Our economies are linked more than you know. Examples are Daimler Benz-Chrysler, GM owns Opel, Swiss Credit Suisse owns First Boston, Sony, a few drug companies, the auto companies from US Europe and Japan all owning each other's stock. Local economies are dying out and an integrated world economy is emerging. Corporate espionage supported by government will soon be a thing of the past. Otherwise giving info to one Fortune 500 company will hurt another.
It's a result of the Walker Digital strategy of patenting business ideas. Nobody wants to think up of stuff, spend millions of $$$ to bring it to market and have somebody else copy and sell it cheaper. People only want to enjoy the fruits of their labors and new ideas. It's the American way.
I saw it was a company, ie business. That means they have investors. Sooner or later the investment is going to run out and some sort of revenue stream has to be established.
Does this mean that an open source game is you buy the game and pay for the patches to fix the bugs. Where a regular game is pay for the game and wait for the patch.
Email me at alenteplitsky@hotmail.com. I just got out of the Army last year and I'll email you a few links to where you can start looking. The vast majority of work is for DOD and you'll probably have to get a security clearance. Be ready to expose every detail of your last 10-14 years to the US Government.
If you are going to be working around a lot of uniformed types, be ready for a culture shock. A lot of the higher ranking officers expect you to call them sir. It's a more official atmosphere. Drove me crazy for years.
The good is that Europe is great as long as your work involves the US Government and you don't pay taxes to the host country. You've never tried real beer until you tried the real thing in Germany. Same thing with Italian wine. And if you work for military intelligence you'll get to see some cool stuff.
ATT and it's siblings spent decades and billions of $$$ building their networks. Along comes DSL and some new start up's and now the Baby Bells are supposed to give up their networks to new competitors whose long term aim is to put them out of business. Does anybody here want to spend a few decades building a software or consulting business only to have to open it up to a new competitor?
Besides, I think the current crop of DSL companies are doomed to failure. Their business plan pretty much revolves around whining and crying until the Baby Bells do what they say. I think the future competitors are the few telco's who have spent billions laying their own lines and are growing at a decent rate every year. The current crop thought they could get rich because they had a right to use the Baby Bells' lines and somehow most of those who could switch to DSL would. Kind of like the.com's.
Yeah, and my Commodore 64 was all the speed I needed. That 2GB HD I bought in 1997 was all the storage I needed. And coe to think of it that 80MB hard drive that the teacher in my 8th grade computer lab had was the bomb. I wanted one so bad it was worth the $500 price tag. It would last me a lifetime. I mean who could ever fill up 80MB?
I spent time in Europe while in the Army and the culture differences compared to American are amazing.
In the US we are always wary of authority. Everytime we think the police went to far we call for investigations. In Europe police normally carry automatic weapons with much more flexible rules of engagement. On the other hand Americans are very protective of property and it's normal to kill someone breaking into your house. In Europe human life is considered more precious than property.
Same thing with the militaries. The violent US society is in contrast to the military. When US forces are deployed anywhere they go out of their way to use as little force as possible in a peacekeeping mission. European militaries use force first and ask questions later.
Why are you worried? I read on the MS web page that NT is also used in manufacturing. How many cars are out there that were made by NT? Do they ever crash?
I've been contracting to a US government agency for the last 8 months, and I'm seriously considering cheating on my taxes. If you knew how the government spends your money you would never pay taxes again.
Here is an example. The US government has the idea that it needs to help small business. So any contract decision is supposed to favor small businesses. We ordered a copy of Backup Exec about two months ago. In private industry you just get on the website of your favorite store and buy it. Here is our story. First there is a week of paperwork to be done and a few authorizations to be obtained. Next the order goes from our office in NYC to the contracting office in Philadelphia. It sat there for the last two months. On wednesday they called us and said we couldn't order it from CDW.com because it wasn't a small business. Even though they had a GSA contract. The same crap happens with computers. We're a Dell shop and get all our quotes from Dell's website. The process is the same except the contracting office in Philly usually goes to a reseller to order the computers. Don't know how much it costs. No extra tech support. Just have to make sure they go thru a small business no matter how much it costs.
