Those 12 carriers turn whatever place those box-cutting fanatics come from into a parking lot. They also allow US troops to be deployed anywhere on the face of the earth.
Do you want to waste time screwing with diff and cvs and forcing your colleagues to switch to some complex system or do you want to get your work done?
Payphones were originally (way back) introduced so that people without a personal telephone available to them could make or receive calls from businesses or people who did. They were the 1910 equivilent of NetZero.
They never made a signifigant operating profit for the phone company, but encouraged people get an use telephones.
As a payphone owner, you should never expect to see a pay telephone as a potential profit center. You can, however, use it to steer its customers towards the concession stands selling $6 cups of sugared water and program salesmen.
I haven't read the article, as it was slow loading for me @ work. If they are spending $800 million to print checks and transfer funds, there is something fundamentally wrong or missing.
Processing foreign credit card transactions costs 2-7% more. Chargeback rates for overseas transactions, particularly to Eastern Europe and Asia are 400-1000% higher.
Additionally, plenty of countries have product liability and merchantability laws that vary greatly from the United States. It just isn't worth hiring international lawyers to sell some books or a pc.
Do you know anything about payroll processing or accounting? Look at the costs for software maintainance for an application like PeopleSoft or Oracle alone.
The $300 million annual cost includes things like depreciation and overhead costs (eg facilities, power)
When you click on switch user and go back to the screen where you select a user to switch to, you have actually switched to another desktop. VNC is running in the context of the "user" desktop, which is why it won't work.
No, I've been waiting on hold with everyone else everytime a phone company screws up my bill.
The corporate culture at the Baby Bell companies and cell phone companies is worse, if anything that AT&T was before the breakup.
Besides the logo and billing address, there is almost no difference between telecom providers in the United States.
WiFi runs in an unlicensed frequency band, so you do not need to be a large, multi-billion dollar company to get up and running. You are already seeing small companies providing WiFi access in apartment complexes, hotels and towns.
The small town where my parents live has an internet co-op that offers WiFi for town residents -- it is easy and cheap to do.
If you live in the city or the burbs and never leave, use Sprint or T-Mobile. They are cheap with decent service, provided you don't leave the city or stray 2-3 miles from the interstate. Verizon works everywhere.
If you travel often or frequent rural areas, go with Verizon. With Verizon, you are paying for coverage in all sorts of remote locations.
I've never used a Mac... but I disagree that it wouldn't meet your needs.
I'm running 1.3Ghz Athlon at home and a 1.2Ghz dell laptop at work. These machines are obsolescent by today's marketing standards.
With the exception of Sim City 4000 (which is a fundamentally slow program) I've never had any kind of chronic performance problem.
The organziation where I work has over 75,000 PCs and about 2,500 servers. 75% of these are 700Mhz or less and about 40% are 350-500Mhz. The only performance problems we run into are network problems... nobody has complained about a slow PC in years.
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Again, who cares?
Sun has over a billion dollars in cash. $2 million is like giving Scott McNealy a free bottle of beer.
According to http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=SCOX&d=t SCO's market cap is $134M
$2M is less that 1% of the company, so what's the big deal?
Those 12 carriers turn whatever place those box-cutting fanatics come from into a parking lot. They also allow US troops to be deployed anywhere on the face of the earth.
The best defense is a good offense.
Is MS Word
Do you want to waste time screwing with diff and cvs and forcing your colleagues to switch to some complex system or do you want to get your work done?
Are concepts that do not exist together.
Payphones were originally (way back) introduced so that people without a personal telephone available to them could make or receive calls from businesses or people who did. They were the 1910 equivilent of NetZero.
They never made a signifigant operating profit for the phone company, but encouraged people get an use telephones.
As a payphone owner, you should never expect to see a pay telephone as a potential profit center. You can, however, use it to steer its customers towards the concession stands selling $6 cups of sugared water and program salesmen.
Then I beg your pardon, sir.
