There's rich, and there's wealthy. You are confusing the two. To paraphrase Chris Rock : Shaq is rich. The guy that signs Shaq's paycheck is wealthy.
A seven digit bank account (that's $1M+ in cash and liquid assets) and owning your home outright pretty much qualifies as rich. As long as he continues to do what he is doing he will not have a financial concern in the world and can pretty much buy whatever he wants, once.
That last one (buy whatever he wants, once) is a hard pill to swallow for a rich person - because they have to resist the urge every day. Back when I was poor (with a good imagination) I could spend $250k a day, every day, on imaginary things (cars, houses, parties, boats, etc.) Today I'm sitting on about $250k in cash (and no, that's not rich) and I could do any of the things I dreamed of as a child - but I have to pick only one, and once I've done it all my money is gone. It's one thing not to buy a Ferrari because you don't have the funds. It's something entirely different to have the funds and not buy it - because once you do, you've lost the ability to do it again. But if you can afford a Ferrari, you're probably rich.
A person who can't remember how many cars he has or houses he owns, he can buy whatever he wants as often as he wants - that man is wealthy. Big difference.
But you're right on the money - a person can become rich on his own bootstrappy fiscal growth in life, but with two or three exceptions you can't become wealthy.
Born to the family of military man (enlisted when he was 17, was maybe an E2 or an E3 when I was born) married to a high school dropout. They divorced when I was three and I grew up in the low rent section of a trailer park (not in the real nice trailers up towards the front of the park... oh no. Back in the back.) Only thing I got from my parents was self discipline, self respect, and the motivation to succeed in my education - make yourself better, my mother taught me. Studied hard in school, applied to a little university in podunk Texas and got an academic scholarship based on what I accomplished in high school. Got a degree in software engineering. Got a low end job with a small company, made about $12 an hour (salary, so no opportunity for overtime) but worked hard and got good experience. Got a real job somewhere else, kept my eye on the ball. Kept a good work ethic and did great work. Went back for my Masters in Computer Science, worked full time to pay for it (they paid for it, not me) and went to school / studied nights and weekends. Didn't have a social life for four years, including not even turning on a television the entire time. Currently working a job I love, am doing well financially, happy and healthy.
I'm not exactly rich today, but I'm pretty close. Give me a few more years and I will be rich.
Rich parents? No. Rich friends? No. Get lucky? Depends on who you ask. Ask me and I'll summarize : The harder I work, the luckier I get.
You are aware that you can download, install, use for development / test and even PROD the free version of Oracle (Oracle 10g Express Edition) - correct? Check it out here.
And if that's not enough to float your business, you can also download and use in your (dev / test / prod) environments the free Sybase 15.5 ASE Express Edition (certain hardware limits apply - single CPU, 2G of RAM, database is limited to 5Gigs of data.)
You guys realize OnStar isn't initiated by the driver, right? The OnStar crew can turn on GPS tracking without you knowing it, unlock / lock the doors without you knowing it, even turn on the microphone in your car (the one that lets them listen to you 'in the event of a crash') without you knowing it. They are, in theory, supposed to get your permission - but if I was betting, I'd bet Big Brother is all over that one.
Without a warrant, they cannot access the interior of a locked vehicle.
Oh I assure you, they can. It may not be 100% legal (yet), but a) you have to catch them, b) you have to figure out who 'they' are, c) you have to convince some other part of the government to prosecute them.
If they wanted to track you bad enough they could make you wear a GPS ankle bracelet and honestly there's not a damn thing you can do to stop them - they will just get a cop to catch you exhibiting 'disorderly conduct', attempt to arrest you and when you say 'what's all this about, then?' that's resisting arrest, which quickly escalates to assulting an office. Half hour later you're in court and they agree to let you go after they put in the tracking device.
It's happened to better people than you and I - don't think for a second either one of us is exempt.
For instance, why can't a file belong to multiple owners and/or groups?
Without going so far as calling it 'secure' - I will go out on a limb and say that Windows has been able to do this since... like NT 4.0 Now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure Novell had this ability as far back as... maybe Netware 2.15 or 2.2 (ie, early 90's.)
Every military vehicle has two potential price tags associated with it : Mind bendingly expensive overpriced showpieces with no real value (during peace time or when it's doing mundane things.) A once in a lifetime bargain (when it makes the difference between winning or losing a battle, or even bigger : turns the tide to win the war.)
