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Intellectual Ventures CEO Nathan Myhrvold is one of the most controversial figures in the technology industry — a lightning rod for criticism of the patent system thanks to his company's large intellectual property holdings. But does he really care what people think of him? Not really, as it turns out.
The former Microsoft chief technology officer joined us at the GeekWire Summit this week to talk about the process of invention at Intellectual Ventures, the startups the Bellevue, Wash.-based company has spun out, his thoughts on the Pacific Northwest tech scene, the future of patents and, yes, his reputation in the broader tech industry.
"It's very popular to say, we're going to be risk-takers, and entrepreneurs are risk-takers," he said. "Turns out, one of those risks is, people are not going to like what you do, and they're going to say bad things about you. It's a risk. If you obsess about that too much, you're never going to do anything that actually changes the world."
Watch the full video above, listen for highlights on this week's GeekWire radio show and podcast (starting in the second segment below), and continue reading for a partial transcript of the conversation.
Todd Bishop: The idea, as you explain it, is to invent systematically, developing a process to generate ideas that turn into technologies that provide a foundation for companies and inventions. Tell us about this system that you've developed at Intellectual Ventures.
Nathan Myhrvold: Well, for most things in life, if you focus on them to the exclusion of all else, you can get better at them than other folks that do it as a sideline. That's why we have ad agencies and accounting firms, and law firms, and so forth, where people say, "Well, anyone could come up with the ad," and some companies do come up with their own ads, but advertising agencies, or movie studios, or whatever, they will focus on a thing. Well, invention is something that is super important. I wrote the foreword to a book on invention. It was for Harvard University Press and I said that, "Invention is to technology as conception is to reproduction." They sent back this letter, and they said, "Well, this is much too racy for Harvard University Press." I said, "You know how long it took me to come up with conception as a euphemism?"
I don't think that we should have those things only focused, to say, "Well, you can only be an inventor if you also are a development engineer, if you're also the CEO, if you're also a this." You ought to be able to invent no matter who you are. A lot of the people who are great at inventing, you don't want to have them actually manage things. That's both not what they're best at, and there's other people who are really good. One of the problems, persistent problem with the tech industry, is there's more execution and there's more funding than there are good ideas, which is why for almost any idea you can think of where there's a tech company, there isn't one — there's four or five. Maybe a slightly different twist. I think that we're living in an age where it's never been easier to create a company. That's great. I want to make it easier to create new inventions.
Todd Bishop: One common thread in many of these companies is something called metamaterials, which are artificial materials that can do basically incredible things with electromagnetic waves. One is the Evolv security scanning technology, the Kymeta satellite broadband, and Echodyne, which is doing radar technology that's being applied in self-driving cars. Tell us, walk us through the process of the metamaterials' origination, the conception, if you will.
Alan Boyle: It started with invisibility shields, right?
Nathan Myhrvold: No, it started even before that. I'm a physicist and I don't work full time as physicist but once you're a physicist you kind of always are, and in the 1990s a couple of people, two guys in particular, proposed a couple of ideas that suggested maybe you could do things that people thought were heretofore impossible with electromagnetic waves. Now, mostly the way we deal with electromagnetic waves is we build lenses, like my glasses or a camera lens. That works for visible light. In other parts of the spectrum we build special antennas. We're very constrained in that. The glasses have to be made out of only certain materials. The idea of metamaterials is you fundamentally design an artificial material that has exactly the properties that you want.
This idea came out in the physics journals and it was widely panned. A very famous theoretical physicist wrote an article saying it was completely impossible, but I got really intrigued with it because it really looked like it would work. Then it started getting some experimental backing and we started inventing in that area. We signed up both of the two original guys that came up with it as inventors and we have done tons of inventing and, boy, we are not done yet, because what this allows you to do is really design a material. Now, the dream of nanotech was to do that, and the trouble with most nanotech dreams is that they are still dreams. Most of the general purpose assembler ideas that Eric Drexler and others has haven't been as easy to implement as we hoped, but metamaterials are.
One of our companies, Kymeta, has a flat panel antenna. The working part of it is only two millimeters thick. It's cheap to make. It uses the same technology that's used to make displays, actually, like TVs or computer displays. It will electronically steer to look to get satellite bandwidth.
Todd Bishop: It replaces those giant dishes.
Alan Boyle: You don't need to be turning something like this.
Nathan Myhrvold: Yes. The problem, if you want high bandwidth, you have short wavelength. If you have short wavelength it acts like light, so it's point to point, and the only way we can focus the short wavelength stuff is with a dish. Then you have to point that dish at a satellite. That works for DirecTV. It doesn't work if you're moving. One of the reasons that it's expensive to provision internet on boats and airplanes is you have some dish with all these gimbals and every time the boat rocks it's like steering and it's kind of an absurd system. This lets you do it super cheaply and all electronically, no moving parts.
We have a company that is in a spin-out phases that's looking at using it for terrestrial wireless. The long-term goal is to say, "Let's beam a spotlight," so what is today is a cell site could be 100 or even more minicells, which takes the total bandwidth up by a factor of 100. Then we're looking at lots of other areas. Anything that you could use light or radio waves or microwaves to do, we potentially have a way of doing it with some unique properties with metamaterials. Medical imaging. Used medical therapeutics. There's all kinds of areas where we use light or radio waves in some way and we're very constrained by the limited materials and the limited ways we can build them.
We have a unit of our company called Global Good where we try to focus on using high tech to help the poorest people on Earth. I love the tech industry, but the tech industry is about making tools and toys for rich people. By rich people I don't mean rich within the United States, I mean all of the people in the United States, Europe, Japan are rich. Everyone who has an iPhone on Earth is rich by this standard because, hey, they can afford an iPhone. Meanwhile there's 2 billion people that live on two dollars a day or less. It's very misleading when you say two dollars a day. It's sort of like, "Oh yes, they get their regular paycheck of two dollars a day." No. That's some economist's projection. Means some days they do really well and other days they starve.
