companies that have advertised with you, and a phone number and email address they can use to get more information.
- Have obvious “Advertise On This Blog” links in key places on your blog.
- Give a company or two in your niche free or very low-cost advertising in order to get the ball rolling. When advertisers see their competitors or companies similar to them advertising, they get the idea that it’s available. If all they ever see is Adsense ads, they might not realize it’s an option.
- Be willing to be creative to help your advertisers achieve their goals, and lower your price to get the deals.
- Provide statistics and results to your advertisers. Use an ad server like RMX Direct, phpAdsNew, or something similar which has the ability to create reports per advertiser.
Once you’ve set your blog up properly, start approaching companies in your niche who will want to reach your traffic. You don’t need to go after the biggest companies, there are many small companies who are looking to get better results from the web, and they might not even know about your blog. You don’t need to be an ad sales professional, you just need to present your case well on why they’re missing out if they don’t advertise on your traffic. Make it easy on them to work with you, help them create ads, help them determine what sizes to use, and work with them to make sure they get the results they need. It seems like hard work at first, but after you get a solid base of advertisers going, it’s a great source of income and it starts to streamline.
4. Text Link Advertising
Another somewhat unobtrusive form of advertising is using services like Text Link Ads or Adbrite to sell text ads directly to companies. This is pretty low effort and often doesn’t take up too much space on a site, so it’s easy to implement and try out. It should be noted though that you need significant traffic for it to be a big source of income.
5. Affiliate Links
One of the older web monetization methods is still as good today as it’s always been. If you’ve got a blog in a specific area, there’s a very large chance that there are companies out there that sell products or services your users are interested in. You can earn some nice income recommending or linking to those products.
Amazon.com is probably the most common affiliate merchant used by bloggers, but I’d advise finding other unique merchants who may pay better and be more specific to your topic. Amazon is always there as an option, but you’re more likely to get more help from the merchant if you go with a smaller company.
Another nice thing about affiliate links is that they fit well with quality content. Reviewing products and services for your users is valuable content, and if you can make money off it as well it’s a great combination. A word of warning though that you shouldn’t change your reviews or be biased due to the fact you can make money off a referral.
While traffic also helps for affiliate links, it can sometimes be an easier way to generate income without high traffic levels like advertising requires. As an example I did a review of a web analytics application a couple of years ago, and this blog had very little traffic at that point. I referred two sales through that review though that still earn me $150 a month every month two years later.
6. Selling Your Content (Ebooks, Videos, DVDs)
If you’ve got great content, another option is to package it and sell it. There are numerous bloggers who have created ebooks and even real books based on their blog content and made great income selling them. You can also expand to infoproducts like videos, DVDs, audio CDs, and printed books on demand.
This can take some significant work and it requires great content to actually sell, but it can be a nice income stream that lasts a long time.
7. Consulting
Depending on your topic and your level of expertise, you can sell consulting services. If you’re a web analytics expert, you could offer web analytics consulting services on your blog for an hourly fee. This takes very little work to setup beyond creating a page outlining your services, getting a standard contract, and having a way to take payments from companies. Again though, it just takes a little bit of effort to let people know that consulting services are available.
8. Donations
Not quite as common as it once was, it used to be fairly common for bloggers to ask for donations on their blog through Paypal or some other service. This only works if you have a dedicated userbase, and a large enough number of users that their donations add up. I wouldn’t recommend this if you’re also putting a lot of advertising and other monetization methods on your blog. You’ll come off as a bit too greedy in that case.
9. Selling Products
Besides infoproducts, you can sell real products like t-shirts, bumper stickers, clothing, or whatever other kind of merchandise makes sense for your topic. Companies like Goodstorm, CafePress, Lulu, and others make it easy by creating the products based on your design and letting you set up a shop. There is no risk to bloggers, which makes it a great opportunity.
