Just update over time. As 5.25 migrated to 3.5 people should have migrated (and backed up like crazy since those disks fail so often).
Burn high quality CDs at slow speeds for deeper pits and backup on a couple of hdds, move it to new storage every 5 years or so and add the new stuff you've acquired.
It's easier now than ever to backup but it is also as you said easier than ever to lose your whole collection. I keep 2 backups in a safety deposit box (along with my companies backup data) so I'm backed up in 3 locations (home, work, work offsite backup). It's a chore but only every few years or so...
99% of my Apple ][ disks still work fine and that was from a kid who didn't treat them nicely either. eBay is a good place to find stuff that failed.
You're telling me the Congress isn't a rubber stamp for the president? How many bills has he vetoed? Oh, yea zero. Because they send exactly what he tells them to.
There were 3 Trillion dollars in medical services given last year. The american public paid 3 Trillion dollars. All that happens is the burden is shifted to those that pay. You're already paying for it so why not make it available for everyone? Fear, uncertainty and doubt, I'm glad our forefathers had some fucking balls.
Social services would be fine without having enormous tax cuts that are *needed* since we have such a large surplus. Wait, there was no surplus because it was a 10 year projection on 1998 levels of revenue generated from taxes? So we were operating at break-even afterall? Sound financial management requires looking at more than the political *we cut taxes* bullshit slant the republicans take. It requires being fiscally responsible, which the old line "Tax and Spend Democrats" at least makes more sense than the actual "Cut-taxes and Spend MORE Republicans".
I have no problem with the base closures, I have a problem with starting a bullshit war that costs thousands of lives (American and other) since there wasn't a danger from Iraq at all. BTW it doesn't save 100's of Billions a year. The Rumsfeld (another dumbfuck with his head in the sand) "Savings" plan is over 10 years.
Since the worst polution sites in the entire country are abandonned military bases it is doubtful that closing them will save anything in the long run since we still need to clean up all the bases Bush I closed.
Step back from the propaganda (Bush used this term himself, guess you cannot let the moron speak without cue cards, à la the "crusade" comment) and take an objective look at our country's choices. If you're for what we are doing fine. I feel sorry for your children, grand children and so on...
Thank you for asking. I created a company that provides medications to indigent patients for a minimal cost ($10/month). We have filled over 45,000 prescriptions in less than a year.
So while your *genius* president dumb fuck was killing thousands of people in Iraq for no real threat and running our country into the ground economically, I was helping over 15,000 low income people get their meds since the pathetic fucking governement cannot do it.
Have you ever helped anyone? Doubtful, most dipshit conservatives like to armchair quarterback when it comes to helping people.
Medicare will go bankrupt years before Social Security. How about Bush fixing the pressing problem first. Not to mention the fact they have significantly cut Medicaid funding.
When the richest country in the world cannot take care of its population it is simply due to poor management and typical what can you do for me today thinking, instead of how can we be better today and down the road.
Deficits that are going to possibly bankrupt our country (note: this is the republican goal, to bankrupt all social services programs) is not conservative or responsible at all, it's just fucking stupid.
I love the part about us saving *billions* of dollars by closing military bases when the 10 year savings matches 2 weeks of expenditures in Iraq. More moronic math from the worst administration in history. How the republican party can continue to get people to vote against their own best interest is an amazing feat to me. I guess having FOX News report whatever you want seems to be working.
The US of A may be the richest and most powerful country in the world now, but in the past there were many others that held that role. Only forward thinking will keep us in our current position. Unfortunately our president wants it to be like 1950 again.
They are already our whipping boy. It's sad how the UK has gone from world power to weak sister in less than a few hundred years. At least their politicians have some balls and can answer questions that aren't from planted "journalists" cough*gannon*cough. Bush is such a dumbfuck.
This is why more and more private companies will be buying shares of planes (à la NetJets or the like) for their business travels.
I hope my company can afford it someday, until then it's the commercial flights for me.
I try to drive to everywhere possible which is anywhere within 11 hours. Believe it or not it can be quite relaxing getting out of the office and not feeling pressure to get a trip done in 1 day by flying the red-eye in and out. My 11 Hour radius goes from west New Mexico to Denver through Kansas to Omaha across Missouri and into southern Illinois (if I drive fast, Chicago is about 12~13 hours but I've made it in 11 1/2 following people going 100 mph through the farm country) into Arkansas over to New Orleans and most of Texas (maybe El Paso but it's a bit far). A pretty big part of the Mid/South West is available without the hasle. Plus I have an extra car I kept (POS 4 Cyl) for travel since it gets 38~40 miles per gallon. A lot less expensive than flying.
