The earth throws off so much man made electromagnetic radiation that it would have to look like anomalous object. Now, how many of those do we see in 'near' interstellar space? None.
Other than those commie hippie homo terrorists on public radio and college stations, radio doesn't broadcast music. It's just right wing asshole redneck shithead talk radio now.
I stopped paying for music years ago now I have no excuse to listen to the radio or theor advertisers either.
The interviewer opened a phone book sized tome and read questions w/o looking up once. The next level up was with an associate partner who essentially shouted at me for 30 minutes about how great it was to work there how partners at any other firm would happily take a lower level job at PW but at the same time anyone who didn't work at PW was a moron and a loser.
So nursing the SS program along to do MAYBE 1 or 2 launches a year is a waste of effort. All it does is stall the inevitable. Whether it's 2011, 2013 or 2015 manned spaceflight in the USA will be over. The Vulcans aren't coming to Montana, sorry.
My 2004 4-cyl Camry gets 31mpg @80mph on cruise control with 3 people in the car. The CAFE standards are for operating averages which means that when I sit at one 7 minute red light after another getting 0mpg that doesn't count. All the car makers need to do is stop putting huge engines in their cars. Do I NEED a 260hp Camry (the 6-cyl high performance option) no of course I don't. Do I NEED a V-10 Dodge Ram? No of course not. You need a 300hp engine to pull an 18 wheeler not you your fat assed buddies and an 18ft bass boat.
Of course we would let it go. The US is slipping behind in many science fields. The cost and the lack of public and political support for manned spaceflight of seemingly dubious returns means we will give that job to other countries. Since it is more a matter of national pride to them, to do that job it's perfect relationship.
I see I was modded to subzero. Which is like saying to me, at any rate that we're going to have hydrogen cell cars any day now, which of course is nonsense. Gasoline would have to be $10/gal before we even considered that. So feel free to mod down the naysayers on manned spaceflight too. In the mean time look around at the actual pace of manned spaceflight in the US. It's at its lowest point since the end of the Apollo program and there is no upside to that in sight anytime in future.
VoIP reliability and uptime are orders of magnitude worse than POTS. And the cable company has no uptime commitment or time to fix standard AT ALL. On Saturday my cable was out for 11hrs. If I needed that VoIP line I'd be screwed.
We're talking segmentation not early adopters. Sure everyone knows a guy who ran out and bought a $5000 digital camera to take snapshots. Everyone knows a guy who runs a highest end dual core gaming machine to read his email. But that's not what the low end of the market looks like.
Microsoft lives or dies by your upgrades. It's not a casual accident that the term Wintel exists. More hardware more software, the crank turns you spend money and on and on it goes. But today's sub $500 PC is state of the art circa 2004-5. Back then I invested a lot of time in looking into the lowest hardware supportable for the then current latest desktop Linux installations. Starting from a Pentium 1 400Mhz with 112MB RAM I discovered that the stated prereqs of a Pentium 2 500Mhz and 256MB RAM was the absolute rockbottom. A 1.2Ghz machine with 512MBRAM was really where you wanted to be. In other words a Pentium 3. I have one of these running today and while no barn burner its perfectly servicable. I will probably replace it with a Celeron D, double the RAM and it will run fine for several more years. In other words a machine that I could have bought new from eMachines 2-3 years ago will then run fine for another 2-3 years. By comparison XPSP2 will run fine on that old P-3 machine albeit it's good to strip out most of the XP look and feel interface widgets. Running it to look like W2K makes it snappy enough. Of course running iTunes on anything makes it crawl. But how long will Redmond keep XPSP2 around? Another year? After 2008 what options will you have? What will you be able to do with that Via C7 Samuel? Not much. So perhaps there's a lot to believe in the statement that Linux will own the low end of the market soon. What about embedded systems in cars? I think so.
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The SMB sector is hard to profit from because the operational structures and processes that IT firms use to standardized are geared towards larger deals. Just to walk in the door generally blows the budget. A $25K deal would be one persons time for 2 months including all the presales time. So the SMB customers have to come to us, not the other way around.
For God's sake zones, regions, time shifting, place shifting. Just let us know if you want to take our money from us without the risk of sending us all to jail, thanks. Otherwise just fuck off.
I was moved from a single office, with a door, to a double up office, to a cube farm in a call center with cube walls one foot higher than the desk. This was intolerable and clearly designed to get people to 'volunteer' to work from home. We still have a so called visitor center but unless you have ITN installed on your VoIP on your PC you don't have a portable phone number.
It's not bad and there's no point in fighting it. We'll just move science education particularly life science education offshore to other countries. There's no reason that the US has to be a 'brainy' country. For a few years at least we'll still be good at engineering, physical sciences, math but that too will eventually leave to other countries too. I really don't care either way.
I meant $20 as an arbitrary figure with little effort. In real terms hands on work like this can easily command $50-65/hr. Even if you have to travel (a lot) and your time is only 50% utilized that's still something like $6000/month gross before expenses, taxes. Look at what GS charges. It's 4x what they pay their labor.
I'm sure you could make $20/hr with a Rolodex of small businesses and home clients and do a credible stable job with a fairly steady cash flow. Of course you have to do it all yourself, marketing, promotion, paperwork, scheduling and collections but there are tools out that make that stuff pretty easy. In fact for some of the more glorified services that GS charges for you could easily undercut them in price. Why? Because you don't have to load your overhead with managers and LP officers.
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The earth throws off so much man made electromagnetic radiation that it would have to look like anomalous object. Now, how many of those do we see in 'near' interstellar space? None.
Scratching their asses doing nothing while several lanes are closed that messed up traffic.
