but rather triggering money-making actions forcing the server to generate more money. When you have a market for that you'll have thousands of characters exclusively dedicated to generate more money. It causes inflation.
So kind of like what Wall Street has been doing lately. Gold Farmer economics?
My ISP (Wide Open West) started doing this last week. They say they have no permanent opt-out, but I continue to pursue with them.
What I am curious about, since I use VOIP, are they breaking the law? Since they are are deeply inspecting the packets, they have access to all of the data being transmitted in my phone calls. Does this break federal wiretapping regulations?
Which only is really an issue for some high risk pregnancies or for exposure in the first week or so of pregnancy.
So yeah, there is a small chance it may make you give birth to a horribly deformed quasi-human, but really no more than other environmental factors like pollution or pharmaceuticals in the water supply.
And only about 50% of cats carry toxoplasmosis to begin with.
You talk of dreading going after venture capital. Then why do it? Yes, R&D is expensive, but are you profitable. I think if you are profitable, and you keep turning your profit back into R&D, you will be able to go to market on your own, albeit maybe not as fast. I have no idea what industry you are in, but if your products are superior, then I don't think you have to be run under by your competition. It is YOUR company. If you dread bringing in the vulture capital, then don't do it. Find alternate means. Maybe branch out into a new market for your product that did not see a need for it, but is a new and novel use. Maybe find private investors. The bottom line is do what you want to do, how you want to do it. The way you write, it sounds like, yes, you could grow the company through VC, but if you did you would pretty much become what you loathe.
Well, I think both parties are to blame. It would not be hard to implement checking the IPV4 record if IPV6 times out. Actually, since the Internet is in a transition phase between the two, it would make a lot of sense.
Even using the dirty hacked up OSx86 to install OS X on commodity hardware is a pretty easy install. Getting hardware working afterwards is another thing, but it is doable.
1) World War 2 was a WAR, not an unprovoked and illegal occupation
And Dresden had about 0 tactical or strategic value.
2) The Dresden bombing was part of a like-for-like retaliation action provoked by the various Nazi bombing campaigns over England and
You realize you just argued two wrongs make a right.
3) The Dresden bombing was as nothing compared to the utterly unnecessary Nagasaki war crime, the multitude of Vietnam war crimes and the continuing American war crimes in Iraq.
Tragic and unnecessary as the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings were, the various firebombings in WWII Were much more horrific. More was destroyed, more people died, and the death tolls from Viet-Nam and Iraq don't even begin to compare with the horror and devastation the firebombings wreaked.
The problem with tin clients is that they generally cost as much as a regular business PC. A lot of people look at the price Vs features and go with the PC. We did a test on a thin client here recently. The "Hard Drive" is a GB of flash memory, and the system files modifiable, so viruses were a risk. However, the company AV solution refused to touch the system files on it without us shelling out a lot of money to the AV company. All in all, the overall costs were greater than just going with the PC infrastructure we already have in place.
There is a place for thin clients, but as an overall solution, they are not as robust as plain old PCs.
Enterprise class hardware stays around the same price however. I remember everybody wringing their hands about the $500 PC in 1998. Now they do it about the $300 PC, bemoaning that soon the PC will be commodity hardware yadda yadda. However, these are underpowered machines, and the workplaces I have been in that use them constantly bordered on employee revolt.
Your average cubicle drone machine usually runs in the neighborhood of $800 to $1200 depending on what is needed. Not to mention that a lot of companies are going with laptops for most employees nowadays (basically, anybody above CS). These are investments that only the most ignorant CFO would view as disposable. In an enterprise setting, with proper care and feeding, you can get a good three years out of a machine. When you factor in failure rates, productivity lost do to reimaging a machine that just needs a new ram chip, etc etc, it is much cheaper to have onstaff hardware people. I have seen the lost dollars that come from outsourcing even to an in town firm for hardware support. But then, this probably explains why you are posting on slashdot instead of being a CFO.
Slashdot Mirror
Explosives + Old Hardware = Good Times!
but rather triggering money-making actions forcing the server to generate more money. When you have a market for that you'll have thousands of characters exclusively dedicated to generate more money. It causes inflation.
So kind of like what Wall Street has been doing lately. Gold Farmer economics?
The firebombing of Dresden killed as many as either of the Atomic bombs.
