I helped some friends start-up eJets, which offered flights on private jets on their empty return flights. Unfortunately, they folded and didn't survive the dot.com crash.
Markets rewards those who take risks. The founders took the risk of starting a company that may make $0 and putting their own money into it. You took a job. They get the rewards.
There are some cool companies that vest stock on a monthly basis. Or, some companies will have a vesting schedule with a clause that if the company is acquired by someone else all of your shares automaticall vest.
My friend was an exec at MySpace and worked there for a few months before they got bought. Not sure of the details but he made out quite nicely even after being there only a few months.
Since when did Apple ever support 3rd party ISVs ever? They want to make the whole stack. They always push their own software heavily as reason enough to buy a Mac. The push Office and Quicken because they help people switch away from Windows, but besides that and Adobe they want you to do everything else with Apple software. Microsoft, on the other hand, knows they owe their existance and success to third-party developers and treats the valuable ones like royalty.
So now Windows is *too* secure? When are you GPL-zealots gonna be happy? I've played with the latest Vista beta, yes, there are lots of pop-ups, mainly when you run an app for the first time, install an app, or an app makes an outbound connection for the first time (like any desktop firewall will do) but for being the most attacked OS on the planet it's really got its guard up. And anytime you install something on OS X it prompts you for an admin password as well. Damned if you're not secure, damned if you're too secure. Perhaps there's a way to still be secure but in a less intrusive way. I'm sure there's a way to turn off the different types of popups and run in a more trusted mode but out of the box Vista is very locked down, like it or not.
Tell them how much you think you should earn. If they don't agree then go see what the marketplace will pay you by getting another job offer somewhere else. If you're seriously open to working at a new job then tell your employer you'll leave them and take the other job unless you get paid what you're worth, assuming you still want to work at your current employer.
I'm not buying this. Even if I close all of my tabs after several hours of use firefox.exe can still be taking up to 100MB of my RAM. The only way to completely reclaim the memory is to completely shut down firefox.
First Data Corp, which owns Taxware and handles taxation in multiple states and coutines nicely, even in jurisdictions that have different tax rates within the same zip code.
The other big e-commerce tax product is Vertex which has a bigger Fortune 500 footprint, but they are not publicly traded nor are they owned by a publicly traded company. Good acquisition target.
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Uh, probably because they wanted to reach an audience of 90+% of the computing planet instead of trying to adhere to some technology religious standard.
Sure AJAX is cool, but come on! Unless you never run applications that need to use a local file system then, yes, the OS for you will be threatened. As for the remaining 99.9% of us, we'll still need a meaningful file system to work with. Of course you could have all of your file storage stored on a remote server, but again, there always be a number of apps that people won't tolerate that sort of architecture unless bandwidth increases 100x.
I saw a demo of Monad in March up in Redmond, given by their chief in-house Linux guy, an ex-IBM guy and founder of eToys.com (R.I.P.), Bill Hilf. It would be ironic if this shell was so insecure, having come from guys that are so experienced with *nix-like security.
As for functionality, the shell looked really cool. It had a lot of *nix-like features on steroids, and integrated nicely with the.NET programming framework. It'd be nice if they can get the security bugs/features worked out and deliver it to the 95% of us that actually use Windows for day-to-day productivity.
Apple sells systems, not just hardware and/or software. One way they try to make the best system to deliver the best computing experience they can think of, they limit your hardware choices in return for more stability of the overall system. There are pros and cons with this of course, but it's their tack and they seem intent on keeping it that way. The iPod is merely another system used for a specific purpose. That system is also a case of them trying to keep things simple while sacrificing configurability/upgradability (hello, can't change the battery).
I keep seeing posts on Craigs List in the "Gigs" sections titled "Get paid to read email" but they are usually deleted by the time I read the the posts through my RSS feed. Maybe this is what these are all about: companies can outsource their email reading to an overseas Asian country, that'll really keep security nice and tight!
