so they think - but it's the expectation of the market (at least my personal market) that the goods will be cheaper. Therefore the price will have to come down to meet the consumers expectations.
I don't "correct" for taxes because they are variable. Companies advertising an annual salary don't correct for taxes either. If you have a lot of writeoffs - it is possible to pay no tax.
Employers like the Contract to Perm model simply becuase no matter how thorough an interview is, a candidate may or may not be a good fit.
The contract to perm model allows them to evaluate you as an employee over a long period of time without the commmitment of a full time hire. If you beilieve that you are a good worker and it's a good fit take it.
As far as a rate goes. As a general rule it is 1/2 * annual salary/1000 = Hourly Rate. So for $100,000 you would charge $50/hr. In my industry we will pay all the way up to $75/hr. for really talented people with a fairly commodity skill sets. For specializations in a particular product, the price goes up dramatically.
You can setup an S-Corp, do corp. to corp. billing and save on some taxes if you are crafty.
Also, when factoring your hourly rate, be sure to include the cost of independent health benefits.
There are other retirement vehicles besides a 401K that are available such as a ROTH/IRA. You can also setup a 401K if you have an S-Corp.
So I am right - becuase notes and wiki only overlap on a small portion of functionality, and to say that Wiki will replace notes will never be an accurate statement. Unless of course one uses Notes *exclusivly* for information management, which is not the case.
Wiki could replace the document management features of Notes but would never compete on the aforementioned purposes.
Sounds like wiki would do a good job in competing with some knowledge management solutions.
I'm a little confused - how are wiki's and notes even remotely similar? One is a groupware application for scheduling, contacts, and mail. It is also a development platform for forms and workflow. I didn't think that it was generally used for content management or information management. I mean, I don't like notes or anything but I'm just not sure if that's an accurate comparison. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Basically what Steve is saying: "The [hardware] cost of computers is hurting our margin". Right Steve, you are an idiot.
Computers have never been cheaper.
In fact, most people wonder why the cost of the software has remained the same when the computers that they buy have continued to increase in performance and decrease in size.
The only true justification for the cost of the software, especially in light of its commoditizing competitors is that the not free software offers more value, performance, and a higher level of reliability than its free counterparts. I think small business server offers a pretty good value for the money - SQL Server, Exchange, and a file server all on one box.
XP is a bit high especially with the price gouging Professional edition that offers "features" such as remote access. In general, MS is going to need to offer more, for less. Office is also overpriced, and getting into a $600 commitment for XP+Office is pretty much outrageous. There needs to be a "correction" in the MS market place.
My thoughts to MS: Stop whining deliver more for less.
What I'm wondering is if PayPal didn't overrun their bandwidth with new graphics and pages while simultaneously trying to upgrade the backend systems. The "intermittent problems" might have been caused by such an upgrade. Then Monday hits and they haven't completed upgrading/stress testing the system. What happens? Nose dive!
Bandwidth is an unlikely culprit. No doubt pay pal has machines hosted at multiple tier 1 data centers. In such an environment, each network port is provisioned at 100 Mbs, or GbE if specially requested. The customer is charged on a moving average for bandwidwth usage and a hard limit is never involved.
The real problem is probably that powered by Sun logo. Paypal may have upgraded or changed to a new platform. It is possible to estimate hardware needs via Math and load testing but it's not always correct. Keep in mind though that it's more than just adding some graphics to the home page that would do this kind of thing. Especially given the declined pay pal debit card, I suspect something more functional has been changed/moved to Sun.
RFID is a bad idea simply becuase the communications channel between card and reader can be eavesdropped upon. Also given the right equipment information on the card can be disclosed w/o the holders consent or knowledge. It would be much better to use a card that requires physcial contact to transfer the information on the card.
Funny, as an end user of those applications I... feel... like... I... am... constantly... WAITING, FOR SOMETHING, a screen refresh, button click, tree menu to expand, what I'm really waiting for is a reasonably performing java app. Floating point operations, interger math, and benchmarks may say java is fast, but as an end user, it's Slow.
it seems a gross oversight for the FAA to guarantee that such a critical system will crash after only one missed maintenance task.
Would you feel this way if the airplane that you were flying in missed it's engine overhaul time, the engined failed catastrophically and your plane crashed?
Critical System + Maitainance = Must Be Done.
The system was designed and setup in a particular manner. In fact, the reboot rule was added to the design of the system, so that this very thing would not happen.
Whoever's job it was to reboot the machine is at fault for not maintaining the system properly.
The discussion of whether the procedure of rebooting a machine every month is inane, is something different.
A fast fix is not enough. The notion that it is ok to have exploits, because they can be quickly "fixed" is a cop out. It's like saying, "it's ok to write buggy code, as long as the bugs are documented." The reality is that not everyone updates their programs or kernel, especially as Linux becomes more mainstream this problem will continue to increase. The only real solution is to have developers program from a "how can I get this done, and how would I exploit what I've just written?" perspective. It's up to the developers to educate themselves on how their code gets exploited - and how to write code that cannot be compromised in similar ways in the future.