Now, there's the tech industry that makes the tools and toys. It's transformed all of our lives. Everybody in this room has all kinds of digital gadgets on them. GeekWire, the entire point of GeekWire is talking about that. We didn't actually need our lives transformed. It was fun and I love it and I made those things when I was at Microsoft, but it's not life or death for us to get the next version of the iPhone. There are people who will disagree with that, I'm sure. Whereas for these 2 billion people living on a couple dollars a day or less, if we could use technology to improve their lives, that could be life or death.
IDM is our Institute for Disease Modeling. There we try to build the world's best computer models of infectious disease. The analogy I like to use here is it would be very hard to run a business without Excel because you do spreadsheets to project what you're going to make next year, what you're making now. You analyze your business. Once upon a time they didn't have spreadsheets, believe it or not. They had these things called columnar pads, which were paper spreadsheets and people would do all those same calculations, just way much —
Alan Boyle: Tell me about this, grandpa?
Nathan Myhrvold: Yeah, exactly. This is the theme.
Alan Boyle: That's the unifying thread.
Nathan Myhrvold: It's really hard to try to eliminate a disease if you don't have a way of predicting what the hell it's going to do. What it does is very non-linear. It's very dependent on a bunch of factors. Some of those factors are in your control. Some, like the weather, are outside your control. IDM goes to say, "Let's make this super accurate model and then let's use that model to try to eliminate diseases." If you're trying to get rid of malaria, sleeping under a bed net helps but it isn't enough. Spraying for mosquitoes helps, but it isn't enough. What combination would be enough? That's what we try to answer in IDM.
Todd Bishop: You actually are not from Seattle originally. You're from-
Nathan Myhrvold: Actually, I am from Seattle originally.
Todd Bishop: Originally, so you were born here but you grew up in California?
Nathan Myhrvold: I was born here, yes. I'm like a salmon. I came back to the home stream to spawn. I didn't spawn 'till I die, though. I was more Atlantic in that sense.
Todd Bishop: You went to UCLA, then Cambridge and then after that you came back to Seattle and of course went to work for Microsoft, founding and running Microsoft Research. Of course you've stayed here with IV, so what's your perspective on the Pacific Northwest and the Seattle tech scene? What works and what needs to be fixed?
Nathan Myhrvold: I think one thing that is true of Seattle is that I think we're much better at things than tooting our own horn. University of Washington Medical School is second only to Harvard Medical School in it's NIH grants and other research funding. Nobody seems to know that. I mentioned IDM and trying to save the world, basically, with our Global Goods project. Seattle is absolutely the Silicon Valley of saving the world. There's the Gates Foundation. There's the Hutchinson Center. There's Path. We made a list and there's like a dozen entities in Seattle that are doing fantastic work to help the developing world, but who knows that?
I think when it comes to tech in Seattle, tech in Seattle of course is fantastic with some of the more famous companies. Microsoft, obviously, or Amazon, but it's way broader than that. Again, I don't think we get a lot of recognition of that. I think it's not in the Seattle nature for us to be beating the drum and saying how fabulous it is. Instead we kind of have the mentality of, "Well those other places are like the real things but we're going to sit here and do our work and maybe they'll notice us." I don't mean to suggest something negative about Seattle. Seattle area is just fantastic in all these different walks of life. It's amazing.
Alan Boyle: We need a better PR agent or …?
Nathan Myhrvold: Yes, maybe, but it's not just a question of PR. It's a question of companies that are involved at every level, at least on the tech side, being a little more vocal about it. It's you Alan-
Alan Boyle: Yeah, it is. Yeah. I'm the problem.
Nathan Myhrvold: … and you Todd. You got some 'splainin to do. Why have you not made us more famous?
Todd Bishop: Let's talk about intellectual property just a little bit here. Six years ago you wrote in Harvard Business Review that Intellectual Ventures is misunderstood as a patent troll. You said what you're really trying to do is create a capital market for inventions akin to the venture capital market that supports startups and the private equity market that revitalizes inefficient companies. Six years later, what are your aspirations for reaching that goal? What is at stake and do you still hope to see this market come to fruition?
Nathan Myhrvold: In some ways the market has come to fruition. In other ways, not. In that intervening time my company has invested in patents that folks have and my favorite statistic there is for individual inventors. This is some individual has come up with some great idea. We've given more than $500 million to individual inventors. Now, the annals of history can say whether I was a fool or that was a great move in retrospect, but prospectively I don't know anyone who has given $500 million to individual inventors. The venture capital industry has given many times that amount of money, many hundreds of billions of dollars per year, to entrepreneurs starting companies, but it's a different thing.
When you're starting a company, the idea is to have a plan and a team to go make a business. If you've got a great plan and a great team you'll probably get funded. If you're weak on one of those two you might get funded; but if you go to a venture capitalist and say, "Look, I don't have any ideas but I'm sure I'm gonna have some." They say, "No, no, no. You don't understand. The waiting room is full with other people that have plans and ideas." In my lifetime, venture capital has gone from nothing to this enormous force and it's created tens of thousands of companies, most of which have failed by the way, but that's fine. You don't count the failures. You have to count the successes.
I want someone to do that for invention. We're nowhere near the growth of venture capital in that, so if you say, "Where are we now?" Nowhere near that, but venture capital took a long time to develop too.
Todd Bishop: Some of the largest tech companies have stopped investing in IV's funds, and you went through a period of cutbacks at the company. What's the current state of IV's business and how have industry and political opposition to the business model impacted what you're doing?
