We built our product because we couldn't find a solution that met our budget. Everything was built for the big boys and if you couldn't afford to drop $20k, they didn't want to talk to you. Well, we ended up building our own solution and selling it to other businesses our size at a price they could afford. In fact we ended up with a product that did more and was simpler for the end user to grasp and use. We aren't selling to the rich of our industry and we're profitable and growing.
It's the same reason that Edward Jones has been successful. Honestly, if you want to be rich, sell to the poor. The rich have too many people trying to get a piece of their pie.
Why we can't put the capsule on a D4-Heavy and get people to LEO and the ISS? I know the D4H has only had a couple launches, but the Delta II series has had a pretty solid track record. I understand the need for the Ares V and it's super heavy lift capability. But I never understood the point of the Ares I. Why spend the money when it seems like the Delta IV series could work and it's available now.
I have the 48G. Got it in middle school and still use it. And it spent 10 years being beat to death in my backpack. I remember in high school and college everyone had Ti, pretty much everyone. I remember people would ask to borrow it, couldn't figure out how to add 1+1, then give it back and never ask to borrow it again! It got me through every class in college except for finance (couldn't do Modified Internal rate of return and I went out and bought a HP business calculator that is in a box somewhere.
It survived 10 years of being in a backpack and still works to this day and I still use it. It's in my shachel. (It's not a man purse. Indiana Jones has one).
I've been running Windows 7 Eval edition since august when OS 10.6 came out. Even without bootcamp, it dectected my wireless card and intel graphics on my MacBook without any problems. How is this just now news?
It would never be allowed on the iPhone. Apple prohibits any apps that complete with their offerings. So no browsers other than Safari. That being said, why didn't they target blackberry first?
I grew up around the F-15 and know a few pilots. In a twisting and turning dog-fights, the russian planes are generally superior to the F-15/F-16. However, the NATO tactic was to have AWACs declare and fire off 6 AMRAAM's at 6 different targets and then run away before the Russian planes knew you were there.
What they need to be able to do is demo our web-based products and take orders online. We already have an iPhone app, but the iphone is just too small. We had been using latops or net books with cell cards, but this device is perfect for our needs. The sales reps need to have cellular data, which is cheaper with the iPad than USB cell cards, and be able to demo our products in a web browser. That's it. And the fact they can use the existing iPhone app to enter sales data...
was that there was never a technical problem with this, but it was the face that ATT didn't want people to use VOIP over 3G because it competed with their voice offerings.
This is more like the old POTS and having Ma Bell say, "You can't talk about sex. And since we own the copper wires, we have the right to decide what can and cannot be said over our network."
No, the demand for content in increasing. 15 years ago, not everyone had an AP feed into their homes. We do today because of the Internet. Our local Paper, the St. Louis Post-dispatch, used to have a lot of sections and a decent financial section. I remember reading it every day growing up as a kid. But over the past 10 years, the paper has been getting thinner and thinner. The last major investigation story worth a darn was in 2004 or 2005 when they did a 5 part expose on how corrupt the local fire districts were. That kept me from canceling the paper for another year, but then they followed it up with nothing. Just more reprinting AP stories I had read online the day before and the paper continued to shrink.
Helen, the old lady that covers the white house, had a book about this about eight years ago. Newspaper circulation goes down, so what does the newspaper do? They cut the newsroom and print more wire articles because the newsroom is expensive and for a while it makes the balance sheet look good again. But then there is lack of local reporting and then more people stop subscribing and what happens....they cut from the news room again and the cycle continues.
So I cancelled and bought a subscription to The Economist. Which gives me a pretty good overview of what is going on in all corners of the global on monday and read the major articles of interest then I continued to read through the magazine throughout the week and reading the less interesting articles (to me anyway) as I have time. It's great at keeping me informed on what is going on around the world.
Because next people will be saying, "Why do we need to send another probe to Mars? Haven't we already done that. Why not use the money on project on something else more useful? Maybe an extra billion for program X."
Sorry, but out side of slashdot and a few other geeky sites, how many of the general public know about spirit and opportunity STILL being on mars and roving around? Next question, how many actually care
NASA's budget already is only $18B a year. The state of New York Dept of Health got $29B last year. http://www.usaspending.gov/
The lack of Intel processors the first half of last decade went a long way towards that. Programs like Lightwave and Maya began optimizing their rendering engines for x86. By 2005 there was a stark difference rendering times on PPC and Intel machines with Intel beating the crap out of the PPC. Plus some of the larger shops began supporting Maya on Linux. Especially for their render farms.
