Your remarks while insightful for your situation are somewhat less so for mine.
Are you actually proposing that I shift some of my larger clients with 300+ employees to *gmail*? Sorry, but I like my job.
I also can't use ancient and wheezy Linux boxes in that kind of environment. My clients need horsepower in order to run their groupware applications, as well as their email.
Besides, have you ever looked to see how much SPAM can be sent to 300+ corporate accounts? It can be a signicant amount of bandwidth, storage space, and processor power. This stuff just isn't free, no matter how much you want to trivialize it in order to bolster your case.
As an aside you aren't hosting enterprise, hell even business class, 'net connections on a $20 a month unlimited account. Try a couple of T1s at upwards of $300 per month.
In addition to the hardware charge, every users TIME counts towards the "delete the 50 spam messages I got today" bill.
300 users x 5 minutes each to deal with SPAM = 1500 minutes.
1500 minutes / 60 minutes in an hour = 25 wasted hours per day.
25 hours per day x $25 per hour (avg employee wage) = $625 per day.
$625 per day x 20 working days per month = $12,500
$12,500 per month x 12 months per year = $150,000 per year.
I don't know about you but where I come from $150,000 per year in lost productivity is worth notice. It's a problem, and the higher your average wage the more of dollar loss it is.
In short, while I think you have some great ideas on how to run your business, you don't have much experience with larger companies and it shows.
I'll still be reading your posts though. I may not agree with you but at least you're logical in your approach.
When unsolicited material is sent to me through the USPS I know that the sending party paid the cost to have it delivered to my mailbox.
In contrast, when I receive an unsolicited piece of email I know that *I*, the receiving party, paid the cost to have it delivered to my mailbox.
I pay nothing to have unsolicited material delivered to my physical mailbox, I pay plenty, over time, to have unsolicited material delivered to my virtual mailbox.
How do I pay you ask?
Let me count the ways:
Increased bandwidth usuage (some people get billed for this you know) Increased storage requirements (hard drives are not free) Increased system overhead (processors and RAM aren't free either) Anti-Spam software is not free. My time to delete your unwanted messages is not free. (I bill 150+ per hour)
So you see, your free market business is in fact costing me a nice chunk of change when viewed on a montly reoccuring basis.
Congrats, you just re-invented the thin terminal as made by Neoware, Wyse and a whole host of other companies.:-)
There are a lot of niggly details that need to be worked out (multi-media, local printing, etc) but I expect they will all be fixed eventually.
You can give it a go yourself if you like. Simply setup a "server" at the office and a thin terminal at home. Now push some kind of simple to understand and FUNCTIONAL working environment from one to the other.
When you get it all straightened out your solution will be ready for market!
Warrentless spying on Americans by Presidential order and which Presidents have ordered it?
How about ALL of them in the last 100 years or so, every single one.
Clinton, Bush, Reagan, Carter, Ford, Hoover, Kennedy...Sheesh, it would be easier to name ones who HAVEN'T done this.
I don't agree that it's right but it is nowhere near as unique as you would like to believe. It's actually been quite common and likely S.O.P. for a very, very, very long time now.
If you somehow don't know this then you have no business debating this topic; your ignorance precludes your participation.
It's a nice rant, too bad you went off half cocked and one quarter informed. Of course like most Dubya rants it's based on a pile of shit fed to you by the mass media.
Anyway, when your Dubya bashing fervor has cooled enough perhaps you could be bothered to go and actually LOOK at the rules.
Here's a hint, they haven't changed since 1999. The list of countries you can export to hasn't changed either.
The only thing that has changed is that Symantec is now just as ill informed about the law and lazy as you are.
Funny, but consider this: (taken from www.dictionary.com)
Fascism A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, stringent socioeconomic controls...
So after I look that up I head back to the front page to see that my British cousins are going to start tracking ALL vehicle movements...passenger and commercial for "security services".
Stop the Insanity!
If America is being covered by the cloud of fascism we are not the only ones. Yes I'm American, yes I'm still proud of that fact.
Well that's news! Would you please come over here and explain that to my OpenSuSE10 installation with an ATI Radeon 9500 Pro 128 in it?
I mean, YOU may know that ATI drivers are great and I may know that ATI drivers are great but OpenSuSE seems, shall we say, less then convinced.
