For a year in college I worked in the computer shop, mostly I just sold Dells to profs who couldn't pick specs on their own, and ocasionally ordered parts. However, we were next door to maintenence, and one day the guys over there started shouting about a hammer and hard drive. Well it turned out that one guy had heard of the thumping trick and just clobbered a drive as it was spinning up with the hammer. I think he hit it 5 or 6 times. Most people call me crazy but I have always had much better luck getting a SCSI bus configured than an IDE bus. IDE always seems to have a trick I didn't know regarding master/slave and booting or something. SCSI has been much easier to get working right.
I guess I wasn't clear in the first posting Busch actually didn't get best taste, I think that went to Sam Adams, which was rated as a cheap but good beer, but it did get the one that everyone thought was the quite expensive. They were rated on both taste and expected price. So if you have a beer snob coming over serve him Busch but don't show him the bottle.:)
If you arn't connecting with your main computer, the web based interface is one of the better ones. I have no problems accessing over my fairly slow DSL connection, and the one time I saw it used with dialup it didn't work any worse than any other email client over dialup. Wow, its been almost 6 years since I have used dialup for more than a week.
As a happy consumer of micros myself, I always thought it odd that my marketing professors considered microbrews to be the biggest marketing boondoggle in the beer market. I had to take a few classes to get a finance degree. Although after graduating I was suprised to find that Busch was rated the most likely to be the expensive lager in a blind test by the shopping guy at MSN, they tested several including Sam Adams Heinekin and all the majors. I guess the real test will come when one of the majors starts selling an ale for $10 a case.
Try a pair of New Balances, they are so much more comfortable than Nike/Reebok it's amazing. I had been a fan of Nikes until once when they were on sale, I tried a pair of NBs and didn't want to take them off. They seem to cradle my foot better, and spring better than the others ever did.
Here's my own example, not that I would buy a 21,000 CD player, but I did listen to one, and the most dramatic difference was that when the ffwd button was pressed, it just sped up, it never skipped. I am of the opinion that audio quality is just like any other system, your dollars can show an improvemnt, but that you should try to eliminate bottlenecks, or in this case soures of lower quality.
For most of us, a good set of speakers and proper positioning will have the most bang for the buck, than almost any other component. Until you start spending more than roughly $1000 a pair will you, start to notice the quality of you amp and cd player etc. Cables and things of that nature are the final step, but once you reach that level you might want to find a 12 step program.
Incidentally, the $20,000 CD player was mostly an artform, it was nice looking, and had a pretty sweet little window that went from clear to white as the CD began spinning. So there was more to it that just a the promise of better sound. I don't see any bigger problem with audiophiles paying thousands for an audio system than with a geek filling a garage with computers, paying up for broadband or the newest video accelerator on release day. Neither are exactly my cup of tea, but if they happen to be someone's hobby good for them.
Velcro was not developed in the space program, it was developed by an earth dwelling hiker who noticed the hooks on the burrs on his socks. The DOD was one of the biggest customers of the semiconductor industry when it was just developing, almost no one else could afford the chips. Space dollars will be better spent by private companies with an incentive to save money.
I think the best writeup of the article comes from the register, to summarize, Windows is cheaper because it compared all the expected costs, Linux/Unix administration costs more becuase the admins have a more hands on role in setting the system up, while Windows admins need the skill of a trained monkey to get everything up and running. However, when something goes wrong, as it will, the Linux/Unix admins will be better able to correct it, both by design and because of the hands on role they had in setting up the system, while the bargain basement windows admin will pilot his cursor around the screen hoping things fix themselves. A smarter Windows admin will be better able to fix the problems, but your cost savings goes away.
Also, the write up pointed out that if you add in an upgrade, the Linux system would come out ahead, since upgrades are free, and the cost differences are small.
