Or, by getting distracted by attempting to grow the company for no good reason and find new markets instead of continuing to keep their existing customers happy, they end up pissing off all their existing customers and then they go bankrupt.
Yeah.. if you aren't capable of satisfying your customers, then you'll go bankrupt. I never said, piss off everyone, tell your customers to go to hell, and always search for some other business to be in.
All businesses eventually end, and it is not a given that whatever you do after the company ends will be a success. The only question is whether you want to start working on your next company/job while you have an existing income stream, or you want to do it after you've lost your existing business.
How would Brennan's do if they tried to turn into a nationwide chain?
I don't know. It depends on how well they execute it. It isn't like they would go out and purchase a thousand restaurants, and open them all at once. They would open 1 new location. Maybe across town, or in the next state. That wouldn't be very risky, and it would provide them more stability than having 1 location in NO. All of the chain restaurants started at 1 location.
If your bakery goes belly-up, but you had a good 5 year run with it,
You're describing your business as a job. Some (many?) business owners start small businesses with such a mindset. And that is perfectly ok. But when the company eventually fails, and you get a new job working someplace else, that does not transform the business' failure into something else. Whether the owner was ok with the failure is irrelevant.
You attempt to reclassify the failure as a simple job change. But what you describe ("business drying up") is exactly the type of thing that could have been prevented if the owner continued growing their company and finding new markets to satisfy.
How many locations does Brennan's in New Orleans have?
They get a round of applause for surviving the economic disaster that was Katrina. Most were not that lucky.
What type of business are you imagining where it is invulnerable to change? Because I really can't think of even a single one.
I do know lots of small businesses owners who think they are invulnerable. Because what's great today will always be great tomorrow. But they are wrong.
And here's a real example: My uncle's father started a construction company, and handed down to his son. He (uncle) ran the company for 25 years, and had a half-dozen employees, and several million in revenue. That company is dead now, thanks to the recession. He doesn't know what he's going to do, but he doesn't own a construction company anymore.
Why do you think there's a small business somewhere that has a goose that lays a golden egg? History is full of dead companies, big and small. Millions of them, in fact.
No. Hostess specifically blamed low-carb diets: link
You imagine twinkies aren't going anywhere, but you forget/ignore the incredible number of brands that disappear every year. Foods go in and out of style all the time. Considering the restaurant industry has one of the highest failure rates of any market, it's really a terrible example.
And small businesses are vulnerable to all kinds of changes. How many SMBs have been put out of business because a walmart or homedepot opened in the neighborhood. How many have closed up because the neighborhood had too many foreclosures or the demographics of the neighborhood changed, and their customer base disappeared.
What type of business are you imagining where it is invulnerable to change? Because I really can't think of even a single one.
Twinkies are made by Hostess, a company that owns quite a few food brands. They filed for bankruptcy in 2004, and laid off 1/3rd of their workforce: 10,000 people. Also, they lost $150 million last year.
I'm sorry, what were you saying again?
The problem with a company that isn't growing is that it isn't making any progress expanding into new areas and finding new customers. Which means it's just waiting for the next generation of tech or (for non-IT companies) the first disaster/neighborhood change/etc to kill the business. In other words, it's just waiting in limbo for bankruptcy.
Fact is markets change.. what you sell today is tomorrows commodity, or worse, an obsolete good. Companies and business models have to change. Anyone who doesn't will eventually die.
Oh, I don't know. I heard a commentator on BBC World News here in London say this morning that the British actually have the highest number of patents taken out every year, of all countries and nationalities.
Of course, he didn't back it up with the references or citations to prove it, but I found it interesting.
He didn't back it up with any references because its not true. The U.S. still has the highest number of patents issued each year. Here are the numbers from the USPTO for 2003:
United States: 98598
United Kingdom: 4031
World: 187053
So the U.S. filed more than half of the worlds patents in 2003. The British total doesn't even come close.
The loss of US manufacturing jobs essentially started in the '70's and finished in the '80's.
We're still losing manufactuaring jobs:
From this PBS NewsHour article: Of the 2.5 million net jobs lost since the recession officially began in march 2001, fully two million of them have been in manufacturing.
Or from this CNN article: While things may be tougher for white-collar workers, it's still the men and women in manufacturing jobs who are most affected by structural change. Of the 2.9 million private-sector jobs that have been lost since 1991, a full 2.56 million are from manufacturing.
Even if you accept their pathetic excuse that they couldn't pass on any info because of the DPA, could they not have sent someone round to speak to them before cutting them off? A bill collector? Engineer? Anyone?