If a decoy takes a bullet and a real tank survives, that real tank still has the potential of falling into the second category. If the production cost on the decoys is 1% the cost of a real tank, and they make 100 decoys to protect the real tank 100 times - that gives the real tank 100x the opportunity to become the tank that saves the day. Much better than having two real tanks there on the ground.
There are other purposes for the decoys, but this is a pretty good example of the ROI.
It all depends on how they market it. Envision a small blimp floating above the Los Angeles nightlife with speakers blaring "A new life awaits you in the off-world colonies, the chance to begin again in a golden land of opportunity and adventure. New climate, recreation facilities..." Get Daryl Hannah to be their spokesperson and they'd be golden.
They're making money. Lots and lots of money. And if the systems are down, there is a significant dollar figure associated with every minute of downtime (somewhere in the neighborhood of $4,000 per minute of downtime on the project I worked on, and we were but a small slice of the organization.)
Sounds like reverse osmosis. I often wonder about how well a solar water distillation plant would scale, using a football field worth of mirrors and a massive heat exchanger using sodium, like they were considering not too long ago for power generation. In fact, what if they used the steam from one of those massive heat exchanger power generators and recondensed it as pure water - by tweaking the pressure / volume ratio in order to increase the volume at a lower pressure, could those big plants serve double duty (power / desal)? Depending on their original intent (water vs power) they would be getting the other one for free as a by-product.
I'm having the same issue with a Dell Latitude e6510 with the nvidia video card on 10.04. I was hoping it would be resolved by 10.10. Google e6510 ubuntu problem for details.
In my corporate experience the rule was you only install software that you have already bought support contracts for, and only install it on hardware certified from the vendor to work.
The F in FOSS stands for free. Amazing what that word does to the bottom line when it comes to gross income.
And yes I know that not all the apps in the Google app-store are free (and that some of the ones in the iAppStore are) - but it's a mindset that is very pervasive on the Java side.
its just the price after the government subsidizes it for their own students
And that, I think you are right, is the focal point that is being sorely missed.
When I was a school child I had access to an Apple IIe, a Commodore PET, a TRS 80-III, and an IBM PCjr. Not exciting by today's standards, but the MSRP on these four machines would have totaled roughly $10,000 at the time. The cost to me : $0. These were machines at the different computer labs where I went to school, and they were subsidized by the government in one form or another. Even if the Indian government is subsidizing these to the tune of $100 apiece (selling the $135 tablets to students for $35) it's roughly the same as what the government did for me as a child, fiscally, but today's kids get to take them home.
Today I'm a professional software engineer and last year I paid $18,000 in income taxes to the government, about the same as I've been paying for the past five years, with less than that the years before (as I made less earlier in my career.) I'd say the ROI on those original government subsidized computers was pretty good.
I wonder what the ROI on the government subsidies on these tablets will be...
Honestly Edsger Dykstra (RIP) said it best in his hand written paper "On the cruelty of really teaching computing science". Link to a PDF of his handwritten paper.
Hey man, don't bag on ARCnet. That shit was insane - you could pull coax for as long as the eye could see and still maintain decent throughput (for the day) and it would tolerate about as much 'stupid' as any network I've ever encountered. I saw instances of some serious 'stupid' on ARCnet networks - including one length of cable that didn't quite reach, so they spliced it using two pieces of coathanger soldered on both ends to the frayed ends of each piece of coax. They used cardboard to keep the two pieces of coathanger separated. Craziest thing I've ever see. And it still ran, full speed.
Use cheap vodka to clean whiteboards. It does a better job, is a lot cheaper, and doesn't leave the entire room choking on the incredibly nasty fumes like commercial whiteboard cleaner.
Just put it in a regular spray bottle and don't tell anybody what it is - works like a champ. I haven't tried it on permanent marker, but I have a feeling it might just work...
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There's rich, and there's wealthy. You are confusing the two.
To paraphrase Chris Rock : Shaq is rich. The guy that signs Shaq's paycheck is wealthy.
A seven digit bank account (that's $1M+ in cash and liquid assets) and owning your home outright pretty much qualifies as rich. As long as he continues to do what he is doing he will not have a financial concern in the world and can pretty much buy whatever he wants, once.