I was laid off last year. After working for several companies I came to the conclusion that I'm better off failing by myself than working for companies that could give a shit about their clients or employees. I'm liberal on social issues and conservative on fiscal policy & economic matters (so I really hate this POS fucking administration we have now because they are shitty on both fronts). As such, before my company hires a new employee we make certain that 1) the job cannot be integrated into someone elses position, 2) that the person philisophically (sp?) matches our beliefs and 3) that no matter what the financial situation of the company that person will not need to be laid off. My companies profit sharing works different than most, since I own the company outright I don't distribute shares. We take a percentage of our semi-annual profit and distribute it according to a formula to our employees based on length of service, job position and overall attitude/work relationships. The pool for all the employees doesn't change if we hire someone new. So if the employees say they need someone to assist in a specific position they know it will cost them money (bonuses) if they don't make up the slack as a group and get more customers that generate profit to allow a larger bonus pool of cash. It is great incentive and people are rewarded based on the company's profit and their contributions.
Sometimes getting laid off is the best thing that can happen to a person so sympathy isn't necessary.
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I bet there are a couple of executives being laid off. Your opinion might change if you ever work 20 years at a company and actually become an executive.
Laying off 10~13K employee's will no doubt save a lot as well.
The employee's at my company cost roughly 1.3 times their salary. So if I have a support person that makes 36K a year they cost my company around 46K a year with benefits (we pay 100% at my company so there is no matching) and govt program matching, unemployment, workers comp,...
Lets say these are the averages: 10K people, 30K salary, 36K salary with benefits How much does IBM save? 360 Million a year. That is a very low estimate not including any workspace costs, energy consumption, vacation, bonuses,...
Start your own business then you'll see where most of your expenses are, in your employees. So make damn sure you need someone before you hire them.
Isn't their job to be certain they can provide profit in the future for their shareholders (the owners of the company). Why would a company want to keep 10~13K employees that are obviously not necessary in the daily business? Simply because they are making a profit?
I'm not a fan of layoffs either but a company is there to make money, nothing else. If these 10~13K people banded together and started a competing company maybe they could make IBM pay in that direction. In the end employment is voluntary. I don't hear people screaming about someone quitting IBM when they take their experiences there and help another company use that knowledge. What about all the training and investment IBM made in those people, do they think it was free?
Seems like every time I'm in Europe there is a major strike happening.
I've never met a programmer that was worth 11K per month based on coding alone, which from my reading of related articles about this "contest" is all they did.
The poster of the original article said This is one of the greatest bounties for open source software and will hopefully serve as a model for other companies taking this path of cheaper development and better code
Notice the cheaper development line? I have a number of friends from India and Bangladesh (sp?) and am always amazed at their recollections of how things "work" in their respective countries. For example, can you bribe your way out of a speeding ticket here for the equivilent of $1? How about running water in your town? It is not racist to point out that they are impoverished countries and as a consequence paying anyone that does a service there 100 times what would be expected and calling it cheaper development is in fact bullshit. At my last job two of the best programmers we had (left right before I started) were Indian and we actively recruited and hired programmers out of college that weren't American because they typically had better attitudes and a better work ethic (whoops I'm being racist against WASPs).
Most people in this world are over-paid in western countries for the work they do. Which is why anyone that cannot succeed in the USA is either very unlucky or very lazy.
I guess you live in a phantom Politically Correct bullshit world you've created around yourself. Next time try and read posts without assuming "racisim" when it doesn't exist.
That is my point. They over paid. I'll gladly take 100K for my part of a 9 month project. However for a 9 month project my company would bid less than 400K. Although we don't take on external projects at this time.
1 Million dollars is a lot more to an Indian (in India) than a person in the states. It's like having a 10 Million dollar contest in India which is greater incentive. Although you'd think someone from all the OSS groups would have seen it as a valid challenge. My company could sure use $400,000. I'm not sure we would have been inclined to do it without a guarantee though.
What about all the people that tried and failed. No risk for CA, 100% of the risk on the development team/company.
