Good for you. I pay for two tickets, don't have an option for a bus, and have a three year old that I refuse to take to a theater right now. It costs us a lot more to go to the theater than it costs you.
It costs me close to $70.00 by the time I'm done with paying for:
*Babysitting *Parking *Ticket *Crap to eat
It costs me approx. $15.00 for a DVD.
To add to that my home theater looks and sounds great, the seats are more comfortable, we can pee when we want, and the drinks are a hell of a lot cheaper. We haven't been to a theater in over three years now when before the munchkin we used to go at least once a month. Sure, there was the initial investment in the home theater, but we're past breaking even on that now.
SOX requires strict change management controls over financial systems. When we went through our audit, the auditing company was mostly concerned with how changes were made to these systems, what management controls were in place to monitor these changes, and the processes that were in place to ensure their integrity. None of the OSS software used in these processes was given a second glance beyond the aforementioned items. As an example, our use of Nessus as one the our tools for network audits and our archive of Nessus scans was applauded.
Bullshit. The $1200.00 Dell 9300 comes with 512MB Memory, a 60GB drive, a Radeon X300, and a WXGA screen. The only Dell laptop that comes with a GeForce 7800GTX is the XPS M170, which will run you at least $2500.00. You may be able to play Doom III, Quake 4, and Everquest on your laptop, but you're not doing it with close to the same level of performance that the XPS M170 or the Sager 5720 will give you.
Like the Sager 5720. I have one and it's great for gaming. It's not the most portable notebook, but it plays Battlefield 2 at 1600x1200 with most of the eye candy on. Runs around $2200.00 for the model with 1GB memory and the 1920x1200 screen.
Added bonus, XP was NOT included with the purchase!
17" WUXGA Active Matrix LCD
Pentium M 2.0GHZ - 2.26GHZ
nVIDIA GeForce Go 7800 GTX with 256mb of DDR3
1024 MB DDR2 533
80.0 GB 5400rpm SATA HD (SATA and other options)
Integrated CMOS Video Camera/4-in-1 Card Reader
8x DVD + - w/ combo drive
Microsoft Windows XP Home and Pro optional
10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet
Internal V.90 Fax/Modem
Internal Wireless 802.11 A/B/G(Standard)
Kano Technologies sells similar products as well. We're using the 1.6 TB Xspand storage unit and are very happy with it. We use it for our daily backups, and then use tape for our weekly offsite backups. We saved a bundle of money in lisencing for our backup software by doing things this way. For a small company, it works very well.
Microsoft uses their profit for positive benefits to society as well: 1 2 3 4 These are just a few from November, 2005.
Two articles are about the Gates Foundation, which is NOT Microsoft, one was about Google, and the last was actually about MS.
Also, Microsoft employs more than 12,000 people. These people likely buy products or use services that your employer produces.
They Actually employ more along the lines of 35,000 people, however, if they weren't there, that void would most likely be filled by someone else.
My security company offers corporations the ability to be virus and spam free for less than $250 per user per year. For a 50-user network, you're looking at only $12,500 to bring us on. Considering most of my customers bill out at $150 per hour, for only 83 hours invested, we're likely saving them hundreds of hours in time saved. If they switched to a Mac, they're still going to need someone working on their spam and other problems, and I don't see a huge savings there over us.
Or they could do the smart thing and use something like a Barracuda 400, which at less then $9000.00 for three years of maintenance and updates, is one hell of a lot cheaper than your fee. Considering they'd get free installation support from Barracuda Networks, it would be much, much, cheaper.
We've been using the Intellisync Mobile Suite for our enterprise users with great success. The client does an excellent job of providing email/calendar/contact sync via sms push. It's almost as fast as the Blackberry's we support, depending more on the users phone provider than on our Intellisync server.
Start with a Windows 2000/XP system with empty CD drives.
Click the Start button and select Control Panel from the Start Menu.
Double-click on the System control panel icon.
Select the Hardware tab and click the Device Manager button.
Configure Device Manager by clicking "Show hidden devices" and
"Devices by connection," both from the View menu.
Insert the Anthony Hamilton CD into the computer and allow the
SunnComm software to start. If MediaMax has never been
started before on the same computer, the SbcpHid driver should
appear on the list for the first time. However, on some systems
Windows needs to be rebooted before the driver becomes visible.
Next, follow these additional steps to disable MediaMax:
Select the SbcpHid driver from the Device Manager list and click
"Properties" from the Action Menu.
Click the Driver tab and click the Stop button to disable the driver.
Set the Startup Type to "Disabled" using the dropdown list.
Let's get George to make a special 'Readers Digest' version the first two. That was we can sit through one, instead of five hours of crap to understand the major plot points of this one.
Open source model does nto work well with this inherent greediness. IF one day we humans change our intrinsic nature, open source model might well replace the current individualist/capitalist model.
Open Source can work just fine with a "individualist/capitalist model". I think this is more a symptom of the industry than of human nature. Take a look at the culinary industry. There are two methods of operating:
There are plenty of examples of companies and restaraunts making money using either method.