That being said, I dealt with those on the small to medium side of the house almost all went Mac primarily for the software. I know a of shops that used dedicated NLA devices for editing in the 1990's and then went to Final Cut Pro. I know many more who switched from Premiere on the PC to FCP on mac because Premiere 6 was highly unstable on a lot of Windows boxes compared to FCP 3. Then Apple acquired Shake and made sure that Shake + a PowerMac/MacPro cost the same as Shake for Linux. And then dropped the price to $500 for OSX three months after I paid $3k for the software....
A tax "professional" can't help you. It takes a tax attorney. And to find one that is well versed is hard to find. You have to go to a large firm like Bryan Cave, and they aren't cheap either. The one I work with is about $600 an hour.
Down where I live, we don't have 3G. I tested my iPhone against my friend's droid on verizon, which said "3g" on his phone. Web sites on my phone loaded about 1 - 2 seconds slower on average on EDGE than his 3G. When we were in a larger city where my phone got 3G, it was loading pages about 5 seconds faster than his.
I'm a heavy data user. I have a 700 Minute plan (technically I have a family plan and I added my Dad to my plan so he'd have a cell phone. He's 70 and would never get one on his own and I live a few hours away....) I maybe use 150 minutes of voice time per month. But I am getting Texts and Emails constantly for work. None of my employees will call me, they all text if they need anything since most of them work from home instead of the office.
What I REALLY want is the ability to tether my iPhone to my computer again. It would be extremely handy for doing demos without having to spend an extra $60 for a cell card. Even if ATT charged another $10 per month I'd still do it.
There aren't any hardware encoders/decorder chips that support Ogg is the main reason. And smart phones like the iPhone and Android use dedicated h.264 processors to decode and play video. In the case of the cell phones, the hardware manufacture is the one paying for the license, so it is included in the cost of the chip. And I believe the cap for licensing is $2.5M per year. Granted it was 2007 when I last looked at the MPEG-LA licensing terms.
I grew up in the military industrial complex. You know what the military did every time they wanted a shiny new toy? They created this big boogy man. Back then it was the "Soviets have this new Mig-25 that goes Mach 3+. We must have something to counter it". "The Soviets have this new T-80 tank, we need something to counter it". And the thing of it was the Military damn well knew that the T-80 was a dressed up T-72 and that the F-15 would beat a MIG-25 any day of the week. Yeah, the MIG-25 could go Mach 3....once before the engines had to be replaced. And the people in the defense industry as well as the DOD knew this, but they played the boogey man to Congress and the American people.
I'm sorry, but I see the same thing happening with this whole Environmental and Global Warming thing. Are there real problems out there? Should be trying not to pollute? Yes. But the tactics these people are using remind me too much of what I saw from the Defense industry.
These predictions reminds me of an article around 1900 that claimed that if trends continue, the horse manure on the streets of chicago would be 6 ft. deep by 1930. It never happened, the automobile came along and replaced horses. And that, perhaps, is the biggest problem with these predictions. The longer the predicted , the less likely the prediction is to be correct. Things change and I don't believe we have a model yet that works. I don't believe a working model can be created either. Show me one of these ecological dire predictions that I remember hearing in the 1970's and 1980's that have come to pass. I remember the presentations back then saying New York would be underwater by 2010! What about global dimming back in the 1970's? Whatever happened to that?
None of these models can even begin to take into account uncertainty. What happens if there is a massive Krakatoa type eruption in the next 50 years? Or in this case, the next 350 years? What if there continues to be a lack of sun spot activity for the next 350 years. It's happened before. Oh wait, the Little Ice Age was just a fluke right? We'd better adjust our data and pretend that it and the Medieval warm period never happened according to our models.
The problem is this has all become political. It's more about power and money than science at this point.
There are real environmental problems out there. Not only that, but they are problems affecting people's health and real steps we know work can be taken today to help clean them up and instead of spending the money and resources to help fix those problems, it looks as though we are going to spending a bunch of money world wide to fix a problem that is appearing to be more suspect everyday.
We have a PostGIS database and just using the data available from the USGS and various state mapping agencies, our database is around 300 MB for roads, town, and zip code boundaries for the United States. Granted I'm sure that will be increasing as more data is added. It is an on going process.
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We built our product because we couldn't find a solution that met our budget. Everything was built for the big boys and if you couldn't afford to drop $20k, they didn't want to talk to you. Well, we ended up building our own solution and selling it to other businesses our size at a price they could afford. In fact we ended up with a product that did more and was simpler for the end user to grasp and use. We aren't selling to the rich of our industry and we're profitable and growing.