Nathan Myhrvold: I was at Microsoft for 14 years and I realized very early on that we faced huge potential patent liability because we kept putting more features into our products and those features were sometimes whole industries, previously. One of the things I was involved with was putting scalable fonts in Windows. This makes me sound like your grandfather. "Back in my day, Windows didn't have any fonts, you know." We did, but typography and typesetting had lots of intellectual property in it.
I remember a few years ago when Nokia became the largest camera company in the world. Of course, by now there's some people in the audience saying, "Who is Nokia?" Some tech companies have embraced the idea of invention. They've embraced the idea of having a business based on that. Qualcomm is a great example, but even Microsoft to a large extent now is that way. There are other tech companies who said, "Hey, let's weaken the patent system because we're the winner who took most in our market. No one else can dislodge us from our market, but it's really annoying that these other folks can come and ask us for money. We ought to be able to steal it fair and square." Of course they don't say it that way. It's put other ways.
In the last several years there's been a huge set of changes in patents. Partially that was implementation of a law called The America Invents Act. Partially that was a Supreme Court decision called Alice. I would say right now today the situation around patents is very much up in the air. On one hand there are a lot of people in the patent world who say, "Hey, patents are over," and when we talk about licensing patents they say, "Why should I license a patent? Patents are over." What's particularly funny is people will say, "Well, there was this Alice decision by the Supreme Court so I don't think we need to do anything about patents." We'll say, "You're a semiconductor company. We're talking about semiconductor patents. Alice is about software." What the f**k? Then they'll say, "Well, well, well, whatever."
It is an uncertain time for patents. I wasn't here yesterday but I understand there was a lot of talk about that here yesterday. It always sounds great,"Let's get stuff for free," but the problem with let's get stuff for free is you need actually channel some money back to the folks who make it or you won't get as much of it made. Both on a basic fairness thing and on a fundamental economics thing I think the idea of companies taking risky bets on research is a good thing and we should support it with intellectual property laws.
Todd Bishop: Do you care what the people in the technology industry think about you?
Alan Boyle: Does it bother you when people say, "Oh, that patent troll Nathan Myhrvold, he's the evil one"?
Nathan Myhrvold: Again, I'll sound like your grandpa, "Back in my day …" Being the geek in class was not the most popular position. I fear that is also still true today but somewhat lessened, maybe. I started college at 14, so I had all of that squared or cubed or something.
Todd Bishop: It was just preparing you for your future then.
Nathan Myhrvold: Then I worked at Microsoft, and Microsoft got called lots of names when I thought we did fantastic stuff. There was a whole period of time when I would get on … If all of this had existed 15 or 20 years ago I would have been speaking as a Microsoft guy and you would've been asking me the same name calling question. It's very popular to say, "Oh, well we're going to be risk takers and entrepreneurs are risk takers." Turns out one of those risks is people are not going to like what you do and they're going to say bad things about you. It's a risk. If you obsess about that too much, you're never going to do anything that actually changes the world, because it's always someone who … I gave a talk on malaria because we have a big malaria program and afterwards somebody came up to me and they said, "You know, you don't seem-" I said something about eliminating mosquitoes and they said, "You don't seem to have enough concerns about mosquitoes." I'd say, "Um, yeah that's right."


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"I've got to say it's a really good move from Andy, an especially good move," Roche said, when asked about the man hired to orchestrate the world No 4's tilt at a breakthrough major championship this year.
"Anyone who knows Ivan will tell you how much he's going to bring to the table for Andy. Few people in our sport have ever trained as hard as Ivan or been as professional," Roche added.
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"Ivan is back in tennis and that is fantastic for our sport," Roche said.
"I mean, he was just a giant of the game. He didn't want anything to do with it for 15 years. I'm happy he's back for Andy's sake and also our sport's.
"People have always had the wrong impression of him. First of all, he's a very intelligent guy, very smart about tennis but just very intelligent in general.
"He's a fun guy, you know, great company, someone who was completely different to the person you saw on the court. That was his office between those lines and he went out there with a job to do.
"No-one could knock his record as a player but I don't think the media ever really wanted to get to know the other side of him."
A common theme in tennis is that great players have not gone on to be as comparably successful as a coach.
Jimmy Connors' brief run with fellow American Andy Roddick had its moments but the most successful mentors of the modern era have been the journeymen players such Brad Gilbert and Darren Cahill.
Roche himself only won one singles major, the 1966 French Open.
"There is that trend but I've got no doubt Ivan will be a superb and successful coach," Roche said.
"Being the student of the game that he is, being such a switched-on and motivated guy, the way he worked on his game as a player, the way he prepared himself, all of that knowledge and experience is in Andy's corner now.
"That's not to say Andy hasn't been working his backside off already and putting in the hard yards but I think Ivan is going to add another dimension."
Murray has suffered the frustration of losing all three of the major finals he has contested in an era dominated by three of the greatest players of all time: Federer, Rafa Nadal and Novak Djokovic.
Lendl lost his first four grand slam finals before going on to win eight major titles and hold the world number one ranking for 270 weeks.
He and Murray's first campaign together will be at the Australian Open in Melbourne from Jan. 16.


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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: Is my hard drive locked? Need help with Linux unlock
From: Linus Nielsen Feltzing (linus_at_haxx.se)
Date: 2003-11-04
Honda wrote:
I just partitioned and formatted my JB6000, just to test:
[root_at_linus root]# fdisk /dev/sdc
Command (m for help): o
Warning: invalid flag 0x0000 of partition table 4 will be corrected by
Command (m for help): n
Command (m for help): t
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sdc: 6007 MB, 6007357440 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
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Happy Thanksgiving!! I hope you all had a wonderful day yesterday and were able to spend it with friends and family while eating scrumptous foods. I decided to bake some bread, which is something I should do much more often since it is oh so delicious! It's not that difficult either, especially when you make "Easy No Rise Bread" like I did (pictured below). It's always the best right out of the oven - warm with a crisp crust.
