1. think "category killer" (ie Wal-Mart, Target, Dick's Sporting, Starbucks) 2. think "xbox 360 + HD tv" (ie Microsoft) 3. think "convenience of sitting at home and playing great looking massively multiplayer games": (ie couch potato) 4. think "out of business in 6 months"
I own a small retail business in a small town. Whatever you "plan" for overhead, double it and you will be close. Have you run a breakeven analysis, so you know what the minimum usage needs to be JUST TO COVER RENT AND UTILITIES? Do you really think that many kids and young male adults are looking for other thing to spend money on?
Many will come when you first open, but successful business require loyal, repeat customers. Without constant capital infusions and HARD WORK, your shop will start looking run-down and out of date, keeping people away.
I imagine in certain VERY high population density areas (ie downtown cities with lots of apartments), and a very large start-up budget (3 times larger than your highest estimate), and 3-4 years of VERY LONG HOURS and HARD WORK, you would have a greater then 50% shot at seeing some profit.
the Cray brand making a comeback in the super-computer area. I can remember fondly the days of my engineer CS days longing looking at those Cray supercomputers (was that a couch around it?!? COOL!) in awe and just wondering what they could possibly be computing with 512M of RAM and a 2G super-cooled processor. SUPER COOLED!
Who in the world *still* thinks that any data on any database is actually "safe"?? I've given up on this fairy tale long ago. Get real...if your info is stored somewhere/anywhere in some system, it is not, nor ever will be, secure.
(Pretty Good Privacy), as most Slashdot readers know, is one of the most popular software encryption programs ever.
This statement may indeed be true. And yet, 98 out of 100 people on the street would have no idea what PGP is. What does that say about software encryption programs.
So then, what does this say about Slashdot readers?
yes, exactly my point...been working in php5 lately and just cannot believe how carelessly different var types are allowed to be handled, and then people wonder why its hard to use/reuse the code? $foobar can represent any frigging datatype, from an int to an array of an array of objects, without any hint of how it may be used at declaration.
yup, and all we need to build a sphinx are a mountain, a chisel and a hammer Funny, but I'm pretty sure that's all they actually had TO build the sphinx...and, oh yeah, lots of slaves. Sounds like a typical IT operation.
the simplicity of the limeted instruction set of C wins the day. I sometimes wish more managers would understand this as they continue to "migrate" to more and more complex languages, when all that is needed is core C and some good, debugged libs.
Something tells me those with the money, but not the card, to purchase the music aren't sending checks to the artist after they pirate their music.
I've actually tried to do this at least 3-4 times, by going to the web sites of bands I've dl'ed, and each time they told me by contract with the label they are not able to accept money directly. Remember, CDs are made on borrowed money, and the label makes sure it gets paid back before the artists get anything.
My point is that they're making something new and probably forging new ground. According to this article, they suffered the same thing a lot of projects have suffered. You project management plan looks great in Microsoft Project. Then you print it out and re-wallpaper the offices only to have the developers sift through it and go, "What the fsck?"
Using my Windows experience, it's more like "What the format c:/s"...
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If this is what Microsoft is doing (and IMO I suspect it is) this smells of once again abusing their monopoly in OS to extend their control of new markets at the expense of fair competition.
Not trying to be too contentious here, but exactly what Microsoft OS "monopoly" are you talking about? There are plenty of free and pay OSs that people can use without the imagined MS-Gestapo coming in and sledgehammering your computers.
Like everything else in life, there is good and bad in MS, Linux, Apache etc etc....we should be careful in throwing about words like "monopoly" at MS when *true* monopolies exists, like your local phone and cable companies.
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...in other words, they are trying to introduce a "disruptive technology".
I have a few words to say.
1. think "category killer" (ie Wal-Mart, Target, Dick's Sporting, Starbucks)
2. think "xbox 360 + HD tv" (ie Microsoft)
3. think "convenience of sitting at home and playing great looking massively multiplayer games": (ie couch potato)
4. think "out of business in 6 months"
I own a small retail business in a small town. Whatever you "plan" for overhead, double it and you will be close. Have you run a breakeven analysis, so you know what the minimum usage needs to be JUST TO COVER RENT AND UTILITIES? Do you really think that many kids and young male adults are looking for other thing to spend money on?
Many will come when you first open, but successful business require loyal, repeat customers. Without constant capital infusions and HARD WORK, your shop will start looking run-down and out of date, keeping people away.
