Read up on Niloa Tesla's life - paying special attention to his business and private life. If he had a good IP lawyer on his side, things for him and the rest of the World would have been different.
I'm seeing a lot of posts here about the evils of patents and how they stifle innovation. They don't. And unfortunately, folks forget the story about the inventors of the MRI machine.
These guys spent decades and millions of dollars of their own and investors' money creating this machine. When they get it to market, General Electric and Hitachi just steals the idea and markets it. Pretty much destroying the company that was started by the inventors. They then sued over another decade or so finally getting a settlement. IF they just sat back, others would have profited off of their work. That's an injustice if I've ever seen one!
Without the inventor with the hopes of making it big and getting a return to their investors, they WILL BE NO INCENTIVE TO INNOVATE.
Some of the MRI Story. (Wikipedia has some of the business stuff wrong)
why he was being charged with insider trading. I was to say he really botched it if he bought, but he sold because of the numbers not being met according to the prosecution.
It sounds like he thought he was going to get the contracts but the NSA stuck it to him for not helping them spy. Now, the conspiracy theorist in me wants to believe that the NSA not only tanked the contracts, but also put the prosecutors on him to really make an example out of him.
FTFA:...the flash-based technology's steep price point continues to hamper adoption, analysts say.
Yeah, but as the first adopters and the die hard gamers looking for every advantage they can get buy more of these, we'll see the price drop eventually.
It also means that the extra speed and reliability really isn't worth the high price for most business folks who would be, I guess, the ones to really drive the market in the beginning stages after the first adopters.
AFAIK Ubuntu was developed for the *desktop& market...did I miss sth?
I always wondered about that about the different distros: is one better than the other for a particular use? Isn't the base system/kernel/window manager the same?
I'm pretty much a Fedora type of guy, but that's out of habit more than anything. I do, however, prefer the distros that are incorporated with the "Unleashed", "Bible", etc... books because I like having a volume that I can pick up if I have a question that has the correct directory structures for that install and, so far, the installs from those things go perfectly. I just really hate trying to find stuff on a new release when I tried a couple of times downloading a distro from the web.
Users can blow into a tiny hole on the side of the handset for about three seconds to get a reading on their and check their stress level through a series questions.
It sounds like having this phone would cause stress!
Also, if somebody near me was using that thing, I might be tempted to use their phone as a rectal thermometer.
Current technology could, however, offer something a bit more exciting than the ordinary light aircraft which have been flying almost unchanged since the 1950s.
That being said, most of the information online is posted by individuals who have not attended an Open House, or have chosen not to become members.
I once was "invited" to be a broker at a certain mutual fund that I can't even remember the name of anymore and they spent over an hour showing us overheads (yeah, it was back in '84) of broker's checks showing $1500.00 a week in passive commissions. In other words, you get someone to buy this mutual fund and every time they put more money in, you'd get a commission - that includes dividend reinvestment. Towards the end of the sessions, they told us how we'd get the sales - pester family and friends. I left and never came back. One, if I did that, I wouldn't have any friends or family. Two, their business model was to "recruit" as many people as possible (you had to pay for your own series 7), and keep the very rare one who didn't fail. They were looking for fresh meat. I went to a real estate agents open house for a large national firm and they were just looking for fresh meat for their grinder.
There's a huge turnover for these types of retail sales jobs and they're always looking for fresh meat. It looks like this firm is the same thing - another Amway or what ever it's called.
Now, don't get me wrong, some, ok very few, of these sales things aren't the rip-off they seem. Mary Kay has been pretty good to the women I know who do it and their customers seem to be satisfied. I almost went for it - but how is a guy to sell Mary Kay? Sell to transvestites?
They're all frightened of being called soft on terror...
And why are they frightened about that? I'll tell you. Because average Joe and even some above average Joes are so much into fighting terrorism and feeling "strong" that they think anyone who "hides" behind the Constitution is a: wimp, terrorist, or some pinko pansy. There the same folks who see someone get acquitted and think "they beat the rap" - not that the individual was actually innocent. Civil Rights or the Bill of Rights to those people is some sort of hippy slogan. Which is interesting because, in my completely non-scientific observation, it seams that the older people are, the more they're inclined to have this opinion.