They are also tasked with investigating counterfeit currency cases and credit card fraud. Personally I don't know why they don't get rid of all federal police forces except the FBI. Give them the power to investigate all federal level crimes. Sounds more efficient to me.
OEM licenses aren't enough sometimes. I remember reading a story that you can't reimage a machine with an OEM copy of Windows. Only the MS Select licenses can be imaged.
Artists are finally catching on. Pay to play is the future. Hollywood screenwriters are going on strike because they want to get paid for every DVD sold or any time a movie is played on cable. Now journalists are getting in on the action. Soon artists will start charging a per viewing fee to see their paintings.
I wonder what will happen in 10 years when 100Mbps or higher speed lines in the home will be the norm?
I doubt it. I bet when you open an account with your local telco it automatically adds you to the database that the White Pages is made from. To unlist you requires some human labor. Of course they make money of it, by I doubt it's all as evil as some people think.
It's kind of like caller ID and all the other useless services. I bet the current switches are set up for it. All somebody has to do to activate your line for it is to enter the right command in a swith OS. About a 30 second task. Yet it costs $$$ every month.
So what's the big deal then? Somebody has to pay $100K salaries to the CCIE's who keep the networks going. And how about to the sysadmins who run the servers? Or does the Internet era mean that companies provide free services and have revenues come in from that magic place in the sky?
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Our economies are linked more than you know. Examples are Daimler Benz-Chrysler, GM owns Opel, Swiss Credit Suisse owns First Boston, Sony, a few drug companies, the auto companies from US Europe and Japan all owning each other's stock. Local economies are dying out and an integrated world economy is emerging. Corporate espionage supported by government will soon be a thing of the past. Otherwise giving info to one Fortune 500 company will hurt another.
It's a result of the Walker Digital strategy of patenting business ideas. Nobody wants to think up of stuff, spend millions of $$$ to bring it to market and have somebody else copy and sell it cheaper. People only want to enjoy the fruits of their labors and new ideas. It's the American way.
Presently over 30,000 people die on roads every year because some people can't drive. And you're afraid of computers in cars?
I saw it was a company, ie business. That means they have investors. Sooner or later the investment is going to run out and some sort of revenue stream has to be established. Does this mean that an open source game is you buy the game and pay for the patches to fix the bugs. Where a regular game is pay for the game and wait for the patch.
Anybody care to tell me? Sooner or later the programmers are going to want to get paid. Any progamers here willing to work for free?
I thought Italian TV was fun. The Carabenieri and The Polizia beating up people who were demonstrating without a permit.
Email me at alenteplitsky@hotmail.com. I just got out of the Army last year and I'll email you a few links to where you can start looking. The vast majority of work is for DOD and you'll probably have to get a security clearance. Be ready to expose every detail of your last 10-14 years to the US Government. If you are going to be working around a lot of uniformed types, be ready for a culture shock. A lot of the higher ranking officers expect you to call them sir. It's a more official atmosphere. Drove me crazy for years. The good is that Europe is great as long as your work involves the US Government and you don't pay taxes to the host country. You've never tried real beer until you tried the real thing in Germany. Same thing with Italian wine. And if you work for military intelligence you'll get to see some cool stuff.
ATT and it's siblings spent decades and billions of $$$ building their networks. Along comes DSL and some new start up's and now the Baby Bells are supposed to give up their networks to new competitors whose long term aim is to put them out of business. Does anybody here want to spend a few decades building a software or consulting business only to have to open it up to a new competitor? Besides, I think the current crop of DSL companies are doomed to failure. Their business plan pretty much revolves around whining and crying until the Baby Bells do what they say. I think the future competitors are the few telco's who have spent billions laying their own lines and are growing at a decent rate every year. The current crop thought they could get rich because they had a right to use the Baby Bells' lines and somehow most of those who could switch to DSL would. Kind of like the .com's.