Are you sure they didnt send someone to thier house.. from this article:
Eventually, on Aug 1, British Gas sent an official to their house in Tooting, south-west London. He turned off the gas after no one came to the door.
A student at a major U.S. university, and he not only can't answer a simple history question every American should be able to answer -- he doesn't even understand what is said to him? Pearl Harbor isn't a "power." It's a little country in the middle of the Atlantic; everybody knows that!
Someone should tell him that Pearl Harbor is part of Hawaii, and that its in the Pacific; everybody knows that!
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This is probably atleast part of the reason... 2TB served in a single day from 550mhz xeon p3. The previous record was 1.39TB, and was also a FreeBSD server (a 500mhz xeon p3).
1)Eolas wins, microsoft is crippled, Eolas targets Opera, ATW (for mozilla), etc. 2)Microsoft wins, stupid patents are crippled.
If they are willing to sue for money using a frivilous patent, then why wouldnt they find another target if they win against MS... certainly Eolas will want to get their greedy hands on some of ATWs cash.
Maybe you should take a look at opensecrets.org.
Consider the following:
Under the group "Communications/Electronics" MS doesnt show up in the top 20 until 1998. They gave $1,365,296, 2/3rds of that going to republicans.
Year 2000, election year, MS was the second largest contributor, giving $4,671,353. Remember that year was a close race, so MS devided it about evenly, giving 47% to the democrats and 53% to the republicans.
MS drops to #4 in the list, giving $2,955,028, 2/3rds to the republicans.
Even if they werent buying off the administration, someone could certainly draw that conclusion considering that Microsofts donations amounted to almost nothing before the anti-trust suit started.
I agree with you thats its a waste of time. The pdf basically says that.NET is far faster, cheaper, and uses fewer lines of code than J2EE. It also says that for best results, you should use.Net 1.1 and Windows.NET Server 2003 (Hmm, is that a version that hasnt been released yet?).
I have a dialup, and I cvsup -stable on a weekly basis. It usually 15-30 minutes to update all the sources. When I updated the sources from 4.5-RELEASE to 4.6-RELEASE it took about 1 1/2 hours. Compare that to about 24 hours to download the ISO. Cvsup definitely saves alot of time.
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Or, by getting distracted by attempting to grow the company for no good reason and find new markets instead of continuing to keep their existing customers happy, they end up pissing off all their existing customers and then they go bankrupt.
Yeah.. if you aren't capable of satisfying your customers, then you'll go bankrupt. I never said, piss off everyone, tell your customers to go to hell, and always search for some other business to be in.
All businesses eventually end, and it is not a given that whatever you do after the company ends will be a success. The only question is whether you want to start working on your next company/job while you have an existing income stream, or you want to do it after you've lost your existing business.
How would Brennan's do if they tried to turn into a nationwide chain?
I don't know. It depends on how well they execute it. It isn't like they would go out and purchase a thousand restaurants, and open them all at once. They would open 1 new location. Maybe across town, or in the next state. That wouldn't be very risky, and it would provide them more stability than having 1 location in NO. All of the chain restaurants started at 1 location.
If your bakery goes belly-up, but you had a good 5 year run with it,
You're describing your business as a job. Some (many?) business owners start small businesses with such a mindset. And that is perfectly ok. But when the company eventually fails, and you get a new job working someplace else, that does not transform the business' failure into something else. Whether the owner was ok with the failure is irrelevant.
You attempt to reclassify the failure as a simple job change. But what you describe ("business drying up") is exactly the type of thing that could have been prevented if the owner continued growing their company and finding new markets to satisfy.
How many locations does Brennan's in New Orleans have?
They get a round of applause for surviving the economic disaster that was Katrina. Most were not that lucky.
What type of business are you imagining where it is invulnerable to change? Because I really can't think of even a single one.
I do know lots of small businesses owners who think they are invulnerable. Because what's great today will always be great tomorrow. But they are wrong.
And here's a real example: My uncle's father started a construction company, and handed down to his son. He (uncle) ran the company for 25 years, and had a half-dozen employees, and several million in revenue. That company is dead now, thanks to the recession. He doesn't know what he's going to do, but he doesn't own a construction company anymore.
Why do you think there's a small business somewhere that has a goose that lays a golden egg? History is full of dead companies, big and small. Millions of them, in fact.
You imagine twinkies aren't going anywhere, but you forget/ignore the incredible number of brands that disappear every year. Foods go in and out of style all the time. Considering the restaurant industry has one of the highest failure rates of any market, it's really a terrible example.
And small businesses are vulnerable to all kinds of changes. How many SMBs have been put out of business because a walmart or homedepot opened in the neighborhood. How many have closed up because the neighborhood had too many foreclosures or the demographics of the neighborhood changed, and their customer base disappeared.
