Common sense need not apply in America. Everyone will blame someone else for their problems before they look in the mirror. That is why it is so easy to be successful in this world. The only leg up you need is drive to succeed, the desire to keep trying until the day you die, and the ability to see your faults and improve upon them.
Lesson on how to succeed: If you fail, try again. Repeat.
I've worked for 5-6 failed businesses before getting sick of it. I am on my 3rd company and it will succeed or fail. Either way I'm going to start another business. My 1st failed due to inexperience, 2nd is breaking even which means I don't make any money and get to work on it for free, 3rd is slowly taking off and looks like I'll recoup my investment by the end of the year.
I'd rather make $20,000 a year working for myself 80 hours a week than take shit off some dipshit manager for $70,000. Life's to short to work with assholes. At least when I'm the boss the blame is valid when it stops at my feet. Now if my employee's weren't so expensive!
FYI 60 Euros is about 85 Dollars. Quite shocking when you go to buy something in an EU country. Not as shocking as in the UK where $2 = 1 Pound Sterling (and everything costs more in pounds than it does in dollars at home, enjoy $4 cokes!).
Tougher to file for people to file Chapter 11. Not corporations, it is very easy to disolve a corporation after paying out all the revenue to employees, etc...
Because we live in Conservative America where a breast is a horrible blight on society. I love going to Europe where shower commericals show nude women and noone seems to give a shit. Not to mention people on the beaches.
What the fuck is wrong with people in this country. Oh yea, sex is evil & a sin if it's not for procreation. Religion is the root of all evil.
It would seem to me they could build one for significantly less. Dell's 4 hour service isn't as fast as having spare parts on-hand and swapping them yourself (someone has to be there to let Dell in so why can't they pull a harddrive sled and slide in a new one?). Plus the savings by building it themselves would more than cover the price of spare harddrives/controllers, etc...
That is just my experience. Dell's service/support is pretty good but I've had a significantly higher rate of failure on their hardware compared to purchasing components individually.
Morality is just made up to justify ones actions. Who really cares? If the music/movie industry were hurting so bad they would get out of the business altogether.
The music/movie industries losses aren't tangible and in my opinion are not real losses. Copying isn't theft, it's copying. No different than taking a textbook to Kinko's and copying a few pages.
Amen, the best product in the world needs customers. Not to mention good marketing and sales. My companies salespeople are instructed to have integrity first. They don't get paid sales commissions but they do get bonuses based on the total company performance (actually everyone does) so the sales people don't have to lie to get customers and they don't have the opportunity to give us a black eye (based on our policy's). When you don't have sales/marketing people that are constantly in fear of losing their jobs because of missing a sales quota for a month or so.
I use linux, windows, solaris and OS X. I have them each for different reasons. Linus however has been a UNIX guy from the beginning. It's like asking a Mac OS user to "just try windows, it's not that bad". Some people have their preference and as such use it. If you'd spent over 10 years working on an OS kernel it's doubtful you'd find the need to work in another OS since you have the one you're working on to your liking. I can do 95% of my work on OS X but I have a Thinkpad that I prefer. And I just bought this! (They said 1-2 weeks to ship but it shipped in 2 days!)
This has been known for a while. Read it and he discusses why he runs PPC instead of x86, just to have a different view on kernel development. Plus it's not like he runs OS X or something.
The problem is the games were much more playable when the graphics were shit. Now everyone (game developers) think they can substitute great graphics for gameplay when I'd rather play shitty old Thief/Thief II than HALO/DOOM III. After killing 100 aliens/monsters/whatthefuckevers it gets a bit repetitive. Programming for a living is repetitive enough, how about some innovative games?
MBA. You're exactly who it was invented for, not the alreay have a BBA and don't want to get a job types that I see in business school. Or you could go EE which is a good pairing as well, I have friends who did that and have done very well for themselves.
If it's simply 60 - 75 minutes due to traffic it would be less miles that wouldn't explain 150/200k on a two year old car. If it were a long driving distance (say Thousand Oaks) it would not be local.
I lived in North Dallas and worked downtown and it took 1 hour to get to work and 1 1/2 hours to get home every day (18 miles). Quickly I decided to move back to Oklahoma where I accepted a job in north Oklahoma City that was 35 miles from my house but took 35 minutes to get there. Slowly but surely I got sick of that so I started my own business in my own town. Now I'm getting tired of driving across Norman. I need to build an office with a loft I can live in. That way I just take an elevator down to work.
Or a thinkpad. I only buy laptops with the point stick because after getting used to it I have a hard time using anything else. Plus it allows you to type & use a pointer without really leaving the "home row". Now if they could just combine that with a MS Natural Keyboard (the old pro one with the REAL layout not the new stupid big delete key and function lock key) I'd buy one for $100 or so.
