Living in Israel, I'd love to believe you. But seeing as: - most of the countries round here are full of Muslims and they aren't pushing for a Caliphate (not caphilate you ignoramus) - and the fact that most of the Muslims in Europe actually ran away from the traditional societies they lived in previously (and seems they liked it enough to stay in Europe)....your posting is basically crap.
However, it would be an interesting variation on the "we buy your oil, you buy our goods" relationship. It would be "you keep the oil, and we take all your loonies to make sure you don't get toppled". Sounds quite reasonable actually and certainly cheaper than a land invasion.
Yes, and that's why literate techies with some money (like most of us reading here) will want to buy as much stock as possible to have a better representation of our views on the company's strategy.
If you care, like really care, about Open Source companies perhaps it would be a good idea to set up an open source investment "club" or fund to take a more serious stake in these companies. A Slashdot fund anyone?
You have other ethical funds these days (green, Islamic etc...) which invest according to additional criteria (I'm not suggesting an open source charity, the users get enough of that already) - why shouldn't we pool our resources and influence to help steer publicly traded open source companies?
This will allow you to get in before they go to open market IPO and take a good chunk of equity. Of course, you could start up an open source VC too for earlier stage (= more risky) investments and take a bigger chunk of equity (and the associated board-level activity)
Put your collective money where your collective mouth is.
The first time I came to Utah was for the Missionary Training Center [wikipedia.org] experience in Provo.
I'm glad you posted that link, because I was googling for a Missionary position and you just wouldn't believe the type of stuff that started popping up on my screen.
(I enabled WEP on my wifi and now it's much better... )
Competition is just a business strategy. Why do you think we NEED competition with MS Office? Don't you think that if there was a real business opportunity there would be loads of competitors? I am using it less and less as the google stuff makes the collaboration much easier and Word and Excel start to become irrelevant for the 90% of what I need from them.
IT is supposed to support the business whether you are General Motors or Yahoo! I suspect many techies will not learn a new skill unless they feel it will advance them (in fact I see it everyday).
I have seen billions wasted by smarter-than-you engineers who took a gamble without understanding the numbers properly, or were star-struck by people on technology vendor management teams, or thought ideas were cool.
This is the bright future you paint for the stock market and investors that you're going to pitch for money. Next quarter numbers is what guarantees your shares and stock options are actually worth something.
The fact you have been modded +5 Insightful is tragic.
Technion Israel Institute of Technology is a regular Israeli university with a mix of students, religious, non-religious, Jews, Arabs and others - just like all the others.
Just because you find one haredi (ultra religious) woman on the staff, doesn't mean anything. The only Israeli university with a specific religious agenda is Bar Ilan, near Tel Aviv and even then it's not ultra-religious.
If you like Shulamit Levenberg, then I suggest you make a Wikipedia article for her, that's the idea of Wikipedia...
I live in Israel, I know people who are involved in both our strategic missile defence projects and other defence projects. Much as you might like to fantasize that we are animals and are going to destroy the world, it's not actually true. They are normal, professional and smart individuals, just like you.
The Samson Option link you have provided says nothing about triggering a world war or attacking Europe and Russia. Seymour Hersh is not taken seriously by anyone who really knows. As you are such an expert you will know that 1 nuclear missile hitting us will basically mean lights out, so there's not much follow-up potential.
If we are more dangerous than Iran why haven't we flaunted, sold, demonstrated or even used our nuclear weapons? How exactly are we more dangerous?
Anyway, keep up with the demonization and vilification, keeps me focused on why I moved here.
Cell phone companies (mobile operators as they're called in Europe) pay rental to the land owners. In many cases they don't own the sites either, they're managed & owned by 3rd party companies (radio network design & site acquisition types). I think it's reasonably fair to call the mobile operators a cartel, but not for the reasons you state.
Mobile operators (not the cellphone makers like Nokia, Motorola) do lease the airwaves and bought the right to use them paying a lot of $$$. In the UK at least, the government raised billions with it's 3G (UMTS) auctions.
That helped finance UK elections, a war in Iraq and raise the bills. So at least something good came out of it:-S???
He might be a fucktard, but you sir, are being very flexible with the facts. I'd go so far to call you the kind of dangerous liar that likes to engage in expeditionary warfare. Would love to see you send your own kids, then we'll see how much of a hero you are.
Now, I'm not Chinese and have no special affiliation with them, but according to this inconvenient report http://rand.org/publications/MG/MG260/index.html by RAND Corporation (Wikipedia says this: The RAND Corporation is a nonprofit global policy think tank first formed to offer research and analysis to the United States armed forces)
China's defense spending is estimated to be between 2.3 and 2.8 percent of the nation's GDP. This is 40 to 70 percent higher than official Chinese government figures, but substantially lower than previous outside estimates of the share of GDP devoted to defense.... The authors forecast that Chinese military spending is likely to rise from an estimated $69 billion in 2003 to $185 billion by 2025-approximately 61 percent of what the Department of Defense spent in 2003.