We can only conclude this based on the radio transmissions received by the probes. What if the probes are crusing along just fine, and it's the transmissions that are being affected?
This guy is doing good things... helping mono is awsome.
I'm not trying to be Xeno Phobic but write in the language that people can best understand your arguments. Miguel's blog is a bunch of off the cuff un-supported arguments.
Un-supported only in the sense that there are no examples and/or references. He may be right but doesn't do a very good job expressing his thoughts.
It would be nice to see a better articulation of why it is that he's so concerned with Avalon, in the section about the developer needing to know a lot of the internals to implement code, he's very short on details of why this is. If your going to go to the trouble of jotting good thougts down in a blog - make them worthwhile.
"To some customers out there, it's like a security blanket," said Dell spokesman Lionel Menchaca.
Riiight. I just re-installed windows xp - funny, i needed a damn floppy disk so that the xp installer could see my scsi raid as a valid installation target. Security blanket my ass.
Unless pc manufacturers include a feature to retarget a usb memory key as a floppy drive, they should still include a floppy drive.
A browser switch and an OS switch are not equal. In fact, there is no way one could logically associate the adoption of new OS and a new browser.
Several things can be inferred from the switch. The most important - open source projects such as mozilla are gaining mind share - which may or may not lead to a conversion in the future.
Second, it indicates the expansion of broadband availabilty in the US. Downloading a 23 mb file is not a trivial endeavor over dial-up. For a user to switch, it must be quick and painless, such as a fast download and an easy install.
Finally, the users who do get exploited by an IE vuln, will switch (at least I hope they would).
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No really - shut up.
Go post your economic complaints elsewhere. This is not the site.
16 billion is nothing in the grand scheme of things and it's not going to break the bank.
We need to keep ahead.
so they think - but it's the expectation of the market (at least my personal market) that the goods will be cheaper. Therefore the price will have to come down to meet the consumers expectations.
why are the books still 20 dollars?
I would think that much of the cost of book would go to the production process. Layout, typesetting, printing binding and shipping.
The eBooks however, seem to cost as much as their paper counterparts.
I'd be more inclined to get an eBook reader if the books were more affordible.
I don't "correct" for taxes because they are variable. Companies advertising an annual salary don't correct for taxes either. If you have a lot of writeoffs - it is possible to pay no tax.
To say $100/hr = $100,000/yr. is not correct.
Employers like the Contract to Perm model simply becuase no matter how thorough an interview is, a candidate may or may not be a good fit.
/1000 = Hourly Rate. So for $100,000 you would charge $50/hr. In my industry we will pay all the way up to $75/hr. for really talented people with a fairly commodity skill sets. For specializations in a particular product, the price goes up dramatically.
The contract to perm model allows them to evaluate you as an employee over a long period of time without the commmitment of a full time hire. If you beilieve that you are a good worker and it's a good fit take it.
As far as a rate goes. As a general rule it is 1/2 * annual salary
You can setup an S-Corp, do corp. to corp. billing and save on some taxes if you are crafty.
Also, when factoring your hourly rate, be sure to include the cost of independent health benefits.
There are other retirement vehicles besides a 401K that are available such as a ROTH/IRA. You can also setup a 401K if you have an S-Corp.
Good luck.
So I am right - becuase notes and wiki only overlap on a small portion of functionality, and to say that Wiki will replace notes will never be an accurate statement. Unless of course one uses Notes *exclusivly* for information management, which is not the case.
Wiki could replace the document management features of Notes but would never compete on the aforementioned purposes.
Sounds like wiki would do a good job in competing with some knowledge management solutions.
I'm a little confused - how are wiki's and notes even remotely similar? One is a groupware application for scheduling, contacts, and mail. It is also a development platform for forms and workflow. I didn't think that it was generally used for content management or information management. I mean, I don't like notes or anything but I'm just not sure if that's an accurate comparison. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Which, according to the post, Transmeta is not.
What's the probability that all of the texts written this way will be similar?
Basically what Steve is saying: "The [hardware] cost of computers is hurting our margin". Right Steve, you are an idiot.
Computers have never been cheaper.
In fact, most people wonder why the cost of the software has remained the same when the computers that they buy have continued to increase in performance and decrease in size.
The only true justification for the cost of the software, especially in light of its commoditizing competitors is that the not free software offers more value, performance, and a higher level of reliability than its free counterparts. I think small business server offers a pretty good value for the money - SQL Server, Exchange, and a file server all on one box.
XP is a bit high especially with the price gouging Professional edition that offers "features" such as remote access. In general, MS is going to need to offer more, for less. Office is also overpriced, and getting into a $600 commitment for XP+Office is pretty much outrageous. There needs to be a "correction" in the MS market place.
