At those rates, I'd have trouble believing you'd be professional or reputable.
Here's the deal: call around and ask local plumbers and auto mechanics what their labor rate is. Find an average and charge that rate for your computer services. It'll be in the ball park of $85+, unless you're in a semi-rural area.
No, he's probably not professional. The reasons plumbers and electricians can charge so much are they are 1- licensed, but mostly 2- they're insured. I can demand $200 an hour, and when the client asks why I charge so much, I can say that all my work is *insured*, that any damage I might unintentionally cause will be covered by the insurance company. The neighbor's kid may charge less, but what happens if he drops a coke into the laptop? What happens if he destroys all the data? What recourse do you have? Because professionals are insured, they can charge more because there's less risk.
If I was paying for an entire run of a TV series, I'd at least want to read the scripts. Get a bunch of Star Trek fans involved with a script approval process and you'll have a riot.
If it takes me an hour of research to save $10 I have lost much more than I've gained.
If you save $10 after an hour of searching, you're in the hole. If you're buying 20 of them for your office, then you've saved your company $2000. That's certainly worth your time (unless you're Bill Gates).
I have two accounts, one at Dell Business and one at Dell Home. I buy from whichever suits my needs at the best price. I've been doing that for several years now, I can't believe this is really news...
This cannot be allowed to be considered evidence in any criminal case. We all know that software exists to place people in places they aren't.
Why should we ban evidence just because it could be faked? Fingerprints can be "faked" with latex gloves. DNA can be "faked" by leaving someone else's hair or bodily fluid. Every bit of evidence of a crime can be "faked", so why specifically ban digital photos?
It's the prosecutor's job to convince the judge the photos are real and unaltered. It's the defense attorney's job to show the pictures have been faked. It's the judges job to decide if the photos are admissable. Even if the pictures are allowed in court, the defense attorney still has a chance to convince the jury there's reasonable doubt the pictures are faked. That's how it goes with any bit of evidence.
Having an "incriminating" photo won't do much good unless you have a lot of other corroborating evidence. One photo or video won't do much good if the defendent can prove otherwise.
Should private companies have to compete with a body that has limitless funds, manpower and preferential access to sell their product? Discuss:)
Since when does any municipality have limitless funds? Hell every month the school board proposes a new budget that attempts to cut funding to the arts, and claim they're not receiving enough money from the county or state. They're closing fire houses. They're cutting police overtime. Unlimited funds and manpower? Give me a break.
Let the municipality build city wide internet access. Like any other city derived resource, it will be used by the less fortunate and the leeches who don't want to pay for something. The service will be nominally better than having none at all, but for many that's all they need.
Private companies will still compete because businesses still have needs. Individuals who want reliablity and accountability will still have needs that will only be met by a private company.
Breaking even is not a success. If you invest 500 million into something (arbitrary figure) and get 500 million back over the lifetime of the product, it was a bad investment.
It depends entirely on how you define "success". The Hubble telescope cost billions of dollars to build and maintain. It has given us back a big fat zero dollars in return. So is it a failure? Financially, yes, you could say it's a failure. However, you cannot put a figure on the data the Hubble has sent back to scientists. The knowledge gained is incalculable, and to many it's worth every penny and more, it has been the greatest success in the history of NASA. To those who just look at numbers, it's a flying heap of scrap and and a financial black hole.
MS has broken even selling Xbox hardware. That in itself may not be a financial success. If you add in the revenue from each game they sell, licensing fees, then yes, it does become a financial success. If you consider other factors like the fact they forced their way into a highly competative market controlled by Sony and Nintendo and are holding their own, then yes, it is a huge success. Success is not always defined by revenue alone.
That $2 billion price tag they mentioned was the cost of a robotic repair crew.
The article mentions that they don't want to risk stranding astronauts at Hubble since there's no haven there to rescue them if something should go wrong. So they *have* to use robots.
I'd fly up there and do the repairs for $1M regardless of the risks. Ok, maybe I'd ask for $50M since there's so much money floating around... but really, I'm sure if NASA offered $1M and training, they'd have thousands of volunteers regardless of the risks.
The only reason I came to the article was to brush up on my vocabulary. I thought for sure my kid was going to make a reference to 'fansubber' one day soon and i'd appear to be more out of touch than I actually am.