My ISP (Wide Open West) started doing this last week. They say they have no permanent opt-out, but I continue to pursue with them.
What I am curious about, since I use VOIP, are they breaking the law? Since they are are deeply inspecting the packets, they have access to all of the data being transmitted in my phone calls. Does this break federal wiretapping regulations?
You are wrong
I think you missed the part where he said he has a wife and kids, it is way to late for any of that.
That is a pretty good comparison. Simcity for the SNES was an abortion of interface compared to the PC version.
Which only is really an issue for some high risk pregnancies or for exposure in the first week or so of pregnancy.
So yeah, there is a small chance it may make you give birth to a horribly deformed quasi-human, but really no more than other environmental factors like pollution or pharmaceuticals in the water supply.
And only about 50% of cats carry toxoplasmosis to begin with.
So more sunlight causes rape then.
Agreed, try the last 232 years.
You talk of dreading going after venture capital. Then why do it? Yes, R&D is expensive, but are you profitable. I think if you are profitable, and you keep turning your profit back into R&D, you will be able to go to market on your own, albeit maybe not as fast. I have no idea what industry you are in, but if your products are superior, then I don't think you have to be run under by your competition. It is YOUR company. If you dread bringing in the vulture capital, then don't do it. Find alternate means. Maybe branch out into a new market for your product that did not see a need for it, but is a new and novel use. Maybe find private investors. The bottom line is do what you want to do, how you want to do it. The way you write, it sounds like, yes, you could grow the company through VC, but if you did you would pretty much become what you loathe.
I have been around for a while
Yeah, but then you get into the sticky HR situation of surfing porn at work for "testing purposes"
Well, I think both parties are to blame. It would not be hard to implement checking the IPV4 record if IPV6 times out. Actually, since the Internet is in a transition phase between the two, it would make a lot of sense.
This is only about a quarter of what we spent on defense last year.
Mac OS
If you were truly a personally responsible person, you would have founded it already instead of waiting for somebody else to.
You obviously missed the 80s
Even using the dirty hacked up OSx86 to install OS X on commodity hardware is a pretty easy install. Getting hardware working afterwards is another thing, but it is doable.
1) World War 2 was a WAR, not an unprovoked and illegal occupation
And Dresden had about 0 tactical or strategic value.
2) The Dresden bombing was part of a like-for-like retaliation action provoked by the various Nazi bombing campaigns over England and
You realize you just argued two wrongs make a right.
3) The Dresden bombing was as nothing compared to the utterly unnecessary Nagasaki war crime, the multitude of Vietnam war crimes and the continuing American war crimes in Iraq.
Tragic and unnecessary as the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings were, the various firebombings in WWII Were much more horrific. More was destroyed, more people died, and the death tolls from Viet-Nam and Iraq don't even begin to compare with the horror and devastation the firebombings wreaked.
The problem with tin clients is that they generally cost as much as a regular business PC. A lot of people look at the price Vs features and go with the PC. We did a test on a thin client here recently. The "Hard Drive" is a GB of flash memory, and the system files modifiable, so viruses were a risk. However, the company AV solution refused to touch the system files on it without us shelling out a lot of money to the AV company. All in all, the overall costs were greater than just going with the PC infrastructure we already have in place.
There is a place for thin clients, but as an overall solution, they are not as robust as plain old PCs.
Actually, if you open up the laptop, there is still a reset button, not to mention a factory override password.
Enterprise class hardware stays around the same price however. I remember everybody wringing their hands about the $500 PC in 1998. Now they do it about the $300 PC, bemoaning that soon the PC will be commodity hardware yadda yadda. However, these are underpowered machines, and the workplaces I have been in that use them constantly bordered on employee revolt.
Your average cubicle drone machine usually runs in the neighborhood of $800 to $1200 depending on what is needed. Not to mention that a lot of companies are going with laptops for most employees nowadays (basically, anybody above CS). These are investments that only the most ignorant CFO would view as disposable. In an enterprise setting, with proper care and feeding, you can get a good three years out of a machine. When you factor in failure rates, productivity lost do to reimaging a machine that just needs a new ram chip, etc etc, it is much cheaper to have onstaff hardware people. I have seen the lost dollars that come from outsourcing even to an in town firm for hardware support. But then, this probably explains why you are posting on slashdot instead of being a CFO.
Yup
I would say we need another JFK, with thicker skin this time around.