That first gridlock scene is on 635 & Josey in Dallas. I used to work at 635 and Josey is why I know. I decided to move back to Oklahoma after a little over a year in dallas because it's better to make less money and have a higher standard of living than it is to live in your car 2 1/2 ~ 3 hours a day. Dallas is great for shopping but at 2 1/2 hours south I can hop down there when needed (how often does one really need to shop at Nieman's,...) and on the bright side we're getting an apple store here in redneck/redstate land.
Who needs an enemy when you can divide and conquer yourself?
I survived the UNIX wars, unlike most of the companies involved in them. In their day, Pyramid, SCO, Apollo, DEC, Sun, Silicon Graphics, Gould and others fought ferocious scorched-earth wars trying to win customers' minds and money. The survivors, with the exception of Sun (a.k.a., The last man standing), have either disappeared into the mists of time, or are niche players that have been forced into new markets in order to survive. Other than their conflict, what did they have in common?
They were all selling some kind of UNIX operating system.
Back in the UNIX wars, the vendors had two primary axes on which they could compete: hardware speed, and features of their flavor of UNIX. Toward the end of the UNIX wars, a third battle evolved, over the desktop metaphor, the look and feel of the workstations' GUI. If you were around back then, you'll remember the ferocious fights over whether or not the 3D-look widgets of the Open Software Foundation (OSF) Motif metaphor were just flash and glitter or whether they were actually kind of cool.
Today, few remember the argument, and the code in question would be considered remarkably tight and lightweight compared to what people now use. If you step back and look at the UNIX wars from a high altitude, the actual battlefield was very small - GUIs and features in a UNIX operating system don't really sway customers much. The vendor who won, Sun, did so because they offered a consistent software experience (SunOs, later Solaris) across a broad spectrum of hardware at different performance levels from desktop to data center. In other words, the customers didn't care if the GUI had a 3D look and feel as long as it was fast, reliable, and affordable. A lot of users got sick of the debate and switched to a public domain window manager (I used twm on all my DEC, Sun, and BSDI machines...) - opting out of the whole battle - because they valued a consistent software experience more than they valued cool 3D-looking widgets.
You don't need to be an advanced student of computer history to know what happened. While the UNIX vendors beat eachother up over what amounted to nitpicking details, another vendor offered the same consistent kind of software experiencea cross a broad spectrum of hardware, including laptops. I am referring, of course, to Microsoft/Intel. Through the exacting lens of 20/20 hindsight, it is clear that the UNIX vendors were short-sighted losers arguing over what to watch on the television and fighting for the remote control while the house burned down around them.
Now, read this carefully: I am not bashing Microsoft Windows. Nor am I bashing UNIX. As a UNIX system administrator with 20+ years experience, and a Windows system administrator since Windows 1.0, I can tell you that there isn't a whole lot of difference in the work-load of efficiently running either environment. Sure, there are lots of annoying details in either environment, but it takes about the same time for an expert to load and configure a system. In the old days, UNIX machines were faster to bring online because of the prevalence of decent tape drives while Windows was primarily loaded by floppy - but that's about the only distinguishing factor I can recall. In other words, customers didn't choose Windows because it was better (or worse) than UNIX; they did it because Microsoft/Intel was careful to guarantee them a consistent software experience across a broad selection of hardware. Equally important, application developers flocked to that consistent software experience because it meant their products were cheaper to develop without the headaches of version-specific differences.
In 1985, when I wrote code for my UNIX machine, it worked on all the other UNIX machines because there was basically a single flavor of UNIX, which all used the same compiler, and everything just worked. Today, you actually have to be quite careful if you want to write code that compiles and works correctly on S
What if he is his own boss? I'm working 7 days a week and about 10-12 hours a day. The end is in sight but when you're struggling to finish a project sometimes you need to work more.
To help with my health I workout every morning for about 45 minutes and it gets me going for the day. I'm worried about getting diabetes and so I choose to do something about it, exercise daily (M-F), quit drinking soda (& caffiene), and limit my calorie intake (~2000 cal/day). I've lost about 45 lbs and have 20~25 to get to my college/poor person weight. Not to mention I will be fit again when I get there. If I can do it anyone can. Quitting caffiene was hard for about a week (3 days of headaches and 4 days of craving sodas) but I sleep better and wake up without needing my alarm. I used to drink about 3-4 liters of soda so 90% of my days calories were coming from there.
And like the other people said, you can always find another job.
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This actually makes sense. Are you certain the FCC is behind it?
Common sense need not apply in America. Everyone will blame someone else for their problems before they look in the mirror. That is why it is so easy to be successful in this world. The only leg up you need is drive to succeed, the desire to keep trying until the day you die, and the ability to see your faults and improve upon them.
Lesson on how to succeed:
If you fail, try again. Repeat.