Yeah, it'll be useful for us parents when the FBI comes knocking on the door with a warrant for the seizure of computer equipment for illegal distribution of fansub materials... at least we'll have some idea what our kids are accused of...
Microsoft should stop this "Windows starter edition" bu115h!7 and give much lower license fees to developing countries. Like for example, $25 for Home, and $30 for pro.
That's the main reason why DVDs have regional encoding, so studios can sell DVDs cheaper overseas and those DVDs can't be shipped back to the states in bulk and sold at the lower price undercutting all the retailers.
If you sold XP Pro in Mexico for $30, you wouldn't find a legitimate copy in any store, because all the stores would be selling them online to people in the US.
Probably the most hated name among non-geek website administrators, who see their monthly transfer limit exceeded within a few seconds, see their hard work crushed under the weight good ol' fashioned slashdotting...
It's about the little remote device that triggers the camera not to take the picture! Obviously the device will use DCMA protected encrypted signals so only HP will be able to sell these devices, and privacy freaks will buy these devices from HP to prevent their faces from showing up on any camera. Of course, security cameras will not use the feature, but if they put this feature into cameras, even if nobody uses the feature, the paranoid will still buy the devices which block their images.
I keep a few sensitive files encrypted with an off-the-shelf program. I also have my porn in zip files that are encrypted, just so my gf or family doesn't accidentally stumble onto them. A decent firewall, AV, anti-spyware. Prevent IE and Firefox from caching passwords, no history or cache. Once in a while I wipe the free space, but that's about it.
to drive innovation in baseball product development.
I think they're trying to say that the games will be so cool that people will stop watching (live) baseball games, and that the MLB will have to innovate (live) baseball to make it more attractive to fans to get them to attend (live) games.
I wonder if you're allowed to broadcast a video game? Might be more exciting than a live game.
Its a shame there's not a windows/*nix version, or a similar thing using AIM or MSN Messenger. Do similar tools exist and I've never seen them maybe? I'd like to do some online collaborations.
Well, there's NetMeeting, which comes with Win2K and XP (and as an install on earlier versions). Text, audio/video conf, whiteboard, app sharing. Not the greatest but it's already installed and it's free.
I ran the current version of Spybot, then I ran the current version of AdAware (free version), and when I ran Microsoft Antispyware, it still found stuff to remove that the others didn't
Of course, the program has been criticized for the huge number of false positives that it detects. Did you check to see if the things it found were in fact spyware?
I ran MSAS first, and it found some spyware it was not able to remove. Then running Ad-Aware which identified the spyware correctly, and also removed it. That's proof enough for me that MS AS is not ready.
I remember back around the 16-bit times there were games that tried to be like that. Namely the early EA games and stuff like QB Club, etc. But these games didn't do as well as others.
If I remember correctly, the first big hit was EA's "One on One: Dr. J vs Larry Bird", the first game to model real athletes. And that was back in the good ol' 8-bit times. That was such a cool game, it all went downhill from there.
They can make it more difficult for you with their power supplies. If you buy something that is designed to only accept 120V supplies (i.e. USA, Canada, and some others) and plug it into a 230V supply (most of the rest of the world, including Europe, ther Middle East, Australia, New Zeland) the likely effect will be it going *bang*.
Sheesh, ever hear of a power converter? They sell everywhere, even in Wal-Mart. For $15 you get the voltage stepper plus the wacky plugs. If you're insightful enough to buy good from overseas, you're smart enough to know that you *might* need a power converter.
Hmmm... so did the article somehow come to us from the *future*? If the author doesn't live to be 1000 years old, at least we know he'll still be alive next month... and somewhere between today and two weeks from now someone must have invented a time machine to send the article back in time.
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At those rates, I'd have trouble believing you'd be professional or reputable.
Here's the deal: call around and ask local plumbers and auto mechanics what their labor rate is. Find an average and charge that rate for your computer services. It'll be in the ball park of $85+, unless you're in a semi-rural area.