Did any of you hit the stores to do some Black Friday shopping? I went to CVS under the impression that their sales started today at 6am (I just wanted a hair dryer for $5.99), but when I got there I noticed the parking lot was empty. It turns out that their sale started on Thursday and the hair dryers were gone :-(. That will teach me not to rely on those Black Friday aggregator sites. I should've actually looked at the CVS website... Oh, well. I ended up purchasing what will likely be a higher quality hair dryer from Amazon.
Now I must do homework - the end of the semester will be here soon!
This blog is written by a graduate of Iowa State University (undergrad) and the University of Illinois (graduate). While this new full-time worker is far from perfect, she is trying to follow a healthy and environmentally-conscious lifestyle. Within these pages you will find various product reviews, giveaways, recipes, pictures, and musings about this blogger's adventures in exercise and daily living.
Friday, November 25, 2011
Thanksgiving Bread
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Sunday, November 13, 2011
Autumn in Illinois
Greetings everyone! Fall is slowly (and at times quickly) transitioning into winter here in Illinois. I am sad to see the warm temps go because that means I will need to retire my bike for the winter soon. I am going to see if I can keep riding it for the remainder of November though since it is such a convenient and fun means of transportation.
My last post promised some beautiful Autumn pictures, and I shall not disappoint.
I thoroughly enjoyed taking the above pictures and also adding special features to some, like the sepia coloring to the rose.
Also, did you all make a wish at 11:11 on 11/11/11? I did :-).
My last post promised some beautiful Autumn pictures, and I shall not disappoint.
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Rose on the Main Quad (in November!)
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I thoroughly enjoyed taking the above pictures and also adding special features to some, like the sepia coloring to the rose.
Also, did you all make a wish at 11:11 on 11/11/11? I did :-).
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Monday, November 7, 2011
Taco Tofu
I purchase tofu every once in awhile but rarely use it to make anything all that interesting. I decided to try something new and scramble my tofu with taco seasoning. The result was delicious, and it was super easy to make! I only needed tofu, a pan, some oil, and a packet of taco seasoning. Here's the gorgeous result:
Do you know of any easy, delicious tofu recipes? Tofu is so versatile, and relatively cheap too :-).
And I must say I have been loving the extended fall here in Illinois. Our temps our still in the 50s and the trees aren't bare yet. I've definitely taken some gorgeous pictures, and I'll be sure to share them with you soon!
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"Once you get there, you need to hold it!", that phrase reminds me simply a life. In the first step of my early career, I had some of the concerns of a job that I was willing to do. However, once I faced with difficulties of a job, I tried to get in there and to make sure doing a right thing. Eventually, success became later on.
In a manner of getting yourself ready for the business is a hard milestone that you need to reveal. It is not just related to adaptation process for overall; it contains 3 elements as adaptation, evaluation and operation processes.
In adaptation process, you need to analysis your job with the basics and the details of. Trying to understand the business, to emphasize the content of the job are the main topics that should be considered in the very first beginning.
Once you started researching and have some of the conclusions regardless meaningful or not, you will sense the evaluation part has already in progress. At this part, there will be many questions and answers. Even there will be plenty of confusion for those. Do not worry about that!! You have just jumped to the phase of evaluation! As nature of the job, you need to turn yourself up to what's becoming. Then you will be ready for the last part: being operational.
When you have progressed of the content of the job, you need to keep going to reach the other milestone, even need to add new ones to keep you and the requirements to be updated.
There are some of the key elements once you establish the steps of being operational. Such as defining criteria, making a proper plan, tracking of a plan, critical thinking, timing, meeting with the requirement, re-analysis, re-test and keeping updated. Those elements can be considered as the cycle of the project or just one of the jobs you proceed.
Being operational and keeping it up are not an easy going processes that you should pay attention mostly. Consultancy and additional requirements will come up later on. You need to have a buffer in your project plan or schedule of the job, to take into account of. Preparation of the additions and the flexibility of your current planning will define how you would well be organized in the job, sector, life… That will be also the parameter of the success once you finalize the request within an order of the plan and the time. According to the business volume and the scope of the project/job, related opportunities will come forward. Respect and satisfaction will be the additions.
In brief, you need to work hard to reach success. There are many elements and variances depending on your activity. Determination and acting are the structure of simply the life that can be applied in each kind of segment for overall processes.


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@ChefPaulStaley it was so nice speaking with you and your wife about this and getting a better understanding of your business. Thank YOU for your feedback, we truly do appreciate it.
See my response above to vensent.
@Meckell @jdpage @hoosierok @TTP @Candi @DCFGCatering @mm @ChefPaulStaley @silverlinevideo @ChefZacki @Vensent @g_yurk @emcphoto @Chefnikki @JohnGoerner @PSPhotography @HansenJC
Thank you for your message, but I guess you didn't read mine since I was replying to Michelle's post.
Small recap:
- You don't want users to set a budget, because "WE MAY RIP THEM OFF (?), but you want US to give you a weekly budget......
- You want us to work with "Price Packages" but you are no longer offering packages to us....
You are not treating us as your CLIENTS, you think users are your clients, but WE pay the bills.
@CappellaPhoto yes, I do remember reading your response last night, sorry you were added to my last post. As always, thanks for your insight and feedback!
Hi everybody -
Quick update here. We have been analyzing the results of tests we had running in Food Truck or Cart Services, Wedding and Event Videography, Portrait Photography, and Personal Chef. Early results are mostly positive but not entirely clear yet. If you are active in any of these categories, we would love to hear your thoughts! Please email email@example.com with any suggestions for ways we could improve the questions (e.g., wording, answer options, other).
