Fuck you hater. Israelis did not put Palestinians in concentration camps. The Arab countries put them in UN refugee camps and deny them freedom of movement, freedom of occupation and citizenship. You can compare that with how Israel treated refugee Jews from Arab countries. I'm not saying Israelis are saints, but at least get your basic facts right.
It's a real time Google/infinite cable channel/got big quick. I can see all day, every day, what my customers are saying about my products (and me!) in realtime. I can disseminate information without having to send emails to lists of people and getting stuck in spam filters. The aggregrate value to companies is enormous.
In addition, it can make all previous IM networks irrelevant. There's one, web based network and because it's so open, I can attach other things (plant pot water gauges, home automation) to it.
Oh yes, and it's a meme! I think people like to buy meme's these days.
If you're paying 20/30K for a battery, sounds like the crooks already got you. Ha!
The battery swap stations are going to be at Gas (Petrol) Stations and will be for Electric Only (NOT hybrid) cars. Specifically, it's for longer journeys where battery capacity can't manage.
I think that the vast majority of people don't care what you personally believe should be the yardstick of what is or is not "right".
No jobs are set in stone, neither because you or anyone else says so. Only what we collectively (the market) vote so with our money. That rockstars are a passing fad is a nice proposition. You can say the same about blacksmiths, buggy whip manufacturers, and hopefully pretty soon, sys admins.
Bottom line: we does what we does to get by. If other people are prepared to throw money that helps. Evil as they are, the RIAA does not force you to buy music. They force you to buy music if you want to listen to it on your own systems at your own leisure. You can choose no music.
That means you can create bullshit products made up by invented algorithms which supposedly represent reality and then sell them using aggressive and persuasive sales people to customers who don't understand much either and buy into the fact the sales people sound confident and drive nicer cars than they do, so they must know more.
OMFG that sounds like the computer software industry too!
In short, the safest strategy according to a contact of mine in a large investment bank is to buy Canned Goods and Guns. Not the stocks, the actual goods. And then go and hide in a cellar.
I think I had a point when I started writing this, nevermind, I hope it entertains someone.
And the other side of the coin is that IT is not a producing industry. IT merely allows other industries to produce their goods and services in a more efficient fashion.
The Hebrew word used in Genesis is "yom", or if you are hassidic "yoim". It means day. It means day in classical Hebrew and in everyday modern Hebrew.
Without an Earth, the concept of a solar day is completely inconsequential, but the Earth is created on Day 1, so that puts a hole in that theory. You can make some other apologist excuses about creation and time frames if you like, you'll always find someone to believe something.
And this is why I have applied for a job at NASA. Think of all the vacuum we could mine from space!!! (Space is also very big but we'll make sure we get mines near to earth, to reduce our transport costs and make it cost effective)
We'll make a fortune selling vacuum to store in caves and then once we've sold to local authorities and energy companies we can sell to homeowners "A Vacuum for Every Yard" and then as the market becomes educated we can crack the enterprise and SMB market with "A Vacuum on every Desktop".
P.S. I first got the inspiration for this awesome business opportunity idea from the documentary movie "Spaceballs".
We write software for Linux users. Keeping up to date with the latest releases sends our packaging and testing teams into extra, unplanned cycles as our customers demand the latest Linux stuff is always supported and we have no control over what is release and when.
Synchronized release cycles would be a major boon for the thousands of companies writing software for commercial Linux users/companies/ISVs.
"commentator" is no more a word than "orientate"
the word is commentor. I *think* you meant:
"Commentator" is no more a word than "orientate" is.
The correct word is "commentor".:-P
Zend is the PHP Company. I don't think it's any great secret that their aim is to monetize PHP. I'm not sure there's anything inherently wrong with that. Plenty of other companies and individuals monetize PHP by providing software, consulting, hosting and other services around PHP If there's value-add provided, companies will pay.
You're probably perfectly aware that there are a large section of Linux using shops who are perfectly happy to pay, hence the success of RHEL and to a lesser extent SuSE and now Ubuntu all of which offer support around free stuff.
The fact that Zend has worked with IBM on PHP for i5 (AS400) and with Microsoft for decent PHP on Windows only increases the choice of platforms PHP developers have to deploy on, makes PHP projects more popular across other user bases and means that PHP developers have a wider range of employment opportunities available to them. I don't think anyone is under the illusion that the future of PHP development is at 6 person consultancies who specialize in tweaking free CMSs, surviving on that free good stuff and creating pure karma (with no disrespect to small web consultancies intended, but it's a limited niche to attract new active members to the community).