I haven't read the article, as it was slow loading for me @ work. If they are spending $800 million to print checks and transfer funds, there is something fundamentally wrong or missing.
It just isn't cost effective.
Processing foreign credit card transactions costs 2-7% more. Chargeback rates for overseas transactions, particularly to Eastern Europe and Asia are 400-1000% higher.
Additionally, plenty of countries have product liability and merchantability laws that vary greatly from the United States. It just isn't worth hiring international lawyers to sell some books or a pc.
I know of US municipal utilities that use AS/400 platforms for billing and accounting.
They have 0 IT people. An IBM guy setup the system, the application vendor setup the apps, and nobody touches it for 5-6 years at a time.
That screams "value" to me.
Do you know anything about payroll processing or accounting? Look at the costs for software maintainance for an application like PeopleSoft or Oracle alone.
The $300 million annual cost includes things like depreciation and overhead costs (eg facilities, power)
If you had read the comments posted by beta testers right here on slashdot, you would have known that the game was a buggy piece of shit.
At least 5 testers posted previously.
When you click on switch user and go back to the screen where you select a user to switch to, you have actually switched to another desktop. VNC is running in the context of the "user" desktop, which is why it won't work.
You realize the "contoversial" research is usally shit like magnets that cure cancer and the like...
Toshiba distributes more laptops than that to CompUSA alone in one quarter.
Apple == -1 Overrated
Bloat sucks. Who the hell needs SSL support or graphics anyway.
The coders of QBert are starving right now because evil pirates aren't buying their software!
McBride is just blowing hot air... If your jaw drops listening to his bravado, you haven't heard Larry Ellison of Oracle talk.
I'm not referring to patents. I'm talking about the wholesale exporting of the computer engineering and software industries to Asia.
Free trade is wonderful, isn't it?
Not funny.
This is happening already at EzPass toll booths and will probaly be a reality on toll roads.
Various states are already collecting toll tag data for traffic analysis on the road, in 3-5 years you'll start to see it used to generate revenue.
No, I've been waiting on hold with everyone else everytime a phone company screws up my bill.
The corporate culture at the Baby Bell companies and cell phone companies is worse, if anything that AT&T was before the breakup.
Besides the logo and billing address, there is almost no difference between telecom providers in the United States.
WiFi runs in an unlicensed frequency band, so you do not need to be a large, multi-billion dollar company to get up and running. You are already seeing small companies providing WiFi access in apartment complexes, hotels and towns.
The small town where my parents live has an internet co-op that offers WiFi for town residents -- it is easy and cheap to do.
But cellular == the phone company, which usually translates into expensive metering and obnoxious, slow telco beuracracy.
Telecoms bankrupted themselves to pay the gov't billions for the 3G spectrum, don't expect them to give it away for free or cheap.
It depends on how you use your cellphone.
If you live in the city or the burbs and never leave, use Sprint or T-Mobile. They are cheap with decent service, provided you don't leave the city or stray 2-3 miles from the interstate. Verizon works everywhere.
If you travel often or frequent rural areas, go with Verizon. With Verizon, you are paying for coverage in all sorts of remote locations.
Go to an electronics store. Sony DVD player ~ $150. Phillips with same features, ~ $79. No name Korean crap, ~ $49.
I've never used a Mac... but I disagree that it wouldn't meet your needs.
I'm running 1.3Ghz Athlon at home and a 1.2Ghz dell laptop at work. These machines are obsolescent by today's marketing standards.
With the exception of Sim City 4000 (which is a fundamentally slow program) I've never had any kind of chronic performance problem.
The organziation where I work has over 75,000 PCs and about 2,500 servers. 75% of these are 700Mhz or less and about 40% are 350-500Mhz. The only performance problems we run into are network problems... nobody has complained about a slow PC in years.
The problem is that there is no definition of pornography.
In a community of religous fundamentalists, a woman with a skirt at knee-height might be considered pornographic filth.