To keep things moving forward, we are launching two additional customer budget test questions - one in Wedding and Event Catering and the other in Wedding and Event Photography. They are going live tonight. Again, feedback would be great. Just email us.
Additionally - if any of you would like to talk with me about this situation, or anything else Thumbtack/Events-related, I'd love to connect. You can book a time on my calendar here: https://mtandler.youcanbook.me/
Thanks again for all the feedback, and have a great weekend!
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I don't know how many times I will have to write the same feedback over and over. I sent in a very thorough response regarding how the budget question should be handled. In a nutshell - LET THE CUSTOMER INPUT THEIR OWN, UNTAINTED PRICE! I've always detested the inane, unrealistic budget options that had nothing to do with real world pricing. I'm glad they are finally gone - I've been begging for 4.5 years to get them fixed. Instead, TT ripped out the budget question altogether! Thank you for working on a way to realistically put it back. JUST LET THE CLIENT TELL US WHAT THEIR BUDGET IS! Dont make suggestions, and don't let it be an optional question. It needs to be a mandatory question that requires a dollar amount. You can also make it a two-part question: Minimum budget & Maximum budget. It's a very legit question. Go on any real estate site and you will see the very same question for the price range they are looking for in houses. TT is trying to make the site function in the same way as a Zillow, by putting in various parameters of client desires. Then follow through with it all the way and ask the minimum and maximum budget question. This will enable pros to know what type of client it is and therefore create a package that works for them. A realtor wouldn't show a $200k famliy a house in a million $ neighborhood. How would you know what client to bring to what neighborhood? I don't want to quote a $3000 package to a $200 client, as much as I don't want to quote a $200 package to a $3000 client!
And this just happened! Someone put in a 2nd request because they got nothing but lowball garbage for their wedding photography request. They were ticked off and said they wanted real #s from legit people that can actually do the job! The WANTED to spend more money, but no one was servicing them right because no one had any clue what this person's budget was!
LET THE CLIENT INSERT THEIR OWN IDEA OF BUDGET, WITHOUT BEING TAINTED BY TT'S VERSION OF WHAT TT UNREALISTICALLYT THINKS IT SHOULD BE!!! TT doesn't even have price options that reach anywhere near what people are willing to spend! I'm forced to cut my price to $150 to compete, where I'd normally charge $295 or $395. Then I get hired and the person might spend another hundred, thousand, or even $3000+ more!!! TT doesn't even have portrait categories in those ranges!!! But guess what, all throughout the country there are people doing $3000 portrait sessions! That's what real world pricing is like! That's what people spend! PHOTOGRAPHY IS CUSTOM COMMISSIONED ONE-OF-A-KIND ART - NOT A COMMODITY!!! But you'd never know that based on the inane budget opetions TT provided, so PLEASE DO NOT GO BACK TO THOSE RIDICULOUS NUMBERS!!!
Yes, I have seen some requests come through with budget amounts written in. VERY HELPFUL! I immediately knew exactly how to respond in each case and felt great and confident with my bid decisions!!! It was a massive relief in pressure and my actions were 100% appropriate to each request. I felt like I had some control again, shooting with laser precision, instead of randomly throwing something in the air!
@DefiningImageryMy revenue got hit hard like really hard as they took out the budget option. I have officially stopped using TT as they really don't care about people who believe in providing quality service.
It is very sad to see that once a proven business model where everyone was happy has been changed so much that now the pros are getting screwed and they want to make sure Customers are happy.
News flash Pros are your customers listen to us.
The entertaining part is we constantly hear from the Moderators that these changes are based on Pros but not a single pro who gave the feedback showed up here, I guess they are too busy making millions of dollar that they don't have a second to come out and explain how this system is profitable for them.
@BNG1 It stinks to hear that you feel that we don't care about people who believe in providing a quality service. When customers come to us, we want them to get connected to the best professional possible to get the job done.
A lot of the changes and updates we make are based on pro and customer feedback and we value everyone's suggestions. Take the budget question for example. Yes, we did take it away for some categories and a lot of pros were frustrated about it. After taking everyone's feedback, we realized that something needed to be done. You can see here that Michelle, one of our category managers, gave some insight on the change and announced that we're going to test out some new budget questions to see what works. You're all being heard, that is something I can promise.
@Meckell The budget option for my business categories were taken away in early 2017. I have been expressing my concerns since but no one cared, now you did the same thing for Photographers and other major business categories and all hell broke, now it's being noticed?
That pretty much proves my point. if the entire community is not suffering don't bother. let the small categories business suffer.
You just get hurt by reading these comments imagine how Pros like me would be feeling, experiencing and suffering, what they had to do for ends meet?
My business got hit by 60% of revenue just by you taking out the budget option and increasing the competition from 5 to 15. Now TT wants to charge me $75 to quote for 1 job from 10 jobs So not only I will earn less but I will spend more practically losing money.
And in case if you don't know, I provide photobooth services where average jobs are $500 for 3 hours of service and I have to spend $75 to quote on a job. That is 15% of my revenue to quote for a job not to book just to quote.
Not only do I need to discount the price to get consider but now I have to fight against 10 more Pros so my hiring % drops to practically none.
No pro requested any of these changes. No pro wants to bid against 14 others, instead of 2 or 3. No pro wants to pay triple or quadrouple - in fact, it appears that I, nor any other pro, will be able to bid on event photography any more because they are coming in with a $62 fee if the client responds!
My recent stats came in - I bid on 92 jobs, paid for 6 people who contacted me, and there were no hires. So, if I have to have 10-15 paid conversations to get hired once (because apparently speaking to 6 people was not sufficient to get me hired!), that means that I would have to pay approx $800 in bidding fees in order to get hired for one job.
