I think you are confusing selling pot and coke to the local HS/college kids and selling crack on the streets.
The individual selling pot and coke to HS/college kids is selling almost exclusively to friends and friends of friends. He carefully cultivates his contacts and (should) act in a business like manner. He buys from some other low level dealer and makes that kind of profit because they are the only game in town.
Selling on the street is way different. It's gang work mostly. To make one sale you have 4 to 6 people involved. 1) The person who takes the order 2) the runner who takes the order back to the safe house 3) the second runner who takes the drugs from the safe house 4) the money collector 5) the person who makes the final drop off. Each person in that chain needs to get paid along with the rest of the gang.
Then you have the risks. There are two big risks for the college kid: Cops and getting killed when he goes into the city to pick up his supply. The street dealer has many more. 1) Rival Gangs are always looking to cut into the turf, find safe houses to raid. 2) Inter gang politics 3) "Clients" killing over their next fix 4) Getting busted by the cops.
So yea if you are living the suburban dream selling pot and coke will pay the fancy bills while you get your MBA.
Hail to the Thief came out in 2003 and In Rainbows came out in 2007. So for four years they had to live off their earnings from Hail to the Thief and it would be a logical assumption that it would be four more years till they come out with their next album. There are five members to Radiohead so they made aprox 1.2 Million per person Gross. Any good business should be able to pull 30% profit. So lets guess they each made a net profit of $360,000 for four years or $90,000 a year FOR MAKING FUCKING MUSIC. This doesn't include shirts, buttons, ect or live shows. If OK GO can make even half that, I think they should feel privileged.
So if you break the contract after 120 days your cost of ownership would be $179 inital price + $200 etf for a total of $379 or a $150 discount. Not a bad deal.
Ugg I hate it when I spend all day customizing my linux kernel and those IT scumbags can't debug it for me.
How many other people have trouble authenticating with the exchange server? or is having WAN latency issues? My guess, few to none.
If you want to run software that the rest of the company doesn't run, expect to do your own IT support and helpdesk.
When they replaced my Dell desktop with an equally crappy ASUS or something they replaced the Dell branded logitech keyboard and mouse with an ASUS branded logitech keyboard and mouse on the grounds that using the wrong type of peripheral might cause "incompatibilities".
That is freaking hilarious! I bet you are a dick everyday about problems you create and they have found a way to just fuck with you.
I would have to agree. I am a PHP developer for a small Design Company and I work on these types of sites on a daily basis. Out of all the sites I have created I have only used one CMS, Wordpress, and it was a nightmare to train the end user. There were a ton of menus and the majority of options she never used. Granted Wordpress is significantly more robust but in the end do you want your $tech_inept_end_user mucking about so much. My clients love the products I develop because I make it as simple and user proof as possible. I would keep that in mind when looking at open source cms.
Wow what a testament to Google. Mark Cuban is basically saying that nobody has a product that could even hope of competing with Google and the only way to conceivably take them down is to bribe their clients with gobs of money.
After RTFA I think you are spot on. The city is not denying him access. He can view the laws at three different locations. From there if he wants he can make as many copies as he wishes..25 cents a sheet is not an outrageous price for having somebody else copy from a bound source. I know Office Depot and Staples charge more than that. One of the places listed was a Community College. I'm sure he could do it cheaper if he was willing to do the work. OR he can wait for development to finish and get it free off their website. Right now due to I'm guessing a poor decision back in the eighties they had the data locked in a format. It looks like the got on the ball and are unlocking it. I think this city is going above and beyond the call of duty and is providing an example for others to follow by putting it out on the web in a searchable fashion.
A tad over zealous, don't you think? Spam is a business and as such we need to hit it were it hurts. If we stop the flow of money to spammers we effectively stop the spammers. Teach every person you know how to spot spam, how to avoid it, how to not click it and the simple restraint of not signing up for every god damn "Free" offer. I am generally spam, virus, and malware free because I assume I'm not the one millionth visitor to EVERY site I go to.
