What's holding it up for me is that most of them want you to use your facebook credentials, so they can post garbage to your wall and harvest your friend lists and emails.
Of course, it's even harder to use it when you are one of the few remaining humans in civilization that doesn't have a facebook account.
I own a company that is a little larger than yours, but our needs are handled easily by a whitebox VMWare ESXi machine running a firewall/VPN Server appliance, an Ubuntu Server virtual machine, and some other VMs for various duties.
It has served us well, and the beauty about VMs is that they're entirely portable to other hardware, so if you need to replace the server, the VMs just migrate right over - no reinstalling or reconfiguring anything.
Something to look at... and it's fiendishly simple.
Assign a handful of people to be on the contact list for the depository, and put your materials in a safe deposit box. The climate-controlled environment will make things last a lot longer, and the depository will be in contact should something happen, such as a move, or an accident, or the depository failing.
Definitely keep track of people who pass on, and assign new contacts in that event.
Set a date for everyone to appear at the depository to open the box.
Not only would you have to incorporate, but you would have to sell the car to the corporation, which means you'd have to get an expensive corporate car loan to avoid commingling corporate and personal assets (which pierces the corporate veil). The corp itself would have several hundred dollars/year in maintenance costs (annual state filings, registered agents, etc), and then you'd have to worry about paying your accountant to do a whole other tax return for your corp (even if you do passthrough taxation with an LLC, in most cases a corp tax return must still be filed).
AND, even if you jump through all the hoops to separate your corp from your individual self, as an officer of the corp, you could still be held personally liable for negligence, for example if you fail to maintain the braking system and someone is injured as a result, and the award exceeds your insurance coverage.
Your $0.02 would be about all you had left, even if you thought you did everything right.
This administration has a proven track record of obstructing justice, ignoring court orders and subpoenas, and pretty much doing whatever the hell it wants and ruling by fiat with executive orders.
As far as power-consolidating dictators go, Obama makes Bush look like a rank amateur.
If you get results that fly in the face of decades of peer-reviewed research, your first instinct should not be to believe you've upended physics as we know it. Your first instinct should be, "Oh shit, what did I fuck up?"
Try building your own x86 PC that takes 5 watts out of the wall.
Of course, anyone who runs a fileserver 24/7 can just put ESXi on it and virtualize everything, including a nice router like pfSense or ipcop, and actually save the 5 watts.
This will absolutely not fly. Using the same logic as Wickard v. Filburn, people doing in-state online gambling in DE won't be going to NJ to a casino, and therefore will be having a substantial effect on interstate commerce. Therefore the federal government retains its dominion and can prohibit online gambling in DE, even if it is conducted completely within the State.
>> First to market with a consumer-friendly smartphone. First to market with a retina display smartphone. First to market with a high res tablet. First to market with a high res laptop.
$10 per transaction that takes 2-3 seconds to execute because the high speed trading algorithms need to figure out how to best manipulate the price you pay/get before your order actually gets executed.
Sure, any manufacturer is going to have dependencies on the external supply chain. It sounds like your company is not very good at managing it, or perhaps we are just very good at it, since I can't recall any point in my time here that we have had trouble getting parts, even after the tsunami in Japan. It might just be we have an unfair advantage in volume, since suppliers will not think twice about giving us your stuff if there is ever an interruption in the chain somewhere. From what you've said it sounds like you work for a low-volume, fad-of-the-week-managed company like Honeywell or similar who thinks they can just pay everyone else to make their products and still be super profitable.
But to answer the question you are really asking, we own most of our supply chain, and our electronic suppliers are required by our contract to stock no less than 12 months worth of components at our location in space we provide them. We buy commodity metals on the exchanges and have our way with them. When you make 150,000 toasters every week and they cost $100 each, not only is it cost effective to own everything, but you have to be VERY fast at catching manufacturing issues otherwise you make $15M worth of garbage that you can't do anything with.
I can't think of a single household in the entire US that doesn't have at least one of what I make (another poster with a good sense of humor here suggested I make toasters, so let's just say they're right, for the sake of example, since I'm not allowed to talk specifically about my company or our products on the Internet).
Well, we do have R&D and Manufacturing in other markets, but "my" Toaster for the US market does not necessarily have anything in common with the Toaster for the Asian or European markets. For example, Asian bread is made with rice flour and toasts completely differently than European bread, which is much more chewy and gluteny, which is still different than US bread, which is wheaty and sticky. The toasting process is completely different.
Basically, in every market we sell, we have coherent R&D and Manufacturing. We do share technology to some degree between markets, but it's a lot more about achieving economy of scale by using common electronic components where it makes sense than anything else. We do not have a company-wide edict that says our goal is to design one toaster that will "kind of" work in all markets. Our edict is to design the absolute best product for our market, in each individual market we serve. The best way to do that is to have local people designing and manufacturing the toasters in their home markets.
That's why our customers by our toasters more than any other toaster manufacturer, and we are the decisive market share leader in the toaster industry.
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What's holding it up for me is that most of them want you to use your facebook credentials, so they can post garbage to your wall and harvest your friend lists and emails.
Of course, it's even harder to use it when you are one of the few remaining humans in civilization that doesn't have a facebook account.
Don't forget that the USB spec is currently 5 volts, so you'd need #12 AWG cables to carry the 20 amps required to deliver 100 watts...
I own a company that is a little larger than yours, but our needs are handled easily by a whitebox VMWare ESXi machine running a firewall/VPN Server appliance, an Ubuntu Server virtual machine, and some other VMs for various duties.
It has served us well, and the beauty about VMs is that they're entirely portable to other hardware, so if you need to replace the server, the VMs just migrate right over - no reinstalling or reconfiguring anything.
