I don't know if this would help, but have you looked at the possibility of getting a small business grant/loan from the government. You could try setting up as a separate software company and getting startup grants to develop the software.
there's one important thing your forgeting. You're house is for your use. Nobody else is normally effected by what you do. On the other hand a resturant is open to the public. If you're negligence in a resturant causes injury to a patron you can be held accountable. (e.g. if there's a spill on the floor that causes someone to fall and be injured, you are liable.) the same could apply to allowing smoking if it injures a patron through no fault of their own you could be held responsible.
This is nice in theory, but in practice it doesn't quite work that way. Although you are free to avoid products of a certain monopoly, you often don't have any other viable option(hence the monopoly). As a example you could simply not buy service from you local telco, but if they're the only telco and the only broadband ISP then you'll have to give up any kind of landline AND give up (affordable) internet access. Given the option of and unfair service contract or no service at all, well there isn't really a choice.
In an odd twist of events this exact same episode of Mythbusters was on last night. They showed that there is nothing about a cell phone that can ignite even an environment super-saturated in gas vapors. However rubbing panties on a seat caught their mini experiment pretty well.
One interesting thing to note is that a cell phone signal is not that different from a car radio, given that those can be used safely at a gas station there really isn't any danger.
Actually in the case of the woman I mentioned, She had no interest in art. She could have cared less about art prior to her stroke. The stroke damaged her frontal lobe on what I believe was the right side. The other sections of her frontal lobe had to pick up the slack. As an unforseen consequence, her personality changed completely. She was not interested in anything she was interested in prior. She also had new interests and talents she didn't have before
Actually, there is a good deal of evidence pointing to consciousness being a brain based function. Evidence comes from people who have suffered brain damage and had their mental outlook/personality changed as a result. One example was a Vietnam vet. He had a piece of grenade shrapnel embedded in his frontal lobe and, after recovery, was unable to make long term plans or think in the "big picture". Another example was a woman who had a stroke. Before the stroke she was an attorney, after she was an artist.
Well, I'm just guessing that you haven't been actually reading any of the posts so I'll explain. WE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE XSERVE RAID. This has nothing to do with Mac desktops and there performance. The XServe RAID is an external fibre channel array, not a desktop. And in this case it is a lot cheaper than the competition.
The oldest hardware I've got running is my Macintosh Classic running System 7.2 . Eventually its going to get gutted and (hopefully) I'll cram a G4 in its shell
As for on the job, at work we have a Point Of Sale system (Micros 1700's) that talks to our back end NT4 system (P-100) via an old DOS CONNECT application. The hole system is slated to be replaced because it never really worked well.
To answer your question I THINK that the 64-bit XP is just a re-dressed 32-bit verson, though I'm not completely sure. So it probably doesn't take full advantage of the 64-bit architecture.
Piracy is the LEAST of the problems for a band.
Almost all of the 8 million in the example went to the record company. This had nothing to do with piracy, this was the greed of the record company. And trust me, it didn't cost anywhere near that much to produce or promote their alums.
just thuoght it was worth noting that microsoft did release a 64-bit version of Windows XP. But this was only for the IA-64 architecture. And it was argeted mostly at high-end workstations (like we actually need windows on those)
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I don't know if this would help, but have you looked at the possibility of getting a small business grant/loan from the government. You could try setting up as a separate software company and getting startup grants to develop the software.
that's what i'm referring to. I meant if YOU are the owner of a bar/resturant. YOU could be held liable for injury to a patron
there's one important thing your forgeting. You're house is for your use. Nobody else is normally effected by what you do. On the other hand a resturant is open to the public. If you're negligence in a resturant causes injury to a patron you can be held accountable. (e.g. if there's a spill on the floor that causes someone to fall and be injured, you are liable.) the same could apply to allowing smoking if it injures a patron through no fault of their own you could be held responsible.
This is nice in theory, but in practice it doesn't quite work that way. Although you are free to avoid products of a certain monopoly, you often don't have any other viable option(hence the monopoly). As a example you could simply not buy service from you local telco, but if they're the only telco and the only broadband ISP then you'll have to give up any kind of landline AND give up (affordable) internet access. Given the option of and unfair service contract or no service at all, well there isn't really a choice.
In an odd twist of events this exact same episode of Mythbusters was on last night. They showed that there is nothing about a cell phone that can ignite even an environment super-saturated in gas vapors. However rubbing panties on a seat caught their mini experiment pretty well. One interesting thing to note is that a cell phone signal is not that different from a car radio, given that those can be used safely at a gas station there really isn't any danger.
Actually in the case of the woman I mentioned, She had no interest in art. She could have cared less about art prior to her stroke. The stroke damaged her frontal lobe on what I believe was the right side. The other sections of her frontal lobe had to pick up the slack. As an unforseen consequence, her personality changed completely. She was not interested in anything she was interested in prior. She also had new interests and talents she didn't have before
Actually, there is a good deal of evidence pointing to consciousness being a brain based function. Evidence comes from people who have suffered brain damage and had their mental outlook/personality changed as a result. One example was a Vietnam vet. He had a piece of grenade shrapnel embedded in his frontal lobe and, after recovery, was unable to make long term plans or think in the "big picture". Another example was a woman who had a stroke. Before the stroke she was an attorney, after she was an artist.
Well, I'm just guessing that you haven't been actually reading any of the posts so I'll explain. WE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE XSERVE RAID. This has nothing to do with Mac desktops and there performance. The XServe RAID is an external fibre channel array, not a desktop. And in this case it is a lot cheaper than the competition.
The oldest hardware I've got running is my Macintosh Classic running System 7.2 . Eventually its going to get gutted and (hopefully) I'll cram a G4 in its shell
As for on the job, at work we have a Point Of Sale system (Micros 1700's) that talks to our back end NT4 system (P-100) via an old DOS CONNECT application. The hole system is slated to be replaced because it never really worked well.
To answer your question I THINK that the 64-bit XP is just a re-dressed 32-bit verson, though I'm not completely sure. So it probably doesn't take full advantage of the 64-bit architecture.
Piracy is the LEAST of the problems for a band. Almost all of the 8 million in the example went to the record company. This had nothing to do with piracy, this was the greed of the record company. And trust me, it didn't cost anywhere near that much to produce or promote their alums.
just thuoght it was worth noting that microsoft did release a 64-bit version of Windows XP. But this was only for the IA-64 architecture. And it was argeted mostly at high-end workstations (like we actually need windows on those)