10. Selling Your Blog
Perhaps the most extreme of the blog monetization methods, but it can be lucrative! If you aren’t attached to your blog and are willing to part with it, you can usually find a buyer for it. Your blog must be pretty good, and have a level of traffic worth buying, and it really helps if you already have some income streams going for it. Blogs usually sell for 12-24 times monthly revenues, and there are numerous places you can sell them like eBay and the Sitepoint Marketplace.
Conclusion
It definitely takes some work to monetize your site well, and having good traffic really helps out. Work on building a blog with a solid userbase, and you should be on your way to generating income using any of the methods above. Good luck, and please share any blog monetization experiences you have in the comments.
Update: I was pointed to a similar post by Darren Rowse at Problogger.net that is also a recommended read on the subject of making money from your blog. He mentions many of the same things, and has a couple I didn’t mention as well.
sources : www.conversionrater.com
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Friday, March 5th, 2010 |
If you wanted to get rich, how would you do it? I think your best bet would be to start or join a startup. That’s been a reliable way to get rich for hundreds of years. The word “startup” dates from the 1960s, but what happens in one is very similar to the venture-backed trading voyages of the Middle Ages.
Startups usually involve technology, so much so that the phrase “high-tech startup” is almost redundant. A startup is a small company that takes on a hard technical problem.
Lots of people get rich knowing nothing more than that. You don’t have to know physics to be a good pitcher. But I think it could give you an edge to understand the underlying principles. Why do startups have to be small? Will a startup inevitably stop being a startup as it grows larger? And why do they so often work on developing new technology? Why are there so many startups selling new drugs or computer software, and none selling corn oil or laundry detergent?
The Proposition
Economically, you can think of a startup as a way to compress your whole working life into a few years. Instead of working at a low intensity for forty years, you work as hard as you possibly can for four. This pays especially well in technology, where you earn a premium for working fast.
Here is a brief sketch of the economic proposition. If you’re a good hacker in your mid twenties, you can get a job paying about $80,000 per year. So on average such a hacker must be able to do at least $80,000 worth of work per year for the company just to break even. You could probably work twice as many hours as a corporate employee, and if you focus you can probably get three times as much done in an hour. [1] You should get another multiple of two, at least, by eliminating the drag of the pointy-haired middle manager who would be your boss in a big company. Then there is one more multiple: how much smarter are you than your job description expects you to be? Suppose another multiple of three. Combine all these multipliers, and I’m claiming you could be 36 times more productive than you’re expected to be in a random corporate job. [2] If a fairly good hacker is worth $80,000 a year at a big company, then a smart hacker working very hard without any corporate bullshit to slow him down should be able to do work worth about $3 million a year.
Like all back-of-the-envelope calculations, this one has a lot of wiggle room. I wouldn’t try to defend the actual numbers. But I stand by the structure of the calculation. I’m not claiming the multiplier is precisely 36, but it is certainly more than 10, and probably rarely as high as 100.
If $3 million a year seems high, remember that we’re talking about the limit case: the case where you not only have zero leisure time but indeed work so hard that you endanger your health.
Startups are not magic. They don’t change the laws of wealth creation. They just represent a point at the far end of the curve. There is a conservation law at work here: if you want to make a million dollars, you have to endure a million dollars’ worth of pain. For example, one way to make a million dollars would be to work for the Post Office your whole life, and save every penny of your salary. Imagine the stress of working for the Post Office for fifty years. In a startup you compress all this stress into three or four years. You do tend to get a certain bulk discount if you buy the economy-size pain, but you can’t evade the fundamental conservation law. If starting a startup were easy, everyone would do it.
Millions, not Billions
If $3 million a year seems high to some people, it will seem low to others. Three million? How do I get to be a billionaire, like Bill Gates?
So let’s get Bill Gates out of the way right now. It’s not a good idea to use famous rich people as examples, because the press only write about the very richest, and these tend to be outliers. Bill Gates is a smart, determined, and hardworking man, but you need more than that to make as much money as he has. You also need to be very lucky.