Also note that this isn't actually synthetic life, just a synthetic genome.
I'm glad you mentioned that. What was it? On NOVA? There was some scientist that's trying to make a synthetic life form that's completely different from what's on this planet. It would reproduce and feed, but it wasn't a cell as we know it - it didn't require the use of bacteria. He said he was really close. I want to say it's based on silicon, but I think that memory was created from too many years watching "Star Trek".
Businesses come and go and I'm sure somebody in your type business has closed up for whatever reason and you can pick up their POS system cheap. And, if you don't need a business specific POS system (i.e. restaurant, bar) then there's probably even more available.
In terms of opportunity cost, you'll likely spend that same $2-5k making a custom solution.
Probably more and that's not including the opportunity cost of not having the business up and running while he's developing the software.
Also, realize that the modern POS has over a century of lessons learned about securing cash registers from theft (particularly employee theft). You'll want to find developers who have specifically worked on POS applications before, or you won't benefit from all that knowledge.
I worked for NCR on their registers. There's auditing capabilities in the software that tracks the transactions, payments, items sold, etc.... The more money you spend, the more capabilities there are, obviously. It won't prevent theft, but it will help you find out and help tell the difference between theft, mistakes, and outright incompetence. Some stores bought add ons that would help analyze sales and get the most out of your inventory scheduling - like stocking enough of an item or less of something that doesn't sell well. The register software on the server side would actually help in maximizing the profitability of the store. Other than those nit-picky things, your post is spot on.
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Being part of the dot-com easy money of the late 90s, you must be worth hundreds of millions of dollars and have a couple of private jets.
Also, which super model is the best in bed? (Obviously, that happened before you were married. wink wink nod nod)
The question of how to create such an environment in a school is difficult to answer, though
Vouchers? Allow parents to send their children to schools that they want them. Destroy inner city schools, eliminate mainstreaming, or... whatever - so be it! Being PC or stylish is destroying our children.
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Read up on Niloa Tesla's life - paying special attention to his business and private life. If he had a good IP lawyer on his side, things for him and the rest of the World would have been different.
Yeah, but, with those long fingernails, how does he use a keyboard?
You have it backwards. It's more like:
You can't ignore the benefit of patents just because they have done harm in one or two situations.
Since you were part of the Internet boom of the late 90s, you're obviously worth hundreds of millions of dollars. So:
What's your favorite jet?
Which supermodel is the best in bed?
I really need to know because I have no life and I need to vicariously live through famous people.
These guys spent decades and millions of dollars of their own and investors' money creating this machine. When they get it to market, General Electric and Hitachi just steals the idea and markets it. Pretty much destroying the company that was started by the inventors. They then sued over another decade or so finally getting a settlement. IF they just sat back, others would have profited off of their work. That's an injustice if I've ever seen one!
Without the inventor with the hopes of making it big and getting a return to their investors, they WILL BE NO INCENTIVE TO INNOVATE. Some of the MRI Story. (Wikipedia has some of the business stuff wrong)
more history
I don't care about the very few patent trolls or whatever, I know there's abuse, but we shouldn't throw the baby out with the bath water.
having a bunch of small radio telescopes is better than one big one- other than the cost factor.
That's has been done and the Open Source Governments forked into the states we have now. So, we just a bunch of different distros - that's all.
It sounds like he thought he was going to get the contracts but the NSA stuck it to him for not helping them spy. Now, the conspiracy theorist in me wants to believe that the NSA not only tanked the contracts, but also put the prosecutors on him to really make an example out of him.
Oh oh!
(starts looking through past posts to see if I ever got into a lame war with user ZipprHead)
Yeah, but as the first adopters and the die hard gamers looking for every advantage they can get buy more of these, we'll see the price drop eventually.
It also means that the extra speed and reliability really isn't worth the high price for most business folks who would be, I guess, the ones to really drive the market in the beginning stages after the first adopters.