My thoughts to MS: Stop whining deliver more for less.
What I'm wondering is if PayPal didn't overrun their bandwidth with new graphics and pages while simultaneously trying to upgrade the backend systems. The "intermittent problems" might have been caused by such an upgrade. Then Monday hits and they haven't completed upgrading/stress testing the system. What happens? Nose dive!
Bandwidth is an unlikely culprit. No doubt pay pal has machines hosted at multiple tier 1 data centers. In such an environment, each network port is provisioned at 100 Mbs, or GbE if specially requested. The customer is charged on a moving average for bandwidwth usage and a hard limit is never involved.
The real problem is probably that powered by Sun logo. Paypal may have upgraded or changed to a new platform. It is possible to estimate hardware needs via Math and load testing but it's not always correct. Keep in mind though that it's more than just adding some graphics to the home page that would do this kind of thing. Especially given the declined pay pal debit card, I suspect something more functional has been changed/moved to Sun.
RFID is a bad idea simply becuase the communications channel between card and reader can be eavesdropped upon. Also given the right equipment information on the card can be disclosed w/o the holders consent or knowledge. It would be much better to use a card that requires physcial contact to transfer the information on the card.
threading the interface
threading is usually a last resort for poorly performing applications.
Easy to write != Threading.
Funny, as an end user of those applications I ... feel... like ... I ... am ... constantly... WAITING, FOR SOMETHING, a screen refresh, button click, tree menu to expand, what I'm really waiting for is a reasonably performing java app. Floating point operations, interger math, and benchmarks may say java is fast, but as an end user, it's Slow.
And we might have a more realistic amount of cash being spent on music players.
it seems a gross oversight for the FAA to guarantee that such a critical system will crash after only one missed maintenance task.
Would you feel this way if the airplane that you were flying in missed it's engine overhaul time, the engined failed catastrophically and your plane crashed?
Critical System + Maitainance = Must Be Done.
The system was designed and setup in a particular manner. In fact, the reboot rule was added to the design of the system, so that this very thing would not happen.
Whoever's job it was to reboot the machine is at fault for not maintaining the system properly.
The discussion of whether the procedure of rebooting a machine every month is inane, is something different.
A fast fix is not enough. The notion that it is ok to have exploits, because they can be quickly "fixed" is a cop out. It's like saying, "it's ok to write buggy code, as long as the bugs are documented."
The reality is that not everyone updates their programs or kernel, especially as Linux becomes more mainstream this problem will continue to increase. The only real solution is to have developers program from a "how can I get this done, and how would I exploit what I've just written?" perspective. It's up to the developers to educate themselves on how their code gets exploited - and how to write code that cannot be compromised in similar ways in the future.
Or is pioneer able to fix it's position using onboard cameras?
We can only conclude this based on the radio transmissions received by the probes. What if the probes are crusing along just fine, and it's the transmissions that are being affected?
cleverly hidden 550 cubic foot root cellar is roomy enough to hang four elk quarters in and has large shelves for other food storage
Yes, becuase my FIRST thought was to use the room for hanging elk meat.
This guy is doing good things... helping mono is awsome.
I'm not trying to be Xeno Phobic but write in the language that people can best understand your arguments. Miguel's blog is a bunch of off the cuff un-supported arguments.
Un-supported only in the sense that there are no examples and/or references. He may be right but doesn't do a very good job expressing his thoughts.
It would be nice to see a better articulation of why it is that he's so concerned with Avalon, in the section about the developer needing to know a lot of the internals to implement code, he's very short on details of why this is. If your going to go to the trouble of jotting good thougts down in a blog - make them worthwhile.
"To some customers out there, it's like a security blanket," said Dell spokesman Lionel Menchaca.
Riiight. I just re-installed windows xp - funny, i needed a damn floppy disk so that the xp installer could see my scsi raid as a valid installation target. Security blanket my ass.
Unless pc manufacturers include a feature to retarget a usb memory key as a floppy drive, they should still include a floppy drive.
what's your point? are you agreeing with what i'm saying?
HAHAHA - dude, what about whole countries that distribute history books that are written to conform to the ruling parties doctrines?
This is to be expected.
A browser switch and an OS switch are not equal. In fact, there is no way one could logically associate the adoption of new OS and a new browser.
Several things can be inferred from the switch. The most important - open source projects such as mozilla are gaining mind share - which may or may not lead to a conversion in the future.
Second, it indicates the expansion of broadband availabilty in the US. Downloading a 23 mb file is not a trivial endeavor over dial-up. For a user to switch, it must be quick and painless, such as a fast download and an easy install.
Finally, the users who do get exploited by an IE vuln, will switch (at least I hope they would).
After all, shouldn't we learn from our mistakes?