As for: They are modernizing their military far beyond what's necessary to attack any other nation. I'd add - "just like the US are...."
And lastly: "The premier of China has threatened to nuke Los Angeles" - it was the 2nd in command of the army who said it in response to a declassified US army report that named China as one of six possible nations that could face nuclear strikes from America.
Remind us when was the last time China went to war?
And when was the last time the US did?
Well I guess the application architect at Europe's largest telco must have been wrong when he told me he needed something like this in order to share content and objects across a web server cluster. My bad.
Ancient Judaism indeed did not have any form of afterlife and there's nothing obvious in the Old Testament that refers to it. Most good deeds in the bible are done "so that your days may be lengthened" kind of thing and bad stuff are "you'll be cut off from your people" etc...
Afterlife stuff seems to have been inherited during the Babylonian exile which followed the destruction of the first temple by Nebuchadnezzar, probably from Zoroastrians. All modern versions (i.e. last 2500 years) of Judaism have heaven and hell concepts, though they aren't really dwelled on like in Christianity (eternal damnation!) and Islam (70 virgins!).
In fact, now that I figured that out, this seems to make a lot of sense. Once I heard Sam Palmisano talking about how they were pushing Linux for the desktop to get Microsoft (whose Windows killed OS/2). IBM and Red Hat are long time buddy buddy. Microsoft is wasting IBM money via their funding of SCO to keep IBM in court and cast aspersions on IP and indemnification. Microsoft going with the beleaguered Novell to checkmate IBM on desktops starts to make a whole bunch of sense. Sound familiar? Start your engines for SCO v.2....
This isn't what I see where I work. In many software companies Product Managers build a Product Requirements Document and present that to a development team to deliver/argue about.
There are also PMMs - Product Marketing Managers which do work as you have defined but it really depends on the types of products you offer, the individuals involved and the size/maturity of the company.
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Living in Israel, I'd love to believe you. But seeing as: ....your posting is basically crap.
- most of the countries round here are full of Muslims and they aren't pushing for a Caliphate (not caphilate you ignoramus)
- and the fact that most of the Muslims in Europe actually ran away from the traditional societies they lived in previously (and seems they liked it enough to stay in Europe)
However, it would be an interesting variation on the "we buy your oil, you buy our goods" relationship. It would be "you keep the oil, and we take all your loonies to make sure you don't get toppled". Sounds quite reasonable actually and certainly cheaper than a land invasion.
Confirmed. Mine too.
Yes, and that's why literate techies with some money (like most of us reading here) will want to buy as much stock as possible to have a better representation of our views on the company's strategy.
If you care, like really care, about Open Source companies perhaps it would be a good idea to set up an open source investment "club" or fund to take a more serious stake in these companies. A Slashdot fund anyone?
You have other ethical funds these days (green, Islamic etc...) which invest according to additional criteria (I'm not suggesting an open source charity, the users get enough of that already) - why shouldn't we pool our resources and influence to help steer publicly traded open source companies?
This will allow you to get in before they go to open market IPO and take a good chunk of equity. Of course, you could start up an open source VC too for earlier stage (= more risky) investments and take a bigger chunk of equity (and the associated board-level activity)
Put your collective money where your collective mouth is.
(I don't work for MySQL)
Yeah, GP looks pretty damn incensed ...
I'm glad you posted that link, because I was googling for a Missionary position and you just wouldn't believe the type of stuff that started popping up on my screen.
(I enabled WEP on my wifi and now it's much better... )
Competition is just a business strategy. Why do you think we NEED competition with MS Office?
Don't you think that if there was a real business opportunity there would be loads of competitors?
I am using it less and less as the google stuff makes the collaboration much easier and Word and Excel start to become irrelevant for the 90% of what I need from them.
I'm getting LOTR flashbacks. With so many low number IDs coming out of the woodwork on this thread it's like the server-herders are going to war.
I for one, submit to our new sub-4 figure overlords (er... maybe you're not so new).
Why does it need to be a mail app?
MILF would be a great online video editor which would chop up and re-order your FILMs into non-chronological Tarantino-stylee movies.
Congratulations for inventing a GPS enabled dictafone. It's not a phone at all is it?
Look at your description.
You must be crazy. Oh, hang on....
There's nothing inherently wrong, but let's just say that "the ivories" are not what most people go to whorehouses to get tickled.
Your tip jar will probably take a while to fill.
Just remap it to change your Instant Messenger status to "Be Right Back".
Then every time you Pause for a Break....
Why is this a problem?
IT is supposed to support the business whether you are General Motors or Yahoo!
