The economy is in recession, most IT enterprises are collapsing and happy if they manage to have small loses and you think it may not be abnormal 80% of profit by the biggest convicted monopolist of the IT industry?
Pass that think you are smoking, I need it for my depressive mood.
In the UK this has been happening for the best part of the last two years.
Unsurprisingly it is big stablished companies who have been providing this service. It took them a while to realize why this is good, but when they finally got around it they got it right.
Of companies that are currently running succesful business in that platform?
What is its maturity?
In a shrinking economy and with IT budgets getting smaller what are the advantages of implementing.Net in opossition to keep your current working infrastructure working?
What about licensing and support?
Where are the experts with industry experience deploying this?
Great business proposition that of yours.
My point: the technology has to prove itself first and only when it shows its worth it may become a viable income generator for specialists in the field. As it stands right now it would be a big gamble.
Specialists in all fields earn more money. They apply the "everything looks like a nail" because actually they work with nails only.
The minus is that a specialist is like a dinosaur: very successful creature, but far less adaptable to meteoric change and ripe candidate for extintion.
But we are not dinosaurs, if you know your niche and follow trends you may anticipate the meteorite that would otherwise had hit you.
Generalists on the other hand do many things, some of them badly, and get paid accordingly, but are more likely to be employed during hard times, the little mammals.
They are surely no friggin transitional forms between a fscking mammal that used to live on dry land and a mammal that eventualy may live on water only. No they are not. They were created like that. Thank the Lord for that.
In a sense any form of life is a transitional form. We could be evolving into something completely different and of course we are not aware of it and consider ourselves (or any other species whith which we are familiar) "non transitional" which of course is a load of rubish.
What is to point to sell the double amount of drives at half the price they costed?
2 Years ago I bought a 15GB drive for around 100US.
Last month I bought 2 30GB for around 100US.
Why 2 drives? Because the first drive died an ungraceful death and I have decided to use mirroring. The manufaturer of the first drive now has tarnished its reputation and it will take a while before I see their name without cursing them.
These companies believe that cheapness will overcome lack of reputation. I do not think so, people is getting informed and are willing to pay the small differential for a better more reliable product.
Neither is trsnfering to other disk in the same room.
Companies that are serious about backups can afford a tape streamer, a few tapes and a Linux box to act as backup server if they are thight on money.
or they can outsource the whole thing for a few hundred bucks per month.
Big companies have full time personnel doing this task (shifting tapes, putting them offsite, stablishing backup policies), they are under no illusion that mirroring is backup, neither should be small companies or even the home user.
They can't protect their own products from their own employees and associates but soemhow you want us to believe tha they can "protect" themseleves from us, their clients, and that they can curtail the most common sense freedoms (like that I can do whatever I want with my VHS tape or uncrippled CD as long as I don't distribute copies) in a pursuit to hide their own obvious shortcommings.
No, most correctly, you can't make a living and recoup all your production costs when you make CDs by solely selling those CDs (protected or not. Let me tell you something, lets say you find the perfect protection mechanism, all CDs become playable but Uncopyable, well guess what, there comes a Mozart, writes all down and in no time othe people play the stuff and distribute it in P2P places. And even myself, a mediocre musician, can do the same if the need be. So stop dreaming, copy protection is dead, you are only pissing off potential fans and costumers).
CDs are an advertisement medium for what music performers have to sell: performances, live presentations, merchandise and comissioned music (in the case of composers).
That is the reality, now you deal with it or you keep dreaming that selling CDs will pay your expenses.
You can build you computer from spare parts, buy a 2nd hand computer (cheaper, normally good enough) or buy a computer made to measure by small computer shops.
in most countries you can advertise that you are selling one thing and then sell a different one.
Enlist the help of your goverment: complain if it does not play with the appropriate authorities on the grounds that they are deceiving you (in the case the recording comapnies don't inform you properly that their broken CDs are not real CDs, and more importantly, that they are copy protected and that they will not play on computers).
These companies can not have all ways, if they want copy protection they must inform customers and then let us make the choice (I know mine: no crippled CDs).
Use the tools at your disposal, if enough people complain it could become an embarrasment for the companies and the goverment could be making your bidding.
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The economy is in recession, most IT enterprises are collapsing and happy if they manage to have small loses and you think it may not be abnormal 80% of profit by the biggest convicted monopolist of the IT industry?
Pass that think you are smoking, I need it for my depressive mood.
In the UK this has been happening for the best part of the last two years.
Unsurprisingly it is big stablished companies who have been providing this service. It took them a while to realize why this is good, but when they finally got around it they got it right.
The auditability of closed source software is nil.
Which goverment can say with a straight face that any close dource solution is safe, secure, etc.?
Not so with OSS where all is transparent. And democracy is all about transparency, accountability and auditability.
Goverments should not be using closed source software. They should demand to see the source.
He clearly said he is happy with only US email.
One could easily infer that he would not know anything about those funny places you mentioned.