It's the same reason that Edward Jones has been successful. Honestly, if you want to be rich, sell to the poor. The rich have too many people trying to get a piece of their pie.
In my book, lack of flash is a feature, not a bug. To each their own.
Why we can't put the capsule on a D4-Heavy and get people to LEO and the ISS? I know the D4H has only had a couple launches, but the Delta II series has had a pretty solid track record. I understand the need for the Ares V and it's super heavy lift capability. But I never understood the point of the Ares I. Why spend the money when it seems like the Delta IV series could work and it's available now.
I have the 48G. Got it in middle school and still use it. And it spent 10 years being beat to death in my backpack. I remember in high school and college everyone had Ti, pretty much everyone. I remember people would ask to borrow it, couldn't figure out how to add 1+1, then give it back and never ask to borrow it again! It got me through every class in college except for finance (couldn't do Modified Internal rate of return and I went out and bought a HP business calculator that is in a box somewhere.
It survived 10 years of being in a backpack and still works to this day and I still use it. It's in my shachel. (It's not a man purse. Indiana Jones has one).
OpenSolaris works just fine. I've used the live CD and it works.
I've been running Windows 7 Eval edition since august when OS 10.6 came out. Even without bootcamp, it dectected my wireless card and intel graphics on my MacBook without any problems. How is this just now news?
It would never be allowed on the iPhone. Apple prohibits any apps that complete with their offerings. So no browsers other than Safari. That being said, why didn't they target blackberry first?
I thought they had to accept the One True God.....based on the mind of a spoiled 15 year old girl...
I grew up around the F-15 and know a few pilots. In a twisting and turning dog-fights, the russian planes are generally superior to the F-15/F-16. However, the NATO tactic was to have AWACs declare and fire off 6 AMRAAM's at 6 different targets and then run away before the Russian planes knew you were there.
What they need to be able to do is demo our web-based products and take orders online. We already have an iPhone app, but the iphone is just too small. We had been using latops or net books with cell cards, but this device is perfect for our needs. The sales reps need to have cellular data, which is cheaper with the iPad than USB cell cards, and be able to demo our products in a web browser. That's it. And the fact they can use the existing iPhone app to enter sales data...
was that there was never a technical problem with this, but it was the face that ATT didn't want people to use VOIP over 3G because it competed with their voice offerings.
This is more like the old POTS and having Ma Bell say, "You can't talk about sex. And since we own the copper wires, we have the right to decide what can and cannot be said over our network."
1) Post a message to slashdot
2) ????
3) Profit
No, the demand for content in increasing. 15 years ago, not everyone had an AP feed into their homes. We do today because of the Internet. Our local Paper, the St. Louis Post-dispatch, used to have a lot of sections and a decent financial section. I remember reading it every day growing up as a kid. But over the past 10 years, the paper has been getting thinner and thinner. The last major investigation story worth a darn was in 2004 or 2005 when they did a 5 part expose on how corrupt the local fire districts were. That kept me from canceling the paper for another year, but then they followed it up with nothing. Just more reprinting AP stories I had read online the day before and the paper continued to shrink.
Helen, the old lady that covers the white house, had a book about this about eight years ago. Newspaper circulation goes down, so what does the newspaper do? They cut the newsroom and print more wire articles because the newsroom is expensive and for a while it makes the balance sheet look good again. But then there is lack of local reporting and then more people stop subscribing and what happens....they cut from the news room again and the cycle continues.
So I cancelled and bought a subscription to The Economist. Which gives me a pretty good overview of what is going on in all corners of the global on monday and read the major articles of interest then I continued to read through the magazine throughout the week and reading the less interesting articles (to me anyway) as I have time. It's great at keeping me informed on what is going on around the world.
Because next people will be saying, "Why do we need to send another probe to Mars? Haven't we already done that. Why not use the money on project on something else more useful? Maybe an extra billion for program X."
Sorry, but out side of slashdot and a few other geeky sites, how many of the general public know about spirit and opportunity STILL being on mars and roving around? Next question, how many actually care
NASA's budget already is only $18B a year. The state of New York Dept of Health got $29B last year. http://www.usaspending.gov/
I can get remote start installed for $129. So $70 for a phone and $100 for the first year is still more....
The lack of Intel processors the first half of last decade went a long way towards that. Programs like Lightwave and Maya began optimizing their rendering engines for x86. By 2005 there was a stark difference rendering times on PPC and Intel machines with Intel beating the crap out of the PPC. Plus some of the larger shops began supporting Maya on Linux. Especially for their render farms.