I suspect many techies will not learn a new skill unless they feel it will advance them (in fact I see it everyday).
I have seen billions wasted by smarter-than-you engineers who took a gamble without understanding the numbers properly, or were star-struck by people on technology vendor management teams, or thought ideas were cool.
This is the bright future you paint for the stock market and investors that you're going to pitch for money. Next quarter numbers is what guarantees your shares and stock options are actually worth something.
The fact you have been modded +5 Insightful is tragic.
Technion Israel Institute of Technology is a regular Israeli university with a mix of students, religious, non-religious, Jews, Arabs and others - just like all the others.
Just because you find one haredi (ultra religious) woman on the staff, doesn't mean anything. The only Israeli university with a specific religious agenda is Bar Ilan, near Tel Aviv and even then it's not ultra-religious.
If you like Shulamit Levenberg, then I suggest you make a Wikipedia article for her, that's the idea of Wikipedia...
Just press f12 to Eject
I live in Israel, I know people who are involved in both our strategic missile defence projects and other defence projects. Much as you might like to fantasize that we are animals and are going to destroy the world, it's not actually true. They are normal, professional and smart individuals, just like you.
The Samson Option link you have provided says nothing about triggering a world war or attacking Europe and Russia. Seymour Hersh is not taken seriously by anyone who really knows. As you are such an expert you will know that 1 nuclear missile hitting us will basically mean lights out, so there's not much follow-up potential.
If we are more dangerous than Iran why haven't we flaunted, sold, demonstrated or even used our nuclear weapons? How exactly are we more dangerous?
Anyway, keep up with the demonization and vilification, keeps me focused on why I moved here.
Cell phone companies (mobile operators as they're called in Europe) pay rental to the land owners.
:-S???
In many cases they don't own the sites either, they're managed & owned by 3rd party companies (radio network design & site acquisition types). I think it's reasonably fair to call the mobile operators a cartel, but not for the reasons you state.
Mobile operators (not the cellphone makers like Nokia, Motorola) do lease the airwaves and bought the right to use them paying a lot of $$$. In the UK at least, the government raised billions with it's 3G (UMTS) auctions.
That helped finance UK elections, a war in Iraq and raise the bills. So at least something good came out of it
Now, I'm not Chinese and have no special affiliation with them, but according to this inconvenient report http://rand.org/publications/MG/MG260/index.html by RAND Corporation (Wikipedia says this: The RAND Corporation is a nonprofit global policy think tank first formed to offer research and analysis to the United States armed forces)
China's defense spending is estimated to be between 2.3 and 2.8 percent of the nation's GDP. This is 40 to 70 percent higher than official Chinese government figures, but substantially lower than previous outside estimates of the share of GDP devoted to defense.As for: They are modernizing their military far beyond what's necessary to attack any other nation. I'd add - "just like the US are...."
And lastly: "The premier of China has threatened to nuke Los Angeles" - it was the 2nd in command of the army who said it in response to a declassified US army report that named China as one of six possible nations that could face nuclear strikes from America.
Remind us when was the last time China went to war? And when was the last time the US did?
What say you now, Sir?
Well I guess the application architect at Europe's largest telco must have been wrong when he told me he needed something like this in order to share content and objects across a web server cluster. My bad.
It's a Java clustering (amongst other things) technology
so you mean it's a stick...
It makes you worse. I'm surprised you didn't get mod points for your Yoda-speak though.
Ancient Judaism indeed did not have any form of afterlife and there's nothing obvious in the Old Testament that refers to it.
Most good deeds in the bible are done "so that your days may be lengthened" kind of thing and bad stuff are "you'll be cut off from your people" etc...
Afterlife stuff seems to have been inherited during the Babylonian exile which followed the destruction of the first temple by Nebuchadnezzar, probably from Zoroastrians. All modern versions (i.e. last 2500 years) of Judaism have heaven and hell concepts, though they aren't really dwelled on like in Christianity (eternal damnation!) and Islam (70 virgins!).
In fact, now that I figured that out, this seems to make a lot of sense. Once I heard Sam Palmisano talking about how they were pushing Linux for the desktop to get Microsoft (whose Windows killed OS/2). IBM and Red Hat are long time buddy buddy. Microsoft is wasting IBM money via their funding of SCO to keep IBM in court and cast aspersions on IP and indemnification. Microsoft going with the beleaguered Novell to checkmate IBM on desktops starts to make a whole bunch of sense. Sound familiar? Start your engines for SCO v.2....
You are IBM and I claim my $100. I win! I win!
This isn't what I see where I work. In many software companies Product Managers build a Product Requirements Document and present that to a development team to deliver/argue about.
There are also PMMs - Product Marketing Managers which do work as you have defined but it really depends on the types of products you offer, the individuals involved and the size/maturity of the company.