If you'd like to spend your time pitching PHP as a strategic application development option to Fortune 500 companies, government departments and other enterprises, I'm sure we'd all be delighted, but there's not much chance of you spending your time doing that, nor quite frankly of those entities listening to you. They do however talk to Zend.
Zend isn't imposing a cost/tax on anybody or demanding that people pay homage/tribute, especially as PHP is a community project and not owned by Zend. During the past 2 years Zend has increased the amount of free and open source work they've done (Zend Framework and the Eclipse-based PDT) so it's not like they take and don't give.
If there is value companies can get from Zend's solution set, then they will pay for it. And they do. It's simple cost-benefit equations. WRT your "siphoning off revenue" if you look at all the companies in the Open Source space (including MySQL, EZ Publish, Acquia and other) they all provide value adds.
And yeah, I work for Zend. And no, you don't have to buy our stuff (but at least come check it out). And no the decision to monetize PHP wasn't made by executives on the fringe of the FOSS world, but rather technology people in the middle of it. (I have no idea whether they have hair up their asses like you claim - but can gladly inform you that that's not a sound basis for a business strategy unless you're a barber looking for a niche....)
Mod parent up.
There's a big market in Online Games/Clans which didn't exist previously (though these pre-date Wii's) and there's also a market in LAN parties like these guys http://www.multiplay.co.uk/.
But, the whinging arcade owners may have a good observation here which is Nintendo's strategy to target the non-gamer audience with easier controls and cheaper price points may be taking away the passing trade from Arcade gamers (I'm guessing if you're a hard core gamer, you'll spend your yen on a console).
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Why destroy relationships with key customers, when your key customers can destroy themselves! Yay, go Bankers!
Absolutely spot on. It's just changing the usage & interface that we have of maps.
Fuck you hater. Israelis did not put Palestinians in concentration camps.
The Arab countries put them in UN refugee camps and deny them freedom of movement, freedom of occupation and citizenship.
You can compare that with how Israel treated refugee Jews from Arab countries.
I'm not saying Israelis are saints, but at least get your basic facts right.
Yeah, just because I left music files in a publicly accessible directory called "Torrents", oh, hold on....
It's a real time Google/infinite cable channel/got big quick. I can see all day, every day, what my customers are saying about my products (and me!) in realtime. I can disseminate information without having to send emails to lists of people and getting stuck in spam filters. The aggregrate value to companies is enormous.
In addition, it can make all previous IM networks irrelevant. There's one, web based network and because it's so open, I can attach other things (plant pot water gauges, home automation) to it.
Oh yes, and it's a meme! I think people like to buy meme's these days.
If you're paying 20/30K for a battery, sounds like the crooks already got you. Ha!
The battery swap stations are going to be at Gas (Petrol) Stations and will be for Electric Only (NOT hybrid) cars. Specifically, it's for longer journeys where battery capacity can't manage.
It might not be that big, but compared to the falling CD market, it's stable
If you love Sun so much, why aren't you selling their rack servers?
IBM has made plenty of money with Websphere. What would "owning Java" give them?
That's hilarious! In English "Cricket" means you're never getting any!
iPhone's iBoobs Bust Goes!
I think that the vast majority of people don't care what you personally believe should be the yardstick of what is or is not "right".
No jobs are set in stone, neither because you or anyone else says so. Only what we collectively (the market) vote so with our money. That rockstars are a passing fad is a nice proposition. You can say the same about blacksmiths, buggy whip manufacturers, and hopefully pretty soon, sys admins.
Bottom line: we does what we does to get by. If other people are prepared to throw money that helps. Evil as they are, the RIAA does not force you to buy music. They force you to buy music if you want to listen to it on your own systems at your own leisure. You can choose no music.
The market will decide "in the long run".
That means you can create bullshit products made up by invented algorithms which supposedly represent reality and then sell them using aggressive and persuasive sales people to customers who don't understand much either and buy into the fact the sales people sound confident and drive nicer cars than they do, so they must know more.
OMFG that sounds like the computer software industry too!