Something to look at... and it's fiendishly simple.
Assign a handful of people to be on the contact list for the depository, and put your materials in a safe deposit box. The climate-controlled environment will make things last a lot longer, and the depository will be in contact should something happen, such as a move, or an accident, or the depository failing.
Definitely keep track of people who pass on, and assign new contacts in that event.
Set a date for everyone to appear at the depository to open the box.
Not only would you have to incorporate, but you would have to sell the car to the corporation, which means you'd have to get an expensive corporate car loan to avoid commingling corporate and personal assets (which pierces the corporate veil). The corp itself would have several hundred dollars/year in maintenance costs (annual state filings, registered agents, etc), and then you'd have to worry about paying your accountant to do a whole other tax return for your corp (even if you do passthrough taxation with an LLC, in most cases a corp tax return must still be filed).
AND, even if you jump through all the hoops to separate your corp from your individual self, as an officer of the corp, you could still be held personally liable for negligence, for example if you fail to maintain the braking system and someone is injured as a result, and the award exceeds your insurance coverage.
Your $0.02 would be about all you had left, even if you thought you did everything right.
The price of the phone is subsidized. The actual cost of the phone is probably close to the $450 number, as most phones are.
You can't compare the cost of marketing to the cost of the phone after the carrier has thrown in their $400.
1.85 MegaJoules / 500 Terawatts = 3.7 nanoseconds.
3.7 nanoseconds
Think about it... that much energy delivered... in 3.7 nanosecond.
That truly does boggle the mind.
That's because LTE isn't really 4G.
No way, I can't believe it. I thought MSNBC was completely free of bias.
This administration has a proven track record of obstructing justice, ignoring court orders and subpoenas, and pretty much doing whatever the hell it wants and ruling by fiat with executive orders.
As far as power-consolidating dictators go, Obama makes Bush look like a rank amateur.
Steve Ballmer's statement is based on the false premise that Apple is innovative.
They are not. However, they are very clever and skilled IP thieves.
If you get results that fly in the face of decades of peer-reviewed research, your first instinct should not be to believe you've upended physics as we know it. Your first instinct should be, "Oh shit, what did I fuck up?"
My money is on the "results" being wrong.
Cell phones
Internet Access
Computers
iPads
Coach Bags
Pocket Dogs
Luxury Cars
And all the other horse shit people feel they are entitled to by the virtue of their existence.
Try building your own x86 PC that takes 5 watts out of the wall.
Of course, anyone who runs a fileserver 24/7 can just put ESXi on it and virtualize everything, including a nice router like pfSense or ipcop, and actually save the 5 watts.
This will absolutely not fly. Using the same logic as Wickard v. Filburn, people doing in-state online gambling in DE won't be going to NJ to a casino, and therefore will be having a substantial effect on interstate commerce. Therefore the federal government retains its dominion and can prohibit online gambling in DE, even if it is conducted completely within the State.
>> First to market with a consumer-friendly smartphone. First to market with a retina display smartphone. First to market with a high res tablet. First to market with a high res laptop.
Patently FALSE on all accounts.
But what if, concerned about OPSEC he goes to his COMMO section and the SPAWARE they give him is FUBAR and NFG for the TAH?
$10 per transaction that takes 2-3 seconds to execute because the high speed trading algorithms need to figure out how to best manipulate the price you pay/get before your order actually gets executed.
Is this an elected or appointed judge?
He ruled on the case as if he was elected.
Sure, any manufacturer is going to have dependencies on the external supply chain. It sounds like your company is not very good at managing it, or perhaps we are just very good at it, since I can't recall any point in my time here that we have had trouble getting parts, even after the tsunami in Japan. It might just be we have an unfair advantage in volume, since suppliers will not think twice about giving us your stuff if there is ever an interruption in the chain somewhere. From what you've said it sounds like you work for a low-volume, fad-of-the-week-managed company like Honeywell or similar who thinks they can just pay everyone else to make their products and still be super profitable.
But to answer the question you are really asking, we own most of our supply chain, and our electronic suppliers are required by our contract to stock no less than 12 months worth of components at our location in space we provide them. We buy commodity metals on the exchanges and have our way with them. When you make 150,000 toasters every week and they cost $100 each, not only is it cost effective to own everything, but you have to be VERY fast at catching manufacturing issues otherwise you make $15M worth of garbage that you can't do anything with.
You clearly do not understand the difference between "collaboration" and "subjugation."
Go do some reading and then get back to us when you have a clue.
Thanks.
FWIW, I thought it was funny...
I can't think of a single household in the entire US that doesn't have at least one of what I make (another poster with a good sense of humor here suggested I make toasters, so let's just say they're right, for the sake of example, since I'm not allowed to talk specifically about my company or our products on the Internet).
Well, we do have R&D and Manufacturing in other markets, but "my" Toaster for the US market does not necessarily have anything in common with the Toaster for the Asian or European markets. For example, Asian bread is made with rice flour and toasts completely differently than European bread, which is much more chewy and gluteny, which is still different than US bread, which is wheaty and sticky. The toasting process is completely different.
Basically, in every market we sell, we have coherent R&D and Manufacturing. We do share technology to some degree between markets, but it's a lot more about achieving economy of scale by using common electronic components where it makes sense than anything else. We do not have a company-wide edict that says our goal is to design one toaster that will "kind of" work in all markets. Our edict is to design the absolute best product for our market, in each individual market we serve. The best way to do that is to have local people designing and manufacturing the toasters in their home markets.
That's why our customers by our toasters more than any other toaster manufacturer, and we are the decisive market share leader in the toaster industry.
Sorry, but in order to get chewed-up toast out of a ToastyBread XL4300, you'll have to put it in a blender as you're tosting.
Yes, it will blend.