No, he's probably not professional. The reasons plumbers and electricians can charge so much are they are 1- licensed, but mostly 2- they're insured. I can demand $200 an hour, and when the client asks why I charge so much, I can say that all my work is *insured*, that any damage I might unintentionally cause will be covered by the insurance company. The neighbor's kid may charge less, but what happens if he drops a coke into the laptop? What happens if he destroys all the data? What recourse do you have? Because professionals are insured, they can charge more because there's less risk.
If I was paying for an entire run of a TV series, I'd at least want to read the scripts. Get a bunch of Star Trek fans involved with a script approval process and you'll have a riot.
No, *I* get the cameo walk on role...
oops, meant "200 of them"... oh well, so much for my math.
If it takes me an hour of research to save $10 I have lost much more than I've gained.
If you save $10 after an hour of searching, you're in the hole. If you're buying 20 of them for your office, then you've saved your company $2000. That's certainly worth your time (unless you're Bill Gates).
I have two accounts, one at Dell Business and one at Dell Home. I buy from whichever suits my needs at the best price. I've been doing that for several years now, I can't believe this is really news...
This cannot be allowed to be considered evidence in any criminal case. We all know that software exists to place people in places they aren't.
Why should we ban evidence just because it could be faked? Fingerprints can be "faked" with latex gloves. DNA can be "faked" by leaving someone else's hair or bodily fluid. Every bit of evidence of a crime can be "faked", so why specifically ban digital photos?
It's the prosecutor's job to convince the judge the photos are real and unaltered. It's the defense attorney's job to show the pictures have been faked. It's the judges job to decide if the photos are admissable. Even if the pictures are allowed in court, the defense attorney still has a chance to convince the jury there's reasonable doubt the pictures are faked. That's how it goes with any bit of evidence.
Having an "incriminating" photo won't do much good unless you have a lot of other corroborating evidence. One photo or video won't do much good if the defendent can prove otherwise.
Guess it was downhill from the first DVD, see how long it takes for the Stewey branded Diapers.
Stewie was the model for CK brand diapers... so he probably has a non-compete clause in the contract.
Should private companies have to compete with a body that has limitless funds, manpower and preferential access to sell their product? Discuss :)
Since when does any municipality have limitless funds? Hell every month the school board proposes a new budget that attempts to cut funding to the arts, and claim they're not receiving enough money from the county or state. They're closing fire houses. They're cutting police overtime. Unlimited funds and manpower? Give me a break.
Let the municipality build city wide internet access. Like any other city derived resource, it will be used by the less fortunate and the leeches who don't want to pay for something. The service will be nominally better than having none at all, but for many that's all they need.
Private companies will still compete because businesses still have needs. Individuals who want reliablity and accountability will still have needs that will only be met by a private company.
Breaking even is not a success. If you invest 500 million into something (arbitrary figure) and get 500 million back over the lifetime of the product, it was a bad investment.
It depends entirely on how you define "success". The Hubble telescope cost billions of dollars to build and maintain. It has given us back a big fat zero dollars in return. So is it a failure? Financially, yes, you could say it's a failure. However, you cannot put a figure on the data the Hubble has sent back to scientists. The knowledge gained is incalculable, and to many it's worth every penny and more, it has been the greatest success in the history of NASA. To those who just look at numbers, it's a flying heap of scrap and and a financial black hole.
MS has broken even selling Xbox hardware. That in itself may not be a financial success. If you add in the revenue from each game they sell, licensing fees, then yes, it does become a financial success. If you consider other factors like the fact they forced their way into a highly competative market controlled by Sony and Nintendo and are holding their own, then yes, it is a huge success. Success is not always defined by revenue alone.
That $2 billion price tag they mentioned was the cost of a robotic repair crew.
The article mentions that they don't want to risk stranding astronauts at Hubble since there's no haven there to rescue them if something should go wrong. So they *have* to use robots.
I'd fly up there and do the repairs for $1M regardless of the risks. Ok, maybe I'd ask for $50M since there's so much money floating around... but really, I'm sure if NASA offered $1M and training, they'd have thousands of volunteers regardless of the risks.
The only reason I came to the article was to brush up on my vocabulary. I thought for sure my kid was going to make a reference to 'fansubber' one day soon and i'd appear to be more out of touch than I actually am.
Yeah, it'll be useful for us parents when the FBI comes knocking on the door with a warrant for the seizure of computer equipment for illegal distribution of fansub materials... at least we'll have some idea what our kids are accused of...