I imagine in certain VERY high population density areas (ie downtown cities with lots of apartments), and a very large start-up budget (3 times larger than your highest estimate), and 3-4 years of VERY LONG HOURS and HARD WORK, you would have a greater then 50% shot at seeing some profit.
Good luck to you.
the Cray brand making a comeback in the super-computer area. I can remember fondly the days of my engineer CS days longing looking at those Cray supercomputers (was that a couch around it?!? COOL!) in awe and just wondering what they could possibly be computing with 512M of RAM and a 2G super-cooled processor. SUPER COOLED!
...reality bit.
Then it was back to my PDP-11
someone grab www.planemos.org quick!
"price of jet fuel for 4 minute flight: $62.34"
"price of jetson-era backpack: $200,000"
"look on girlfriend face when you crash through her bedroom window, cutting yourself to shreds on the broken glass: priceless"
Yeah, and the California legislators were so happy with the deal that they threw in the rest of the State for a 15% stake in Google Earth.
...classes in Indian and Chinese. Pretty sure those skills will pay off big in the next 20 years or so.
Yeah right, 8 cores on one chip...that's almost as funny as needing more than 640k of memory!
...he forgot one catagory. 27.28% of bloggers are talking about other blogs...meta-blogging, so to speak.
...sounds a lot like the web 2.0. Do I sense a conspiracy here? Quick, find Cheney!
...and I thought that myspace was itself a virus...can a virus infect a virus?
Who in the world *still* thinks that any data on any database is actually "safe"?? I've given up on this fairy tale long ago. Get real...if your info is stored somewhere/anywhere in some system, it is not, nor ever will be, secure.
Get over it...
I, for one, welcome our truth detecting, brain-scanning overlords.
(Pretty Good Privacy), as most Slashdot readers know, is one of the most popular software encryption programs ever.
This statement may indeed be true. And yet, 98 out of 100 people on the street would have no idea what PGP is. What does that say about software encryption programs.
So then, what does this say about Slashdot readers?
yes, exactly my point...been working in php5 lately and just cannot believe how carelessly different var types are allowed to be handled, and then people wonder why its hard to use/reuse the code? $foobar can represent any frigging datatype, from an int to an array of an array of objects, without any hint of how it may be used at declaration.
People call this progress??
yup, and all we need to build a sphinx are a mountain, a chisel and a hammer
Funny, but I'm pretty sure that's all they actually had TO build the sphinx...and, oh yeah, lots of slaves. Sounds like a typical IT operation.
the simplicity of the limeted instruction set of C wins the day. I sometimes wish more managers would understand this as they continue to "migrate" to more and more complex languages, when all that is needed is core C and some good, debugged libs.
...is the source GPLed? It would be fun to add some random hacks, like simulating a pickup truck smashing through the roof, on this puppy.
Something tells me those with the money, but not the card, to purchase the music aren't sending checks to the artist after they pirate their music.
I've actually tried to do this at least 3-4 times, by going to the web sites of bands I've dl'ed, and each time they told me by contract with the label they are not able to accept money directly. Remember, CDs are made on borrowed money, and the label makes sure it gets paid back before the artists get anything.
My point is that they're making something new and probably forging new ground. According to this article, they suffered the same thing a lot of projects have suffered. You project management plan looks great in Microsoft Project. Then you print it out and re-wallpaper the offices only to have the developers sift through it and go, "What the fsck?"
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Using my Windows experience, it's more like "What the format c:
If this is what Microsoft is doing (and IMO I suspect it is) this smells of once again abusing their monopoly in OS to extend their control of new markets at the expense of fair competition.
Not trying to be too contentious here, but exactly what Microsoft OS "monopoly" are you talking about? There are plenty of free and pay OSs that people can use without the imagined MS-Gestapo coming in and sledgehammering your computers.
Like everything else in life, there is good and bad in MS, Linux, Apache etc etc....we should be careful in throwing about words like "monopoly" at MS when *true* monopolies exists, like your local phone and cable companies.
..but those 5-year warrenties don't really help you much if you FORGET THE BACKUP THE FRIGGING DRIVE!
customer: "my drive failed...i would like it replaced"
company: "sure..here is your new one!"
customer: "uhhh...what happened to my data?"
...to Web 3.0, where your every click and view is tracked by Big Brother "for your own good".
...most the women I know like 8 a lot more than 4-6...
...it's Microsoft Bob, exacting his revenge!