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I think you are confusing selling pot and coke to the local HS/college kids and selling crack on the streets.
The individual selling pot and coke to HS/college kids is selling almost exclusively to friends and friends of friends. He carefully cultivates his contacts and (should) act in a business like manner. He buys from some other low level dealer and makes that kind of profit because they are the only game in town.
Selling on the street is way different. It's gang work mostly. To make one sale you have 4 to 6 people involved. 1) The person who takes the order 2) the runner who takes the order back to the safe house 3) the second runner who takes the drugs from the safe house 4) the money collector 5) the person who makes the final drop off. Each person in that chain needs to get paid along with the rest of the gang.
Then you have the risks. There are two big risks for the college kid: Cops and getting killed when he goes into the city to pick up his supply. The street dealer has many more. 1) Rival Gangs are always looking to cut into the turf, find safe houses to raid. 2) Inter gang politics 3) "Clients" killing over their next fix 4) Getting busted by the cops.
So yea if you are living the suburban dream selling pot and coke will pay the fancy bills while you get your MBA.
Hail to the Thief came out in 2003 and In Rainbows came out in 2007. So for four years they had to live off their earnings from Hail to the Thief and it would be a logical assumption that it would be four more years till they come out with their next album. There are five members to Radiohead so they made aprox 1.2 Million per person Gross. Any good business should be able to pull 30% profit. So lets guess they each made a net profit of $360,000 for four years or $90,000 a year FOR MAKING FUCKING MUSIC. This doesn't include shirts, buttons, ect or live shows. If OK GO can make even half that, I think they should feel privileged.
So if you break the contract after 120 days your cost of ownership would be $179 inital price + $200 etf for a total of $379 or a $150 discount. Not a bad deal.
When they replaced my Dell desktop with an equally crappy ASUS or something they replaced the Dell branded logitech keyboard and mouse with an ASUS branded logitech keyboard and mouse on the grounds that using the wrong type of peripheral might cause "incompatibilities".
That is freaking hilarious! I bet you are a dick everyday about problems you create and they have found a way to just fuck with you.
I would have to agree. I am a PHP developer for a small Design Company and I work on these types of sites on a daily basis. Out of all the sites I have created I have only used one CMS, Wordpress, and it was a nightmare to train the end user. There were a ton of menus and the majority of options she never used. Granted Wordpress is significantly more robust but in the end do you want your $tech_inept_end_user mucking about so much. My clients love the products I develop because I make it as simple and user proof as possible. I would keep that in mind when looking at open source cms.
Wow what a testament to Google. Mark Cuban is basically saying that nobody has a product that could even hope of competing with Google and the only way to conceivably take them down is to bribe their clients with gobs of money.
After RTFA I think you are spot on. The city is not denying him access. He can view the laws at three different locations. From there if he wants he can make as many copies as he wishes. .25 cents a sheet is not an outrageous price for having somebody else copy from a bound source. I know Office Depot and Staples charge more than that. One of the places listed was a Community College. I'm sure he could do it cheaper if he was willing to do the work. OR he can wait for development to finish and get it free off their website. Right now due to I'm guessing a poor decision back in the eighties they had the data locked in a format. It looks like the got on the ball and are unlocking it. I think this city is going above and beyond the call of duty and is providing an example for others to follow by putting it out on the web in a searchable fashion.
Yes it did. http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-5906892-7.html
In short, MS et al don't care about enthusiasm. Their "best customers" are the ones who spend lots of money on games through official channels.
So what's wrong with that? I love it when a client of mine enjoys my work, but I love it more when they pay me for it.
A tad over zealous, don't you think? Spam is a business and as such we need to hit it were it hurts. If we stop the flow of money to spammers we effectively stop the spammers. Teach every person you know how to spot spam, how to avoid it, how to not click it and the simple restraint of not signing up for every god damn "Free" offer. I am generally spam, virus, and malware free because I assume I'm not the one millionth visitor to EVERY site I go to.