What type of business are you imagining where it is invulnerable to change? Because I really can't think of even a single one.
Twinkies are made by Hostess, a company that owns quite a few food brands. They filed for bankruptcy in 2004, and laid off 1/3rd of their workforce: 10,000 people. Also, they lost $150 million last year. I'm sorry, what were you saying again?
The problem with a company that isn't growing is that it isn't making any progress expanding into new areas and finding new customers. Which means it's just waiting for the next generation of tech or (for non-IT companies) the first disaster/neighborhood change/etc to kill the business. In other words, it's just waiting in limbo for bankruptcy. Fact is markets change.. what you sell today is tomorrows commodity, or worse, an obsolete good. Companies and business models have to change. Anyone who doesn't will eventually die.
He didn't back it up with any references because its not true. The U.S. still has the highest number of patents issued each year. Here are the numbers from the USPTO for 2003:
United States: 98598
United Kingdom: 4031
World: 187053
So the U.S. filed more than half of the worlds patents in 2003. The British total doesn't even come close.
References: USPTO: Patent Counts by Country/State and Year, All Patents, All Types ... (From Jan 1, 1977 - Dec 31, 2003)
We're still losing manufactuaring jobs:
From this PBS NewsHour article: Of the 2.5 million net jobs lost since the recession officially began in march 2001, fully two million of them have been in manufacturing.
Or from this CNN article: While things may be tougher for white-collar workers, it's still the men and women in manufacturing jobs who are most affected by structural change. Of the 2.9 million private-sector jobs that have been lost since 1991, a full 2.56 million are from manufacturing.
Are you sure they didnt send someone to thier house.. from this article:
Pearl Harbor? What on earth is going on here?
A student at a major U.S. university, and he not only can't answer a simple history question every American should be able to answer -- he doesn't even understand what is said to him? Pearl Harbor isn't a "power." It's a little country in the middle of the Atlantic; everybody knows that!
Someone should tell him that Pearl Harbor is part of Hawaii, and that its in the Pacific; everybody knows that!
Earthlink has NOT blocked it
lol.. yeah.. one of them is ours... but it didnt bring much traffic to our site... I didnt even notice until you said something though...
For 2000, it says Gerald Levin (ATW ceo) received $164 Million (!!!) in total compensation.
'Nuff said.
This is probably atleast part of the reason... 2TB served in a single day from 550mhz xeon p3. The previous record was 1.39TB, and was also a FreeBSD server (a 500mhz xeon p3).
erickrout.com resolves to a tera-byte.com IP... Tera-byte is a hosting company.
Its not a win/win for consumers:
1)Eolas wins, microsoft is crippled, Eolas targets Opera, ATW (for mozilla), etc.
2)Microsoft wins, stupid patents are crippled.
If they are willing to sue for money using a frivilous patent, then why wouldnt they find another target if they win against MS... certainly Eolas will want to get their greedy hands on some of ATWs cash.
So at best, its a win/lose.
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Under the group "Communications/Electronics" MS doesnt show up in the top 20 until 1998. They gave $1,365,296, 2/3rds of that going to republicans.
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Year 2000, election year, MS was the second largest contributor, giving $4,671,353. Remember that year was a close race, so MS devided it about evenly, giving 47% to the democrats and 53% to the republicans.
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MS drops to #4 in the list, giving $2,955,028, 2/3rds to the republicans.
Even if they werent buying off the administration, someone could certainly draw that conclusion considering that Microsofts donations amounted to almost nothing before the anti-trust suit started.Actually the results say the exact opposite. Here are the exact numbers from page 40 of the benchmarks:
User Interface: 1,002 5,567
Middle Tier: 795 6,187
Data Tier: 197 197
Configuration: 102 2,053
Total: 2,096 14,004
I agree with you thats its a waste of time. The pdf basically says that
BTW, ive put up a mirror in case thier server crashes:
http://home.earthlink.net/~rgbrenner/j2eedotnetbe
Isnt it: "Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."
Atleast thats what I found here
why not use the -r option? pkg_add -r (package) will fetch the package and install it.
:)
Ex: pkg_add -r nmap will install the latest version of Nmap.
Even easier
Just caught a mistake in my post.. it takes more like 35-40 hours to download the ISO on a dialup.
I have a dialup, and I cvsup -stable on a weekly basis. It usually 15-30 minutes to update all the sources. When I updated the sources from 4.5-RELEASE to 4.6-RELEASE it took about 1 1/2 hours. Compare that to about 24 hours to download the ISO. Cvsup definitely saves alot of time.
ALR-2002-003-paper.pdf