"Regarding monopoly status, I'm sure every business person wants to dominate their market. "Dominate", for the companies I've worked for, means have something like 60% market share or greater. That's get-a-book-written-about-you territory. I don't think anyone thinks they have a realistic shot of a 90+% market share, any more than anyone thinks they have a realistic shot of playing in the National Hockey League. Sure, you can try but you really ought to have a plan B."
It depends on the market size. In a niche market 90% is definitely doable, especially if you are the one to recognize the need early and get entrenched to the point where any possible competitors would have to invest too much money to make it worthwhile.
You could just install an XMPP server and have everyone connect using whatever client they want, like pidgin for example. It would be faster too. And private.
That's exactly what we do. its easy enough and anybody can use it -- coworkers, contractors, customers, etc.
From the sounds of some of those, you might like the Legend of Zero series. I did, but read them last year so I didn't mention them. https://www.amazon.com/gp/prod...
It really sounds like you need better developers working on the sql server projects, seriously. I've got services running on hundreds of various sql server installs; pushing through many millions of records every day and nobody has those problems you mentioned yearly let alone multiple times a week.
That slack POS is such a pig of resources that I don't believe that anybody actually productive uses the damn thing. We tried it out for less than a month after AIM finally ended; and quickly moved onto using a jabber server instead. Hell, its not like they hid its true purpose which is to slack off and waste time. Throw it in the woods.
Coding isn't royalty based. Even for closed source applications. I would get paid for my time doing development, now if my code makes the company a Billion Dollars I don't expect to be paid any portion of that, because I had already agreed to be paid for my time.
Yes it can be. I earn royalties on a handful of closed source applications I've worked on. Yes, I put in a lot of extra unpaid work during the devel process of all of them; but it has paid off handsomely over the years. Some of them are 10yrs old, still being maintained and I still get my royalties.
"The US does not grab your property for personal crimes. It only confiscates property belonging to nation states it has disagreements with."
You must be kidding. The US govt now steals more via civil asset forfeiture than is stolen via ordinary burglary.
https://www.armstrongeconomics...
Besides the fact that I greatly prefer Bing to Google for the results it returns, I'll add another:
3. People that use bing because it pays them. With the Bing rewards points for simply using it, I rack up enough to get at least $5 gift card a month and sometimes 2. Yes, I'm a penny pinching cheap S.O.B. and one of these days I'm gonna win one of their sweepstakes as well.
Coinbase secures customer digital currency through a combination of secure, online servers and offline (“cold”) storage. Coinbase maintains 98% or more of customer digital currency in cold storage, with the remainder in secure online servers as necessary to serve the liquidity needs of our customers.
Coinbase maintains commercial criminal insurance in an aggregate amount that is greater than the value of digital currency we maintain in online storage. Our insurance policy is made available through a combination of third-party insurance underwriters and Coinbase, who is a co-insurer under the policy.
The policy insures against theft of digital currency that results from a security breach or hack, employee theft, or fraudulent transfer.
and
Cash balances, such as U.S. Dollars, British Pounds, Euros, customers store with Coinbase are held as a balance in your Coinbase or GDAX account(s). For U.S. customers, Coinbase combines your balance with the balances of other customers and holds those funds in custodial accounts at U.S. banks and/or invests those funds in liquid U.S. Treasuries in accordance with state money transmitter laws. For non-U.S. customers, funds are held as cash in dedicated custodial accounts. All custodial pooled amounts are held separate from Coinbase funds, and Coinbase will neither use these funds for its operating expenses or any other corporate purposes.
To the extent U.S. customer funds are held as cash, they are maintained in pooled custodial accounts at one or more banks insured by the FDIC. Our custodial accounts have been established in a manner to make available pass-through FDIC insurance up to the per-depositor coverage limit then in place (currently $250,000 per individual). FDIC pass-through insurance protects funds held on behalf of a Coinbase customer against the risk of loss should any FDIC-insured bank(s) where we maintain custodial accounts fail. FDIC insurance coverage is contingent upon Coinbase maintaining accurate records and on determinations of the FDIC as receiver at the time of a receivership of a bank holding a custodial account.
I looked around searched the kraken website and could find no similar statements about how/if funds are insured.
A few have, (looks like a magnetic stick-on though), most don't. I assumed they were just starting to subcontract the deliveries out to lowest cost local services. Strange for them to be casing my place, only to get out finally and delivery a package from Amazon.
I started noticing it a couple months ago in suburban NJ. In that time, we've had 3 packages delivered to our house that were meant for other addresses. The first time we contacted amazon and they asked us if we would take it to a ups store to return, with no reimbursement. we declined and they told us to keep it. The other 2 times were neighbors we knew so we just delivered it for them. This never happened before we started getting their non-ups, non-fedex deliveries. The drivers don't fit in to our neighborhood, heavily tattooed or with a full grill on their teeth and twice I've had them park in my driveway and sort packages. wtf? My wife came home one time and had to ask them to move their van out of the way. Again, something that never happened with fedex or ups delivery. The vans are usually unmarked and packages are packed to the roof all over the vehicles in what looks like an unorganized and even unsafe manner. A couple times, I've been looking out the window and wondered why some guy in van seemed be casing my block until they finally got out delivery something. I'm rather unimpressed so far.
