No **** they were lucky.
If you are busy getting experience instead of schooling, that's a fantastic thing to do. You greatly increase your chances of success. But if you bounce from **** that is useless to **** that is useless jobs... well, good luck.
If you are busy getting experience instead of schooling, that's a fantastic thing to do. You greatly increase your chances of success. But if you bounce from **** that is useless to **** that is useless jobs... well, good luck.
I don't think that a very advanced education generally makes you a lot of money. Among all others working around you, you 'might' do somewhat better, because you have more 'learned skills' than your fellow worker, but having enough skills to be able to hire others to do the 'serious work' seems to be the key. This does not take a complete college education, although I certainly think it is important to be a civilized citizen. (However, lawyers are college educated as well, aren't they?) I guess that the vernier of 'civilization' imparted by college does not make someone necessarily less greedy, etc.
Mark Levinson, for example. He did not finish his college education, I'm pretty sure, and he certainly did not take any electronics courses, but his parents were highly educated, his father was a professor at YALE and wrote at least one book, and his brother became a doctor, I think. His mother was a psychology researcher at YALE as I recall. A very educated
family, with a difficult son who needed to find something to make a living. Mark showed these greedy tendencies even when I first met him, and I worried about it, and ultimately I got what I was worried about. Mark made a lot of money, but he spent it unwisely. Still, a famous company still has his name.
Mark Levinson, for example. He did not finish his college education, I'm pretty sure, and he certainly did not take any electronics courses, but his parents were highly educated, his father was a professor at YALE and wrote at least one book, and his brother became a doctor, I think. His mother was a psychology researcher at YALE as I recall. A very educated
family, with a difficult son who needed to find something to make a living. Mark showed these greedy tendencies even when I first met him, and I worried about it, and ultimately I got what I was worried about. Mark made a lot of money, but he spent it unwisely. Still, a famous company still has his name.
A Bright (130+) IQ and luck and a burning desire to be self employeed helps. few get salaries from a job that gives them $1M or more. profit sharing helps also. With any degree of institutional education/degree working for others is the hard way to make a lot of money.
I am looking into colleges for my girl She is from a village in Nepal. Remote... 3 day walk to get to it. No road. I took over her support since she was about 5 years old. Her father didn't want a girl and said he would give her to me when she was 12. I tried to adopt her but government wouldn't let me as long as she was living with a mother and father. So, I have paid for the whole family to move to capital city so she could go to school. Send money every 3 months to them by Western Union. Been doing that for 15 years and now he has 2 more kids... girl and finally their boy. But, I have taken the oldest girl as my own and now she is out of high school and wants to go to college in USA. She does great in mathematics and likes electronics..... She can read, write and speak English fluently and I hope I can get her over here early next year with visa. I went there every year and helped them during their moist lead civil war and recently went to help after the earth quake and the aftermath. They were brought out to bangkok6 times to learn about modern world to help girl(s) and family understand what they can do with education and to get them familiar with modern world. Over time, I bought them Tv and computes and phones and all things useful to opening up their world. I will see them again in October. Last October I bought each family member a bed. The fisrt time they ever slept in a bed... soft and warm and comfortable. I also picked up another girl already in college who was literally starving and she is very very smart and from same village but is 22 now and I just got her a scooter and flat to live in and all her furnishings and cloths. She is in engineering - only 6 girls in their college. I have taken over all her living and college costs so she doesn't have to worry and can focus on her studies. . Girls are not valued in their country. So, I am really happy to help the girls. Both have mothers/fathers who cannot read nor write. So these 2 women will be a small step in the right direction towards equality. They will be able to support themselves and help others after I am long gone. <3
This is the best reason to make more money.... to use it to help others.
