If you put in the requisite time and energy to learn photography and achieve a certain level of skill you could theoretically do 1 or 2 $4000 weddings a week.
This is of course considering that you have a portfolio, good reputation, steady clients, and someone else to take care of the business side (which will cut into your earnings).
I believe there was an article a while back that showed it was trivial to track a person by their use of vocabulary and grammar style.
But it's probably still better to use a pseudonym, even if only to deter the laziest of tracking.
Monopolies never work. Check out 'The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires' by Tim Wu http://amzn.to/JGc0zv
History will only repeat itself, but with greater and more severe repercussions for our apathy and ignorance.
Could someone perhaps take the relevant suggestions from this HN discussion and modify a fork of the repo?
I would do it myself, but I don't think I am proficient enough at CSS to sift through the comments effectively.
that's good idea. i have written a bunch of my own guidelines which i'm going to beef up with some of these. the problem with creating a list of the 'relevant' suggestions is that it differs for every developer, project and company. someone's 'relevant' may be another's 'pointless'
Is this why ebooks in general are so expensive? I always wondered why digital copies cost as much as the physical ones, and I always thought the publishers were just being greedy.
Note that there are 17 steps in this process for paper books ... and around 15 or 16 for ebooks. And the cost of physical goods (ink and paper) is less than 10% of the cover price.
Steps 13, 14, 15, and 16 are all unnecessary in the electronic world. Perhaps most of step 8 too, since the ARCs will be sent out electronically.
The actual materials are only part of the cost advantage ebooks have over print. Among the other advantages are:
- Real estate for book stores.
- Salaries for bookstore employees.
- Shipping, packaging.
- Inventory management.
- Bookstore profit margins.
- MUCH simpler typesetting, since pagination is mostly handled by the device.
So by saying it should only be ten percent of savings you are really understating the advantage by quite a bit.
And, frankly, I have no idea how they hope to avoid a charge of horizontal collusion for that alone.
It seems to be an open secret that the big publishers are coordinating their discussions with Apple and Amazon. And that would seem to be an open-and-shut case of collusion.
>>>And, frankly, I have no idea how they hope to avoid a charge of horizontal collusion for that alone.
That is why Random House did not leap in with the other five of the Big Six. To avoid that appearance.
It's also the same trick Apple is using by making iBooks a download, not an app already pre-installed on every iDevice. They can claim their app has to be downloaded just like their competitor's app. But that does not obscure the fact people can order eBooks only with iBooks, not their competitor's apps. Apple is still guilty of Restraint of Trade in eBooks and that should be the next examination by the DoJ.
I think the OPs concern is more with his lack of experience combined with his age. Not just that he's in his 30s, but that he's in his 30s and has almost no work experience.
I'm pretty sure there is a general consensus that young people learn faster, and this might seep into a decision in whether to hire a 20 something with no experience or 30 something with no experience.
Namely that it is "creator-owned" https://uwaterloo.ca/research/waterloo-commercialization-off...