"Trust me, if you haven't spent a few months on your feet for 6+hrs 4-5x a week and don't have arch problems you will after doing so for a few months."
I've been working at a standup desk for over a decade now with no problems whatsoever; in fact, it helped fixed up all my poor posture problems from years of sitting at desks. Of course I work standing up mostly barefoot, in flat sandals or flat simple shoes -- no fancy pads or shoes.
" I might like to check my home security (I can do that through a browser) and use VNC to connect to a home computer - which can also be done through a browser, if I put some effort into it. I can also just get the TightVNC client source and see if it compiles."
There are existing VNC clients for windows phone. I don't think the "app gap" is really much of a problem, there hasn't really been a situation where I couldn't do what I wanted with the phone. But even if it is a real problem, I think it will disappear once win10 is officially released for the phone and the universal apps dominate the WP ecosystem. I'm partial to my Lumia 1520.
Only problem is this copsucking mayor was happy to comply.
"For his part, Silva said he’s “happy to cooperate and comply with these inspection procedures if they are in fact routine and legal"
Sounds to me like he was only concerned that he was singled out. But hey, as long as they are doing it to everybody, then its all good.
I have a large drafting stool with a saddle seat that I use with my office desk. Maybe that would remedy that problem?
This is similar to what I have:
http://www.overstock.com/Offic...
I've been using a standup desk exclusively for over a decade now and I'll never willingly go back to sitting all day.
Couple of thoughts:
1. Make it tall enough so you have to stand straight up and look straight ahead (not look down or up at your screen).
2. I like mine to be deep so the keyboard is far in and I can lay mt arms out on the desktop while typing. Hell, my son spent much of the first year of his life sleeping for hours on a pad on my desktop nestled between my arms, chest and keyboard while I worked.
3. Get a really tall drafters chair. While standing is nice; it also nice to be able to take a seat once in a while for a few minutes or while stuck on an exasperating conference call.
4. Get a small step stool or bucket or something that you can put 1 foot on at a time to bend one leg. This gives you a chance to rest one leg -- it really helps especially when getting started.
I used to have the common hunch of a programmer; switching to a standup desk fixed my posture so I stand up straight and don't have a hunch any longer.
You sure about that? Have you looked into the gag orders commonly issued with the National Security letters?
eg:
Under the Patriot Act, a person does not have to be suspected of wrongdoing in order for the FBI to obtain their sensitive financial, communications or other personal records. Instead, FBI agents only have to state that the information they are seeking is "relevant" to a national security investigation. The letters are issued without prior court approval, and recipients are placed under a gag order that prevents them from telling anyone about the demand for records. Last year, the FBI issued 9,254 NSLs, according to the Justice Department
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"These messages were intended only for prototypes, he said"
This is why you always treat data in test and devel systems as if it was a production or a demo system.
It is not good when you are demoing to a customer and they login with a test account and are greeted with the message, "Welcome back, Big Asshole."
It depends on the market size. In a niche market 90% is definitely doable, especially if you are the one to recognize the need early and get entrenched to the point where any possible competitors would have to invest too much money to make it worthwhile.
That's exactly what we do. its easy enough and anybody can use it -- coworkers, contractors, customers, etc.
Well the other guy can do it, I'm holding onto mine until it dies and can't find another one to replace it with. It does everything I need, perfectly.
Thanks, added some of those to my queue.
From the sounds of some of those, you might like the Legend of Zero series. I did, but read them last year so I didn't mention them.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/prod...
Fantasy:
Weaving Man: Book One of The Prophecy Series
https://www.amazon.com/gp/prod...
Unsouled (Cradle Book 1)
https://www.amazon.com/gp/prod...
Western:
Grizzly Killer: The Making of a Mountain Man
https://www.amazon.com/gp/prod...
Sci-Fi:
30,000 B.C. Chronicles: Bordeaux
https://www.amazon.com/gp/prod...
Earth Fall: Invasion
https://www.amazon.com/gp/prod...
Teeth Of The Sea
https://www.amazon.com/gp/prod...
Action:
The Jakarta Pandemic: A Pandemic Survival Thriller
https://www.amazon.com/gp/prod...
Cartel: A Jason King Thriller
https://www.amazon.com/gp/prod...
Historical Fiction:
Longbow (The Saga of Roland Inness Book 1)
https://www.amazon.com/gp/prod...
It really sounds like you need better developers working on the sql server projects, seriously. I've got services running on hundreds of various sql server installs; pushing through many millions of records every day and nobody has those problems you mentioned yearly let alone multiple times a week.
