How bout/. gets some negotiations going to swap Katz for Cringely with PBS. Sounds like a hell of a trade. At least I can get through an entire Cringely article without getting the dry heaves.
We pay $50usd a month for 1 megabit down, can't recall how fast it is up. As a side note, the initial statement is absurd. There is no such thing as "too cheap."
Heh, hopefully babbelfish will be improving a lot by then, otherwise, Pablo in Mexico City will be pondering why his pork does not alarm the translucent box cup meangerie of Chen in Peking.
LLC stands for limited liability company, not corporation. This seems to be a pretty common symantic error. A corporation is limited in liability by definition. You are correct on the tax ramifications however. Lots of good LLC taxation info can be found here.
I was refering to retail of a Sony DirecTiVo. CircuitCity lists em currently at $399. I heard an interview with the founder of Moxi claiming a target retail price under 400 bucks.
Moxi still seems like a "too good to be true" kind of thing. It supports everything under the rainbow and is slated to cost less than a full featured DirecTiVo. Until that puppy is available at one of the big chains, I'm not convinced.
With a 5.25 floppy drive, this, a screwdriver, and some duct tape to make the resulting product more attractive, you could have one. If you happened to have one of those old IBM floppy drives that were both a 5.25 and a 3.5 in one, you'd have something worth keeping.
Frankly, that attitude really sucks. Look at the positive events of the 20th century in the U.S. Things can get better, people just need to get past the "Screw it, you can't change anything once it becomes law" Attitude. The Constitution has had Ammendments (and Ammendments repealed for that matter.) Hell, if you can change the Constitution, dumb assed laws restricting the freedom to duplicate your own DVD's and to reverse engineer software really aren't shit in the grander scheme of things.
Wow, do the math, If I could generate revenue from 1/100th of Napsters old users, I'd do it. IIRC, thier peak number of users was over 1.5 million. 1/100th of that is 15k. Lets say the "small monthly fee" is 5 bucks. 75k a month shouldn't be bad if they have any management skills at all. Thats 900 large a year for having somebody pay you 5 bucks a month to provide your company with hard drive space.
You are right in that it probably won't work, but it's got to be worth a shot.
I started an LLC in Maine, (i'm the sole employee, so no WC or SS payments are required) for $120 bucks. 20 to reserve the name, then 100 to actually register the name.
Perhaps the Open Source community needs to impliment some sort of support system to better sort out issues.
When you call tech support for most commercial products, you get a dingbat on the other end who knows little more than a person who has already read the manual. If this person has no clue about what your problem is, they can escalate your issue to someone more educated in the matter. Has there ever been an email based support system set up to handle something like this? I.E.- an email sent to support@yourproject.org posts a message to a password protected board subscribed to by x number of support volunteers who provide basic support. These volunteers could escalate said issue to a higher authority, yet another board subscribed to by people who have fielded x number of previous questions, or whatever method you would use to define an advanced support person, or answer the issue on thier own. The advanced board could have subsets, say a group who can deal with RPM issues or something. For example, I don't know dick about solving RPM problems, but if someone was having dependency issues or whatever on a RedHat system, I could forward it to the RedHat users board.
It seems to me that almost any answer regarding most problems with large scale Open Source software can be found if you know where to look. Therein lies the problem. Most newbies / regular users have no clue where to look. Is this whole idea a pipe dream?
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How bout /. gets some negotiations going to swap Katz for Cringely with PBS. Sounds like a hell of a trade. At least I can get through an entire Cringely article without getting the dry heaves.
Actually, I think a boost to 100 mW is still legal.
We pay $50usd a month for 1 megabit down, can't recall how fast it is up. As a side note, the initial statement is absurd. There is no such thing as "too cheap."
Heh, hopefully babbelfish will be improving a lot by then, otherwise, Pablo in Mexico City will be pondering why his pork does not alarm the translucent box cup meangerie of Chen in Peking.
So by that notion, wine developers shouldn't be proud of thier work?
Doubt it....it runs XP.
MSDN page regarding references for programming languages. (This of course is a joke)
LLC stands for limited liability company, not corporation. This seems to be a pretty common symantic error. A corporation is limited in liability by definition. You are correct on the tax ramifications however. Lots of good LLC taxation info can be found here.
Vaporwetware...or is that Wetvaporware....or is that what my son leaves in his diaper?
Does anyone else think that sgi's workstations look like refrigerators from the late 50's early 60's? Or is it just me?
Wake me up when they figure out a way to grow strips of freshly fried bacon like spinach. Mmmm, bacon.
I was refering to retail of a Sony DirecTiVo. CircuitCity lists em currently at $399. I heard an interview with the founder of Moxi claiming a target retail price under 400 bucks.
Moxi still seems like a "too good to be true" kind of thing. It supports everything under the rainbow and is slated to cost less than a full featured DirecTiVo. Until that puppy is available at one of the big chains, I'm not convinced.
Isn't goo service against the law everywhere in the US except Nevada? (excluding LV county)
With a 5.25 floppy drive, this, a screwdriver, and some duct tape to make the resulting product more attractive, you could have one. If you happened to have one of those old IBM floppy drives that were both a 5.25 and a 3.5 in one, you'd have something worth keeping.
Frankly, that attitude really sucks. Look at the positive events of the 20th century in the U.S. Things can get better, people just need to get past the "Screw it, you can't change anything once it becomes law" Attitude. The Constitution has had Ammendments (and Ammendments repealed for that matter.) Hell, if you can change the Constitution, dumb assed laws restricting the freedom to duplicate your own DVD's and to reverse engineer software really aren't shit in the grander scheme of things.
Wow, do the math, If I could generate revenue from 1/100th of Napsters old users, I'd do it. IIRC, thier peak number of users was over 1.5 million. 1/100th of that is 15k. Lets say the "small monthly fee" is 5 bucks. 75k a month shouldn't be bad if they have any management skills at all. Thats 900 large a year for having somebody pay you 5 bucks a month to provide your company with hard drive space.
You are right in that it probably won't work, but it's got to be worth a shot.
No, it doesn't...it stands for Limited Liability COMPANY. An LLC is not a Corporation!
I started an LLC in Maine, (i'm the sole employee, so no WC or SS payments are required) for $120 bucks. 20 to reserve the name, then 100 to actually register the name.
an LLC is NOT a Corporation. It is a company. Taxed the same as a Partnership.
So thats who coded Outlook! 10 bucks says they were in on the whole Passport thing too!
http://extratv.warnerbros.com/dailynews/cool/06_01 /aoltv.html
Perhaps the Open Source community needs to impliment some sort of support system to better sort out issues.
When you call tech support for most commercial products, you get a dingbat on the other end who knows little more than a person who has already read the manual. If this person has no clue about what your problem is, they can escalate your issue to someone more educated in the matter. Has there ever been an email based support system set up to handle something like this? I.E.- an email sent to support@yourproject.org posts a message to a password protected board subscribed to by x number of support volunteers who provide basic support. These volunteers could escalate said issue to a higher authority, yet another board subscribed to by people who have fielded x number of previous questions, or whatever method you would use to define an advanced support person, or answer the issue on thier own. The advanced board could have subsets, say a group who can deal with RPM issues or something. For example, I don't know dick about solving RPM problems, but if someone was having dependency issues or whatever on a RedHat system, I could forward it to the RedHat users board.
It seems to me that almost any answer regarding most problems with large scale Open Source software can be found if you know where to look. Therein lies the problem. Most newbies / regular users have no clue where to look. Is this whole idea a pipe dream?