In short, the safest strategy according to a contact of mine in a large investment bank is to buy Canned Goods and Guns. Not the stocks, the actual goods. And then go and hide in a cellar.
I think I had a point when I started writing this, nevermind, I hope it entertains someone.
And the other side of the coin is that IT is not a producing industry. IT merely allows other industries to produce their goods and services in a more efficient fashion.
Dude. Guitar Hero.
The Hebrew word used in Genesis is "yom", or if you are hassidic "yoim". It means day. It means day in classical Hebrew and in everyday modern Hebrew.
Without an Earth, the concept of a solar day is completely inconsequential, but the Earth is created on Day 1, so that puts a hole in that theory. You can make some other apologist excuses about creation and time frames if you like, you'll always find someone to believe something.
LOL, the term is "self-defecating". Moran.
Now I can store pirated music in my DNA!
And this is why I have applied for a job at NASA. Think of all the vacuum we could mine from space!!! (Space is also very big but we'll make sure we get mines near to earth, to reduce our transport costs and make it cost effective)
We'll make a fortune selling vacuum to store in caves and then once we've sold to local authorities and energy companies we can sell to homeowners "A Vacuum for Every Yard" and then as the market becomes educated we can crack the enterprise and SMB market with "A Vacuum on every Desktop".
P.S.
I first got the inspiration for this awesome business opportunity idea from the documentary movie "Spaceballs".
No, what makes religion successful is fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope, and nice red uniforms....
We write software for Linux users. Keeping up to date with the latest releases sends our packaging and testing teams into extra, unplanned cycles as our customers demand the latest Linux stuff is always supported and we have no control over what is release and when. Synchronized release cycles would be a major boon for the thousands of companies writing software for commercial Linux users/companies/ISVs.
Would that come under biology or ornithology?
Zend is the PHP Company. I don't think it's any great secret that their aim is to monetize PHP. I'm not sure there's anything inherently wrong with that. Plenty of other companies and individuals monetize PHP by providing software, consulting, hosting and other services around PHP If there's value-add provided, companies will pay.
You're probably perfectly aware that there are a large section of Linux using shops who are perfectly happy to pay, hence the success of RHEL and to a lesser extent SuSE and now Ubuntu all of which offer support around free stuff.
The fact that Zend has worked with IBM on PHP for i5 (AS400) and with Microsoft for decent PHP on Windows only increases the choice of platforms PHP developers have to deploy on, makes PHP projects more popular across other user bases and means that PHP developers have a wider range of employment opportunities available to them. I don't think anyone is under the illusion that the future of PHP development is at 6 person consultancies who specialize in tweaking free CMSs, surviving on that free good stuff and creating pure karma (with no disrespect to small web consultancies intended, but it's a limited niche to attract new active members to the community).
If you'd like to spend your time pitching PHP as a strategic application development option to Fortune 500 companies, government departments and other enterprises, I'm sure we'd all be delighted, but there's not much chance of you spending your time doing that, nor quite frankly of those entities listening to you. They do however talk to Zend.
Zend isn't imposing a cost/tax on anybody or demanding that people pay homage/tribute, especially as PHP is a community project and not owned by Zend. During the past 2 years Zend has increased the amount of free and open source work they've done (Zend Framework and the Eclipse-based PDT) so it's not like they take and don't give.
If there is value companies can get from Zend's solution set, then they will pay for it. And they do. It's simple cost-benefit equations. WRT your "siphoning off revenue" if you look at all the companies in the Open Source space (including MySQL, EZ Publish, Acquia and other) they all provide value adds.
And yeah, I work for Zend. And no, you don't have to buy our stuff (but at least come check it out). And no the decision to monetize PHP wasn't made by executives on the fringe of the FOSS world, but rather technology people in the middle of it. (I have no idea whether they have hair up their asses like you claim - but can gladly inform you that that's not a sound basis for a business strategy unless you're a barber looking for a niche....)
You work for him do you?
There's a big market in Online Games/Clans which didn't exist previously (though these pre-date Wii's) and there's also a market in LAN parties like these guys http://www.multiplay.co.uk/.
But, the whinging arcade owners may have a good observation here which is Nintendo's strategy to target the non-gamer audience with easier controls and cheaper price points may be taking away the passing trade from Arcade gamers (I'm guessing if you're a hard core gamer, you'll spend your yen on a console).