Some, like Coca Cola and KFC, choose to guard their recipies and keep them secret. However, with some good reverse engineering, you can attempt to recreate those products.
Some, like many non chain restaraunts, will openly share the recipies for their menu items. Their food and ingredients are not kept secret, and if you can take it home and make it better, feel free!
In the big picture, both sides of the industry realize that at it's core, food is all made from the same base ingredients, using the same basic production processes, and that in the end, success is delivered by the perceived value of the item purchased. Sharing or not sharing what goes into that item is a decision made by the manufacturer.
Regarding handing over customer information to collections agencies without due process or any proof of guilt; We will be cancelling your service and contacting Speakeasy for our broadband needs. While their service may be a bit more expensive, and their speeds a tad slower, their commitment to their customer needs and their customers privacy makes them a much more acceptable choice in my home.
Debian was the one distro that I never really thought of having official releases. It has versions that are fluid with their packages:
Stable Testing Unstable
Each have their own rewards and risks, but the key to me, was that with the netinstall disks, they never went out of date. You never had a CD set full of six month old packages, you had your favorite debian versions latest, usually day old release, a download away.
The new installer is excellent, and with the lack of X based GUI, will still work with a minimal download.
You're right. In fact, the house I currently own is about to go on the market, but our equity is about to get reinvested in building a house. Once the project is done, we'll have a good bit more equity than we have now, with approximately the same mortgage balance and payment.
The average home may be owned for 7 years, but how many people that own go back to renting?
Only in the short term. If your house appreciates at a rate greater than inflation, you win out by owning in the long run. If we put inflation at 4%, then within 9-10 years you'll be paying more to rent that house or apartment, then someone who's been paying down a mortgage on an equivilant property for 10 years. Add on to that the money that the homeowner will earn upon sale of their property in 30 years, and renters really lose out.
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Good for you. I pay for two tickets, don't have an option for a bus, and have a three year old that I refuse to take to a theater right now. It costs us a lot more to go to the theater than it costs you.
It costs me close to $70.00 by the time I'm done with paying for:
*Babysitting
*Parking
*Ticket
*Crap to eat
It costs me approx. $15.00 for a DVD.
To add to that my home theater looks and sounds great, the seats are more comfortable, we can pee when we want, and the drinks are a hell of a lot cheaper. We haven't been to a theater in over three years now when before the munchkin we used to go at least once a month. Sure, there was the initial investment in the home theater, but we're past breaking even on that now.
SOX requires strict change management controls over financial systems. When we went through our audit, the auditing company was mostly concerned with how changes were made to these systems, what management controls were in place to monitor these changes, and the processes that were in place to ensure their integrity. None of the OSS software used in these processes was given a second glance beyond the aforementioned items. As an example, our use of Nessus as one the our tools for network audits and our archive of Nessus scans was applauded.
Just my Experience.
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Bullshit. The $1200.00 Dell 9300 comes with 512MB Memory, a 60GB drive, a Radeon X300, and a WXGA screen. The only Dell laptop that comes with a GeForce 7800GTX is the XPS M170, which will run you at least $2500.00. You may be able to play Doom III, Quake 4, and Everquest on your laptop, but you're not doing it with close to the same level of performance that the XPS M170 or the Sager 5720 will give you.
Added bonus, XP was NOT included with the purchase!
17" WUXGA Active Matrix LCD
Pentium M 2.0GHZ - 2.26GHZ
nVIDIA GeForce Go 7800 GTX with 256mb of DDR3
1024 MB DDR2 533
80.0 GB 5400rpm SATA HD (SATA and other options)
Integrated CMOS Video Camera/4-in-1 Card Reader
8x DVD + - w/ combo drive
Microsoft Windows XP Home and Pro optional
10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet
Internal V.90 Fax/Modem
Internal Wireless 802.11 A/B/G(Standard)
Kano Technologies
Yes, you are.
Microsoft uses their profit for positive benefits to society as well: 1 2 3 4 These are just a few from November, 2005.
Two articles are about the Gates Foundation, which is NOT Microsoft, one was about Google, and the last was actually about MS.
Also, Microsoft employs more than 12,000 people. These people likely buy products or use services that your employer produces.
They Actually employ more along the lines of 35,000 people, however, if they weren't there, that void would most likely be filled by someone else.
My security company offers corporations the ability to be virus and spam free for less than $250 per user per year. For a 50-user network, you're looking at only $12,500 to bring us on. Considering most of my customers bill out at $150 per hour, for only 83 hours invested, we're likely saving them hundreds of hours in time saved. If they switched to a Mac, they're still going to need someone working on their spam and other problems, and I don't see a huge savings there over us.
Or they could do the smart thing and use something like a Barracuda 400, which at less then $9000.00 for three years of maintenance and updates, is one hell of a lot cheaper than your fee. Considering they'd get free installation support from Barracuda Networks, it would be much, much, cheaper.
We've been using the Intellisync Mobile Suite for our enterprise users with great success. The client does an excellent job of providing email/calendar/contact sync via sms push. It's almost as fast as the Blackberry's we support, depending more on the users phone provider than on our Intellisync server.
