It's public information. Anybody can and many organizations do archive online information. The millisecond information is posted online, it's forever public. I don't understand why people find this concept so hard to grasp.
This also works well for junk faxers:
Just set a modem to auto-redial. It's easy. It's effective. Heck, I've heard of people setting the modem to auto-redial on a phone line that's rarely used (like a fax line), and simply forgetting about it for a few days.
It's surprising that everybody running around claiming the "death of the computer" are working so hard to make their *pads into virtual laptops. Of course, as common sense would suggest, using "tablets" for reading and typing is pretty difficult. Hence, all of the products that hold the tablets in a position like a laptop, with keyboards in front of the screen (like a laptop). For the same price as one of the gadgets (without the accessories), I'm using a full fledged 17" laptop with an i5, 6 GB RAM, and a 800 GB HD.
The USPS would be doing fine financially if the gov't didn't mandate that the USPS is profitable. It's a red herring. Our military isn't (officially) profitable. Our schools aren't profitable. Our infrastructure isn't profitable. Our police and fire aren't profitable. The USPS exists to provide a basic level of delivery service to ALL Americans. If the USPS goes away, it'll be really, really difficult to live anywhere other than in cities and suburbs.
Case in point: I just bought a brand new USR 56K modem yesterday. Needed it for backup for when the Net goes down at work. POTS is certainly more reliable than DSL!
I went from phone jockey to senior database developer in 8 years. At that point, all of the projects were the same architecture, and all of the problems to be solved I'd already solved many times over. In addition to the sheer boredom, there was also the very real fear that staying too long in IT turns you into the red stapler guy in Office Space. I left and started my business. Glad I did.
No, that's quantum physics. Seemingly unrelated particles can influence each other. It's been widely known and accepted as fact since Einstein's era. It's just unusual to see it happen with such particles.
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Speak for yourself. Instead of buying overpriced, poor quality, DRM'ed music, I DO go to my local CD store, buy $10-$15 CD's, rip them for my own use, AND I contribute to my local economy.
No, companies don't care what the "FOSS Community" says. They're donating it. That means that they say that this incredible thingy is worth $100 billion, and write it off as a charitable donation. It's a smart way to end a software product. Sure, maybe they're glad they get a bit of "geek cred", but that isn't worth nearly the amount that they can write off of their books because of their "donation". Also, they get to dump all of the ongoing support costs for the software much quicker than if they were to let it wind down slowly on it's own. It's purely a financial decision, and probably a smart one at that.
It's good to know that while the rest of the world is literally starving, our military get a blank check to waste money on even more silly gadgets. Brilliant. Can we get these soldiers some more sports cars, too, while we're at it?
"The employer pays well over $1K/mo per employee for insurance. I shut my business down in large part because we could no longer afford health insurance, and thus could not compete with the big outfits for talent."
Either that's an outright lie, or you were getting scammed. I pay the health insurance for 20 people. The most expensive person is about $350/month on a top notch insurance plan (great coverage, low deductibles).
"and it discourages the best employees from working at smaller firms because they literally will have to pay 100% more per year for basic healthcare. "
This is either hyperbole, or wrong. Health insurance is expensive, but the cost is rarely more than a few hundreds bucks a month per person, significantly less than minimum wage.
No, I think you're pretty far off base. In the tech bubble, where people are overpaid to make utterly useless things, there's an excess of money still floating around. Lots and lots of Apple products. On the other hand, companies that have to earn profits can't blow money on silly designer computers. Windows is cheap and runs on dirt cheap hardware. That's important to any company that needs to earn a profit. In fact, based on my own experience, seeing Apple products in a non-fashion/design based company is a pretty solid indicator that the company spends money needlessly, and generally doesn't have much of a future.
If only we had some kind of system that could easily and quickly do basic arithmetic to calculate the taxes, and keep track of lists of transactions and tax rates... I would imagine that you'd need some kind of "computing" device to handle it. I can't imagine what one of these would be like. Sounds exotic and much more expensive that the pencils and paper online retailers currently use to run their businesses.
You make a decision, with the money you spend, what is important to you. Generally, it's somewhere along the spectrum between "The people working here support me and my community, and the taxes support me and my community, so I'm going to spend significantly more here" to "I just want it cheap. Screw everybody".
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It's public information. Anybody can and many organizations do archive online information. The millisecond information is posted online, it's forever public. I don't understand why people find this concept so hard to grasp.
Tell your partner, that not only will you keep your technological advantage
How's this possible when giving away all of the code?
This also works well for junk faxers: Just set a modem to auto-redial. It's easy. It's effective. Heck, I've heard of people setting the modem to auto-redial on a phone line that's rarely used (like a fax line), and simply forgetting about it for a few days.