Of companies that are currently running succesful business in that platform?
.Net in opossition to keep your current working infrastructure working?
What is its maturity?
In a shrinking economy and with IT budgets getting smaller what are the advantages of implementing
What about licensing and support?
Where are the experts with industry experience deploying this?
Great business proposition that of yours.
My point: the technology has to prove itself first and only when it shows its worth it may become a viable income generator for specialists in the field. As it stands right now it would be a big gamble.
Start your own business.
Anybody in his/her mid thirties should consider that as a serious alternative.
Failing that, independent consultant.
A lot of our internal development is done by guys in India. They are good and they are cheap: killer combination.
Specialists in all fields earn more money. They apply the "everything looks like a nail" because actually they work with nails only.
The minus is that a specialist is like a dinosaur: very successful creature, but far less adaptable to meteoric change and ripe candidate for extintion.
But we are not dinosaurs, if you know your niche and follow trends you may anticipate the meteorite that would otherwise had hit you.
Generalists on the other hand do many things, some of them badly, and get paid accordingly, but are more likely to be employed during hard times, the little mammals.
They are surely no friggin transitional forms between a fscking mammal that used to live on dry land and a mammal that eventualy may live on water only. No they are not. They were created like that. Thank the Lord for that.
In a sense any form of life is a transitional form. We could be evolving into something completely different and of course we are not aware of it and consider ourselves (or any other species whith which we are familiar) "non transitional" which of course is a load of rubish.
Nice to see you modding up Hitlerian propaganda.
What is to point to sell the double amount of drives at half the price they costed?
2 Years ago I bought a 15GB drive for around 100US.
Last month I bought 2 30GB for around 100US.
Why 2 drives? Because the first drive died an ungraceful death and I have decided to use mirroring. The manufaturer of the first drive now has tarnished its reputation and it will take a while before I see their name without cursing them.
These companies believe that cheapness will overcome lack of reputation. I do not think so, people is getting informed and are willing to pay the small differential for a better more reliable product.
Neither is trsnfering to other disk in the same room.
Companies that are serious about backups can afford a tape streamer, a few tapes and a Linux box to act as backup server if they are thight on money.
or they can outsource the whole thing for a few hundred bucks per month.
Big companies have full time personnel doing this task (shifting tapes, putting them offsite, stablishing backup policies), they are under no illusion that mirroring is backup, neither should be small companies or even the home user.
They can't protect their own products from their own employees and associates but soemhow you want us to believe tha they can "protect" themseleves from us, their clients, and that they can curtail the most common sense freedoms (like that I can do whatever I want with my VHS tape or uncrippled CD as long as I don't distribute copies) in a pursuit to hide their own obvious shortcommings.
Who are you? Ms Rosen?
I'll get you a rosetta stone so you understand what the reference means.
I am sure sharp will be happy to deliver there:
http://www.sharp.co.uk
... it is most ironic that you find privacy laws discussion boring.
And of course all the out of hours work, over time unpaid call time and on-call duty are company time.
How do we dare to steal from our company. Hod do we dare to make up for the time that was suppossed to be personal.
We bastards.
Anybody that does not understand the difference between stealing something and copyright infringement deserves only to be read with the -1 drivel.
You can not sell unprotected music. Deal with it.
No, most correctly, you can't make a living and recoup all your production costs when you make CDs by solely selling those CDs (protected or not. Let me tell you something, lets say you find the perfect protection mechanism, all CDs become playable but Uncopyable, well guess what, there comes a Mozart, writes all down and in no time othe people play the stuff and distribute it in P2P places. And even myself, a mediocre musician, can do the same if the need be. So stop dreaming, copy protection is dead, you are only pissing off potential fans and costumers).
CDs are an advertisement medium for what music performers have to sell: performances, live presentations, merchandise and comissioned music (in the case of composers).
That is the reality, now you deal with it or you keep dreaming that selling CDs will pay your expenses.
My "knee jerk reaction" when I see fire is not to touch it (guess why).
Make your own inferences.
Read the article.
Moderators: down with him please.
You can build you computer from spare parts, buy a 2nd hand computer (cheaper, normally good enough) or buy a computer made to measure by small computer shops.
Then install the OS of your choice.
Even an eeprom can be considered an operating system, others have pointed out your complete ignorance regarding PDAs and cellphones.
in most countries you can advertise that you are selling one thing and then sell a different one.
Enlist the help of your goverment: complain if it does not play with the appropriate authorities on the grounds that they are deceiving you (in the case the recording comapnies don't inform you properly that their broken CDs are not real CDs, and more importantly, that they are copy protected and that they will not play on computers).
These companies can not have all ways, if they want copy protection they must inform customers and then let us make the choice (I know mine: no crippled CDs).
Use the tools at your disposal, if enough people complain it could become an embarrasment for the companies and the goverment could be making your bidding.
Only 2nd hand, making sure they are uncrippled.