I've had one or two that actually made me smile. One was from the Illuminati, telling me that I had been accepted, and that I should buy some penny stock that would make me money because it was an Illuminati stock, and the first 419 scam (the Nigerian scams) from Zaire, that explained that God wanted me to help him launder his dead father's assets out of the country were both pretty funny, almost as much as pop ups that deliver a 404 error. The rest are all pretty bad, but my mood is usually not dependant on an email or 10. The thing I found amazing about the article was that they only predicted 50% growth over 5 years. This from one of the research firms that with the insane growth for all things internet related throughout the bubble. Seems to me that a profitable online business might grow a little faster than that.
The only itanium2's avalable are hp's offerings (I think its the rp2600 and rp5670), they have a two way and four way that should have been shipping since August. Considering that HP is the co-developer and only one selling them, might tell you something. Although there have been rumblings that IBM and Dell will be adopting the architecture. I think Dell is waiting for a better chipset from someone besides HP. It seems like AMD is trying hard to move into the low end server business with these, but planning to sell a cut rate model to consumers to help cover their development costs.
I have to agree! There is nothing easier than finding a PC & access anywhere, and being able to email, check all my quotes, and see the latest news. Radio Shack is really nice about providing an open browser to show off their high speed access. All without screwing with the other person's settings, unless they need to reauthenticate for a cookie. By the way Exchange's web access is pretty useful as well, for all the corporate outlook users out there.
There was a guy on Ars selling a bunch of SGI x86 rackmounts that he obtained from the WETA group that did the special effects for the LOTR movies, so unless IRIX has been ported or they used Windows for their render farm, I would guess that they were rendered on Linux.
The article is comparing vendor prices, what AMD charges for 1000 CPU trays. They have historically offered about a 10% discount to the Intel chip at the same speed or model number after those were introduced. Pricewatch prices come from the grey market where large vendors bought too many chips and sell them to liquidators. I doubt you could order more than about 1000 chips at those prices, so while they are a great indication of what DIYers will pay, anyone who has their PC build by anything larger than the smallest assembler, will pay prices closer to those given in the article. This is just an indication that AMD gives better price breaks to its largest customers, and they are large enough that those customers usually order more than they need to reach the next pricing level.
Comparing pricewatch prices for CPUs is like going to the end of season clearance sales at a department store and deciding that, for example, CK is significantly cheaper than DKNY. Because the markdowns are 75% off for one and only 50% off for the other.
I pay $4.50 for evening shows and $3 for matinees. Of course there is currently a foot of snow outside, and the theater could certainly be better, but it isn't terrible.
Again, I was not alive during the time, but it sounds to me like Prohibition increased some crimes and decreased others. However, the crimes that it increased were the ones that get highly published while the ones that it reduced were those that the average person did not notice unless it happened to them, or someone very close to them.
It reminds me of the recent sniper shootings in the D.C. area. They got publicised quite frequently, and as a result people were quite fearful of them. However, I would guess that there were many other things that caused many more deaths during that period, and will continue to now that the perpitrators have been arrested. However, because the sniper shootings have been stopped, people are much less fearful.
And for the past month or so, you could get a bundle including two games and a small controller, the newer Japanese controller, it has a layout similar to the play station analog controllers.
This guy should look into the futures traders in the Chicago pits. One of the ways they know who is trading with someone across the room and surrounded by others, is through eye contact. The few I have met have said that they just get really good at telling if you are looking at them or the guy right behind them.
First, realize that you will need to find a town or berg with no cable franchise. A franchise is the right to be the only cable company in an area. Start lookin for very small towns, or large when wide spots in the road. Everywhere that was worth developing was developed when AT&Tstarted buying cable companies for 5k per sub. Note that you will probably have better luck buying part of Adelphia, than rolling your own. Should you happen to decide to purchase assets on the secondary market, try to pay about $2000 per subscriber, you might not be able to find anything at that price, but don't pay more than $3000 per sub. If you go the build your own route, make sure that you have some estimates on the density of housing in the areas you have to serve. (Most of the time the town will require you to roll cable out to areas that would not be profitable on their own in exchange for being the exclusive cable provider to the area, also for the easments.) You will need a lawyer to at a minimum look over the contract before you start, I suggest that you go to work for a cable company to learn somehting about how the business works. This is to learn how much it costs to lay a mile of cable, and how much the channels charge for their access. (You didn't think all your money would come from broadband access did you? That will probably be a small part of your earnings.) You will also want to go to work for your schools network services division, if you really want to have a chance at success with broadband. This way you will get hands on experience at running a broadband company, especially with very network happy users.