It's surprising that everybody running around claiming the "death of the computer" are working so hard to make their *pads into virtual laptops. Of course, as common sense would suggest, using "tablets" for reading and typing is pretty difficult. Hence, all of the products that hold the tablets in a position like a laptop, with keyboards in front of the screen (like a laptop). For the same price as one of the gadgets (without the accessories), I'm using a full fledged 17" laptop with an i5, 6 GB RAM, and a 800 GB HD.
The USPS would be doing fine financially if the gov't didn't mandate that the USPS is profitable. It's a red herring. Our military isn't (officially) profitable. Our schools aren't profitable. Our infrastructure isn't profitable. Our police and fire aren't profitable. The USPS exists to provide a basic level of delivery service to ALL Americans. If the USPS goes away, it'll be really, really difficult to live anywhere other than in cities and suburbs.
Case in point: I just bought a brand new USR 56K modem yesterday. Needed it for backup for when the Net goes down at work. POTS is certainly more reliable than DSL!
I went from phone jockey to senior database developer in 8 years. At that point, all of the projects were the same architecture, and all of the problems to be solved I'd already solved many times over. In addition to the sheer boredom, there was also the very real fear that staying too long in IT turns you into the red stapler guy in Office Space. I left and started my business. Glad I did.
No, that's quantum physics. Seemingly unrelated particles can influence each other. It's been widely known and accepted as fact since Einstein's era. It's just unusual to see it happen with such particles.
Speak for yourself. Instead of buying overpriced, poor quality, DRM'ed music, I DO go to my local CD store, buy $10-$15 CD's, rip them for my own use, AND I contribute to my local economy.
Did you think the fact that Microsoft charges money for the use of their products and Google doesn't, has anything to do with what you've said?
That's what insurance is for. If you're going to get reimbursed if it's stolen, why do you care where it goes after it's stolen?
No. The answer is to pay all employees fairly and treat them well. Employees who are happy with their jobs do not steal.
No, companies don't care what the "FOSS Community" says. They're donating it. That means that they say that this incredible thingy is worth $100 billion, and write it off as a charitable donation. It's a smart way to end a software product. Sure, maybe they're glad they get a bit of "geek cred", but that isn't worth nearly the amount that they can write off of their books because of their "donation". Also, they get to dump all of the ongoing support costs for the software much quicker than if they were to let it wind down slowly on it's own. It's purely a financial decision, and probably a smart one at that.
It's good to know that while the rest of the world is literally starving, our military get a blank check to waste money on even more silly gadgets. Brilliant. Can we get these soldiers some more sports cars, too, while we're at it?
"The employer pays well over $1K/mo per employee for insurance. I shut my business down in large part because we could no longer afford health insurance, and thus could not compete with the big outfits for talent."
Either that's an outright lie, or you were getting scammed. I pay the health insurance for 20 people. The most expensive person is about $350/month on a top notch insurance plan (great coverage, low deductibles).
"and it discourages the best employees from working at smaller firms because they literally will have to pay 100% more per year for basic healthcare. "
This is either hyperbole, or wrong. Health insurance is expensive, but the cost is rarely more than a few hundreds bucks a month per person, significantly less than minimum wage.
No, I think you're pretty far off base. In the tech bubble, where people are overpaid to make utterly useless things, there's an excess of money still floating around. Lots and lots of Apple products. On the other hand, companies that have to earn profits can't blow money on silly designer computers. Windows is cheap and runs on dirt cheap hardware. That's important to any company that needs to earn a profit. In fact, based on my own experience, seeing Apple products in a non-fashion/design based company is a pretty solid indicator that the company spends money needlessly, and generally doesn't have much of a future.
"Worse mistake MS ever made was removing the command line post W95/98."
A. There was no command line, per se. Windows 95/98 were running on top of DOS.
B. Windows has never been without a command line. I use it daily in Windows XP and 7.
Right now, Intuit and Peachtree do the same thing for payroll taxes.
If only we had some kind of system that could easily and quickly do basic arithmetic to calculate the taxes, and keep track of lists of transactions and tax rates... I would imagine that you'd need some kind of "computing" device to handle it. I can't imagine what one of these would be like. Sounds exotic and much more expensive that the pencils and paper online retailers currently use to run their businesses.
Happy with Coastal? Mostly. I wish they had "real" tellers again, but otherwise, year, Coastal is great.
Rent from someone who doesn't check your credit.
https://www.coastal24.com/ 2.51%, actually.
You make a decision, with the money you spend, what is important to you. Generally, it's somewhere along the spectrum between "The people working here support me and my community, and the taxes support me and my community, so I'm going to spend significantly more here" to "I just want it cheap. Screw everybody".
That's your decision to make. Nobody's forcing anybody to buy a car or house they can't afford.