It seems they over paid as well. You can get 4 Indian programmers for much less than $400K for 9 months ($11,111/month).
It won't because we've already lost on patents on medicine, GE foods, shelter, etc...
Although your point that arguing about this is pointless is valid. But then again why would the human race care about things like starting a war on bullshit information but freak out about an article in a magazine that was based on (reportedly) bullshit information.
People are narrow minded and short sighted. If they weren't it would be a lot harder to succeed in this world but it might be a better place to live. Ahhh.... rational thought and cooperation, what a world it could be.
Who really cares if it's backward compatable? If you have old games play them on the old system. Besides how many old games do most people play now anyway? Once you've beat Jade Empire or moved from FIFA 2003 to FIFA 2006 going back isn't usually a lot of fun. Maybe in 10 years or so.
This must be one of the stupidest articles I've read in a long time. The advantage of Open Source Software isn't this or that like the article states. The questions aren't mutually exclusive. You can value better security as much as lower cost and not being tied to a vendor. All of these are benefits and there are certainly more than 5 reasons to go with OSS. I've seen middle school students do a better study on advantages of a specific item. BTW where are the economic indicators?
Amaxing really. I thought Oklahoma had more morons than Kansas. I guess if you venture outside of the Kansas City Metro area or Lawrence (maybe manhattan, not a big KSU fan) you get the rural boobs like we have here.
Right and religion is made up by man. You'll notice I didn't saySpirituality was evil? Religion was the beginning of the formation of society having people live in fear of [insert god(s) here].
Fear is how we live our lives collectively and until people learn that it isn't a solution, we will be doomed to religious wars and intolerance.
Spirituality is a good thing, (Organized) Religion is not.
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Just update over time. As 5.25 migrated to 3.5 people should have migrated (and backed up like crazy since those disks fail so often).
Burn high quality CDs at slow speeds for deeper pits and backup on a couple of hdds, move it to new storage every 5 years or so and add the new stuff you've acquired.
It's easier now than ever to backup but it is also as you said easier than ever to lose your whole collection. I keep 2 backups in a safety deposit box (along with my companies backup data) so I'm backed up in 3 locations (home, work, work offsite backup). It's a chore but only every few years or so...
99% of my Apple ][ disks still work fine and that was from a kid who didn't treat them nicely either. eBay is a good place to find stuff that failed.
You're telling me the Congress isn't a rubber stamp for the president? How many bills has he vetoed? Oh, yea zero. Because they send exactly what he tells them to.
There were 3 Trillion dollars in medical services given last year. The american public paid 3 Trillion dollars. All that happens is the burden is shifted to those that pay. You're already paying for it so why not make it available for everyone? Fear, uncertainty and doubt, I'm glad our forefathers had some fucking balls.
Social services would be fine without having enormous tax cuts that are *needed* since we have such a large surplus. Wait, there was no surplus because it was a 10 year projection on 1998 levels of revenue generated from taxes? So we were operating at break-even afterall? Sound financial management requires looking at more than the political *we cut taxes* bullshit slant the republicans take. It requires being fiscally responsible, which the old line "Tax and Spend Democrats" at least makes more sense than the actual "Cut-taxes and Spend MORE Republicans".
I have no problem with the base closures, I have a problem with starting a bullshit war that costs thousands of lives (American and other) since there wasn't a danger from Iraq at all. BTW it doesn't save 100's of Billions a year. The Rumsfeld (another dumbfuck with his head in the sand) "Savings" plan is over 10 years.
Since the worst polution sites in the entire country are abandonned military bases it is doubtful that closing them will save anything in the long run since we still need to clean up all the bases Bush I closed.
Step back from the propaganda (Bush used this term himself, guess you cannot let the moron speak without cue cards, à la the "crusade" comment) and take an objective look at our country's choices. If you're for what we are doing fine. I feel sorry for your children, grand children and so on...
Thank you for asking. I created a company that provides medications to indigent patients for a minimal cost ($10/month). We have filled over 45,000 prescriptions in less than a year.
So while your *genius* president dumb fuck was killing thousands of people in Iraq for no real threat and running our country into the ground economically, I was helping over 15,000 low income people get their meds since the pathetic fucking governement cannot do it.
Have you ever helped anyone? Doubtful, most dipshit conservatives like to armchair quarterback when it comes to helping people.
I also contribute to local wildlife refuges.