Once you have secured the town you plan to serve, you will need financing. This will probably be the hardest part of your job, as geeks are generally pretty poor at selling things. (For starters go buy a good suit. Try Penny's if your cheap, they sell a good suit for probably the least amount new. Try to find a classic black or navy, nothing too fancy or wierd and it will last quite some time.) Now you get to go begging for funds. You can try a bank, but they are generally not interested in loaning money to a recent grad who is looking to start a business. You can try to find a grant or jobs program in your state. Most states provide subsidized loans to businesses that will agree to create a number of jobs. The SBA might help in this part, as well, with loans, advice, or co-signing. Failing this you will have to pony up your own money, find investors, or seek family money. Not that I condone looting your grandparents' retirement but they might be willing to invest some in your business. If no financing is readily available, get a job and buy a house, save all you can, and when you are ready, use the equity in your house, your savings, and your experience to secure a loan.
Finally, if this isn't a troll, and you might be interested in providing cable to a small town in Montana, send your resume and business plan to me. If it looks like you are serious I might be able to put you in contact with a potential funding source.
Larry Ellison is much more ruthless than Bill, although he is usually pretty funny when he does a keynote, it's just that he is focused only on large enterprises, rather than consumers so he doesn't affect the average/.er. Wait until mySQL or PostgreSQL begins to approach Oracle's functionality, and you will have his fury unleashed. Sun only seems friendly because, like IBM, they see Linux as a way to sell more computers. Until opensource hardware arrives, they will only benefit from open source software.
Day 1. Buy 10 widgets @900 each. Terms of net 15.
Day 5. Sell 10 widgets on credit @ 1000 each. Terms of net 30.
Day 6. Order more 10 more widgets @ $900 each. Terms net 15.
Day 15. Pay employees ($500) and suppliers ($9000).
Day 17. Sell 10 more widgets @$1000 each. Terms net 30.
Day 18. Order 10 more widgets for an additional $10,000.
Day 21. Pay suppliers $9000.
Day 30. Pay employees $500.
At the end of the month you have made $1000 profit. You sold 20 widgets for $20,000 that only cost $18,000 and employee cost was only $1000. But you have paid out all of the $19,000 in expenses without collecting a dime. You are profitable, but don't have any cash flow. Think about what happens if a customer can't pay on time, you might collect some interest or penalties, but it could well bankrupt you. Its worse for most manufacturers. Just think if in the next month you sell 100 widgets. That is what kills most small businesses, they usually know enough about business to remain profitable, but because most business sales happen on credit, and you usually have to pay your suppiers first, because you have to have something to sell it, you face negative cash flow while your sales are growing.
Besides depriciation and other non-cash expenses, the alternative way to show losses but be cash flow positive is to have declining sales, but collect on your old recievables or lower inventory levels. Lucent and Nortel both were in this situation in 2001.
A friend's wife is the video counter manager at one of our video stores and they mostly use the glasses cleaner each rental to clean them, and a polish if they get scratch compliants.
I rode the bus twice, and I would not eat something from that toilet area if I was starving, and eating that meant the difference between life and death. You might want to put the snacks up by the driver. Also, Greyhound should change their slogan to it's not just a ride, it's an adventure.
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I have to ask where do these Soviet Russia jokes come from, have I missed the next all your base or something?
