Because they have a lot of things set up to support automatic shipment of electronic goods and automatic serial key generation and such. With a little thought "the supplier ships the goods" requires zero effort.
Are you going to try to make a statement to your cow-orkers? Are you trying to tell them "I'm different!"
Don't. Just be relaxed about what you wear to work, let those folks get to know who you are for a few months.. otherwise they'll label you ("nerd" or something else) and you'll have a hell of a time getting them to look past the label.
Every attempt I've ever seen to go "paperless office" have been failures - if all you end up with is a set of unreadable CD's a few years later, you've done very well so far. Personally, I think a paperless office is about as useful as a paperless toilet.
That still leaves $6,880,000,000,000 unaccounted for.
Of course. I was just trying to say that a comparison based on gross domestic product is not a very good way to make the judgement you made. I could also say, looking at your calculation, that not everybody is working 52 weeks, or 40 hrs/wk, or a number of other fatal flaws in the basic calculations - but they don't really matter, my point was that the comparison wasn't very useful...
If we really don't do anything better than anybody else, how is it that less than 5% of the world's population is responsible for over 25% of the planet's gross domestic product? Dumb luck?
Creative accounting. Flipping burgers adds USD 5 per hour to your countries gross domestic product, while it takes highly skilled work to do the add the same 5 bucks per hour in a third world country. I don't think gross domestic product is a good number to use in this particular comparison.
without a DRM OS you can legally play any free things
You get to the core of the matter here - proponents of DRM OS assume that every user is a thief who will play stolen content if the OS doesn't specifically stop it, while I assume the user is a basically honest human being. This whole attitude towards a fellow human being is significant, and to folks who don't think this matters at all I suggest you read some of the works of the Dalai Lama.
And why do you continue to believe it is your (and our) responsibility to make their business model work?
If a company decides that advertising is the way to make money, why is it my responsibility to make that work? Yes, they need to generate revenue somewhere, but no, I do not need to provide it.
If they provide something that is of positive value to me, I will pay for it. Advertising is of negative value to me, so I actively block it. It's up to them to live with it.
Someone has to pay. If it's not pop ups it'll be something else. Like a chapter 11. Good riddance..
Do you guys have any recommendations for a low end credit card purchase system requiring low or zero startup fee, but rather charging a per-transaction fee
To spend tens of thousands of dollars and so many man years to prevent millions of dollars in damage and lost work because an OS that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to run is so fragile. Why?
As author of a similar project (www.dubbele.com) I', glad to see competition. Different people need different solutions, and there's plenty of difference between mine and theirs.
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I know, and that's exactly what I mean.
Because they have a lot of things set up to support automatic shipment of electronic goods and automatic serial key generation and such. With a little thought "the supplier ships the goods" requires zero effort.
Kagi has a lot of experience with this. Check them out.
-John
Are you going to try to make a statement to your cow-orkers? Are you trying to tell them "I'm different!"
Don't. Just be relaxed about what you wear to work, let those folks get to know who you are for a few months.. otherwise they'll label you ("nerd" or something else) and you'll have a hell of a time getting them to look past the label.
-John
Block the port, use zone alarm, or (shameless plug) install this firewall
-John
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Every attempt I've ever seen to go "paperless office" have been failures - if all you end up with is a set of unreadable CD's a few years later, you've done very well so far. Personally, I think a paperless office is about as useful as a paperless toilet.
-John
And after installing fink it's just:
fink install perl
Yep, you're right, that is indeed easier...
-John
That still leaves $6,880,000,000,000 unaccounted for.
Of course. I was just trying to say that a comparison based on gross domestic product is not a very good way to make the judgement you made. I could also say, looking at your calculation, that not everybody is working 52 weeks, or 40 hrs/wk, or a number of other fatal flaws in the basic calculations - but they don't really matter, my point was that the comparison wasn't very useful...
If we really don't do anything better than anybody else, how is it that less than 5% of the world's population is responsible for over 25% of the planet's gross domestic product? Dumb luck?
Creative accounting. Flipping burgers adds USD 5 per hour to your countries gross domestic product, while it takes highly skilled work to do the add the same 5 bucks per hour in a third world country. I don't think gross domestic product is a good number to use in this particular comparison.
-John
without a DRM OS you can legally play any free things
You get to the core of the matter here - proponents of DRM OS assume that every user is a thief who will play stolen content if the OS doesn't specifically stop it, while I assume the user is a basically honest human being. This whole attitude towards a fellow human being is significant, and to folks who don't think this matters at all I suggest you read some of the works of the Dalai Lama.
-John
I know what the point is, however, I think by it's very definition it's impossible.
without a DRM OS I can play whatever I feel like on my computer
with a DRM OS I cannot.
Ergo, a DRM OS takes away rights. It's the only way...
Writing software that takes away the rights people have is so much against what I feel is "right" that I will not do it, ever.
-John
NetBSD/i386 Firewall Project
-John
I see a lot of "stealing" comments. So, instead, go the Open Source route and build your own firewall with the NetBSD/i386 Firewall Project
Yes, yes, I know, blatant plug
-John
And why do you continue to believe it is your (and our) responsibility to make their business model work?
If a company decides that advertising is the way to make money, why is it my responsibility to make that work? Yes, they need to generate revenue somewhere, but no, I do not need to provide it.
If they provide something that is of positive value to me, I will pay for it. Advertising is of negative value to me, so I actively block it. It's up to them to live with it.
Someone has to pay. If it's not pop ups it'll be something else.
Like a chapter 11. Good riddance..
-John
Use Retrospect from Dantz. Cross-platform, unattended, client backup and restore, saved my ass a couple of times - your users will never notice.
Do you guys have any recommendations for a low end credit card purchase system requiring low or zero startup fee, but rather charging a per-transaction fee
I use kagi.com.
-John
Or you could use the firewall at www.dubbele.com
-John
To spend tens of thousands of dollars and so many man years to prevent millions of dollars in damage and lost work because an OS that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to run is so fragile. Why?
Job security.
Del,
feel free to contact me once you've looked at dubbele.com, I'd be happy to talk about your impression..
-John
As author of a similar project (www.dubbele.com) I', glad to see competition. Different people need different solutions, and there's plenty of difference between mine and theirs.
-John
Plug: http://www.dubbele.com
and for those of us without the geek knowledge, I've set a smaller distribution, based on NetBSD, up as a firewall at www.dubbele.com.
And "affordable" hardware is very cheap if you look at solutions like the one at www.dubbele.com