My overhead (all expensed to keep my business open - insurance, electric, gear, rent, car, gas, supplies, etc.) per client is $150, and that doesn't include paying myself for labor. That's just a dead even paying the overhead. So, an event job with a budget of $950 or less, means I've paid more money out of my pocket than the job is paying me. I need to be paid a minumum of $200 an hour for shooting time, because that shooting time results in several hours of post production work. That means that if I charge $200 an hour, it needs to be a 5 hour event just to recoup my expenses occurred in getting hired for the job. In order for me to then cover the 25 hours of labor involved in producing the job, I would have to double my rates to $400 per event hour to cover my labor. That means that I would have to bid event jobs at MORE THAN $2000, which is pretty interesting because the ridiculous budget options only go up to $2000 (which is actually only half the average wedding photography price!)
If pros can't bid, TT doesn't get paid. So someone needs to immediatly get that insane $62 fee off of event photography or the category will no longer be serviced by pros. And this is apparently just an example of ONE category of request. From what pros have said here, the same issue applies to many industries across the TT platform.
I am now forced to be unable to bid on this category, so I will have to rely on what categories allow me to earn more than I pay out to TT. I certainly will not be able to work for free and TT gets 100% - 300% of the profits. TT is not a charity and should not expect pros dig themselves deeper and deeper in debt for each bid submitted, with no hope of any return on investment.
Whether I like the new system or dislike the new system is utterly irrelevent when the math says that I can't be paid for my labor unless I am getting paid more than $2000 for any event. All emotions removed, and looked at from a logical, mathematical equation, no legit pro can bid on event photography requests when they have a fee of $62. As soon as any pro does the math, they will immedately stop bidding on event photography and then TT will no longer be able to make any profit off of that category. You simply cannot charge more in fees than the pro is able to collect from the client.


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Closing a Fraudulent Wells Fargo Account Could Hurt Your Credit Score
If you were one of the 500,000 people who had fake credit cards opened during the Wells Fargo scandal, you may want to hold off on canceling your fraudulent credit card. As twisted as it sounds, getting rid of a credit card you never asked for could lower your credit score.
Wells Fargo opened accounts for more than two million customers without their knowledge. 25% of those were credit cards, while the others were checking and savings accounts. The checking and savings accounts will not have an impact on your credit score, but closing the credit cards will. In fact, adding the unwanted credit card account could have actually raised your score when it first got created.
Credit scores depend on a variety of factors, including credit history, length of credit lines and on-time payments. One key factor is the debt to available credit ratio. The new line of credit Wells Fargo opened increased the amount of available credit in your name, thus making your debt ratio more appealing. For instance, if you had $1,000 in credit card debt and $3,000 in available credit, your debt ratio was 33%. If Wells Fargo's fraudulent credit card account had a $2,000 limit, your available credit was raised to $5,000 and your debt ratio decreases to 20%.
If you cancel your new, unwanted credit card, you risk lowering your credit score. It will bounce back over time, so it may not be an issue if you are not looking for a loan or a new card any time soon. However, if you are currently shopping for a low-interest mortgage loan or a car loan, you may want to keep the card in your name until you've completed that loan process.
As long as there are no fees associated with the new card, there isn't much harm done, other than the annoyance of having a line of credit opened without your permission. If your new card does have fees, assess whether the slight drop in your credit score is worth cancelling the card at this time, or if it would be better to wait a little longer.
If you do close your account, there are certain steps that you need to take in order to document this properly.


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Noticed a new rattle on the car today, a vibrating noise coming from behind me. Not sure if its coming from behind the seat or the engine bay. Dont think its anything serious, sounds like something rattling - could be the undertray or maybe a screw or something. Really bloody annoying, gonna take a look on Tue/Wed to see what it is.
More news - the rubber on the alarm fob broke over Christmas so at the moment I'm carrying it around seperate to the keys. Its my only one and will only be a matter of time before I lose it. Did some digging online and if I lose it then I need a whole new alarm system installed! You need a working remote to program a replacement. Managed to find an online store that sells replacement remotes, decided to go for the top-of-the-range key remote, where the key fits into the remote. Should save some keyring space. Here's a pic...
Only problem is - its £50! On thinking about it I thought it's a wise investment. I could have bought a replacement case for my existing remote for £10 but I'd be in the shit if I lost it and would have to fork out a few hundred quid for a new alarm system. After much Internet searching I couldn't find it any cheaper, I couldnt even find anyone else who sold them, not even on eBay. Props to Abacus car alarms for being really helpful and responding to emails within 10 minutes. I expect nothing less for £50
It's due to be posted tomorrow so I should get it before the end of the week, I'll post another entry with how much of a pain it's gonna be to get programmed.


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So beautifully penned dear.. I loved your apt rhyme sense.ReplyDelete
It was pure delight reading it from beginning till the end.
Life is indeed much symbolic to those fluctuating sea waves, so uncertain.
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Very beautiful poem and play of words!ReplyDelete
Great job with the idea! It feels good to have you back writing :)ReplyDelete
This time, you are really back, right? :D
The fifth favourite vampire word "eternity" is also there; YAY :DReplies
Haha Thank you so much Teny.. And yeah, this time I'm actually back. Also, eternity is one of my favourite words too, I think, me and the vampires are quite like minded :DDelete
An "exquisite" creation Deeshani... very well written... Beautiful...ReplyDelete
These experiences of fluctuating intensity teach many a lessons. Very nicely written Deeshani.ReplyDelete
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Pragmatic Java give a first rate explanation of Maven lifecycles and where and why you use hooks into them.
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Agile seating for the perplexed
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I am a bit late but more marvel from Trisha of LMAX, Dissecting the Disruptor: Demystifying Memory Barriers. How can one not love this writing?
