If people fly as bad as they drive then it would be a deathtrap. At least you can make roads and drivers have an incentive for driving on the road because most cars don't travel off road very well. Imagine some of these idiots flying out of approved lanes and doing all kinds of aerial acrobatics to shave a few minutes off their commute.
Quite a few American semiconductor companies are fabless. They contract out all manufacturing to Taiwan and China and concentrate on engineering. Nvidia is a great example. Other companies are opening R&D centers around the world as we speak. The list is long and includes Microsoft, Intel and Boeing. And our companies have a lot more global presence than 30 years ago and so are able to spot new trends from their competitors.
The big problem will be the power sellers on ebay. For Amazon and the big boys they will need to purchase a software package that will be developed to take care of this new tax. They can simply charge the tax based on the destination zip code and send the money to the various localities.
Personally I see a company like ADP or someone else stepping in to automate the process. The e-tailer sends them the cash and records and the contrator gives the right amount to each state. More expensive than the present system, yes. Much too complicated, no. Someone will just write the software with a database of taxes for each locality and sell it to businesses.
I'm waiting for the dvd. But I have always seen a difference between star trek and real cinema like The Hours, Chicago and other stuff with real emotional and ethical themes.
Have you ever heard of LandWarrior? The US Army is spending tons of money improving the fighting abilities of infantry and the individual soldier. To win a war you need troops on the ground to take and hold territory.
I'm one of the people that jumped into IT because of the money in 2000 after I got out of the military. Before that I liked to play with computers as a hobby. Now I hate it, because of work.
This is what I see. Programming will get outsourced overseas. Jobs will remain here, but not a lot for programmers to demand 6 figure salaries and tons of bennies. Sysadmins will get automated as software matures and computers become more powerful. Where I work I see it already. With Windows 2000 we are consolidating numerous servers into 1 or two and clustering them. Add some management software and we won't need to hire any new admins for years to come.
I'm going to school and will soon change my major to accounting and then get an MBA in finance or something. You are always going to need people to count money, account for it and make money with other people's money. Jews have been doing it for hundreds of years.
For that price I can get a PC with a much faster CPU, gobs more RAM and a much better video card. For that much money they can at least include a Radeon 9700.
On the Windows side many people like to save every message they send or receive to cover their ass just in case. This is very popular among US Government employees. Some people who get a lot of email can have their personal folders file grow to 2GB in a year or less. At this level MS recommends breaking it up since corruption can occur.
The manufacturer already knows which VIN goes to who. The bank knows the VIN of the car since it issues the loan. Your state government knows the VIN of your car when you register it. Your insurance company knows your VIN and everything about your car from it. Everytime you bring your car to the dealer they they note the work done by your VIN so the manufacturer can notice any major problems. So how is this going to take away from your privacy?
Here is one that will stay around for a while
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http://www.dirtcheapdiamonds.com
I just picked mine up from the appraiser's office. I saved a ton of money compared to going retail and got me a great diamond. As far as I can tell it's the owner and 2 employees in a tiny office suite in Maryland. The diamonds are at wholesalers in NYC. These guys just charge an 8% mark up for running a website doing pretty well from what I have heard in the last week.
This is what the internet is really about. Finding ways to sell goods more efficiently. Why pay the retail mark up which includes rent, insurance, security and salaries?
Every time Nvidia or Intel bring out a new core, architecture or any other next gen product the benchmarks always suck because the games are written to take advantage of old tech. Same thing happened when Nvidia came out with the original GeForce. No games supported it and the benchmarks showed it. Within 6 months developers come out with games to take advantage of the new features and the new architecture is shown to be better than the old one.
This has all happened before. When Intel came out with the Pentium 2 it was only marginally faster than the classic pentium. And the Geforce 256 wasn't any faster at games that were already on the market. But if you try to run current GPU optimized games on old hardware, it's going to bring it to a crawl.
All the programmers where I work can't even set up windows without help from the help desk. Anytime they need help in coding for our internal crm app they are always talking to our database admins who can't code either.
I've tried to get our programmers run apps from the console instead of terminal server, but they just don't listen. And after much pain and misery I adopted a policy of always asking our VP before doing anything for our programmers. Otherwise I would get in trouble.
I'd love to get a Tivo, but I'm not about to spend money running a phone line to it. I would be very happy if I could just plug it into my network and have it update itself via my DSL connection that 3 other PC's share. Currently they only support ATT Broadband in their products.