What I really mean to say is that I spent 4+ hours combing through every How-To that Google could locate, downloading every driver that any idjut on the Internet had _ever_ recommended and OpenSuSE stubbornly refused to enable OpenGL.
ATI Drivers = Crap - At least as far as OpenSuSE is concerned.
Cory touches on one of the frustrating things about Microsoft, as the largest of large Gorillas they truly have the power to change the industry for the betterment of their customers...but they don't. They are too busy pandering to "groups" and they are losing sight of who their customers are!
I think it's one of the reasons that so many people are all sunshine and butterflys about Google. We *want* to take away the power that we've given MS and transfer it to someone who will use it to make life better for *us*.
It's an odd way of looking at it, but I believe the more you think about it the more truth you will see in it.
I'm not coming down on one side or the other on this debate, but you should be careful with that "vast majority of reputable scientists worldwide believe..." rational.
The nature of scientific discovery dictates that this generations "vast majority of reputable scientists" are no better then blind baboons a few generations from now.
Nuclear fission? Impossible! Communication without wires? Unthinkable! Heavier then air flight? You're mad! Heart Transplants? Surely you jest!
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Hmmm, you were either a scientist or a priest! ;-)
Are you kidding me? All the infantile digg posters CAME from here!
Your remarks while insightful for your situation are somewhat less so for mine.
Are you actually proposing that I shift some of my larger clients with 300+ employees to *gmail*? Sorry, but I like my job.
I also can't use ancient and wheezy Linux boxes in that kind of environment. My clients need horsepower in order to run their groupware applications, as well as their email.
Besides, have you ever looked to see how much SPAM can be sent to 300+ corporate accounts? It can be a signicant amount of bandwidth, storage space, and processor power. This stuff just isn't free, no matter how much you want to trivialize it in order to bolster your case.
As an aside you aren't hosting enterprise, hell even business class, 'net connections on a $20 a month unlimited account. Try a couple of T1s at upwards of $300 per month.
In addition to the hardware charge, every users TIME counts towards the "delete the 50 spam messages I got today" bill.
300 users x 5 minutes each to deal with SPAM = 1500 minutes.
1500 minutes / 60 minutes in an hour = 25 wasted hours per day.
25 hours per day x $25 per hour (avg employee wage) = $625 per day.
$625 per day x 20 working days per month = $12,500
$12,500 per month x 12 months per year = $150,000 per year.
I don't know about you but where I come from $150,000 per year in lost productivity is worth notice. It's a problem, and the higher your average wage the more of dollar loss it is.
In short, while I think you have some great ideas on how to run your business, you don't have much experience with larger companies and it shows.
I'll still be reading your posts though. I may not agree with you but at least you're logical in your approach.
SPAM=USPS is an incorrect analogy.
When unsolicited material is sent to me through the USPS I know that the sending party paid the cost to have it delivered to my mailbox.
In contrast, when I receive an unsolicited piece of email I know that *I*, the receiving party, paid the cost to have it delivered to my mailbox.
I pay nothing to have unsolicited material delivered to my physical mailbox, I pay plenty, over time, to have unsolicited material delivered to my virtual mailbox.
How do I pay you ask?
Let me count the ways:
Increased bandwidth usuage (some people get billed for this you know)
Increased storage requirements (hard drives are not free)
Increased system overhead (processors and RAM aren't free either)
Anti-Spam software is not free.
My time to delete your unwanted messages is not free. (I bill 150+ per hour)
So you see, your free market business is in fact costing me a nice chunk of change when viewed on a montly reoccuring basis.
So why does HE need to spend HIS money in order to support YOUR business?
That hardly seems free market, seems more like forced market to me.
BTW, I understand that you aren't sending spam so I'm not talking about your business directly.
Okay now THAT bends my mind. I can deal with the concept of a black hole, I envision it as a kind of tornado whose final point is unseeable.
However, according to the calculations in your link when two equal mass black holes colide they turn into a ***sphere***.
Oh my head aches. If it turns into a sphere, what happens to the matter that they continually "eat"?
Does it continue to get packed into the interior of the sphere? If so what kind of pressure is THAT setup capable of?
Owe. Pass the Excedrin please.
Their server is certainly feeling the combined wrath of /. & Digg. We may need a whole new phrase to describe THAT level of destruction. :-)
How about "minute" as in very small or tiny, instead as a unit of time?
The word does have more than one meaning.
