and that mistake is that they approach Linux the way m$ approaches windows. They want to make a nice box with snazzy pictures on it, get your cash for it and be done with it until they come up with a new box and a new version number. Linux has always been free and trying to sell it is just ludicrous. yes, i know it's a package, whatever, it's not that hard for someone who understands a wee bit to find the different places on the web and download the packages, or order them for very little money. IMHO the marketing scheme should be something along the lines that they make the boxes and give them away. Then have your techincal staff stand by to deal with questions, problems and support. Not only via phone, but also have service guys stop by, or even permanently placed with the customer. I can already see it; guy walking in with a fashionable red hat heading for the server farm. Sell knowledge not boxes containing free stuff.
---- Considering that it took almost no time to get here, it will take even less time to get to point where we would be leapfrogging across the galaxy, colonizing everywhere. Within the next 30,000 years we'll have had more than enough time to have distributed explorers to every inhabitable/explorable planet in the galaxy. ----
1. I beleive the "higher life forms" claim is already satisfied if there are worms present. If they are really demanding, think of rats.
2. The earth might have been 'found' and visited, way back when, when they built stone henge and those outlines in the andes, but then they decided that we are too dumb and anyways we have only one opposable digit per appendage, so they left us alone and put a sign up; "Do not Disturb", so all that happens every now and then is a few adolecent aliens swoop by in a flying saucer they stole from their father and abduct a few people of whom they know that no-one will ever beleive them. And about the 'Artefacts', either they are there and we are looking at them, or... no we haven't found any. Sort of a "Men in Green clean up team".
3. Time. The biggest barrier in Space. If we are around only since a half a heartbeat, other civilisations might have sprung up, conquered the galaxy and then contracted Space Herpes and died out. Rise and Fall of empires.
4. Life has evolved as many times as they claim, and as many times they have been in half a heartbeat at the brink of leaping from planet to planet, but then decided that they don't like they way the guys from the other continent pronounce "Smoerebrod" and start a war that destroys all inhabitants of the planet. Maybe not getting wiped out is the final IQ test.
I am basically agreeing with you, but there too many factors that could make their theory work.
Check with job-agencies that have branch locations here in the US as well in the country you want to work and explain them your wishes.
Of course you will have to pay them a piece of the action.
The only one that comes to mind right now is ManPower but I am sure that there are more.
Let's see what de-regulation has brought us lately;
The California Energy Crisis... PG&E split up from their mother-company and while doing so, they transfered all the money to the mother company, leaving PG&E high and dry. They just announced bankruptcy a few weeks ago and guess who is picking up the tab... yep, that's me. thank you very much.
Telephones; aside from being attacked by MCI, AT&T and Sprint commercials, I still can't pick up my cell phone (a cheesy Nokia 5610) and wander about the country without either having to pay roaming charges or an extra expensive plan. We're not even talking about taking your cellphone to a trip to europe or asia.
And now they want to deregulate radio-waves too?
No Thank you
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and that mistake is that they approach Linux the way m$ approaches windows. They want to make a nice box with snazzy pictures on it, get your cash for it and be done with it until they come up with a new box and a new version number.
Linux has always been free and trying to sell it is just ludicrous. yes, i know it's a package, whatever, it's not that hard for someone who understands a wee bit to find the different places on the web and download the packages, or order them for very little money.
IMHO the marketing scheme should be something along the lines that they make the boxes and give them away. Then have your techincal staff stand by to deal with questions, problems and support. Not only via phone, but also have service guys stop by, or even permanently placed with the customer.
I can already see it; guy walking in with a fashionable red hat heading for the server farm.
Sell knowledge not boxes containing free stuff.
my 2 cents
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... no we haven't found any. Sort of a "Men in Green clean up team".
Considering that it took almost no time to get here, it will take even less time to get to point where we would be leapfrogging across the galaxy, colonizing everywhere. Within the next 30,000 years we'll have had more than enough time to have distributed explorers to every inhabitable/explorable planet in the galaxy.
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1. I beleive the "higher life forms" claim is already satisfied if there are worms present. If they are really demanding, think of rats.
2. The earth might have been 'found' and visited, way back when, when they built stone henge and those outlines in the andes, but then they decided that we are too dumb and anyways we have only one opposable digit per appendage, so they left us alone and put a sign up; "Do not Disturb", so all that happens every now and then is a few adolecent aliens swoop by in a flying saucer they stole from their father and abduct a few people of whom they know that no-one will ever beleive them. And about the 'Artefacts', either they are there and we are looking at them, or
3. Time. The biggest barrier in Space. If we are around only since a half a heartbeat, other civilisations might have sprung up, conquered the galaxy and then contracted Space Herpes and died out. Rise and Fall of empires.
4. Life has evolved as many times as they claim, and as many times they have been in half a heartbeat at the brink of leaping from planet to planet, but then decided that they don't like they way the guys from the other continent pronounce "Smoerebrod" and start a war that destroys all inhabitants of the planet. Maybe not getting wiped out is the final IQ test.
I am basically agreeing with you, but there too many factors that could make their theory work.
Flup
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Check with job-agencies that have branch locations here in the US as well in the country you want to work and explain them your wishes.
Of course you will have to pay them a piece of the action.
The only one that comes to mind right now is ManPower but I am sure that there are more.
Have you had your drivel today?
Let's see what de-regulation has brought us lately; The California Energy Crisis ... PG&E split up from their mother-company and while doing so, they transfered all the money to the mother company, leaving PG&E high and dry. They just announced bankruptcy a few weeks ago and guess who is picking up the tab ... yep, that's me. thank you very much.
Telephones; aside from being attacked by MCI, AT&T and Sprint commercials, I still can't pick up my cell phone (a cheesy Nokia 5610) and wander about the country without either having to pay roaming charges or an extra expensive plan. We're not even talking about taking your cellphone to a trip to europe or asia.
And now they want to deregulate radio-waves too?
No Thank you
Winborg
http://www.randomdrivel.com