I always wondered about that about the different distros: is one better than the other for a particular use? Isn't the base system/kernel/window manager the same?
I'm pretty much a Fedora type of guy, but that's out of habit more than anything. I do, however, prefer the distros that are incorporated with the "Unleashed", "Bible", etc... books because I like having a volume that I can pick up if I have a question that has the correct directory structures for that install and, so far, the installs from those things go perfectly. I just really hate trying to find stuff on a new release when I tried a couple of times downloading a distro from the web.
It sounds like having this phone would cause stress!
Also, if somebody near me was using that thing, I might be tempted to use their phone as a rectal thermometer.
So, now you're a "Stop" player?
OK..OK..I'll Go away now ..
More like the 30s!
It looked to me that they signed a contract. Therefore, wouldn't it be breach of contract and be actionable in court?
Now, if there were just some regular expression comics out there!
I once was "invited" to be a broker at a certain mutual fund that I can't even remember the name of anymore and they spent over an hour showing us overheads (yeah, it was back in '84) of broker's checks showing $1500.00 a week in passive commissions. In other words, you get someone to buy this mutual fund and every time they put more money in, you'd get a commission - that includes dividend reinvestment. Towards the end of the sessions, they told us how we'd get the sales - pester family and friends. I left and never came back. One, if I did that, I wouldn't have any friends or family. Two, their business model was to "recruit" as many people as possible (you had to pay for your own series 7), and keep the very rare one who didn't fail. They were looking for fresh meat. I went to a real estate agents open house for a large national firm and they were just looking for fresh meat for their grinder.
There's a huge turnover for these types of retail sales jobs and they're always looking for fresh meat. It looks like this firm is the same thing - another Amway or what ever it's called.
Now, don't get me wrong, some, ok very few, of these sales things aren't the rip-off they seem. Mary Kay has been pretty good to the women I know who do it and their customers seem to be satisfied. I almost went for it - but how is a guy to sell Mary Kay? Sell to transvestites?
And why are they frightened about that? I'll tell you. Because average Joe and even some above average Joes are so much into fighting terrorism and feeling "strong" that they think anyone who "hides" behind the Constitution is a: wimp, terrorist, or some pinko pansy. There the same folks who see someone get acquitted and think "they beat the rap" - not that the individual was actually innocent. Civil Rights or the Bill of Rights to those people is some sort of hippy slogan. Which is interesting because, in my completely non-scientific observation, it seams that the older people are, the more they're inclined to have this opinion.
Many of my fellow Americans disgust me.
I'm glad you mentioned that. What was it? On NOVA? There was some scientist that's trying to make a synthetic life form that's completely different from what's on this planet. It would reproduce and feed, but it wasn't a cell as we know it - it didn't require the use of bacteria. He said he was really close. I want to say it's based on silicon, but I think that memory was created from too many years watching "Star Trek".
Oh brother. Now I'm afraid of seeing "In Soviet Russia, Life makes you!"
Just a thought.
Probably more and that's not including the opportunity cost of not having the business up and running while he's developing the software.
Also, realize that the modern POS has over a century of lessons learned about securing cash registers from theft (particularly employee theft). You'll want to find developers who have specifically worked on POS applications before, or you won't benefit from all that knowledge.
I worked for NCR on their registers. There's auditing capabilities in the software that tracks the transactions, payments, items sold, etc.... The more money you spend, the more capabilities there are, obviously. It won't prevent theft, but it will help you find out and help tell the difference between theft, mistakes, and outright incompetence. Some stores bought add ons that would help analyze sales and get the most out of your inventory scheduling - like stocking enough of an item or less of something that doesn't sell well. The register software on the server side would actually help in maximizing the profitability of the store.
Other than those nit-picky things, your post is spot on.
Also, which super model is the best in bed? (Obviously, that happened before you were married. wink wink nod nod)
I wish I had that kind of creativity. I tried going by the nickname of "Big Dick", but folks just laughed.
Vouchers? Allow parents to send their children to schools that they want them. Destroy inner city schools, eliminate mainstreaming, or ... whatever - so be it! Being PC or stylish is destroying our children.