Yeah, and there's this over-hyped craze called the World Wide Web, which is just a bunch of amateurs posting web pages about whatever crazy topic they feel like it. Give me a break...
Give me a break, we already have a national ID, it's called a social security card. But anyone that has one knows how flimsy it is and easy to forfeit it looks. And, it's just a number.
And our driver's licenses give us many freedoms throughout the country. I can enter the US from Mexico or Canada with simply a drivers license. I can board a domestic flight with a drivers license. There are many other rights granted to us vis-a-vis our license that should be given to only those to whom they are intended.
The Real ID act is about standardizing what a drivers license issued by a state should conform to, so it's not easier to hack the system by getting a license from one state over another.
The "civil libertarians" are overreacting, period. And I think "citizenship" should mean something and not be so easy to fake and falsify.
This is also a way for Google to leverage other people's computers to do their crawling for them to find pages their own internal crawlers may not have known about before. Think about it:
1) Browser requests a page from Google cache 2) "Not here, you go get it Mr. Browser" 3) Browser gets it from the origin site directly 4) GWA plug-in uploads the content to the Google index 5) Tell Google crawlers to scour the rest of the site
1) Good timing brings PR and traffic to their site 2) They don't sell ANY apple products, except the HP iPod, which, technically, is an HP product but not really...Microsoft conspiracy? 3) They wanted to protect their own brand, that's what trademarks are for people.
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I helped some friends start-up eJets, which offered flights on private jets on their empty return flights. Unfortunately, they folded and didn't survive the dot.com crash.
Markets rewards those who take risks. The founders took the risk of starting a company that may make $0 and putting their own money into it. You took a job. They get the rewards.
There are some cool companies that vest stock on a monthly basis. Or, some companies will have a vesting schedule with a clause that if the company is acquired by someone else all of your shares automaticall vest.
My friend was an exec at MySpace and worked there for a few months before they got bought. Not sure of the details but he made out quite nicely even after being there only a few months.
Since when did Apple ever support 3rd party ISVs ever? They want to make the whole stack. They always push their own software heavily as reason enough to buy a Mac. The push Office and Quicken because they help people switch away from Windows, but besides that and Adobe they want you to do everything else with Apple software. Microsoft, on the other hand, knows they owe their existance and success to third-party developers and treats the valuable ones like royalty.
So now Windows is *too* secure? When are you GPL-zealots gonna be happy? I've played with the latest Vista beta, yes, there are lots of pop-ups, mainly when you run an app for the first time, install an app, or an app makes an outbound connection for the first time (like any desktop firewall will do) but for being the most attacked OS on the planet it's really got its guard up. And anytime you install something on OS X it prompts you for an admin password as well. Damned if you're not secure, damned if you're too secure. Perhaps there's a way to still be secure but in a less intrusive way. I'm sure there's a way to turn off the different types of popups and run in a more trusted mode but out of the box Vista is very locked down, like it or not.
Yeah, I have a grid of 6200 volunteers, and growing, but I can't even give away my compute services. There are only so many embarrasingly parallel problems out there.
Uh, these just look like remote controlled tanks.
Hmm, this was interesting news when I read about it on Digg.com YESTERDAY! Wake up /.
Tell them how much you think you should earn. If they don't agree then go see what the marketplace will pay you by getting another job offer somewhere else. If you're seriously open to working at a new job then tell your employer you'll leave them and take the other job unless you get paid what you're worth, assuming you still want to work at your current employer.
I'm not buying this. Even if I close all of my tabs after several hours of use firefox.exe can still be taking up to 100MB of my RAM. The only way to completely reclaim the memory is to completely shut down firefox.
Yeah, I had a similar disenchanting experience with USB Wi-Fi adapters on Linux. Eventually gave up on the project and just put Windows on the box.
First Data Corp, which owns Taxware and handles taxation in multiple states and coutines nicely, even in jurisdictions that have different tax rates within the same zip code.