I've worked for 5-6 failed businesses before getting sick of it. I am on my 3rd company and it will succeed or fail. Either way I'm going to start another business. My 1st failed due to inexperience, 2nd is breaking even which means I don't make any money and get to work on it for free, 3rd is slowly taking off and looks like I'll recoup my investment by the end of the year.
I'd rather make $20,000 a year working for myself 80 hours a week than take shit off some dipshit manager for $70,000. Life's to short to work with assholes. At least when I'm the boss the blame is valid when it stops at my feet. Now if my employee's weren't so expensive!
FYI 60 Euros is about 85 Dollars. Quite shocking when you go to buy something in an EU country. Not as shocking as in the UK where $2 = 1 Pound Sterling (and everything costs more in pounds than it does in dollars at home, enjoy $4 cokes!).
Tougher to file for people to file Chapter 11. Not corporations, it is very easy to disolve a corporation after paying out all the revenue to employees, etc...
JDeveloper is by Oracle, JBuilder is by Borland. JDeveloper is great but I prefer JBuilder. It's amazing how far it has come.
How far in advance before Apple had the trademark did he get the domain?
Because we live in Conservative America where a breast is a horrible blight on society. I love going to Europe where shower commericals show nude women and noone seems to give a shit. Not to mention people on the beaches.
What the fuck is wrong with people in this country. Oh yea, sex is evil & a sin if it's not for procreation. Religion is the root of all evil.
Mmmmm.... Tripe. Delicious until you find out what it is. Fried with lots of A-1 or BBQ sauce. Not quite as bad as lamb fries.
It would seem to me they could build one for significantly less. Dell's 4 hour service isn't as fast as having spare parts on-hand and swapping them yourself (someone has to be there to let Dell in so why can't they pull a harddrive sled and slide in a new one?). Plus the savings by building it themselves would more than cover the price of spare harddrives/controllers, etc...
That is just my experience. Dell's service/support is pretty good but I've had a significantly higher rate of failure on their hardware compared to purchasing components individually.
We don't need gene therapy. Let God decide who lives and dies. Courtesy your current Bush Administration.
Morality is just made up to justify ones actions. Who really cares? If the music/movie industry were hurting so bad they would get out of the business altogether.
The music/movie industries losses aren't tangible and in my opinion are not real losses. Copying isn't theft, it's copying. No different than taking a textbook to Kinko's and copying a few pages.
It's not a troll you schmuck.
The Battery is $33.81 instead of sending it to apple for $99
Plus the Player is $100 less since it isn't a cash cow and it has 10GB more storage (30 vs 20).
What is the benefit of the iPod again?
Amen, the best product in the world needs customers. Not to mention good marketing and sales. My companies salespeople are instructed to have integrity first. They don't get paid sales commissions but they do get bonuses based on the total company performance (actually everyone does) so the sales people don't have to lie to get customers and they don't have the opportunity to give us a black eye (based on our policy's). When you don't have sales/marketing people that are constantly in fear of losing their jobs because of missing a sales quota for a month or so.
My MP3 Player does this.
Better than an iPod for way less (plus the battery is exchangeable).
I use linux, windows, solaris and OS X. I have them each for different reasons. Linus however has been a UNIX guy from the beginning. It's like asking a Mac OS user to "just try windows, it's not that bad". Some people have their preference and as such use it. If you'd spent over 10 years working on an OS kernel it's doubtful you'd find the need to work in another OS since you have the one you're working on to your liking. I can do 95% of my work on OS X but I have a Thinkpad that I prefer. And I just bought this! (They said 1-2 weeks to ship but it shipped in 2 days!)
This has been known for a while. Read it and he discusses why he runs PPC instead of x86, just to have a different view on kernel development. Plus it's not like he runs OS X or something.
The problem is the games were much more playable when the graphics were shit. Now everyone (game developers) think they can substitute great graphics for gameplay when I'd rather play shitty old Thief/Thief II than HALO/DOOM III. After killing 100 aliens/monsters/whatthefuckevers it gets a bit repetitive. Programming for a living is repetitive enough, how about some innovative games?
CTRL-ESC is the windows key. I don't miss it ever.
MBA. You're exactly who it was invented for, not the alreay have a BBA and don't want to get a job types that I see in business school. Or you could go EE which is a good pairing as well, I have friends who did that and have done very well for themselves.
If it's simply 60 - 75 minutes due to traffic it would be less miles that wouldn't explain 150/200k on a two year old car. If it were a long driving distance (say Thousand Oaks) it would not be local.
I lived in North Dallas and worked downtown and it took 1 hour to get to work and 1 1/2 hours to get home every day (18 miles). Quickly I decided to move back to Oklahoma where I accepted a job in north Oklahoma City that was 35 miles from my house but took 35 minutes to get there. Slowly but surely I got sick of that so I started my own business in my own town. Now I'm getting tired of driving across Norman. I need to build an office with a loft I can live in. That way I just take an elevator down to work.