That last one (buy whatever he wants, once) is a hard pill to swallow for a rich person - because they have to resist the urge every day. Back when I was poor (with a good imagination) I could spend $250k a day, every day, on imaginary things (cars, houses, parties, boats, etc.) Today I'm sitting on about $250k in cash (and no, that's not rich) and I could do any of the things I dreamed of as a child - but I have to pick only one, and once I've done it all my money is gone. It's one thing not to buy a Ferrari because you don't have the funds. It's something entirely different to have the funds and not buy it - because once you do, you've lost the ability to do it again. But if you can afford a Ferrari, you're probably rich.
A person who can't remember how many cars he has or houses he owns, he can buy whatever he wants as often as he wants - that man is wealthy. Big difference.
But you're right on the money - a person can become rich on his own bootstrappy fiscal growth in life, but with two or three exceptions you can't become wealthy.
Born to the family of military man (enlisted when he was 17, was maybe an E2 or an E3 when I was born) married to a high school dropout. They divorced when I was three and I grew up in the low rent section of a trailer park (not in the real nice trailers up towards the front of the park ... oh no. Back in the back.) Only thing I got from my parents was self discipline, self respect, and the motivation to succeed in my education - make yourself better, my mother taught me.
Studied hard in school, applied to a little university in podunk Texas and got an academic scholarship based on what I accomplished in high school.
Got a degree in software engineering. Got a low end job with a small company, made about $12 an hour (salary, so no opportunity for overtime) but worked hard and got good experience.
Got a real job somewhere else, kept my eye on the ball. Kept a good work ethic and did great work.
Went back for my Masters in Computer Science, worked full time to pay for it (they paid for it, not me) and went to school / studied nights and weekends. Didn't have a social life for four years, including not even turning on a television the entire time.
Currently working a job I love, am doing well financially, happy and healthy.
I'm not exactly rich today, but I'm pretty close. Give me a few more years and I will be rich.
Rich parents? No.
Rich friends? No.
Get lucky? Depends on who you ask. Ask me and I'll summarize : The harder I work, the luckier I get.
I'm not made out of money
You are aware that you can download, install, use for development / test and even PROD the free version of Oracle (Oracle 10g Express Edition) - correct?
Check it out here.
And if that's not enough to float your business, you can also download and use in your (dev / test / prod) environments the free Sybase 15.5 ASE Express Edition (certain hardware limits apply - single CPU, 2G of RAM, database is limited to 5Gigs of data.)
This.
You guys realize OnStar isn't initiated by the driver, right? The OnStar crew can turn on GPS tracking without you knowing it, unlock / lock the doors without you knowing it, even turn on the microphone in your car (the one that lets them listen to you 'in the event of a crash') without you knowing it. They are, in theory, supposed to get your permission - but if I was betting, I'd bet Big Brother is all over that one.
Without a warrant, they cannot access the interior of a locked vehicle.
Oh I assure you, they can. It may not be 100% legal (yet), but a) you have to catch them, b) you have to figure out who 'they' are, c) you have to convince some other part of the government to prosecute them.
If they wanted to track you bad enough they could make you wear a GPS ankle bracelet and honestly there's not a damn thing you can do to stop them - they will just get a cop to catch you exhibiting 'disorderly conduct', attempt to arrest you and when you say 'what's all this about, then?' that's resisting arrest, which quickly escalates to assulting an office. Half hour later you're in court and they agree to let you go after they put in the tracking device.
It's happened to better people than you and I - don't think for a second either one of us is exempt.
For instance, why can't a file belong to multiple owners and/or groups?
Without going so far as calling it 'secure' - I will go out on a limb and say that Windows has been able to do this since ... like NT 4.0 ... maybe Netware 2.15 or 2.2 (ie, early 90's.)
Now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure Novell had this ability as far back as
Every military vehicle has two potential price tags associated with it :
Mind bendingly expensive overpriced showpieces with no real value (during peace time or when it's doing mundane things.)
A once in a lifetime bargain (when it makes the difference between winning or losing a battle, or even bigger : turns the tide to win the war.)
If a decoy takes a bullet and a real tank survives, that real tank still has the potential of falling into the second category. If the production cost on the decoys is 1% the cost of a real tank, and they make 100 decoys to protect the real tank 100 times - that gives the real tank 100x the opportunity to become the tank that saves the day. Much better than having two real tanks there on the ground.