For a year in college I worked in the computer shop, mostly I just sold Dells to profs who couldn't pick specs on their own, and ocasionally ordered parts. However, we were next door to maintenence, and one day the guys over there started shouting about a hammer and hard drive. Well it turned out that one guy had heard of the thumping trick and just clobbered a drive as it was spinning up with the hammer. I think he hit it 5 or 6 times.
Most people call me crazy but I have always had much better luck getting a SCSI bus configured than an IDE bus. IDE always seems to have a trick I didn't know regarding master/slave and booting or something. SCSI has been much easier to get working right.
I guess I wasn't clear in the first posting Busch actually didn't get best taste, I think that went to Sam Adams, which was rated as a cheap but good beer, but it did get the one that everyone thought was the quite expensive. They were rated on both taste and expected price. So if you have a beer snob coming over serve him Busch but don't show him the bottle. :)
If you arn't connecting with your main computer, the web based interface is one of the better ones. I have no problems accessing over my fairly slow DSL connection, and the one time I saw it used with dialup it didn't work any worse than any other email client over dialup. Wow, its been almost 6 years since I have used dialup for more than a week.
As a happy consumer of micros myself, I always thought it odd that my marketing professors considered microbrews to be the biggest marketing boondoggle in the beer market. I had to take a few classes to get a finance degree. Although after graduating I was suprised to find that Busch was rated the most likely to be the expensive lager in a blind test by the shopping guy at MSN, they tested several including Sam Adams Heinekin and all the majors. I guess the real test will come when one of the majors starts selling an ale for $10 a case.
Try a pair of New Balances, they are so much more comfortable than Nike/Reebok it's amazing. I had been a fan of Nikes until once when they were on sale, I tried a pair of NBs and didn't want to take them off. They seem to cradle my foot better, and spring better than the others ever did.
Here's my own example, not that I would buy a 21,000 CD player, but I did listen to one, and the most dramatic difference was that when the ffwd button was pressed, it just sped up, it never skipped. I am of the opinion that audio quality is just like any other system, your dollars can show an improvemnt, but that you should try to eliminate bottlenecks, or in this case soures of lower quality.
For most of us, a good set of speakers and proper positioning will have the most bang for the buck, than almost any other component. Until you start spending more than roughly $1000 a pair will you, start to notice the quality of you amp and cd player etc. Cables and things of that nature are the final step, but once you reach that level you might want to find a 12 step program.
Incidentally, the $20,000 CD player was mostly an artform, it was nice looking, and had a pretty sweet little window that went from clear to white as the CD began spinning. So there was more to it that just a the promise of better sound. I don't see any bigger problem with audiophiles paying thousands for an audio system than with a geek filling a garage with computers, paying up for broadband or the newest video accelerator on release day. Neither are exactly my cup of tea, but if they happen to be someone's hobby good for them.
Velcro was not developed in the space program, it was developed by an earth dwelling hiker who noticed the hooks on the burrs on his socks. The DOD was one of the biggest customers of the semiconductor industry when it was just developing, almost no one else could afford the chips. Space dollars will be better spent by private companies with an incentive to save money.
I think the best writeup of the article comes from the register, to summarize, Windows is cheaper because it compared all the expected costs, Linux/Unix administration costs more becuase the admins have a more hands on role in setting the system up, while Windows admins need the skill of a trained monkey to get everything up and running. However, when something goes wrong, as it will, the Linux/Unix admins will be better able to correct it, both by design and because of the hands on role they had in setting up the system, while the bargain basement windows admin will pilot his cursor around the screen hoping things fix themselves. A smarter Windows admin will be better able to fix the problems, but your cost savings goes away.
Also, the write up pointed out that if you add in an upgrade, the Linux system would come out ahead, since upgrades are free, and the cost differences are small.