OK. So why have cats been carrying a version of HIV for thousands of years?
Yeah, and my Commodore 64 was all the speed I needed. That 2GB HD I bought in 1997 was all the storage I needed. And coe to think of it that 80MB hard drive that the teacher in my 8th grade computer lab had was the bomb. I wanted one so bad it was worth the $500 price tag. It would last me a lifetime. I mean who could ever fill up 80MB?
Since I can't get a decent signal in half of NYC. But Verizon works just great.
Guess you have to find another company to rent from. Bigger question is what if you have apps that rely on the rented software?
You have know idea what you're saying. I spent 8 years in the Army and have seen first hand the power of modern weaponry.
Let's see. Russian spy ships and ballistic missile submarines were known to operate close to American territory. We never took any of them hostage.
I spent time in Europe while in the Army and the culture differences compared to American are amazing. In the US we are always wary of authority. Everytime we think the police went to far we call for investigations. In Europe police normally carry automatic weapons with much more flexible rules of engagement. On the other hand Americans are very protective of property and it's normal to kill someone breaking into your house. In Europe human life is considered more precious than property. Same thing with the militaries. The violent US society is in contrast to the military. When US forces are deployed anywhere they go out of their way to use as little force as possible in a peacekeeping mission. European militaries use force first and ask questions later.
Why are you worried? I read on the MS web page that NT is also used in manufacturing. How many cars are out there that were made by NT? Do they ever crash?
I've been contracting to a US government agency for the last 8 months, and I'm seriously considering cheating on my taxes. If you knew how the government spends your money you would never pay taxes again. Here is an example. The US government has the idea that it needs to help small business. So any contract decision is supposed to favor small businesses. We ordered a copy of Backup Exec about two months ago. In private industry you just get on the website of your favorite store and buy it. Here is our story. First there is a week of paperwork to be done and a few authorizations to be obtained. Next the order goes from our office in NYC to the contracting office in Philadelphia. It sat there for the last two months. On wednesday they called us and said we couldn't order it from CDW.com because it wasn't a small business. Even though they had a GSA contract. The same crap happens with computers. We're a Dell shop and get all our quotes from Dell's website. The process is the same except the contracting office in Philly usually goes to a reseller to order the computers. Don't know how much it costs. No extra tech support. Just have to make sure they go thru a small business no matter how much it costs.
Read your history. During the period of the Articles of Confederation there was chaos.
They are also tasked with investigating counterfeit currency cases and credit card fraud. Personally I don't know why they don't get rid of all federal police forces except the FBI. Give them the power to investigate all federal level crimes. Sounds more efficient to me.
OEM licenses aren't enough sometimes. I remember reading a story that you can't reimage a machine with an OEM copy of Windows. Only the MS Select licenses can be imaged.
Artists are finally catching on. Pay to play is the future. Hollywood screenwriters are going on strike because they want to get paid for every DVD sold or any time a movie is played on cable. Now journalists are getting in on the action. Soon artists will start charging a per viewing fee to see their paintings. I wonder what will happen in 10 years when 100Mbps or higher speed lines in the home will be the norm?
to bully someone. Until they fight back of course.
I doubt it. I bet when you open an account with your local telco it automatically adds you to the database that the White Pages is made from. To unlist you requires some human labor. Of course they make money of it, by I doubt it's all as evil as some people think. It's kind of like caller ID and all the other useless services. I bet the current switches are set up for it. All somebody has to do to activate your line for it is to enter the right command in a swith OS. About a 30 second task. Yet it costs $$$ every month.
So what's the big deal then? Somebody has to pay $100K salaries to the CCIE's who keep the networks going. And how about to the sysadmins who run the servers? Or does the Internet era mean that companies provide free services and have revenues come in from that magic place in the sky?
People pay to advertise in the yellow pages, what's wrong with being charged to list on the Internet?