THx-RNMarsh
I am looking into colleges for my girl She is from a village in Nepal. Remote... 3 day walk to get to it. No road. I took over her support since she was about 5 years old. Her father didn't want a girl and said he would give her to me when she was 12. I tried to adopt her but government wouldn't let me as long as she was living with a mother and father. So, I have paid for the whole family to move to capital city so she could go to school. Send money every 3 months to them by Western Union. Been doing that for 15 years and now he has 2 more kids... girl and finally their boy. But, I have taken the oldest girl as my own and now she is out of high school and wants to go to college in USA. She does great in mathematics and likes electronics..... She can read, write and speak English fluently and I hope I can get her over here early next year with visa. I went there every year and helped them during their moist lead civil war and recently went to help after the earth quake and the aftermath. They were brought out to bangkok6 times to learn about modern world to help girl(s) and family understand what they can do with education and to get them familiar with modern world. Over time, I bought them Tv and computes and phones and all things useful to opening up their world. I will see them again in October. Last October I bought each family member a bed. The fisrt time they ever slept in a bed... soft and warm and comfortable. I also picked up another girl already in college who was literally starving and she is very very smart and from same village but is 22 now and I just got her a scooter and flat to live in and all her furnishings and cloths. She is in engineering - only 6 girls in their college. I have taken over all her living and college costs so she doesn't have to worry and can focus on her studies. . Girls are not valued in their country. So, I am really happy to help the girls. Both have mothers/fathers who cannot read nor write. So these 2 women will be a small step in the right direction towards equality. They will be able to support themselves and help others after I am long gone. <3
This is the best reason to make more money.... to use it to help others.
THx-RNMarsh
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Sure, but I'm not going for the Berkley Arts professor + VC funding archetype of insanity. Also my voice has a reason to be deep since I'm a male, so I don't look like a female that sounds like a tranny... 🙄
You are doing a really great thing, Richard! I am impressed.
I have not had the same college success with my grandchildren. I always expected them to go to college, but they dropped out, and don't appear to know what they want to do. I blame the high schools giving the kids too much credit for too little input. Maybe it is something else.
I have not had the same college success with my grandchildren. I always expected them to go to college, but they dropped out, and don't appear to know what they want to do. I blame the high schools giving the kids too much credit for too little input. Maybe it is something else.
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Rasmiti 
My girls in Kathmandu, Nepal. and Rasmiti's home in the village after earth quake. Her mother cooking. I have never met Rasmi but we keep in touch via internet/Facebook video calls andmeeaging. I will try to find her this Oct. and say Hello.
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All this and that rationalizations about smart driven people not finishing school. It is so basic and simple. Most really driven smart people just get tired of taking direction from the professors who are supposed to be smarter than them.
Richard, I guess you don't have kids of your own. My two kids education sucked me totally dry. Now I'm spending what two coins I can rub together on me and the misses. Interesting how you picked such a far flung place to do your philanthropy.
Richard, I guess you don't have kids of your own. My two kids education sucked me totally dry. Now I'm spending what two coins I can rub together on me and the misses. Interesting how you picked such a far flung place to do your philanthropy.
Sarada's bio father saved my friends life (now my wife) and helped her escape from being kidnapped in the mountains of Nepal by Moist rebels during the civil war. he got her back to the capital (took 2 weeks of walking) and on to a plane out of there.... then she showed up at my condo in Bangkok looking like she been thru hell. I didn't know she was coming to Bangkok until there was a knock on the door. We were just friends then. And she had no more money. To keep it short... educating his girl was the payback agreement for saving her life. Though the Sherpa guide had no education of his own, he asked to have his kid(s) educated. Since then, I have been returning to Nepal every yearto visit my family there.
I have a son in California but he never took to college... works for the state. Divorced his mother when he was young... not close. Rarely see or hear from him. So, the girls are my 'real' kids. Cost over there is very low but having one come here is going to be tight but wonderful fun.... to take a child from the poorest of the poorest country and bring her up to the 21st century. My goal is to live long enough to see her finish and successfully on her own. Then she can help her brother and sister get college education. But, I'll be long gone by then.
-Richard
I have a son in California but he never took to college... works for the state. Divorced his mother when he was young... not close. Rarely see or hear from him. So, the girls are my 'real' kids. Cost over there is very low but having one come here is going to be tight but wonderful fun.... to take a child from the poorest of the poorest country and bring her up to the 21st century. My goal is to live long enough to see her finish and successfully on her own. Then she can help her brother and sister get college education. But, I'll be long gone by then.
-Richard
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The graph tells the story, but don't feed it please. A little careful cascoding and the AD825 could have 20Hz OLBW too. This is the worst WRONG folklore and it just won't go away.
Yes Scott. Sorry for feeding it.
In this case except for the wrong key, it was a wrong libretto used.
George
In this case except for the wrong key, it was a wrong libretto used.
George
IIRC you can kill the AOL of the 797 with a resistor to ground on one of the comp pins. My goodness we could actually prove them wrong. Somehow John has already forgotten that Ron already measured no PIM on it (or just chooses to ignore it).
I will see Ron at noon today at the Cal Audio Show. I will discuss this with him, but as I recall, your AD897 is pretty good, but not perfect, and should not measure PIM as well as the AD825. Get with the measurement predictions.
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