uh... no. Not at all. Buy if you can; develop if you have to. It definitely can be much cheaper to buy marketshare by buying up technologies, etc that you don't have as part of your business already. It can be a quick, great way to expand, if you can afford it.
But the idea behind franchises? The idea of franchises is for people like you and me to get a part of the big company. You're not taking anything away from the parent company when you pay franchise fees.
Could you imagine all the royalties we'll owe to the dang Martians (if we ever discover them) for using their likeness or image for our commercial advantage?
EARTHLING - Greetings from Earth!
MARTIAN - You suckers are gonna pay. You've been selling Mars bars for like 50 years. You owe us!
EARTHLING - How's 40 acres and a mule sound?
MARTIAN - We can live with that. Done.
EARTHLING - Oh, and while we're in bargaining mode, mind if we put a Wal-Mart around here somewhere?
MARTIAN - What could be the harm in that?
EARTHLING - (walking off) I hope they give me that Salesman of the Year plaque this year. *grin*
What an excellent point, except that you just described one of the main points of TFA.
One interesting development worth noting, however, has to do with the integration of database systems and file systems. Individuals who keep thousands of e-mail messages, documents, photos, and music files on their own personal systems are hard-pressed to find much of anything anymore. Scale up to the enterprise level, where the number of files is in the billions, and you've got the same problem on steroids. Traditional folder hierarchy schemes and filing practices are simply no match for the information tsunami we all face today. Thus, a fully indexed, semistructured object database is called for to enable search capabilities that offer us decent precision and recall. What does this all signify? Paradoxically enough, it seems that file systems are evolving into database systems--which, if nothing else, goes to show just how fundamental the semistructured data problem really is. Data management architects still have plenty of work ahead of them before they can claim to have wrestled this problem to the mat.
Unless you prefer not using spyware. Let's not forget that eXeem is laden with some nasty little spyware of its own. eXeem has spywareAnother story Use Lite if anything.
Dell Rep - Sir, please hold down "STAH" an "END" an "POWAH" at de same time for 10 second. That vill re-initialize your phone, and you vill be good to go.
Customer - Will I lose my address book?
Dell Rep - Goodness gracious, yes. It's the only vay. Did you back up your phone?
Customer - I didn't know I was supposed to.
Dell Rep - Oh, too bad. And you're going to have a new phone number now.
That sounds like a line from "My new filing technique is unstoppable". It's now one of my favorites. I bought the book at a discount bookstore.
My new filing technique is unstoppable
Perhaps you should be prosecuted for stealing the content selling opportunities owned by the theater. It's not the actual M&M's you took in, but the sale that the theater lost due to your illegal activity.
Oh, and I REALLY hope you didn't share any of those M&M's.
MAN is not what you're looking for. A MAN is a Metropolitan Area Network, but its purpose is to connect a few separate LAN's that serve a similar set of clients. Think of the government buildings in your area. They may have 5 or 10 buildings, each with separate LAN's. Then think of connecting those 5 or 10 LAN's for the purpose of high speed sharing between them. The example I always think of (don't ask me why) is the diamond wholesalers in Houston. There are a whole bunch of diamond wholesalers in a couple of areas. They all participate in a centralized data initiative (or at least that's what I was told). They have a MAN connecting their LAN's.
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V-ger was already reclaimed. It turned evil, but our boys on the USS Enterprise took care of it. Star Trek
I would submit that it followed natural growth thanks largely to competitive markets. Imagine where we'd be if there were only one player in this vast field.
Brilliant minds, huge dollars, and competition made this rate possible.
DOCTOR - "I just finished giving rectal exams and entering the results in the lone computer here at our station. Now I'm going to get a cup o' coffee. Want to join me?"
CO-WORKER - "Nah, that's alright. I'm going to go ahead and remove all the keys off all of the keyboards we use, rinse them in soapy water, dry them thoroughly, and then put them back in the correct order. Shouldn't take too long or anything. I'll catch up with you later."
I don't know many true Simpsons fans who aren't sharp as heck. Shoot some actually can read, but how many are going to sit down and actually read a book for *gasp* pleasure?
I agree. That's a difficult task. Building it would require decision making. They'd have to be wireless to begin with though, so bandwidth would probably be your biggest bottleneck. Might not be a good idea.
The alpha of the cluster could be known as the "Master shark node". The other nodes could simply be called "Other shark nodes". As for the name of the cluster itself, how about
"Super Honey Sweet Sharky Death Machine."
Or "Evilly-clustered Beowulf school-pack of shark"
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"Kind of the idea behind franchises"
uh... no. Not at all. Buy if you can; develop if you have to. It definitely can be much cheaper to buy marketshare by buying up technologies, etc that you don't have as part of your business already. It can be a quick, great way to expand, if you can afford it.
But the idea behind franchises? The idea of franchises is for people like you and me to get a part of the big company. You're not taking anything away from the parent company when you pay franchise fees.
Just build one. Well, not an actual one. Build an open source equivalent.
The "Lyte Sabyr".
No knowledge of that, but it is not unprecedented (using tall structures as giant wireless mounts). 1915 Phone call
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Could you imagine all the royalties we'll owe to the dang Martians (if we ever discover them) for using their likeness or image for our commercial advantage?