There are other purposes for the decoys, but this is a pretty good example of the ROI.
Its only in 2010, that the Indian Army results showed that Arjun performed better than Russian tanks
I'd take that bet ... put me down for $200 on the T-90M
It all depends on how they market it. Envision a small blimp floating above the Los Angeles nightlife with speakers blaring "A new life awaits you in the off-world colonies, the chance to begin again in a golden land of opportunity and adventure. New climate, recreation facilities ..." Get Daryl Hannah to be their spokesperson and they'd be golden.
Not sure. Can't get 10.04 to boot on it.
Running Windows 7 Pro 64-bit - no, works fine.
They're making money. Lots and lots of money.
And if the systems are down, there is a significant dollar figure associated with every minute of downtime (somewhere in the neighborhood of $4,000 per minute of downtime on the project I worked on, and we were but a small slice of the organization.)
Sounds like reverse osmosis.
I often wonder about how well a solar water distillation plant would scale, using a football field worth of mirrors and a massive heat exchanger using sodium, like they were considering not too long ago for power generation. In fact, what if they used the steam from one of those massive heat exchanger power generators and recondensed it as pure water - by tweaking the pressure / volume ratio in order to increase the volume at a lower pressure, could those big plants serve double duty (power / desal)? Depending on their original intent (water vs power) they would be getting the other one for free as a by-product.
after 6 months of use, by which point Win XP is crawling towards it's reinstall.
Try Windows 2003 Server. I hear they're seeing crazy uptime numbers now, like three months, six months.
I'm having the same issue with a Dell Latitude e6510 with the nvidia video card on 10.04. I was hoping it would be resolved by 10.10.
Google e6510 ubuntu problem for details.
In my corporate experience the rule was you only install software that you have already bought support contracts for, and only install it on hardware certified from the vendor to work.
Since the article was light on visuals, I found a picture of the largest genome ever.
The F in FOSS stands for free.
Amazing what that word does to the bottom line when it comes to gross income.
And yes I know that not all the apps in the Google app-store are free (and that some of the ones in the iAppStore are) - but it's a mindset that is very pervasive on the Java side.
Wow.
What color are the sunsets on your planet?
its just the price after the government subsidizes it for their own students
And that, I think you are right, is the focal point that is being sorely missed.
When I was a school child I had access to an Apple IIe, a Commodore PET, a TRS 80-III, and an IBM PCjr. Not exciting by today's standards, but the MSRP on these four machines would have totaled roughly $10,000 at the time. The cost to me : $0. These were machines at the different computer labs where I went to school, and they were subsidized by the government in one form or another. Even if the Indian government is subsidizing these to the tune of $100 apiece (selling the $135 tablets to students for $35) it's roughly the same as what the government did for me as a child, fiscally, but today's kids get to take them home.
Today I'm a professional software engineer and last year I paid $18,000 in income taxes to the government, about the same as I've been paying for the past five years, with less than that the years before (as I made less earlier in my career.) I'd say the ROI on those original government subsidized computers was pretty good.
I wonder what the ROI on the government subsidies on these tablets will be...
Honestly Edsger Dykstra (RIP) said it best in his hand written paper "On the cruelty of really teaching computing science".
Link to a PDF of his handwritten paper.
Hey man, don't bag on ARCnet. That shit was insane - you could pull coax for as long as the eye could see and still maintain decent throughput (for the day) and it would tolerate about as much 'stupid' as any network I've ever encountered. I saw instances of some serious 'stupid' on ARCnet networks - including one length of cable that didn't quite reach, so they spliced it using two pieces of coathanger soldered on both ends to the frayed ends of each piece of coax. They used cardboard to keep the two pieces of coathanger separated.
Craziest thing I've ever see. And it still ran, full speed.
We're not talking QEMU.
We're talking QEXT and QEMM. Now that is retro.
... at which point the answer was revealed : 42
Use cheap vodka to clean whiteboards.
It does a better job, is a lot cheaper, and doesn't leave the entire room choking on the incredibly nasty fumes like commercial whiteboard cleaner.
Just put it in a regular spray bottle and don't tell anybody what it is - works like a champ. I haven't tried it on permanent marker, but I have a feeling it might just work...
I was wondering where the offshore guys got the algorithm for the sort routine they used in our last outsourced project.
Thanks.