I've had one or two that actually made me smile. One was from the Illuminati, telling me that I had been accepted, and that I should buy some penny stock that would make me money because it was an Illuminati stock, and the first 419 scam (the Nigerian scams) from Zaire, that explained that God wanted me to help him launder his dead father's assets out of the country were both pretty funny, almost as much as pop ups that deliver a 404 error. The rest are all pretty bad, but my mood is usually not dependant on an email or 10. The thing I found amazing about the article was that they only predicted 50% growth over 5 years. This from one of the research firms that with the insane growth for all things internet related throughout the bubble. Seems to me that a profitable online business might grow a little faster than that.
The only itanium2's avalable are hp's offerings (I think its the rp2600 and rp5670), they have a two way and four way that should have been shipping since August. Considering that HP is the co-developer and only one selling them, might tell you something. Although there have been rumblings that IBM and Dell will be adopting the architecture. I think Dell is waiting for a better chipset from someone besides HP. It seems like AMD is trying hard to move into the low end server business with these, but planning to sell a cut rate model to consumers to help cover their development costs.
I have to agree! There is nothing easier than finding a PC & access anywhere, and being able to email, check all my quotes, and see the latest news. Radio Shack is really nice about providing an open browser to show off their high speed access. All without screwing with the other person's settings, unless they need to reauthenticate for a cookie. By the way Exchange's web access is pretty useful as well, for all the corporate outlook users out there.
Microsoft also offers free readers for their office documents.
There was a guy on Ars selling a bunch of SGI x86 rackmounts that he obtained from the WETA group that did the special effects for the LOTR movies, so unless IRIX has been ported or they used Windows for their render farm, I would guess that they were rendered on Linux.
The article is comparing vendor prices, what AMD charges for 1000 CPU trays. They have historically offered about a 10% discount to the Intel chip at the same speed or model number after those were introduced. Pricewatch prices come from the grey market where large vendors bought too many chips and sell them to liquidators. I doubt you could order more than about 1000 chips at those prices, so while they are a great indication of what DIYers will pay, anyone who has their PC build by anything larger than the smallest assembler, will pay prices closer to those given in the article. This is just an indication that AMD gives better price breaks to its largest customers, and they are large enough that those customers usually order more than they need to reach the next pricing level.
Comparing pricewatch prices for CPUs is like going to the end of season clearance sales at a department store and deciding that, for example, CK is significantly cheaper than DKNY. Because the markdowns are 75% off for one and only 50% off for the other.
I pay $4.50 for evening shows and $3 for matinees. Of course there is currently a foot of snow outside, and the theater could certainly be better, but it isn't terrible.
Again, I was not alive during the time, but it sounds to me like Prohibition increased some crimes and decreased others. However, the crimes that it increased were the ones that get highly published while the ones that it reduced were those that the average person did not notice unless it happened to them, or someone very close to them.
It reminds me of the recent sniper shootings in the D.C. area. They got publicised quite frequently, and as a result people were quite fearful of them. However, I would guess that there were many other things that caused many more deaths during that period, and will continue to now that the perpitrators have been arrested. However, because the sniper shootings have been stopped, people are much less fearful.
And for the past month or so, you could get a bundle including two games and a small controller, the newer Japanese controller, it has a layout similar to the play station analog controllers.
This guy should look into the futures traders in the Chicago pits. One of the ways they know who is trading with someone across the room and surrounded by others, is through eye contact. The few I have met have said that they just get really good at telling if you are looking at them or the guy right behind them.
First, realize that you will need to find a town or berg with no cable franchise. A franchise is the right to be the only cable company in an area. Start lookin for very small towns, or large when wide spots in the road. Everywhere that was worth developing was developed when AT&Tstarted buying cable companies for 5k per sub. Note that you will probably have better luck buying part of Adelphia, than rolling your own. Should you happen to decide to purchase assets on the secondary market, try to pay about $2000 per subscriber, you might not be able to find anything at that price, but don't pay more than $3000 per sub.
