Re:Why hard to run something like Amazon as busine
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Mighty Amazon
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the logistics of inventory managment isn't,
The logistics of inventory management depends upon two things:
How solid the database that one uses is.
How accurate the data that is entered in the database is.
Keep the data accurate, and inventory management is trivial.
All the original site had to do was hook the CD-Rom from Ingram up with Anthology, [ Well, maybe not Anthology], or one of the other bookstore POS software programs [ There was one that ran a *Nix clone, whose name I have forgotten], and connect that to the net. It was doable, even in 1994. The hardest part then was convincing the money people that an online bookstore would eventually show a profit.
(especially when they sell other people's stuff and have *zero* inventory to manage, a'la eBay).
They still have to handle customer disputes. Setting up an online bookstore has theoretical zero stored inventory. The only books that are ordered, are the ones that have been sold. They get shipped out the day they are received. This is where location is crucial. A warehouse across the road from Ingram, or Baker & Taylor is much better than a warehouse two states from the Ingram or Baker & Taylor.
Amazon could be profitable any time Jeff wanted it to be. The rules say that a company must show a profit at least once every "n" years, and when they show a profit, they end up paying taxes on it.
Please provide a citation. Theres no such rule in the United States.
Presumption of profit. An activity is presumed carried on for profit if it produced a profit in at least 3 of the last 5 tax years, including the current year. Activities that consist primarily of breeding, training, showing, or racing horses are presumed carried on for profit if they produced a profit in at least 2 of the last 7 tax years, including the current year. The activity must be substantially the same for each year within this period. You have a profit when the gross income from an activity is more than the deductions for it.
But TBS's programming always starts 5 minutes after the hour.
That is because Ted Turner decided to take advantage of all those channel surfers at the commercial break, and start the program right when they were looking for something other than a commercial.
When I had a TV set, I had a remote, and continually switched between three or four channels.
Re:But... Look at the YiJing
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DNA Goes Binary
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doesn't DNA have 4 letters only anyway?
thats what my bio teacher said, i think...
The Yijing has Yin and Yang. It comes up with 64 permutations, of which Hexagram # 24 [ Standard Sequence ] corresponds to Codon UAA, which just happens to be a representation of "stop". The most common english word for Hexagram # 24 is return.
For more on that topic go read Johnson F YanDNA and the I Ching, Martin SchonbergerThe I Ching and the Genetic Code and Kayta WalterTao of Chaos. Go hunt for them at Powell's yourself.
Open Office is a great office environment that meets all my needs and I have yet to meet someone that genuinely *NEEDS* anything that Word has, that OO does not (I have met some that claim they do but it always turns out that they really mean that once in the past 2 years they once had a situation that would have been easier with Word).
I despise Office 97. I use it for the following reasons:
Multi-writing system support in documents.
Multi-writing system database support.
Multi-writing system spreadsheet support
Then specific to Word97:
My publisher demands Word97.
I can place graphical images in the right part of the book --- as a table, when that is needed.
Now if you can point me to something on a linux platform that supports multiple writings systems let me know. Core languages are Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, Enochian, Japanese, Chinese, Tibetan, Korean, Xhosa, !kung, Spanish, French, and Enochian. None-core languages include Summa, Hieroglyphics, Coptic, Farsi, Urdu and Hindi.
If you can point me to something on a linux platform that lets me insert graphical images where I want/need them in the document, i am all ears. [ Sometimes the graphics are in the middle of the sentence, sometimes on the side. Usually as an 8 by 8 grid. ]
at least they are taking the approach of "Linux is getting popular, so we should be more like it", rather than "We need to squeeze every last $0.01 out of our locked-in customers".
I think that they are squeezing the last $0.01 out of their customers. If you read the article, they [ Sun ] are marketing this to sites in 100 unit multiples.
That said, I doubt that they will charge any more that that company from Redmond.
> "Who would buy it?" Why would you need 264 pages to explain you how to set up your own journal and run it?
An organization that is looking at the different Blog options. They will use it for self-promotion/feel good stuff, and show how every day they do something that brings them closer to their goals, or looks good in the public eye.
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The logistics of inventory management depends upon two things:
Keep the data accurate, and inventory management is trivial.
All the original site had to do was hook the CD-Rom from Ingram up with Anthology, [ Well, maybe not Anthology], or one of the other bookstore POS software programs [ There was one that ran a *Nix clone, whose name I have forgotten], and connect that to the net. It was doable, even in 1994. The hardest part then was convincing the money people that an online bookstore would eventually show a profit.
They still have to handle customer disputes. Setting up an online bookstore has theoretical zero stored inventory. The only books that are ordered, are the ones that have been sold. They get shipped out the day they are received. This is where location is crucial. A warehouse across the road from Ingram, or Baker & Taylor is much better than a warehouse two states from the Ingram or Baker & Taylor.
Please provide a citation. Theres no such rule in the United States.
Try the following paragraph from IRS Publication 535 Business Expenses.
Presumption of profit. An activity is presumed carried on for profit if it produced a profit in at least 3 of the last 5 tax years, including the current year. Activities that consist primarily of breeding, training, showing, or racing horses are presumed carried on for profit if they produced a profit in at least 2 of the last 7 tax years, including the current year. The activity must be substantially the same for each year within this period. You have a profit when the gross income from an activity is more than the deductions for it.
Wind under Thy Wings
Why should I have to have a phone to watch cable TV?
FWIW, I ditched my landline years ago in favor of cellular service. Internet connection is thru cable modem.
That is because Ted Turner decided to take advantage of all those channel surfers at the commercial break, and start the program right when they were looking for something other than a commercial.
When I had a TV set, I had a remote, and continually switched between three or four channels.
The Yijing has Yin and Yang. It comes up with 64 permutations, of which Hexagram # 24 [ Standard Sequence ] corresponds to Codon UAA, which just happens to be a representation of "stop". The most common english word for Hexagram # 24 is return.
For more on that topic go read Johnson F Yan DNA and the I Ching, Martin Schonberger The I Ching and the Genetic Code and Kayta Walter Tao of Chaos. Go hunt for them at Powell's yourself.
So all you need is Yin and Yang. Binary.
I despise Office 97. I use it for the following reasons:
Then specific to Word97:
Now if you can point me to something on a linux platform that supports multiple writings systems let me know. Core languages are Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, Enochian, Japanese, Chinese, Tibetan, Korean, Xhosa, !kung, Spanish, French, and Enochian. None-core languages include Summa, Hieroglyphics, Coptic, Farsi, Urdu and Hindi.
If you can point me to something on a linux platform that lets me insert graphical images where I want/need them in the document, i am all ears. [ Sometimes the graphics are in the middle of the sentence, sometimes on the side. Usually as an 8 by 8 grid. ]
Do I have to wait for Unicode 4.0?
at least they are taking the approach of "Linux is getting popular, so we should be more like it", rather than "We need to squeeze every last $0.01 out of our locked-in customers".
I think that they are squeezing the last $0.01 out of their customers. If you read the article, they [ Sun ] are marketing this to sites in 100 unit multiples.
That said, I doubt that they will charge any more that that company from Redmond.
An organization that is looking at the different Blog options. They will use it for self-promotion/feel good stuff, and show how every day they do something that brings them closer to their goals, or looks good in the public eye.
xan
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