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Another rookie mistake to avoid, is fragmentation. Say you want to start a forum on topic X. Just have a forum for X till you gain traction.
A mistake many people make, is to have subforums X1, X2, X3, etc, from the get go. It makes what little traffic you have seem even less. Start with one forum, and then fragment according to the dictates of the main forum. In any case, the sub forums you will end up with will rarely be the same ones you envisaged before launch.
The number of use cases where this can go horribly wrong, either due to malice, or indeed because of an Intel software update error far outweighs the potential benefits to me as an individual.
My principal worries if my laptop gets stolen are. a. that I can recover my work --> backups b. that my data remains protected --> encryption
Bricking a stolen laptop does not do much for either. The only way I can see this being a good thing, is if sufficient numbers of stolen laptops get bricked, and this in turn lowers the overall laptop theft rate.
Not sure that this will happen though. Many mobile phones have had this option for a while, and still phones get stolen.
I think something by someone like Brian Tracy, on getting started, would have been good. Start something. Start today. Fail. Fail often. Much better than the 'wait till you have planned yourself to death' advice I got when I was a kid.
Along with this, I would insist on The Law, by Frederic Bastiat. Written in 1850, this book still wows me.
The fully story is a bit more complicated than you can squeeze into a hollywood movie.
Well, you can say the same about the book, but you do have to start somewhere.
As a purchase goes, it is totally pointless. Even as a golf course ... it would be a very boring course.
Given the size of the thing, the crew you would need for it, that it is at best a glorified helipad, and one that is nearly 40 years old,
Do not necessarily do one project at a time though. Keep a list of things you want to work on. Whenever you find yourself needing to take a break from the main project, chip away at one of the secondary projects.
You might be surprised to find the idea you deem least important actually giving you the biggest payoff.
Let's start with the iPod. Everyone uses it to listen to stuff. My brother listens to rap music, almost exclusively. My niece listens to whatever boy band is en vogue today. Very different genres of music. I love audiobooks on mine. Along with music. I have an aunt that has church sermons on hers.
Move to computers. I have not used a word processor in months. I spend a helluva lot of time in spreadsheets though. My niece, with her school reports, is the opposite. My nephew is almost exlusively a gamer on his computer.
Even the web. Most people have a dozen or so sites that account for 90% (made up stat) of their browsing time. It is a different dozen for all users though.
So yes, the vast majority of users will use their devices for only a handful of purposes. It will be a different handful for each user though.
Facebook too. In fact, I think all apps should start displaying the IP addresses of the last FIXNUM attempts to log-in, successful or not.
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