Compilers and CPUs can re-order instructions, provided the end result is the same, to try and optimise performance. Inserting a memory barrier tells the CPU and the compiler that what happened before that command needs to stay before that command, and what happens after needs to stay after. All similarities to a trip to Vegas are entirely in your own mind.
And with diagrams.
Monday, August 15, 2011
Working with Google Protobuf DynamicMessage
Google Protobuf is an stand out project with mixed quality documentation. A corporate cynic points working with DynamicMessage, an interesting Protobuf feature lacking official documentation beyond skeletal javadoc and a short blurb.
The key trick condenses down to:
public static Descriptor descriptorFor( final InputStream in, final String name) throws IOException, DescriptorValidationException { final FileDescriptorSet fileDescriptorSet = FileDescriptorSet.parseFrom(in); final FileDescriptorProto fileDescriptorProto = fileDescriptorSet.getFile(0); final FileDescriptor fileDescriptor = FileDescriptor. buildFrom(fileDescriptorProto, new FileDescriptor[0]); return fileDescriptor.findMessageTypeByName(name); } // Elsewhere final InputStream in = Class.class. getResourceAsStream("... your descriptors from protoc ..."); final Descriptor descriptor = descriptorFor(in, Outer.getDescriptor().getName()); final DynamicMessage dynamicMessage = DynamicMessage. parseFrom(descriptor, outer.toByteArray()); System.out.println("dynamicMessage = " + dynamicMessage);
Note the baked-in assumption of "getFile(0)", etc. The cynic's example is more forthcoming. Caveat coder.
Thursday, August 04, 2011
Avoid feature branches
Another explanation, with typically excellent illustrations, from Martin Fowler on why you should avoid feature branches.
A rewrite success story
I avoid rewriting when possible, but greenfield work is ideal: a rewrite success story from the NowJS team.
Wednesday, August 03, 2011
Why Kotlin?
Dmitri Jemerov answers "Why Kotlin?".
UPDATE: Maria Arias adds his two cents on this question.
Tuesday, August 02, 2011
Great problem report on JDK7 bug
A great problem report from Alex Blewitt on the JDK7 loop bug, which turns out is avoidable and not limited to JDK7.
Monday, August 01, 2011
Exposure for Kotlin
The early signs of traction for JetBrain's Kotlin: inclusion in discussions of JVM languages.
Java v. C++, redux redux redux
Yet another Java/C++ comparison, this time for high-frequency trading, a sexy industrial programming area.
I found this quote most trenchant:
If you have a typical Java programmer and typical C++ programmer, each with a few years experience writing a typical Object Oriented Program, and you give them the same amount of time, the Java programmer is likely to have a working program earlier and will have more time to tweak the application. In this situation it is likely the Java application will be faster. IMHO.
In my experience, Java performs better at C++ at detecting code which doesn't need to be done. esp micro-benchmarks which don't do anything useful. ;) If you tune Java and C++ as far as they can go given any amount of expertise and time, the C++ program will be faster. However, given limited resources and in changing environment a dynamic language will out perform. i.e. in real world applications.
You decide.


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London Restaurants - South London
Adam Byatt's Clapham restaurant is a super neighbourhood restaurant that's also well worth crossing town for. They say their food is seasonal and inspirational, countless loyal customers agree.
Critic reviews - total score 7 out of 10
BAO has opened their third restaurant in Borough and this time, they're promising something a little different. There are the same bao buns you've loved, but more dishes as well as downstairs karaoke.
Critic reviews - total score 7.5 out of 10
A menu with some Irish influence menu is on offer at Robin Gill's next restaurant Darby's, inspired by his father. It's an all-day restaurant and bakery just opposite the US Embassy and they'll also be serving food at the development's incredible Sky Pool 10 stories up.
Critic reviews - total score out of 10
Two Brixton locals, with one foot in Italy and the other in south London, have opened a neighbourhood spot on Brixton Water Lane serving up a range of Tuscan treats.
Critic reviews - total score 8.5 out of 10
The second restaurant by Nicholas Balfe of Brixton's Salon, Levan opened in November 2018 with an emphasis on sustainability and seasonality. The effortlessly cool interior features an open kitchen serving food European-inspired food with the odd nod to East Asia, all matched with natural wines. Their house-cured sardines are a firm favourite, as are the Comte fries.
Simon Whiteside originally opened Hook in Camden and now he's bringing his seafood expertise to Pop Brixton with his own restaurant, Roe. Expect sustainable seafood on an ever-changing menu that showcases his Irish influences.
Critic reviews - total score 8 out of 10
Hoping to lure Londoners away from Nando's, this Algarvian restaurant is cooking its chicken on a wood fired grill. Oh and there's also a secret bar worth checking out.
Critic reviews - total score 8 out of 10
Having previously been in Covent Garden, you'll now find Native downstairs from Casa do Frango on Southwark Street. They may have moved, but they're still serving up an eclectic menu of super seasonal and local food.
Critic reviews - total score 8 out of 10
Best known for their fishmongers in Islington, South Kensington and East Dulwich, this is a restaurant adjacent to their East Dulwich operation. Expect a seafood menu that makes the most of that location.
Having begun life in a container at Pop Brixton, the return of the restaurant to a more permanent spot under the arches on Atlantic Road is good news.
Critic reviews - total score 8.5 out of 10
This cosy pan-Balkan restaurant serves delicious plates of food from this otherwise relatively under-represented part of the world. There's always a buzz here, with tables packed in tight for a taste of the daily-changing menu of dishes that take you on a journey. Thankfully, they often revisit some of their favourites that have achieved near-cult status, such as their courgette fritters and their grilled quail.
There is something really fun about this Italian restaurant. It started as a rooftop pop-up before opening a permanent site built on a sharing ethos and emphasis on seasonal, sustainable ingredients. Their pasta is all handmade and creatively topped while their meat and vegetables are great too. Try their Custardo™ (yes, they trademarked it) – an espresso mixed with custard. Delicious.