Medicare will go bankrupt years before Social Security. How about Bush fixing the pressing problem first. Not to mention the fact they have significantly cut Medicaid funding.
When the richest country in the world cannot take care of its population it is simply due to poor management and typical what can you do for me today thinking, instead of how can we be better today and down the road.
Deficits that are going to possibly bankrupt our country (note: this is the republican goal, to bankrupt all social services programs) is not conservative or responsible at all, it's just fucking stupid.
I love the part about us saving *billions* of dollars by closing military bases when the 10 year savings matches 2 weeks of expenditures in Iraq. More moronic math from the worst administration in history. How the republican party can continue to get people to vote against their own best interest is an amazing feat to me. I guess having FOX News report whatever you want seems to be working.
The US of A may be the richest and most powerful country in the world now, but in the past there were many others that held that role. Only forward thinking will keep us in our current position. Unfortunately our president wants it to be like 1950 again.
They are already our whipping boy. It's sad how the UK has gone from world power to weak sister in less than a few hundred years. At least their politicians have some balls and can answer questions that aren't from planted "journalists" cough*gannon*cough. Bush is such a dumbfuck.
This is why more and more private companies will be buying shares of planes (à la NetJets or the like) for their business travels.
I hope my company can afford it someday, until then it's the commercial flights for me.
I try to drive to everywhere possible which is anywhere within 11 hours. Believe it or not it can be quite relaxing getting out of the office and not feeling pressure to get a trip done in 1 day by flying the red-eye in and out. My 11 Hour radius goes from west New Mexico to Denver through Kansas to Omaha across Missouri and into southern Illinois (if I drive fast, Chicago is about 12~13 hours but I've made it in 11 1/2 following people going 100 mph through the farm country) into Arkansas over to New Orleans and most of Texas (maybe El Paso but it's a bit far). A pretty big part of the Mid/South West is available without the hasle. Plus I have an extra car I kept (POS 4 Cyl) for travel since it gets 38~40 miles per gallon. A lot less expensive than flying.
I was laid off last year. After working for several companies I came to the conclusion that I'm better off failing by myself than working for companies that could give a shit about their clients or employees. I'm liberal on social issues and conservative on fiscal policy & economic matters (so I really hate this POS fucking administration we have now because they are shitty on both fronts). As such, before my company hires a new employee we make certain that 1) the job cannot be integrated into someone elses position, 2) that the person philisophically (sp?) matches our beliefs and 3) that no matter what the financial situation of the company that person will not need to be laid off. My companies profit sharing works different than most, since I own the company outright I don't distribute shares. We take a percentage of our semi-annual profit and distribute it according to a formula to our employees based on length of service, job position and overall attitude/work relationships. The pool for all the employees doesn't change if we hire someone new. So if the employees say they need someone to assist in a specific position they know it will cost them money (bonuses) if they don't make up the slack as a group and get more customers that generate profit to allow a larger bonus pool of cash. It is great incentive and people are rewarded based on the company's profit and their contributions.
Sometimes getting laid off is the best thing that can happen to a person so sympathy isn't necessary.
Lo'l, my bad's.
I bet there are a couple of executives being laid off. Your opinion might change if you ever work 20 years at a company and actually become an executive.
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Laying off 10~13K employee's will no doubt save a lot as well.
The employee's at my company cost roughly 1.3 times their salary. So if I have a support person that makes 36K a year they cost my company around 46K a year with benefits (we pay 100% at my company so there is no matching) and govt program matching, unemployment, workers comp,
Lets say these are the averages:
10K people, 30K salary, 36K salary with benefits
How much does IBM save? 360 Million a year.
That is a very low estimate not including any workspace costs, energy consumption, vacation, bonuses,
Start your own business then you'll see where most of your expenses are, in your employees. So make damn sure you need someone before you hire them.
Isn't their job to be certain they can provide profit in the future for their shareholders (the owners of the company). Why would a company want to keep 10~13K employees that are obviously not necessary in the daily business? Simply because they are making a profit?
I'm not a fan of layoffs either but a company is there to make money, nothing else. If these 10~13K people banded together and started a competing company maybe they could make IBM pay in that direction. In the end employment is voluntary. I don't hear people screaming about someone quitting IBM when they take their experiences there and help another company use that knowledge. What about all the training and investment IBM made in those people, do they think it was free?