Because we shouldn't delude ourselves that NCAA isn't a professional sports league.
Other than those commie hippie homo terrorists on public radio and college stations, radio doesn't broadcast music. It's just right wing asshole redneck shithead talk radio now.
I stopped paying for music years ago now I have no excuse to listen to the radio or theor advertisers either.
The interviewer opened a phone book sized tome and read questions w/o looking up once. The next level up was with an associate partner who essentially shouted at me for 30 minutes about how great it was to work there how partners at any other firm would happily take a lower level job at PW but at the same time anyone who didn't work at PW was a moron and a loser.
It's been like 5 years.
Big Oar is waiting.
So nursing the SS program along to do MAYBE 1 or 2 launches a year is a waste of effort. All it does is stall the inevitable. Whether it's 2011, 2013 or 2015 manned spaceflight in the USA will be over. The Vulcans aren't coming to Montana, sorry.
Sorry.
My 2004 4-cyl Camry gets 31mpg @80mph on cruise control with 3 people in the car. The CAFE standards are for operating averages which means that when I sit at one 7 minute red light after another getting 0mpg that doesn't count. All the car makers need to do is stop putting huge engines in their cars. Do I NEED a 260hp Camry (the 6-cyl high performance option) no of course I don't. Do I NEED a V-10 Dodge Ram? No of course not. You need a 300hp engine to pull an 18 wheeler not you your fat assed buddies and an 18ft bass boat.
People just get tired of them and when a few most vocal persons leave or are kicked out everyone else leaves too. Woow.
I wonder what all the high performance browsers built on the IE engine think about this?
Of course we would let it go. The US is slipping behind in many science fields. The cost and the lack of public and political support for manned spaceflight of seemingly dubious returns means we will give that job to other countries. Since it is more a matter of national pride to them, to do that job it's perfect relationship.
I see I was modded to subzero. Which is like saying to me, at any rate that we're going to have hydrogen cell cars any day now, which of course is nonsense. Gasoline would have to be $10/gal before we even considered that. So feel free to mod down the naysayers on manned spaceflight too. In the mean time look around at the actual pace of manned spaceflight in the US. It's at its lowest point since the end of the Apollo program and there is no upside to that in sight anytime in future.
After the Space Shuttle, manned spaceflight in the US will be officially over.
This is America Goddamnit.
VoIP reliability and uptime are orders of magnitude worse than POTS. And the cable company has no uptime commitment or time to fix standard AT ALL. On Saturday my cable was out for 11hrs. If I needed that VoIP line I'd be screwed.
We're talking segmentation not early adopters. Sure everyone knows a guy who ran out and bought a $5000 digital camera to take snapshots. Everyone knows a guy who runs a highest end dual core gaming machine to read his email. But that's not what the low end of the market looks like.
Microsoft lives or dies by your upgrades. It's not a casual accident that the term Wintel exists. More hardware more software, the crank turns you spend money and on and on it goes. But today's sub $500 PC is state of the art circa 2004-5. Back then I invested a lot of time in looking into the lowest hardware supportable for the then current latest desktop Linux installations. Starting from a Pentium 1 400Mhz with 112MB RAM I discovered that the stated prereqs of a Pentium 2 500Mhz and 256MB RAM was the absolute rockbottom. A 1.2Ghz machine with 512MBRAM was really where you wanted to be. In other words a Pentium 3. I have one of these running today and while no barn burner its perfectly servicable. I will probably replace it with a Celeron D, double the RAM and it will run fine for several more years. In other words a machine that I could have bought new from eMachines 2-3 years ago will then run fine for another 2-3 years. By comparison XPSP2 will run fine on that old P-3 machine albeit it's good to strip out most of the XP look and feel interface widgets. Running it to look like W2K makes it snappy enough. Of course running iTunes on anything makes it crawl. But how long will Redmond keep XPSP2 around? Another year? After 2008 what options will you have? What will you be able to do with that Via C7 Samuel? Not much. So perhaps there's a lot to believe in the statement that Linux will own the low end of the market soon. What about embedded systems in cars? I think so.
The SMB sector is hard to profit from because the operational structures and processes that IT firms use to standardized are geared towards larger deals. Just to walk in the door generally blows the budget. A $25K deal would be one persons time for 2 months including all the presales time. So the SMB customers have to come to us, not the other way around.
For God's sake zones, regions, time shifting, place shifting. Just let us know if you want to take our money from us without the risk of sending us all to jail, thanks. Otherwise just fuck off.
I was moved from a single office, with a door, to a double up office, to a cube farm in a call center with cube walls one foot higher than the desk. This was intolerable and clearly designed to get people to 'volunteer' to work from home. We still have a so called visitor center but unless you have ITN installed on your VoIP on your PC you don't have a portable phone number.
It's not bad and there's no point in fighting it. We'll just move science education particularly life science education offshore to other countries. There's no reason that the US has to be a 'brainy' country. For a few years at least we'll still be good at engineering, physical sciences, math but that too will eventually leave to other countries too. I really don't care either way.
I meant $20 as an arbitrary figure with little effort. In real terms hands on work like this can easily command $50-65/hr. Even if you have to travel (a lot) and your time is only 50% utilized that's still something like $6000/month gross before expenses, taxes. Look at what GS charges. It's 4x what they pay their labor.
I'm sure you could make $20/hr with a Rolodex of small businesses and home clients and do a credible stable job with a fairly steady cash flow. Of course you have to do it all yourself, marketing, promotion, paperwork, scheduling and collections but there are tools out that make that stuff pretty easy. In fact for some of the more glorified services that GS charges for you could easily undercut them in price. Why? Because you don't have to load your overhead with managers and LP officers.