Human resources are probably the most expensive. CCIE's and JNCIE's are at least 100K a year each. Lower level engineers are less. Then you have the onsite techs and the usuall overhead people like HR, finance, marketing etc. And don't forget the taxes paid on employees like FICA and unemployment insurance. Then there are health and other benefits. A true cost of an employee is almost twice their salary.
Taxes to the various levels of government are another biggie. The rate is around 1/3 of revenues before deductions. Not everyone can be like Cisco and MS and not pay any taxes. Most companies will pay 10%-20% of revenues to taxes. So next time all you socialists complain about the tax breaks on business, think about who really pays business taxes. You do.
Equipment costs. Something is always getting upgraded and new stuff is always being bought. Then there are the maintenance contracts for existing equipment and software. Our Veritas Netbackup Datacenter support is $15K a year. And that is just one application.
Then other fixed costs like bandwith to higher level ISP's, elecricity, and real estate. Electricity is expensive. Say you pay $100 a month for your home and you turn of everything when not in use. Now think of an ISP with thousands of servers, routers, PC's and other junk running 24x7 with UPS's and digital quality electricity. And not to mention a special deal with the power company to be on the priority list in case of power shortages. That is some serious cash.
Where do you buy them? Best Buy and other stores frequently sell new releases for $15-$20. I remember paying around $20 for the FOTR EE DVD set. I saw barbershop for $15 at circuit city yesterday.
What is the big deal? Isn't that the limit of fair use? To make a personal copy only for yourself? Contrary to other's belief fair use isn't making a copy and "sharing" it to millions of people you have never met.
PPV is a moneymaker for the cable companies and isn't meant for people to make a permanent recording. It's a way to compete against blockbuster and other video rental places.
If you can't legally make a copy of a movie you rent, then what is the big deal about not making a recording of a movie you order on PPV. They start every 30-60 minutes and play for a while. Or you can just go out and rent it thru blockbuster or netflix.
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For all the ranting about Windows usability from Linux zealots why copy the GUI? Why not make your own GUI?
If people fly as bad as they drive then it would be a deathtrap. At least you can make roads and drivers have an incentive for driving on the road because most cars don't travel off road very well. Imagine some of these idiots flying out of approved lanes and doing all kinds of aerial acrobatics to shave a few minutes off their commute.
Quite a few American semiconductor companies are fabless. They contract out all manufacturing to Taiwan and China and concentrate on engineering. Nvidia is a great example. Other companies are opening R&D centers around the world as we speak. The list is long and includes Microsoft, Intel and Boeing. And our companies have a lot more global presence than 30 years ago and so are able to spot new trends from their competitors.
The big problem will be the power sellers on ebay. For Amazon and the big boys they will need to purchase a software package that will be developed to take care of this new tax. They can simply charge the tax based on the destination zip code and send the money to the various localities.
Personally I see a company like ADP or someone else stepping in to automate the process. The e-tailer sends them the cash and records and the contrator gives the right amount to each state. More expensive than the present system, yes. Much too complicated, no. Someone will just write the software with a database of taxes for each locality and sell it to businesses.
I'm waiting for the dvd. But I have always seen a difference between star trek and real cinema like The Hours, Chicago and other stuff with real emotional and ethical themes.
Why didn't Star Wars get a nomination in this category? It was almost like Roger Rabbit. A cartoon with some real people in it.
Have you ever heard of LandWarrior? The US Army is spending tons of money improving the fighting abilities of infantry and the individual soldier. To win a war you need troops on the ground to take and hold territory.
I'm one of the people that jumped into IT because of the money in 2000 after I got out of the military. Before that I liked to play with computers as a hobby. Now I hate it, because of work.
This is what I see. Programming will get outsourced overseas. Jobs will remain here, but not a lot for programmers to demand 6 figure salaries and tons of bennies. Sysadmins will get automated as software matures and computers become more powerful. Where I work I see it already. With Windows 2000 we are consolidating numerous servers into 1 or two and clustering them. Add some management software and we won't need to hire any new admins for years to come.
I'm going to school and will soon change my major to accounting and then get an MBA in finance or something. You are always going to need people to count money, account for it and make money with other people's money. Jews have been doing it for hundreds of years.
For that price I can get a PC with a much faster CPU, gobs more RAM and a much better video card. For that much money they can at least include a Radeon 9700.
On the Windows side many people like to save every message they send or receive to cover their ass just in case. This is very popular among US Government employees. Some people who get a lot of email can have their personal folders file grow to 2GB in a year or less. At this level MS recommends breaking it up since corruption can occur.