Go to Lowes and you'll see a KDE based desktop.
It's time for MORE extended downtime!
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Start with a Windows 2000/XP system with empty CD drives.
Next, follow these additional steps to disable MediaMax:
Also, I'd suggest disabling autorun.
Gollum Not fair! It isn't fair, my precious, is it, to ask us what it's got in its nassty little PeeCeessssssesss?
Bilbo What have I got in my pocket?
Gollum Sssssss. It must give us three guesseses, my preciouss-three guesseses.
Bilbo Very well! Guess away!
Gollum Photoshop!
Bilbo Wrong! Guess again!
Gollum Sssssss. Autocad!
Bilbo Wrong! Last guess!
Gollum Sssssss
Bilbo Time's up!
Gollum DOOMIII!-or nothing!
BilboBoth wrong!
Let's get George to make a special 'Readers Digest' version the first two. That was we can sit through one, instead of five hours of crap to understand the major plot points of this one.
It's the dumbass that needs the calendaring and scheduling that Outlook + Exchange give you. When Thunderbird can do that, you might have a point.
As an FYI, that was Mercedes, who IIRC, will always leave their safety feature patents unenforced.
Open Source can work just fine with a "individualist/capitalist model". I think this is more a symptom of the industry than of human nature. Take a look at the culinary industry. There are two methods of operating:
1) Proprietary/Closed recipies. 2) Shared/Open recipies.
There are plenty of examples of companies and restaraunts making money using either method.
Some, like Coca Cola and KFC, choose to guard their recipies and keep them secret. However, with some good reverse engineering, you can attempt to recreate those products.
Some, like many non chain restaraunts, will openly share the recipies for their menu items. Their food and ingredients are not kept secret, and if you can take it home and make it better, feel free!
In the big picture, both sides of the industry realize that at it's core, food is all made from the same base ingredients, using the same basic production processes, and that in the end, success is delivered by the perceived value of the item purchased. Sharing or not sharing what goes into that item is a decision made by the manufacturer.
Link
Link
Link
There's more links if you do a google search.
Regarding handing over customer information to collections agencies without due process or any proof of guilt; We will be cancelling your service and contacting Speakeasy for our broadband needs. While their service may be a bit more expensive, and their speeds a tad slower, their commitment to their customer needs and their customers privacy makes them a much more acceptable choice in my home.
Thank you and goodbye.
Debian was the one distro that I never really thought of having official releases. It has versions that are fluid with their packages:
Stable
Testing
Unstable
Each have their own rewards and risks, but the key to me, was that with the netinstall disks, they never went out of date. You never had a CD set full of six month old packages, you had your favorite debian versions latest, usually day old release, a download away.
The new installer is excellent, and with the lack of X based GUI, will still work with a minimal download.
If they go off the contents of my Hotmail inbox, I'll get direct contact with people that can supply me with the following:
A larger penis!
A better sex life!
Breast Implants! Woohoo!
And a spic and span clean credit report!
MSN Search here I come!
It here:
Tax Savings: 126,462.18
Compounded 12 times annually at 5% for 30 years, your 37,000 dollars would be worth 165,306.54.
You're right. In fact, the house I currently own is about to go on the market, but our equity is about to get reinvested in building a house. Once the project is done, we'll have a good bit more equity than we have now, with approximately the same mortgage balance and payment.
The average home may be owned for 7 years, but how many people that own go back to renting?
Nice try.
Only in the short term. If your house appreciates at a rate greater than inflation, you win out by owning in the long run. If we put inflation at 4%, then within 9-10 years you'll be paying more to rent that house or apartment, then someone who's been paying down a mortgage on an equivilant property for 10 years. Add on to that the money that the homeowner will earn upon sale of their property in 30 years, and renters really lose out.
Let's use these numbers:
Rent information
1,100.00 Monthly Rent
15.00 Monthly Insurance
4.00 Annual rent increase
Home Purchase
222,000.00 Home Value
2,220.00 Annual Taxes
1,110.00 Annual Hazard Insurance
1,332.00 Annual Maintanance
5.00 Appreciation
Financial Info
185,000.00 Loan Amount
6.000 Interest Rate
30.00 Length of Loan
1.000 Loan Points
2,000.00 Closing cost
30.00 Years before sell
6.000 Selling cost
3.000 Annual savings rate
28.000 Your tax rate
Joint Filing Status
At the end of 30 years, here's how the numbers work out:
Rent Analysis
Years to Rent: 30.00
Average rent: 2,084.49
Total Rent and Insurance: 750,416.47
Home Ownership Analysis
Mortgage Payments: 399,300.65
Taxes and Insurance: 99,900.00
Maintenance: 39,960.00
Tax Savings: 126,462.18
Ownership Investment: 383,902.83
Rent vs Buy Analysis
Monthly Mortgage Payment (PI): 1,109.17
House Appreciation Value: 959,471.21
Proceeds Minus Costs: 901,902.93
Loan Balance: -0.00
Equity Appreciation: 864,902.93
So the renter will pay approximately 366513.64 more to have a place to live, and miss out on 478,000 in acutal profit. Enjoy renting.