There is a large random factor in the success of any company. So the guys you end up reading about in the papers are the ones who are very smart, totally dedicated, and win the lottery. Certainly Bill is smart and dedicated, but Microsoft also happens to have been the beneficiary of one of the most spectacular blunders in the history of business: the licensing deal for DOS. No doubt Bill did everything he could to steer IBM into making that blunder, and he has done an excellent job of exploiting it, but if there had been one person with a brain on IBM’s side, Microsoft’s future would have been very different. Microsoft at that stage had little leverage over IBM. They were effectively a component supplier. If IBM had required an exclusive license, as they should have, Microsoft would still have signed the deal. It would still have meant a lot of money for them, and IBM could easily have gotten an operating system elsewhere.
Instead IBM ended up using all its power in the market to give Microsoft control of the PC standard. From that point, all Microsoft had to do was execute. They never had to bet the company on a bold decision. All they had to do was play hardball with licensees and copy more innovative products reasonably promptly.
If IBM hadn’t made this mistake, Microsoft would still have been a successful company, but it could not have grown so big so fast. Bill Gates would be rich, but he’d be somewhere near the bottom of the Forbes 400 with the other guys his age.
There are a lot of ways to get rich, and this essay is about only one of them. This essay is about how to make money by creating wealth and getting paid for it. There are plenty of other ways to get money, including chance, speculation, marriage, inheritance, theft, extortion, fraud, monopoly, graft, lobbying, counterfeiting, and prospecting. Most of the greatest fortunes have probably involved several of these.
The advantage of creating wealth, as a way to get rich, is not just that it’s more legitimate (many of the other methods are now illegal) but that it’s more straightforward. You just have to do something people want. (more…)
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Friday, March 5th, 2010 |
Ever wondered how you can look stunning without trying to be older than you really are? Want to look beautiful and natural, without using too many bad chemicals for your skin? This is a guide on how to look beautiful as a teenager, no matter who you are!
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Clear skin means a minimal make-up routine
Have clear skin. Take advantage of your good complexion while you’re young, and experiment so that your skin routine fits your skin type. As you’re young, you shouldn’t need to do much to keep your skin looking good. Perhaps a cleanser from a pharmacy will work for you, or maybe just water is enough.
- Have clean hair. As above, find a hair care routine that suits your hair type. Some people find that they need to wash their hair daily, some people three or four times a week. Find a shampoo and conditioner that work for your hair, and stick to it. Take advantage of your natural attributes; if it’s wavy, choose a haircut that suits wavy hair. Ask your stylist to help you pick a shape that suits your face shape.
- Take good care of your teeth. Brush twice daily, morning and night. Floss or use specialized dental tooth picks, not wooden ones, and use mouthwash. Keep it up.
- Stay hydrated. Drink at least 2 litres of water per day (approx. 8 glasses) and keep up those fruits and vegetables that contain a good amount of water in them. The water will keep your skin fresh and your eyes bright, and the vitamins in the fruit will keep you energetic and healthy.
- Emphasize the part of your body you feel most confident about. Vibrant tops if you like your upper body/arms and slimming pants if you love your legs!
- Be selective with make-up. Choose colours and types that suit your natural appearance – aim to compliment your natural beauty. Sometimes, less is more. A little mascara (clear is good, no smudges!) lipgloss and blush is a good combination. If you have to use a foundation, use a tinted moisturizer instead; it moisturizes your skin and tints it in one product!
- Try coloring your hair. It’s best to do this on the holidays, then you can wash the color away if you don’t like it.
- Paint your nails. Use vibrant colors and if you can, match the colors with what you are wearing. Remember to remove the nail polish with a moisturizing nail-polish remover two days from when you applied it, to let your nails breathe.
- Have a positive attitude. Walk confidently and smile!