If you go the build your own route, make sure that you have some estimates on the density of housing in the areas you have to serve. (Most of the time the town will require you to roll cable out to areas that would not be profitable on their own in exchange for being the exclusive cable provider to the area, also for the easments.) You will need a lawyer to at a minimum look over the contract before you start, I suggest that you go to work for a cable company to learn somehting about how the business works. This is to learn how much it costs to lay a mile of cable, and how much the channels charge for their access. (You didn't think all your money would come from broadband access did you? That will probably be a small part of your earnings.) You will also want to go to work for your schools network services division, if you really want to have a chance at success with broadband. This way you will get hands on experience at running a broadband company, especially with very network happy users.
Once you have secured the town you plan to serve, you will need financing. This will probably be the hardest part of your job, as geeks are generally pretty poor at selling things. (For starters go buy a good suit. Try Penny's if your cheap, they sell a good suit for probably the least amount new. Try to find a classic black or navy, nothing too fancy or wierd and it will last quite some time.) Now you get to go begging for funds. You can try a bank, but they are generally not interested in loaning money to a recent grad who is looking to start a business. You can try to find a grant or jobs program in your state. Most states provide subsidized loans to businesses that will agree to create a number of jobs. The SBA might help in this part, as well, with loans, advice, or co-signing. Failing this you will have to pony up your own money, find investors, or seek family money. Not that I condone looting your grandparents' retirement but they might be willing to invest some in your business. If no financing is readily available, get a job and buy a house, save all you can, and when you are ready, use the equity in your house, your savings, and your experience to secure a loan.
Finally, if this isn't a troll, and you might be interested in providing cable to a small town in Montana, send your resume and business plan to me. If it looks like you are serious I might be able to put you in contact with a potential funding source.
Larry Ellison is much more ruthless than Bill, although he is usually pretty funny when he does a keynote, it's just that he is focused only on large enterprises, rather than consumers so he doesn't affect the average /.er. Wait until mySQL or PostgreSQL begins to approach Oracle's functionality, and you will have his fury unleashed. Sun only seems friendly because, like IBM, they see Linux as a way to sell more computers. Until opensource hardware arrives, they will only benefit from open source software.
You mean they weren't using an XServe? /.ing, so if you reload often you might get in to the page.
BTW, it looks more like a user limit than a true
Even more demoralizing is:
Day 1. Buy 10 widgets @900 each. Terms of net 15.
Day 5. Sell 10 widgets on credit @ 1000 each. Terms of net 30.
Day 6. Order more 10 more widgets @ $900 each. Terms net 15.
Day 15. Pay employees ($500) and suppliers ($9000).
Day 17. Sell 10 more widgets @$1000 each. Terms net 30.
Day 18. Order 10 more widgets for an additional $10,000.
Day 21. Pay suppliers $9000.
Day 30. Pay employees $500.
At the end of the month you have made $1000 profit. You sold 20 widgets for $20,000 that only cost $18,000 and employee cost was only $1000. But you have paid out all of the $19,000 in expenses without collecting a dime. You are profitable, but don't have any cash flow. Think about what happens if a customer can't pay on time, you might collect some interest or penalties, but it could well bankrupt you. Its worse for most manufacturers. Just think if in the next month you sell 100 widgets. That is what kills most small businesses, they usually know enough about business to remain profitable, but because most business sales happen on credit, and you usually have to pay your suppiers first, because you have to have something to sell it, you face negative cash flow while your sales are growing.
Besides depriciation and other non-cash expenses, the alternative way to show losses but be cash flow positive is to have declining sales, but collect on your old recievables or lower inventory levels. Lucent and Nortel both were in this situation in 2001.
A friend's wife is the video counter manager at one of our video stores and they mostly use the glasses cleaner each rental to clean them, and a polish if they get scratch compliants.
I rode the bus twice, and I would not eat something from that toilet area if I was starving, and eating that meant the difference between life and death. You might want to put the snacks up by the driver. Also, Greyhound should change their slogan to it's not just a ride, it's an adventure.