Or a thinkpad. I only buy laptops with the point stick because after getting used to it I have a hard time using anything else. Plus it allows you to type & use a pointer without really leaving the "home row". Now if they could just combine that with a MS Natural Keyboard (the old pro one with the REAL layout not the new stupid big delete key and function lock key) I'd buy one for $100 or so.
That first gridlock scene is on 635 & Josey in Dallas. I used to work at 635 and Josey is why I know. I decided to move back to Oklahoma after a little over a year in dallas because it's better to make less money and have a higher standard of living than it is to live in your car 2 1/2 ~ 3 hours a day. Dallas is great for shopping but at 2 1/2 hours south I can hop down there when needed (how often does one really need to shop at Nieman's, ...) and on the bright side we're getting an apple store here in redneck/redstate land.
Who needs an enemy when you can divide and conquer yourself?
I survived the UNIX wars, unlike most of the companies involved in them. In their day, Pyramid, SCO, Apollo, DEC, Sun, Silicon Graphics, Gould and others fought ferocious scorched-earth wars trying to win customers' minds and money. The survivors, with the exception of Sun (a.k.a., The last man standing), have either disappeared into the mists of time, or are niche players that have been forced into new markets in order to survive. Other than their conflict, what did they have in common?
They were all selling some kind of UNIX operating system.
Back in the UNIX wars, the vendors had two primary axes on which they could compete: hardware speed, and features of their flavor of UNIX. Toward the end of the UNIX wars, a third battle evolved, over the desktop metaphor, the look and feel of the workstations' GUI. If you were around back then, you'll remember the ferocious fights over whether or not the 3D-look widgets of the Open Software Foundation (OSF) Motif metaphor were just flash and glitter or whether they were actually kind of cool.
Today, few remember the argument, and the code in question would be considered remarkably tight and lightweight compared to what people now use. If you step back and look at the UNIX wars from a high altitude, the actual battlefield was very small - GUIs and features in a UNIX operating system don't really sway customers much. The vendor who won, Sun, did so because they offered a consistent software experience (SunOs, later Solaris) across a broad spectrum of hardware at different performance levels from desktop to data center. In other words, the customers didn't care if the GUI had a 3D look and feel as long as it was fast, reliable, and affordable. A lot of users got sick of the debate and switched to a public domain window manager (I used twm on all my DEC, Sun, and BSDI machines...) - opting out of the whole battle - because they valued a consistent software experience more than they valued cool 3D-looking widgets.
You don't need to be an advanced student of computer history to know what happened. While the UNIX vendors beat eachother up over what amounted to nitpicking details, another vendor offered the same consistent kind of software experiencea cross a broad spectrum of hardware, including laptops. I am referring, of course, to Microsoft/Intel. Through the exacting lens of 20/20 hindsight, it is clear that the UNIX vendors were short-sighted losers arguing over what to watch on the television and fighting for the remote control while the house burned down around them.
Now, read this carefully: I am not bashing Microsoft Windows. Nor am I bashing UNIX. As a UNIX system administrator with 20+ years experience, and a Windows system administrator since Windows 1.0, I can tell you that there isn't a whole lot of difference in the work-load of efficiently running either environment. Sure, there are lots of annoying details in either environment, but it takes about the same time for an expert to load and configure a system. In the old days, UNIX machines were faster to bring online because of the prevalence of decent tape drives while Windows was primarily loaded by floppy - but that's about the only distinguishing factor I can recall. In other words, customers didn't choose Windows because it was better (or worse) than UNIX; they did it because Microsoft/Intel was careful to guarantee them a consistent software experience across a broad selection of hardware. Equally important, application developers flocked to that consistent software experience because it meant their products were cheaper to develop without the headaches of version-specific differences.
In 1985, when I wrote code for my UNIX machine, it worked on all the other UNIX machines because there was basically a single flavor of UNIX, which all used the same compiler, and everything just worked. Today, you actually have to be quite careful if you want to write code that compiles and works correctly on S
What if he is his own boss? I'm working 7 days a week and about 10-12 hours a day. The end is in sight but when you're struggling to finish a project sometimes you need to work more.
To help with my health I workout every morning for about 45 minutes and it gets me going for the day. I'm worried about getting diabetes and so I choose to do something about it, exercise daily (M-F), quit drinking soda (& caffiene), and limit my calorie intake (~2000 cal/day). I've lost about 45 lbs and have 20~25 to get to my college/poor person weight. Not to mention I will be fit again when I get there. If I can do it anyone can. Quitting caffiene was hard for about a week (3 days of headaches and 4 days of craving sodas) but I sleep better and wake up without needing my alarm. I used to drink about 3-4 liters of soda so 90% of my days calories were coming from there.
And like the other people said, you can always find another job.
3 hours by car is frequently more by bicycle. However it would probably help his fitness.