Seems like every time I'm in Europe there is a major strike happening.
I've never met a programmer that was worth 11K per month based on coding alone, which from my reading of related articles about this "contest" is all they did.
The poster of the original article said
This is one of the greatest bounties for open source software and will hopefully serve as a model for other companies taking this path of cheaper development and better code
Notice the cheaper development line? I have a number of friends from India and Bangladesh (sp?) and am always amazed at their recollections of how things "work" in their respective countries. For example, can you bribe your way out of a speeding ticket here for the equivilent of $1? How about running water in your town? It is not racist to point out that they are impoverished countries and as a consequence paying anyone that does a service there 100 times what would be expected and calling it cheaper development is in fact bullshit. At my last job two of the best programmers we had (left right before I started) were Indian and we actively recruited and hired programmers out of college that weren't American because they typically had better attitudes and a better work ethic (whoops I'm being racist against WASPs).
Most people in this world are over-paid in western countries for the work they do. Which is why anyone that cannot succeed in the USA is either very unlucky or very lazy.
I guess you live in a phantom Politically Correct bullshit world you've created around yourself. Next time try and read posts without assuming "racisim" when it doesn't exist.
That is my point. They over paid. I'll gladly take 100K for my part of a 9 month project. However for a 9 month project my company would bid less than 400K. Although we don't take on external projects at this time.
1 Million dollars is a lot more to an Indian (in India) than a person in the states. It's like having a 10 Million dollar contest in India which is greater incentive. Although you'd think someone from all the OSS groups would have seen it as a valid challenge. My company could sure use $400,000. I'm not sure we would have been inclined to do it without a guarantee though.
What about all the people that tried and failed. No risk for CA, 100% of the risk on the development team/company.
It seems they over paid as well. You can get 4 Indian programmers for much less than $400K for 9 months ($11,111/month).
thief, jade empire, fifa, madden, mlb, ...
More than one game in my opinion, hell I don't even like halo.
There are places to do this. Make certain you have java turned off and pop-ups off too...
It won't because we've already lost on patents on medicine, GE foods, shelter, etc...
Although your point that arguing about this is pointless is valid. But then again why would the human race care about things like starting a war on bullshit information but freak out about an article in a magazine that was based on (reportedly) bullshit information.
People are narrow minded and short sighted. If they weren't it would be a lot harder to succeed in this world but it might be a better place to live. Ahhh.... rational thought and cooperation, what a world it could be.
Who really cares if it's backward compatable? If you have old games play them on the old system. Besides how many old games do most people play now anyway? Once you've beat Jade Empire or moved from FIFA 2003 to FIFA 2006 going back isn't usually a lot of fun. Maybe in 10 years or so.
Republicans, republicans, republicans, ....
I'll bet your life that it passes with flying colors. The damn Democrats are beholden to corporate $$$ as well.
I predict a 95% for vote in both the house & senate.
This must be one of the stupidest articles I've read in a long time. The advantage of Open Source Software isn't this or that like the article states. The questions aren't mutually exclusive. You can value better security as much as lower cost and not being tied to a vendor. All of these are benefits and there are certainly more than 5 reasons to go with OSS. I've seen middle school students do a better study on advantages of a specific item. BTW where are the economic indicators?
Why am I not surprised he's a Republican. You'd think Wisconsin would have learned after McCarthy. I guess they are drinking too much homebrew.
Amaxing really. I thought Oklahoma had more morons than Kansas. I guess if you venture outside of the Kansas City Metro area or Lawrence (maybe manhattan, not a big KSU fan) you get the rural boobs like we have here.
Jesus, Guns, and Bigotry. All staples of an ignorant society.
Again I'm not surprised
Cochell's obviously got 'No N****r' in him as well. Moron.
Apparently you weren't aware of what was available.
Here's a little history for you.
Sorry, you're wrong. Search engines never existed before google.
a sa.htm was a webpage article about internal combustion engines.
You simply had to guess that http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aacarsg
[end sarcasm]
eBay. They retain value well, assuming you kept all the packaging and docs that came with it.
Right and religion is made up by man. You'll notice I didn't say Spirituality was evil? Religion was the beginning of the formation of society having people live in fear of [insert god(s) here].
Fear is how we live our lives collectively and until people learn that it isn't a solution, we will be doomed to religious wars and intolerance.
Spirituality is a good thing, (Organized) Religion is not.