EARTHLING - Greetings from Earth!
MARTIAN - You suckers are gonna pay. You've been selling Mars bars for like 50 years. You owe us!
EARTHLING - How's 40 acres and a mule sound?
MARTIAN - We can live with that. Done.
EARTHLING - Oh, and while we're in bargaining mode, mind if we put a Wal-Mart around here somewhere?
MARTIAN - What could be the harm in that?
EARTHLING - (walking off) I hope they give me that Salesman of the Year plaque this year. *grin*
What an excellent point, except that you just described one of the main points of TFA.
One interesting development worth noting, however, has to do with the integration of database systems and file systems. Individuals who keep thousands of e-mail messages, documents, photos, and music files on their own personal systems are hard-pressed to find much of anything anymore. Scale up to the enterprise level, where the number of files is in the billions, and you've got the same problem on steroids. Traditional folder hierarchy schemes and filing practices are simply no match for the information tsunami we all face today. Thus, a fully indexed, semistructured object database is called for to enable search capabilities that offer us decent precision and recall. What does this all signify? Paradoxically enough, it seems that file systems are evolving into database systems--which, if nothing else, goes to show just how fundamental the semistructured data problem really is. Data management architects still have plenty of work ahead of them before they can claim to have wrestled this problem to the mat.
Unless you prefer not using spyware. Let's not forget that eXeem is laden with some nasty little spyware of its own. eXeem has spyware Another story Use Lite if anything.
Check out the big brain on Brett!
You know what they call the iTrip in Europe?
They call it the iKilometer. You know why they call it the iKilometer?
Dell Rep - Sir, please hold down "STAH" an "END" an "POWAH" at de same time for 10 second. That vill re-initialize your phone, and you vill be good to go.
Customer - Will I lose my address book?
Dell Rep - Goodness gracious, yes. It's the only vay. Did you back up your phone?
Customer - I didn't know I was supposed to.
Dell Rep - Oh, too bad. And you're going to have a new phone number now.
Customer - Whaaa?
Dell Rep - Tank you for calling Dell.
That sounds like a line from "My new filing technique is unstoppable". It's now one of my favorites. I bought the book at a discount bookstore. My new filing technique is unstoppable
Apple announces new sales mantra:
tHe nEw aPple cOmputer - tHe oS oF cHoice fOr hAx00rs.
Love it. That's better by far. It's settled then. Go ahead and drop 'ol Linus a note.
How about "Git Isn't Translatable"?
Perhaps you should be prosecuted for stealing the content selling opportunities owned by the theater. It's not the actual M&M's you took in, but the sale that the theater lost due to your illegal activity.
Oh, and I REALLY hope you didn't share any of those M&M's.
MAN is not what you're looking for. A MAN is a Metropolitan Area Network, but its purpose is to connect a few separate LAN's that serve a similar set of clients. Think of the government buildings in your area. They may have 5 or 10 buildings, each with separate LAN's. Then think of connecting those 5 or 10 LAN's for the purpose of high speed sharing between them. The example I always think of (don't ask me why) is the diamond wholesalers in Houston. There are a whole bunch of diamond wholesalers in a couple of areas. They all participate in a centralized data initiative (or at least that's what I was told). They have a MAN connecting their LAN's.
V-ger was already reclaimed. It turned evil, but our boys on the USS Enterprise took care of it. Star Trek
Like that matters to Slashdotters anyway. Think they'd actually RTFA? They don't even do that for the real articles!
I would submit that it followed natural growth thanks largely to competitive markets. Imagine where we'd be if there were only one player in this vast field.
Brilliant minds, huge dollars, and competition made this rate possible.
Now that's handy between rounds at the hospital.
DOCTOR - "I just finished giving rectal exams and entering the results in the lone computer here at our station. Now I'm going to get a cup o' coffee. Want to join me?"
CO-WORKER - "Nah, that's alright. I'm going to go ahead and remove all the keys off all of the keyboards we use, rinse them in soapy water, dry them thoroughly, and then put them back in the correct order. Shouldn't take too long or anything. I'll catch up with you later."
Maybe that's the idea they were going for. Bigger ticket sales that way. Get not only Johnny and his friend, but also their mom or dad.
I don't know many true Simpsons fans who aren't sharp as heck. Shoot some actually can read, but how many are going to sit down and actually read a book for *gasp* pleasure?
That's why Jeebus invented TV.
Fitting response from a Texas Longhorn.
I was this close (imagine thumb and finger about 1 cm apart) to modding you down just for that alone.
Gig 'em.
I'll bet they said, "WTF?"
End of the world (featuring Australia)I agree. That's a difficult task. Building it would require decision making. They'd have to be wireless to begin with though, so bandwidth would probably be your biggest bottleneck. Might not be a good idea.
The alpha of the cluster could be known as the "Master shark node". The other nodes could simply be called "Other shark nodes". As for the name of the cluster itself, how about
"Super Honey Sweet Sharky Death Machine."
Or "Evilly-clustered Beowulf school-pack of shark"
Or "Team Shark" (for use with SETI)