Congrats, you just re-invented the thin terminal as made by Neoware, Wyse and a whole host of other companies. :-)
There are a lot of niggly details that need to be worked out (multi-media, local printing, etc) but I expect they will all be fixed eventually.
You can give it a go yourself if you like. Simply setup a "server" at the office and a thin terminal at home. Now push some kind of simple to understand and FUNCTIONAL working environment from one to the other.
When you get it all straightened out your solution will be ready for market!
Cheers!
Okay, one properly formatted command coming up.
;)
apt-get install firefox
If I was anywhere close to ChicagoLand I'd be knocking on your door. I'm amazed at the progressive thinking and business acumen you display.
Why don't more companies operate like this?
My jaw literally dropped when I read your comment that said, to paraphrase, starting a business doesn't require skill.
I mean, just, wow.
Are you twelve or just naive?
I don't mean to flame you but that was one of the most ignorant comments I've read in quite some time.
Warrentless spying on Americans by Presidential order and which Presidents have ordered it?
How about ALL of them in the last 100 years or so, every single one.
Clinton, Bush, Reagan, Carter, Ford, Hoover, Kennedy...Sheesh, it would be easier to name ones who HAVEN'T done this.
I don't agree that it's right but it is nowhere near as unique as you would like to believe. It's actually been quite common and likely S.O.P. for a very, very, very long time now.
If you somehow don't know this then you have no business debating this topic; your ignorance precludes your participation.
Someone needs to lookup the definition of "Bipartisan". May I suggest www.dictionary.com
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My Senator said THAT???
I'll have to swing by the Enzi's place later tonight and have a talk with him.
It's a nice rant, too bad you went off half cocked and one quarter informed. Of course like most Dubya rants it's based on a pile of shit fed to you by the mass media.
Anyway, when your Dubya bashing fervor has cooled enough perhaps you could be bothered to go and actually LOOK at the rules.
Here's a hint, they haven't changed since 1999. The list of countries you can export to hasn't changed either.
The only thing that has changed is that Symantec is now just as ill informed about the law and lazy as you are.
Funny, but consider this: (taken from www.dictionary.com)
Fascism
A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, stringent socioeconomic controls...
So after I look that up I head back to the front page to see that my British cousins are going to start tracking ALL vehicle movements...passenger and commercial for "security services".
Stop the Insanity!
If America is being covered by the cloud of fascism we are not the only ones. Yes I'm American, yes I'm still proud of that fact.
"Ati works great."
Well that's news! Would you please come over here and explain that to my OpenSuSE10 installation with an ATI Radeon 9500 Pro 128 in it?
I mean, YOU may know that ATI drivers are great and I may know that ATI drivers are great but OpenSuSE seems, shall we say, less then convinced.
What I really mean to say is that I spent 4+ hours combing through every How-To that Google could locate, downloading every driver that any idjut on the Internet had _ever_ recommended and OpenSuSE stubbornly refused to enable OpenGL.
ATI Drivers = Crap - At least as far as OpenSuSE is concerned.
Where do you get that this is a "Republican Media Hype" event? The last Democrat President talked about it as well.
It may well be a Media Event, but it's not limited to a political party, do try and keep your facts straight.
Excellent read, thank you for posting it!
Cory touches on one of the frustrating things about Microsoft, as the largest of large Gorillas they truly have the power to change the industry for the betterment of their customers...but they don't. They are too busy pandering to "groups" and they are losing sight of who their customers are!
I think it's one of the reasons that so many people are all sunshine and butterflys about Google. We *want* to take away the power that we've given MS and transfer it to someone who will use it to make life better for *us*.
It's an odd way of looking at it, but I believe the more you think about it the more truth you will see in it.
How about if it overheats and burns your place down? :-)
LOL@ the troll mod you picked up...someone must not have read the HT article. ;-)
I'm reading now, the six lesson schoolteacher was an interesting essay.
Thank you for your response.
I'll take it, if nothing else it will make a conversation worthy paperweight.
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I'm not coming down on one side or the other on this debate, but you should be careful with that "vast majority of reputable scientists worldwide believe..." rational.
The nature of scientific discovery dictates that this generations "vast majority of reputable scientists" are no better then blind baboons a few generations from now.
Nuclear fission? Impossible!
Communication without wires? Unthinkable!
Heavier then air flight? You're mad!
Heart Transplants? Surely you jest!