- Smell good. Choose a perfume that suits you, spray a little on your wrists and neck and wear it often. People will get used to your scent and will appreciate it.
- Shave or wax. Do this after a shower, your hair is easier to remove then. Shave if you are on the run, but it is best to wax to prevent coarser, longer hair growing back. Plus, waxing pulls the hair roots out, so you have a longer period of time without the itchiness of hair growing back! Another hair removal idea is to pluck your eyebrows.
- Wear jewelery. Rings, necklaces, anklets and bracelets can look great if chosen to suit your personality and your outfit. If you do not have your ears pierced but want the look, you can buy earrings that clip on your earlobe.
- Re-invent your wardrobe. Choose clothes that express your personality but are normal everyday trends.
- Be Yourself.
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Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010 |
If you are feeling very hungry, you need something to make you feel recharged. If you become weak by living on a diet of salads and juices, you should eat something wholesome.
It is healthy and will give you an instant kick. Find out how to make sandwich with eggs and you will feel energized after enjoying it.
Ingredients for Sandwich with Eggs
You need two slices of brown bread, two big eggs, some freshly ground pepper, salt to taste, and one tablespoon of low fat mayonnaise, water, and one green onion. That is all you need to make this sandwich.
Recipe for Making Egg Sandwich
First of all you need to boil the eggs. To do this take a pot and add the eggs and egg marker to it. Pour water until the eggs get completely covered. Now let the water to boil for some time over high heat. Once it starts boiling reduce the heat to medium. You can allow the eggs to boils for about 12 minutes or just check the egg marker from time to time. Once they are done you have to carefully peel the eggs.
Before doing that throw away the hot water and add some cold water to the pot so that it immerses the eggs. Wait for about five minutes and after that start peeling. Next you have to rinse the eggs to make sure that there is no piece of shell.
You start mashing the eggs by using a potato masher or with a fork. Now add some pepper and salt to taste. Next you have to mix the mayonnaise. Slice the green onion finely and mix it along with the egg mixture. Take the two slices of brown bread and then spread this egg mixture uniformly on one slice. Place another slice on top and your sandwich is ready. You can also add some lettuce leaves between the slices, if you want a crunchy taste.
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Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010 |
A garden is a place where a number of plants are planted in a specific manner for the purpose of aesthetic beauty. Just by planting some plants and lawn one cannot make a garden look beautiful. Making a garden requires some amount of plant knowledge and the ability to arrange the plants aesthetically.
If you wish to employ a garden contractor, it is best to look out for one who has had a reasonable amount of experience in making a garden and one who has trained staff. The reputed contractors too can give you a lot of trouble by not adhering to the specifications that are to be followed in making the garden. For example, if a tree requires a pit of 3′ x 3′ x 3′ to be dug, he may dig a pit of 3′ x 3′ x 2′ or he may dig a pit of the correct specification but while filling it with fresh mixture of garden earth and manure, he will fill the bottom part with the excavated infertile soil. (There is nothing wrong however in using the excavated earth if it is of good quality.) Both will not let the plant grow properly.
It is best to spend some extra money and have a good garden made rather than be fooled by the enormously low amount quoted by some garden contractors.
You can however make your own garden in the following way.
Draw out a landscaping plan for your garden. You do not need to be an expert in drawing. A rough sketch will do. A number of factors will have to be considered in making a landscape plan, such as the topography of the are, the location of the house or building, whether the area is in a sunny of a shady location, the amount of land available in making a garden, the availability of water, the time that you can spend in maintaining the garden and most important of all the amount of money that you are willing to shell out in making the garden. (more…)
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Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010 |
There’s a lot more to getting pregnant than just having intercourse sometime in the middle of your cycle and hoping to see that positive pregnancy test instead of your period.
I learned this the hard way.
When I was trying to conceive, I found out that there was a lot that I didn’t know. Which led me to making a lot of big mistakes which were actually preventing me from getting pregnant.
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