The other big e-commerce tax product is Vertex which has a bigger Fortune 500 footprint, but they are not publicly traded nor are they owned by a publicly traded company. Good acquisition target.
Uh, probably because they wanted to reach an audience of 90+% of the computing planet instead of trying to adhere to some technology religious standard.
I would tend to disagree. I installed one of the old OSx86 installs a few months back. I enjoyed playing with OS X and getting familiar with it, but I wanted more. With the limited amount of driver support I was sort of out of luck. Last week I bought a Mac Mini and have enjoyed using that. So I am an OSx86 hacker who bought a Mac.
Anybody else?
* Real coders use Perl.
Uh, I was listening until you dropped that unintelligable bomb on us all.
Sure AJAX is cool, but come on! Unless you never run applications that need to use a local file system then, yes, the OS for you will be threatened. As for the remaining 99.9% of us, we'll still need a meaningful file system to work with. Of course you could have all of your file storage stored on a remote server, but again, there always be a number of apps that people won't tolerate that sort of architecture unless bandwidth increases 100x.
I saw a demo of Monad in March up in Redmond, given by their chief in-house Linux guy, an ex-IBM guy and founder of eToys.com (R.I.P.), Bill Hilf. It would be ironic if this shell was so insecure, having come from guys that are so experienced with *nix-like security.
.NET programming framework. It'd be nice if they can get the security bugs/features worked out and deliver it to the 95% of us that actually use Windows for day-to-day productivity.
As for functionality, the shell looked really cool. It had a lot of *nix-like features on steroids, and integrated nicely with the
Apple sells systems, not just hardware and/or software. One way they try to make the best system to deliver the best computing experience they can think of, they limit your hardware choices in return for more stability of the overall system. There are pros and cons with this of course, but it's their tack and they seem intent on keeping it that way. The iPod is merely another system used for a specific purpose. That system is also a case of them trying to keep things simple while sacrificing configurability/upgradability (hello, can't change the battery).
Man, what a crummy selection. Is this the official PBS-sponsored music download site or what? I could get music like this down at the local library.
Try MP3 search, legal (as legal as it gets in Russia) MP3 downloads for $0.10 a piece, and no DRM, MP3s with VBRs exceeding 200Kbps.
Try NetMeeting + a Wiki
I keep seeing posts on Craigs List in the "Gigs" sections titled "Get paid to read email" but they are usually deleted by the time I read the the posts through my RSS feed. Maybe this is what these are all about: companies can outsource their email reading to an overseas Asian country, that'll really keep security nice and tight!
Yeah, and there's this over-hyped craze called the World Wide Web, which is just a bunch of amateurs posting web pages about whatever crazy topic they feel like it. Give me a break...
Dude, just use the Task Scheduler.
Give me a break, we already have a national ID, it's called a social security card. But anyone that has one knows how flimsy it is and easy to forfeit it looks. And, it's just a number.
And our driver's licenses give us many freedoms throughout the country. I can enter the US from Mexico or Canada with simply a drivers license. I can board a domestic flight with a drivers license. There are many other rights granted to us vis-a-vis our license that should be given to only those to whom they are intended.
The Real ID act is about standardizing what a drivers license issued by a state should conform to, so it's not easier to hack the system by getting a license from one state over another.
The "civil libertarians" are overreacting, period. And I think "citizenship" should mean something and not be so easy to fake and falsify.
This is also a way for Google to leverage other people's computers to do their crawling for them to find pages their own internal crawlers may not have known about before. Think about it:
1) Browser requests a page from Google cache
2) "Not here, you go get it Mr. Browser"
3) Browser gets it from the origin site directly
4) GWA plug-in uploads the content to the Google index
5) Tell Google crawlers to scour the rest of the site
1) Good timing brings PR and traffic to their site
2) They don't sell ANY apple products, except the HP iPod, which, technically, is an HP product but not really...Microsoft conspiracy?
3) They wanted to protect their own brand, that's what trademarks are for people.