That being said, I dealt with those on the small to medium side of the house almost all went Mac primarily for the software. I know a of shops that used dedicated NLA devices for editing in the 1990's and then went to Final Cut Pro. I know many more who switched from Premiere on the PC to FCP on mac because Premiere 6 was highly unstable on a lot of Windows boxes compared to FCP 3. Then Apple acquired Shake and made sure that Shake + a PowerMac/MacPro cost the same as Shake for Linux. And then dropped the price to $500 for OSX three months after I paid $3k for the software....
In the case of MySQL, stop using a toy and start using a REAL database.
http://www.postgresql.org/about/featuredetail/feature.67
A tax "professional" can't help you. It takes a tax attorney. And to find one that is well versed is hard to find. You have to go to a large firm like Bryan Cave, and they aren't cheap either. The one I work with is about $600 an hour.
Down where I live, we don't have 3G. I tested my iPhone against my friend's droid on verizon, which said "3g" on his phone. Web sites on my phone loaded about 1 - 2 seconds slower on average on EDGE than his 3G. When we were in a larger city where my phone got 3G, it was loading pages about 5 seconds faster than his.
I'm a heavy data user. I have a 700 Minute plan (technically I have a family plan and I added my Dad to my plan so he'd have a cell phone. He's 70 and would never get one on his own and I live a few hours away....) I maybe use 150 minutes of voice time per month. But I am getting Texts and Emails constantly for work. None of my employees will call me, they all text if they need anything since most of them work from home instead of the office.
What I REALLY want is the ability to tether my iPhone to my computer again. It would be extremely handy for doing demos without having to spend an extra $60 for a cell card. Even if ATT charged another $10 per month I'd still do it.
There aren't any hardware encoders/decorder chips that support Ogg is the main reason. And smart phones like the iPhone and Android use dedicated h.264 processors to decode and play video. In the case of the cell phones, the hardware manufacture is the one paying for the license, so it is included in the cost of the chip. And I believe the cap for licensing is $2.5M per year. Granted it was 2007 when I last looked at the MPEG-LA licensing terms.
I grew up in the military industrial complex. You know what the military did every time they wanted a shiny new toy? They created this big boogy man. Back then it was the "Soviets have this new Mig-25 that goes Mach 3+. We must have something to counter it". "The Soviets have this new T-80 tank, we need something to counter it". And the thing of it was the Military damn well knew that the T-80 was a dressed up T-72 and that the F-15 would beat a MIG-25 any day of the week. Yeah, the MIG-25 could go Mach 3....once before the engines had to be replaced. And the people in the defense industry as well as the DOD knew this, but they played the boogey man to Congress and the American people.
I'm sorry, but I see the same thing happening with this whole Environmental and Global Warming thing. Are there real problems out there? Should be trying not to pollute? Yes. But the tactics these people are using remind me too much of what I saw from the Defense industry.
These predictions reminds me of an article around 1900 that claimed that if trends continue, the horse manure on the streets of chicago would be 6 ft. deep by 1930. It never happened, the automobile came along and replaced horses. And that, perhaps, is the biggest problem with these predictions. The longer the predicted , the less likely the prediction is to be correct. Things change and I don't believe we have a model yet that works. I don't believe a working model can be created either. Show me one of these ecological dire predictions that I remember hearing in the 1970's and 1980's that have come to pass. I remember the presentations back then saying New York would be underwater by 2010! What about global dimming back in the 1970's? Whatever happened to that?
None of these models can even begin to take into account uncertainty. What happens if there is a massive Krakatoa type eruption in the next 50 years? Or in this case, the next 350 years? What if there continues to be a lack of sun spot activity for the next 350 years. It's happened before. Oh wait, the Little Ice Age was just a fluke right? We'd better adjust our data and pretend that it and the Medieval warm period never happened according to our models.
The problem is this has all become political. It's more about power and money than science at this point.
There are real environmental problems out there. Not only that, but they are problems affecting people's health and real steps we know work can be taken today to help clean them up and instead of spending the money and resources to help fix those problems, it looks as though we are going to spending a bunch of money world wide to fix a problem that is appearing to be more suspect everyday.
Then the press release would read, "Rock Star is proud to announce the opening of our Rock Star Mumbai Studio."
On the up side, at least the developers would have more time to spend with their family....right?
Seriously, I joined Linkedin for the whole of 5 minutes before seeing it was nothing but "use social media to enhance your business" spam...
We have a PostGIS database and just using the data available from the USGS and various state mapping agencies, our database is around 300 MB for roads, town, and zip code boundaries for the United States. Granted I'm sure that will be increasing as more data is added. It is an on going process.