Microsoft should stop this "Windows starter edition" bu115h!7 and give much lower license fees to developing countries. Like for example, $25 for Home, and $30 for pro.
That's the main reason why DVDs have regional encoding, so studios can sell DVDs cheaper overseas and those DVDs can't be shipped back to the states in bulk and sold at the lower price undercutting all the retailers.
If you sold XP Pro in Mexico for $30, you wouldn't find a legitimate copy in any store, because all the stores would be selling them online to people in the US.
are probably nothing more than variations of the $ sign... =)
I heard there were drawings of some short squat bird and the words "die die die" over and over again...
Must be a top five brand for geeks?
Probably the most hated name among non-geek website administrators, who see their monthly transfer limit exceeded within a few seconds, see their hard work crushed under the weight good ol' fashioned slashdotting...
If you don't belive him, calculate it on google by searching for:
answer to life the universe and everything =
Does it take seven and a half million years to calculate?
It's about the little remote device that triggers the camera not to take the picture! Obviously the device will use DCMA protected encrypted signals so only HP will be able to sell these devices, and privacy freaks will buy these devices from HP to prevent their faces from showing up on any camera. Of course, security cameras will not use the feature, but if they put this feature into cameras, even if nobody uses the feature, the paranoid will still buy the devices which block their images.
and buy tin foil in bulk, it's gonna take a lot to protect my car...
Seriously, can the infected car infect another car that's sitting next to it at a stop light? Or people who are walking by it in the crosswalk?
Can I surf for porn one handed with this? I mean, that's what we all really want, right?
CGI-limits reached, please try again later!
Oh well, guess I waited for 21 years, I can wait a few more hours until it's mirrored elsewhere.
I keep a few sensitive files encrypted with an off-the-shelf program. I also have my porn in zip files that are encrypted, just so my gf or family doesn't accidentally stumble onto them. A decent firewall, AV, anti-spyware. Prevent IE and Firefox from caching passwords, no history or cache. Once in a while I wipe the free space, but that's about it.
to drive innovation in baseball product development.
I think they're trying to say that the games will be so cool that people will stop watching (live) baseball games, and that the MLB will have to innovate (live) baseball to make it more attractive to fans to get them to attend (live) games.
I wonder if you're allowed to broadcast a video game? Might be more exciting than a live game.
Its a shame there's not a windows/*nix version, or a similar thing using AIM or MSN Messenger. Do similar tools exist and I've never seen them maybe? I'd like to do some online collaborations.
Well, there's NetMeeting, which comes with Win2K and XP (and as an install on earlier versions). Text, audio/video conf, whiteboard, app sharing. Not the greatest but it's already installed and it's free.
I ran the current version of Spybot, then I ran the current version of AdAware (free version), and when I ran Microsoft Antispyware, it still found stuff to remove that the others didn't
Of course, the program has been criticized for the huge number of false positives that it detects. Did you check to see if the things it found were in fact spyware?
I ran MSAS first, and it found some spyware it was not able to remove. Then running Ad-Aware which identified the spyware correctly, and also removed it. That's proof enough for me that MS AS is not ready.
I remember back around the 16-bit times there were games that tried to be like that. Namely the early EA games and stuff like QB Club, etc. But these games didn't do as well as others.
If I remember correctly, the first big hit was EA's "One on One: Dr. J vs Larry Bird", the first game to model real athletes. And that was back in the good ol' 8-bit times. That was such a cool game, it all went downhill from there.
They can make it more difficult for you with their power supplies. If you buy something that is designed to only accept 120V supplies (i.e. USA, Canada, and some others) and plug it into a 230V supply (most of the rest of the world, including Europe, ther Middle East, Australia, New Zeland) the likely effect will be it going *bang*.
Sheesh, ever hear of a power converter? They sell everywhere, even in Wal-Mart. For $15 you get the voltage stepper plus the wacky plugs. If you're insightful enough to buy good from overseas, you're smart enough to know that you *might* need a power converter.
Hmmm... so did the article somehow come to us from the *future*? If the author doesn't live to be 1000 years old, at least we know he'll still be alive next month... and somewhere between today and two weeks from now someone must have invented a time machine to send the article back in time.