If you're paying $20 for the regular run of the mill CD's then you're getting ripped off. Big time.
The manufacturer already knows which VIN goes to who. The bank knows the VIN of the car since it issues the loan. Your state government knows the VIN of your car when you register it. Your insurance company knows your VIN and everything about your car from it. Everytime you bring your car to the dealer they they note the work done by your VIN so the manufacturer can notice any major problems. So how is this going to take away from your privacy?
http://www.dirtcheapdiamonds.com
I just picked mine up from the appraiser's office. I saved a ton of money compared to going retail and got me a great diamond. As far as I can tell it's the owner and 2 employees in a tiny office suite in Maryland. The diamonds are at wholesalers in NYC. These guys just charge an 8% mark up for running a website doing pretty well from what I have heard in the last week.
This is what the internet is really about. Finding ways to sell goods more efficiently. Why pay the retail mark up which includes rent, insurance, security and salaries?
Every time Nvidia or Intel bring out a new core, architecture or any other next gen product the benchmarks always suck because the games are written to take advantage of old tech. Same thing happened when Nvidia came out with the original GeForce. No games supported it and the benchmarks showed it. Within 6 months developers come out with games to take advantage of the new features and the new architecture is shown to be better than the old one.
This has all happened before. When Intel came out with the Pentium 2 it was only marginally faster than the classic pentium. And the Geforce 256 wasn't any faster at games that were already on the market. But if you try to run current GPU optimized games on old hardware, it's going to bring it to a crawl.
All the programmers where I work can't even set up windows without help from the help desk. Anytime they need help in coding for our internal crm app they are always talking to our database admins who can't code either.
I've tried to get our programmers run apps from the console instead of terminal server, but they just don't listen. And after much pain and misery I adopted a policy of always asking our VP before doing anything for our programmers. Otherwise I would get in trouble.
And what then? Eventually the musicians will want to get paid for their talents and paid big. No one dreams of being a poor pop star.
I'd love to get a Tivo, but I'm not about to spend money running a phone line to it. I would be very happy if I could just plug it into my network and have it update itself via my DSL connection that 3 other PC's share. Currently they only support ATT Broadband in their products.
Is Linux any different? It seems like I get an email from redhat at least once a week about a patch for something.
Human resources are probably the most expensive. CCIE's and JNCIE's are at least 100K a year each. Lower level engineers are less. Then you have the onsite techs and the usuall overhead people like HR, finance, marketing etc. And don't forget the taxes paid on employees like FICA and unemployment insurance. Then there are health and other benefits. A true cost of an employee is almost twice their salary.
Taxes to the various levels of government are another biggie. The rate is around 1/3 of revenues before deductions. Not everyone can be like Cisco and MS and not pay any taxes. Most companies will pay 10%-20% of revenues to taxes. So next time all you socialists complain about the tax breaks on business, think about who really pays business taxes. You do.
Equipment costs. Something is always getting upgraded and new stuff is always being bought. Then there are the maintenance contracts for existing equipment and software. Our Veritas Netbackup Datacenter support is $15K a year. And that is just one application.
Then other fixed costs like bandwith to higher level ISP's, elecricity, and real estate. Electricity is expensive. Say you pay $100 a month for your home and you turn of everything when not in use. Now think of an ISP with thousands of servers, routers, PC's and other junk running 24x7 with UPS's and digital quality electricity. And not to mention a special deal with the power company to be on the priority list in case of power shortages. That is some serious cash.
Where do you buy them? Best Buy and other stores frequently sell new releases for $15-$20. I remember paying around $20 for the FOTR EE DVD set. I saw barbershop for $15 at circuit city yesterday.
Is it going to tear down the newly paid internet access and require more donations?
Just because you can do something doesn't mean it's legal. You can burn a copy of a CD you get from the library. Doesn't mean it's right.
What is the big deal? Isn't that the limit of fair use? To make a personal copy only for yourself? Contrary to other's belief fair use isn't making a copy and "sharing" it to millions of people you have never met.
PPV is a moneymaker for the cable companies and isn't meant for people to make a permanent recording. It's a way to compete against blockbuster and other video rental places.
If you can't legally make a copy of a movie you rent, then what is the big deal about not making a recording of a movie you order on PPV. They start every 30-60 minutes and play for a while. Or you can just go out and rent it thru blockbuster or netflix.
They will make you pay on the support contract. It's useless without the support.