This former multi-storey car park plays host to everything from yoga studios to clothes retailers but its 6th floor is about the food. At the time of writing, notable are Zephyr Burger – gorgeous California-style smashed patties using dry-aged meat from Nathan Mills at The Butchery. Also great is Hao Hao Chi who serve delicious dumplings. Their Spicy Sesame Noodle Salad is superb.
One of the oldest pie & mash shops in London, this branch of the Manze empire opened in 1927. Still in the original family's hands, it's renowned for its pies, mashed potato and liquor, as well as their jellied or stewed eels. Walking inside feels like stepping back in time with chilli vinegar on the table and white-clothed friendly staff.
Housed in Peckham Rye's former ticket hall, this listed building looks great – check out the toilets - but the food is even better. Their robata-grilled meat is a delight and their Sunday roast is legendary. They've also started doing breakfast. Special mention goes to the Peckham Fatboy–a deliciously indulgent dish of potato hash, Ogleshield, beef fat mayonnaise and crispy onions.
Ask anyone for the best suya (Nigerian BBQ) in London and chances are they'll suggest Angels Bakery. As its name suggests, it serves beautiful baked goods but come lunchtime the coals are lit to knock out takeaway boxes of the West African grilled meat staple. Choose from chicken, beef or lamb, seasoned beautifully and cooked with just the right amount of char.
Persepolis, a café-cum-shop, should come with a warning –it's easy to lose yourself for hours amid its shelves stacked high with obscure and otherwise hard-to-find Persian and middle eastern ingredients. The small restaurant out back celebrates these ingredients in their vegetarian menu which can nearly all be made vegan. The fattet with garlicky tahini sauce is stunning.
This Peckham pub's menu reads too good to be true, given how little it's shouted about, but the food is consistently brilliant. There's a focus on seafood, delivered daily from Cornwall and cooked perfectly by head chef Jake Chappel-Kelly, but everything from the meat to the vegetarian options are inspired.
Follow your nose to JBs Soulfood as they cook their jerk chicken and pork on a drum barbecue out back. Expect a queue - it's a Peckham institution - but rest assured it'll be worth it. Their signature chicken, served with rice and peas and coleslaw, is a must but come back to work your way through the menu, especially the oxtail.
Though technically a foodtruck-with-chairs, Salas's Middle Eastern food has created a buzz as strong as any good restaurant – without any social media. A one-man-band, he makes everything from scratch, from the flatbreads to the falafel and sauces. Unexpected ingredients – such as wilted spinach and mango sauce in a chicken shawarma– make this a true delight. The queues say it all.
Hidden down an alley near Peckham Rye station, this Kurdish restaurant seems to relish being difficult to find, but it's worth persisting. The kibbeh are to die for and the shawarma is beautifully spiced and delicious – and brilliant value too. Easier to find is the recently-opened secondary outpost on Rye Lane geared towards lunch - their huge mezze plate deal is a steal.
A five-star luxury hotel makes the leap to London for its first overseas restaurant, with street food downstairs, upmarket dining upstairs, and lots of art - including a giant, 14ft bronze elephant.
Critic reviews - total score 8 out of 10
Paladar aims to bring the best of Latin America to Lambeth, drawing from areas as wide as Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico and Peru.Expect a varied menu as well as a bodega where you can stock up, and a courtyard garden for warmer weather.
Critic reviews - total score 8.5 out of 10
Finely sliced black pepper coppa made in-house is a thing of beauty to look at, ruffle up, lay on the semolina sourdough and eat. Jersey milk lends ricotta a satin finish denied other whey cheeses and the combination visually as well as in terms of flavour with black olives and golden Parmesan is regal.
Critic reviews - total score 7 out of 10
A new all-day destination has arrived in Stockwell with the impressive pedigree of the people behind Waterloo's Anchor and Hope in charge.
From the people behind Taiwanese Peckham success, Mr Bao, comes the next restaurant Daddy Bao, this time in Tooting with bao buns aplenty.
Critic reviews - total score 8 out of 10
Run by a couple, Kudu pays homage to husband Patrick's South African roots but borrows inspiration from all over, for instance matching peri peri duck hearts with dukkah. Their boundary-pushing works – the food is different and delicious. Anything cooked on the braai (barbecue) comes recommended but whatever you do, order the Kudu bread with melted lardon butter and sumac. Mind. Blowing.
Wright Brothers have some very highly rated seafood restaurants dotted across town and this is their outpost in the area around the iconic Battersea Power Station.
This is the third restaurant that Italian chef Francesco Mazzei has collaborated on with D&D. This sees him setting up in the revamped Battersea Power station, serving Italian cuisine.
Critic reviews - total score 8 out of 10
Having run supperclubs and residencies across London (as well as a long term spot in Islington) Smoke + Salt have settled down in Brixton. Expect various methods of smoking, curing and preserving to appear throughout the menu.


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The process of writing an expository essay - How to choose your sources?
Expository essay writing and sources for it may depend on what you choose to write about. You also need to determine which method you use to help you explain your main idea or thesis statement. Students may think that you won't have sources for this type of assignment since you are working to explain or define an idea or main point. But, sometimes doing some light research may help you recognize elements to include and how to include them.
Brainstorming for Ideas
Depending on your topic you may need to brainstorm and think about sources that would be suitable for the content you need to produce. At the same time you want your source ideas to be reliable and something you can trust. If you are writing about a person and their career, you may need to select books that detail how one would go through the process in order to obtain that title or position. Typical ideas may include text books, academic journals, magazines, and government websites. Newspapers and other article content can also service as sufficient sources when provided by a reputable company.
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