That slack POS is such a pig of resources that I don't believe that anybody actually productive uses the damn thing. We tried it out for less than a month after AIM finally ended; and quickly moved onto using a jabber server instead. Hell, its not like they hid its true purpose which is to slack off and waste time. Throw it in the woods.
How do you tax that?
Govt Tax ticks: "Challenge Accepted"
Coding isn't royalty based. Even for closed source applications. I would get paid for my time doing development, now if my code makes the company a Billion Dollars I don't expect to be paid any portion of that, because I had already agreed to be paid for my time.
Yes it can be. I earn royalties on a handful of closed source applications I've worked on. Yes, I put in a lot of extra unpaid work during the devel process of all of them; but it has paid off handsomely over the years. Some of them are 10yrs old, still being maintained and I still get my royalties.
"The US does not grab your property for personal crimes. It only confiscates property belonging to nation states it has disagreements with."
You must be kidding. The US govt now steals more via civil asset forfeiture than is stolen via ordinary burglary. https://www.armstrongeconomics...
Besides the fact that I greatly prefer Bing to Google for the results it returns, I'll add another:
3. People that use bing because it pays them. With the Bing rewards points for simply using it, I rack up enough to get at least $5 gift card a month and sometimes 2. Yes, I'm a penny pinching cheap S.O.B. and one of these days I'm gonna win one of their sweepstakes as well.
https://www.coinbase.com/legal...
and
I looked around searched the kraken website and could find no similar statements about how/if funds are insured.
Life experience is a great educator; it sounds like the amateurs in charge of this thing just got a big dose of on the job training.
A few have, (looks like a magnetic stick-on though), most don't. I assumed they were just starting to subcontract the deliveries out to lowest cost local services. Strange for them to be casing my place, only to get out finally and delivery a package from Amazon.
I started noticing it a couple months ago in suburban NJ. In that time, we've had 3 packages delivered to our house that were meant for other addresses. The first time we contacted amazon and they asked us if we would take it to a ups store to return, with no reimbursement. we declined and they told us to keep it. The other 2 times were neighbors we knew so we just delivered it for them. This never happened before we started getting their non-ups, non-fedex deliveries. The drivers don't fit in to our neighborhood, heavily tattooed or with a full grill on their teeth and twice I've had them park in my driveway and sort packages. wtf? My wife came home one time and had to ask them to move their van out of the way. Again, something that never happened with fedex or ups delivery. The vans are usually unmarked and packages are packed to the roof all over the vehicles in what looks like an unorganized and even unsafe manner. A couple times, I've been looking out the window and wondered why some guy in van seemed be casing my block until they finally got out delivery something. I'm rather unimpressed so far.
I was not aware of any of that; but knowing is half the battle and now, should I hear about this Rust doohickey I'll know to continue on my way.
Seconded.
"Trust me, if you haven't spent a few months on your feet for 6+hrs 4-5x a week and don't have arch problems you will after doing so for a few months."
I've been working at a standup desk for over a decade now with no problems whatsoever; in fact, it helped fixed up all my poor posture problems from years of sitting at desks. Of course I work standing up mostly barefoot, in flat sandals or flat simple shoes -- no fancy pads or shoes.
" I might like to check my home security (I can do that through a browser) and use VNC to connect to a home computer - which can also be done through a browser, if I put some effort into it. I can also just get the TightVNC client source and see if it compiles."
There are existing VNC clients for windows phone.
I don't think the "app gap" is really much of a problem, there hasn't really been a situation where I couldn't do what I wanted with the phone. But even if it is a real problem, I think it will disappear once win10 is officially released for the phone and the universal apps dominate the WP ecosystem. I'm partial to my Lumia 1520.
Only problem is this copsucking mayor was happy to comply.
"For his part, Silva said he’s “happy to cooperate and comply with these inspection procedures if they are in fact routine and legal"
Sounds to me like he was only concerned that he was singled out. But hey, as long as they are doing it to everybody, then its all good.
I have a large drafting stool with a saddle seat that I use with my office desk. Maybe that would remedy that problem? This is similar to what I have: http://www.overstock.com/Offic...
I've been using a standup desk exclusively for over a decade now and I'll never willingly go back to sitting all day.
Couple of thoughts:
1. Make it tall enough so you have to stand straight up and look straight ahead (not look down or up at your screen).
2. I like mine to be deep so the keyboard is far in and I can lay mt arms out on the desktop while typing. Hell, my son spent much of the first year of his life sleeping for hours on a pad on my desktop nestled between my arms, chest and keyboard while I worked.
3. Get a really tall drafters chair. While standing is nice; it also nice to be able to take a seat once in a while for a few minutes or while stuck on an exasperating conference call.
4. Get a small step stool or bucket or something that you can put 1 foot on at a time to bend one leg. This gives you a chance to rest one leg -- it really helps especially when getting started.
I used to have the common hunch of a programmer; switching to a standup desk fixed my posture so I stand up straight and don't have a hunch any longer.
" Maybe this is all just some kind of release to make Snowden looked bad"
Are you suggesting that habitual liars might be lying about this as well?
eg: