No, I just know that it doesn't take money (necessarily) to make money. It takes a good clean outfit (tie necessary, suit not), and a willingness to lose a lot of sleep, sweat a lot, and learn how to sell.
I've made money going in at the bottom in a company, whizbanging the CEO, and making the sale. I've seen companies run out of parlors by guys out of work with nothing but an idea and a dream, and a client with a need.
Go find someone, small shop, warehouse, manufacturing center near you, and solve their computer woes. I guarantee you they have a supply chain problem or JIT issue that you can solve if you work hard enough at it. Lawyers with websites, etc...
90% of running a business is marketing yourself, not actual delivery of product. Otherwise, how would Linux or Microsoft ever have taken off? Hmm??
Either that or his wife told him to come home now, and get some milk and bread on the way, or he can live in his martian 24hour, 36m world cuz she's moving out.
Because the threat of force from the combined u.n. nations wasn't enough to deter the American military superpower. Had the U.N backed up it's veto with threat of force, Saddam would still be suppressing his people.
All this shows is that the good ole boy rich, fat, white guy network is still firmly entrenched, such that "America == Europe, sorta" and so will fail to back up the words with spine. So the U.S. can use it's economic and political might to streamroller them.
This whole situation is more of a show of spinelessness on the part of the world to stand up as one against the U.S., than it is about the U.S., who at least took out a tyrannical regime in the hope of helping the people. Oh, and we had the balls to stand up and take the oil, unlike the French who tried to do in dirty backroom deals.
Except the foam strike WASN'T an unforseen event. NASA say foam separation on nearly HALF of all shuttle flights (40 or so IIRC). It was the failed assumption that the foam could never hit the leading edge of the wings. THAT was the process failure. Everything else was inconsequential.
You can indeed implement separate memory spaces per process in a 32 bit memory model. Having memory spaces based on a per thread model (for those platforms that support it) one heap per thread, with special access permissions to that thread, would go a long way to allowing us to prevent wild threads from trashing memory. Windows could have done something like this. Granted the performance hit could be horrible, but it's a great feature I'd love to see on Linux and/or Windows.
Have the thing land once a week for a recharge and some general maintenance, and you're golden. 100 of these things plus operations costs (filling it with water?) would be cheaper than a single satellite blowing up 30 seconds after launch, or not reaching orbit at all.
don't think you caught the "solar powered" bit. Eventually batteries will die, and I'm sure the balloons will have safe recovery mechanisms. I'm more concerned with catastrophic failure.
As to spy cams, what's to stop me from buying one, starting up an ISP, and installing Carnivore, Echelon and their ilk on it and spying on Natalie Portman mixing hot grits for her new Soviet Russian ant overlords?
Driver support. Only market penetration can fix this.
One click installs: rpm's proposed to make this a reality. The reality often is that most software has to be compiled from scratch if you want the particular features you want.
As an example, I have a particular build of unixODBC. My problem is that on my distribution, I have no idea where it's looking for it's files, because that's entirely dependent upon what someone specified in the RPM when it was built. There's no easy dependency resolution for one-click installs. Including dependencies (GTK) for something like gaim makes one-click installs impossible. This is one place where variety has killed ease of use.
Linux is so close. So damn close. So close to being powerful for the tweaker (me)... so close to being powerful for the n00b (my dad)... Solve these problems, and Linux/Unix will have a shot at conquering the world.
increasing stock price in a company that pays dividends only raises the barrier to entry for other shareholders. A company making a $10million dollar profit with 1 million shares outstanding can afford to give $10/share to each shareholder. Not that such a thing is fiscally sound, but many private corporations use profit sharing as an employee retention mechanism. Something that is infinitely better and more motivating than stock option plans.
Hate to spoil your fun, but those clean nuclear launches were incapable of launching something from Earth. Consider them high-powered hall-effect thrusters, not replacements for the shuttle SRB's.
I'm sorry, but the license (GPL) is quite vocal on this matter. Take my code, and put it in your product and distribute it, and you MUST make your source code available to anyone you distribute it to.
It would take a lot of seriously pissed off judges to make it stick versus a simple fine, but a judge would be within his rights to order those particular versions "open sourced".
I don't know. I'm using SuSE 8.2, and out of the box on my non-standard hardware it installed without fail. Some issues getting LVM to work, but what user will use that?
Coupled with Ximian and Evolution, I'd be confident dropping SuSE in the hands of my computer inept father and leaving him be.
We are on the cusp. Now it's just a matter of penetration. We don't have the glorious marketing and sales contracts that Microsoft did to leverage Windows to domination. We have to fight tooth and nail for every install.
Having seen the life thriving in boiling hot deep-sea vents and geysers, Venus is as good a place to look for life as any other. It's a chemically rich, vibrant place.
Only the fact that it is ultimately fatal to our technology keeps us from making the sort of surface progress on Venus that we are doing on Mars.:-/
Actually, things did work out just fine. No one in Canada died from the incident, but the Canadian government trumped up the whole incident to wring a shitload of cash out of the Soviet government for "cleanup efforts".
You want to compare modern nuclear reactor designs to Hanford, a 50 year old nuclear reservation that hasn't seen a modern reactor design in the past two decades?
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No, I just know that it doesn't take money (necessarily) to make money. It takes a good clean outfit (tie necessary, suit not), and a willingness to lose a lot of sleep, sweat a lot, and learn how to sell.
I've made money going in at the bottom in a company, whizbanging the CEO, and making the sale. I've seen companies run out of parlors by guys out of work with nothing but an idea and a dream, and a client with a need.
Go find someone, small shop, warehouse, manufacturing center near you, and solve their computer woes. I guarantee you they have a supply chain problem or JIT issue that you can solve if you work hard enough at it. Lawyers with websites, etc...
90% of running a business is marketing yourself, not actual delivery of product. Otherwise, how would Linux or Microsoft ever have taken off? Hmm??
I would expect my DA to have his case sewed up tight before even contemplating charging someone with a crime... as it should be!!!!
Really? I distinctly remember it being in color...
He was just on AIM "finger"ing his girlfriend...
Either that or his wife told him to come home now, and get some milk and bread on the way, or he can live in his martian 24hour, 36m world cuz she's moving out.
Because the threat of force from the combined u.n. nations wasn't enough to deter the American military superpower. Had the U.N backed up it's veto with threat of force, Saddam would still be suppressing his people.
All this shows is that the good ole boy rich, fat, white guy network is still firmly entrenched, such that "America == Europe, sorta" and so will fail to back up the words with spine. So the U.S. can use it's economic and political might to streamroller them.
This whole situation is more of a show of spinelessness on the part of the world to stand up as one against the U.S., than it is about the U.S., who at least took out a tyrannical regime in the hope of helping the people. Oh, and we had the balls to stand up and take the oil, unlike the French who tried to do in dirty backroom deals.
Except the foam strike WASN'T an unforseen event. NASA say foam separation on nearly HALF of all shuttle flights (40 or so IIRC). It was the failed assumption that the foam could never hit the leading edge of the wings. THAT was the process failure. Everything else was inconsequential.
You can indeed implement separate memory spaces per process in a 32 bit memory model. Having memory spaces based on a per thread model (for those platforms that support it) one heap per thread, with special access permissions to that thread, would go a long way to allowing us to prevent wild threads from trashing memory. Windows could have done something like this. Granted the performance hit could be horrible, but it's a great feature I'd love to see on Linux and/or Windows.
Have the thing land once a week for a recharge and some general maintenance, and you're golden. 100 of these things plus operations costs (filling it with water?) would be cheaper than a single satellite blowing up 30 seconds after launch, or not reaching orbit at all.
don't think you caught the "solar powered" bit. Eventually batteries will die, and I'm sure the balloons will have safe recovery mechanisms. I'm more concerned with catastrophic failure.
As to spy cams, what's to stop me from buying one, starting up an ISP, and installing Carnivore, Echelon and their ilk on it and spying on Natalie Portman mixing hot grits for her new Soviet Russian ant overlords?
Oh god... now run stateful TCP on that... with 55% packet loss... I shudder to think...
I agree with you in a couple respects only:
Driver support. Only market penetration can fix this.
One click installs: rpm's proposed to make this a reality. The reality often is that most software has to be compiled from scratch if you want the particular features you want.
As an example, I have a particular build of unixODBC. My problem is that on my distribution, I have no idea where it's looking for it's files, because that's entirely dependent upon what someone specified in the RPM when it was built. There's no easy dependency resolution for one-click installs. Including dependencies (GTK) for something like gaim makes one-click installs impossible. This is one place where variety has killed ease of use.
Linux is so close. So damn close. So close to being powerful for the tweaker (me)... so close to being powerful for the n00b (my dad)... Solve these problems, and Linux/Unix will have a shot at conquering the world.
increasing stock price in a company that pays dividends only raises the barrier to entry for other shareholders. A company making a $10million dollar profit with 1 million shares outstanding can afford to give $10/share to each shareholder. Not that such a thing is fiscally sound, but many private corporations use profit sharing as an employee retention mechanism. Something that is infinitely better and more motivating than stock option plans.
I don't get it... pay $20 to get drunk with 30 budweisers, or pay $20 to get drunk off 8 cans of Guinness. I just don't get it... :-/
BTW: Guinness goes REAL well with Prime Rib...
Hate to spoil your fun, but those clean nuclear launches were incapable of launching something from Earth. Consider them high-powered hall-effect thrusters, not replacements for the shuttle SRB's.
I'm sorry, but the license (GPL) is quite vocal on this matter. Take my code, and put it in your product and distribute it, and you MUST make your source code available to anyone you distribute it to.
It would take a lot of seriously pissed off judges to make it stick versus a simple fine, but a judge would be within his rights to order those particular versions "open sourced".
That's Seasonal Affectiveness Disorder for you... It's not spelled S.A.D. for nothing... :-/
My god. It's a shame I don't moderate, because this has to be the single best answer to this time-honored troll I have ever seen. I bow to you.
I don't know. I'm using SuSE 8.2, and out of the box on my non-standard hardware it installed without fail. Some issues getting LVM to work, but what user will use that?
Coupled with Ximian and Evolution, I'd be confident dropping SuSE in the hands of my computer inept father and leaving him be.
We are on the cusp. Now it's just a matter of penetration. We don't have the glorious marketing and sales contracts that Microsoft did to leverage Windows to domination. We have to fight tooth and nail for every install.
Having seen the life thriving in boiling hot deep-sea vents and geysers, Venus is as good a place to look for life as any other. It's a chemically rich, vibrant place.
:-/
Only the fact that it is ultimately fatal to our technology keeps us from making the sort of surface progress on Venus that we are doing on Mars.
*I* will always be able to use my analog imaging device 3000 miles from the nearest powercord.
not to say that having filmstock isn't a concern, but sometimes 25 pounds in batteries isn't an option.
CCDs are far, FAR away from being able to register individual photons. Hell, we can't even build discrete electronic components that small yet.
Actually, things did work out just fine. No one in Canada died from the incident, but the Canadian government trumped up the whole incident to wring a shitload of cash out of the Soviet government for "cleanup efforts".
so by your estimation things like seats, luggage, and people should survive relatively intact from airplane crashes then?
You want to compare modern nuclear reactor designs to Hanford, a 50 year old nuclear reservation that hasn't seen a modern reactor design in the past two decades?