Sales is clearly not something you understand. So hire someone who has done international sales. There are plenty of people out there who can drive this market.
Finding a salesmen you trust to sell your product without giving you a bad name is left as an exercise for the reader. Good luck, this can be hard.
Are you sure it is worth selling internationally? Sometimes a business is better off with less customers. The costs of selling and supporting your product internationally may be more than what you can make from it. It doesn't cost much to send a guy to a customer in your city to get your stuff working. It costs a lot of money to send someone to a different continent.
This is called sensitive information. Public, but it should still only be made available to people who will not abuse it.
There is enough public information about most people to destroy them. (mostly financially, but there are other ways to destroy someone, with or without killing them) Than information needs to be public, because there are honest uses for it. However it needs to be restricted who can access it because of the damage they can do.
Cemetery records are public. They should not be available to just anyone with an internet connect though because you want to make it hard on those voting in a dead person's name.
Newsweek has withdrawn the story. Was all over the news last night.
CBS stood behind those papers for a several days after it was clear they were fake.
Competent reporters do many tasks before they publish a story. One important one is checking facts. Another is making sure their story is worth publishing.
because if you had you would have seen the -f option. I can't think of anything that uses more outgoing bandwidth. Most targets limit their responses, but even still you can really chew up a network with ping.
Even if they system goes down the day after I leave, how do they know it was me, and not some random cracker in the city who happened to pick that day to target their systems?
Yes, the day after I leave is a good time to suspect me. However they need more evidence or they will accuse an innocent person.
There is such a thing as journalistic integrity. Apparently Dvorak doesn't believe in it, but most people do. When a reporter doesn't stand up for doing the right thing people get mad. Then heads have to roll. You can ask a number of people who used to work for CBS news until they faked a report on Bush's service just before the last election.
Come to think of it, yesterday NewsWeek was forced to retract a story, because they didn't check the facts sufficiently. I wouldn't be surprised if someone resigns at NewsWeek of the issue.
The Linux community did nothing unexpected when you consider the facts. Some reporter did something unethical, and the community forced his/her bosses to fire him/her. It has happened before, it will happen again. The only thing that has really changed is that today someone who discovers media abuse has an easier time letting people know.
I'll put my hand up. You gave my answer in your question in fact: AMD did take on Intel, and they are winning. 15 years ago AMD was a nobody in the CPU market. (They had some nice embedded chips, and they were a source of the 286, but essentially they were a tiny player allowed to exist only because Intel didn't want to go to monopoly court) Today it isn't Intel you have to go against and win, it is Intel andAMD. No reason it can't happen again if someone wants to invest money on designing their own CPU.
VIA is doing just fine in fact, though their goals are not to win as you define it.
Is Pluto a planet? There are larger asteroids that have more 'normal' orbits. Is Australia a continent? How about Antarctica (which doesn't contain any countries)? What about tiny land masses with two countries.
Everyone has an intuitive definition of Continent and island. Those definitions ALL fail somewhere.
That has not been true for years. Solar cells are energy positive in just a few years. 15 years if you live in a really cloudy area near one of the poles, 2 if you live in a desert near the equator. They normally come with 20 year warranties, and often last twice that if you take care of them.
Most big computer companies have offered DC power supplies for years. The telephone company has rooms full of batteries to supply their systems with 48Vdc. You cannot sell large equipment (particularly routers, which is what the company I worked for at the time was trying to sell phone companies) to telephone companies unless you have 48Vdc power supplies.
Every once in a while someone will drop a wrench on the batteries. This vaporizes the wrench, and normally takes down the computers. I'm told it is a sight to behold, so long as you had nothing to do with dropping the wrench, and are behind something protective.
It isn't, it however located on an island. Most commonly the island is called "America", and it is generally divided into two parts: "North America", and "South America".
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Depends on the goals of the terrorist.
A Terrorist who is meeting another in person (this includes walking by an secretly exchanging floppies when the 'accidentally' bump into each other) will use pgp because it is the best solution. They already know the keys to use, so encryption is just a way to save themselves from dropping the disk.
A terrorist looking to recruit someone in the target country needs some way to tell everyone the message without getting caught. (of course they still need a message that only those interested in becoming a terrorist will understand, while the police will not. Such a message is left as an exercise to the reader)
A terrorist who wishes to make a public threat needs something anonymous.
Remember one person's terrorist is another's freedom fighter. Think of Tibet for example.
IT can quickly get worse than that. If you are not careful about how invitations are managed, just knowing you have an invitation is enough to prove a need for most investigation. You would not have an invitation for things you don't care about.
If an invitation is found to contain mostly "free Tibet" materials, and the Chinese find out, you will be in trouble if you go to China. (China can make you 'disappear without a trace' if they want to, and is evil enough to do that if you are not a high profile celebrity.)
As I recall, when Microsoft sold their version of Unix, XENIX, to SCO[1] back in the early 80s, they agreed to not compete in the Unix market. If this is this still in force, than Microsoft is on soft ground buying redhat. Course Linux isn't Unix, so the agreement might not apply. Then too, most agreements like this only last for a few years, and that was 20 years ago.
[1]Not 'that' SCO, but 'that' SCO has roots in the earlier one I'm talking about. If you can figure it out you are doing better than me.
That isn't a surprise. Wood isn't very conductive when dry, and wood chips dry fast. Computers run on low voltages. That machine was very old, before heat sinks were required on the CPU. So there is no surprise the chips didn't stop the machine. Only the power supply had any vulnerabilities.
School boards are elected. A lawsuit that the school fights is a bad idea when you can go door to door in the district just before election bringing up how the school is unwilling to admin they have problems. Not to mention how they are wasting tax payer money fighting the request to change.
If you do this practice first. Make sure you have someone who is concerned and willing to serve on the board, so you can tell people who to vote for.
Of course you still have to deal with unions who may be unwilling to change. Courts do have power, once the suit is dropped the will give the orders that overpower the union.
I am not buying windows. I am buying a laptop that happens to come with parts that I do not need or want (Microsoft Windows). I know people who bought a new car, replaced the speakers and sold the old ones on eBay. It is the same thing, but applied to computers.d
I do not know the eBay terms of service. However eBay does not de-list legal auctions in general. Last I checked (several years ago) they only delisted when illegal activity was reported. So you subpoena eBay for who reported the auction, and then sue that person for a false accusation.
Dogs use scent more than humans do. A blind dog can smell elk just fine (well assuming there are not two handicaps). He cannot chase it was well because he cannot see trees, but he can track it just fine. Until several miles latter he no longer can find home, and is lacking one of the easier ways to orient itself.
No they are not. A laptop is a portable desktop for people who do not always sit in the same place. Todays laptops are powerful machine fully capable of everything most people want to do.
Yes there are compromises required due to weight and power limits. However most of the compromises are things that you don't need. (Except for the keyboard and screen) Few people upgrade their video card. Few people have two harddrives in their machine. Most people don't need fibre channel or some other weird technology in their computer.
They can do that, but you don't have to accept the license for XP home. So put it on eBay. When lawyers pull it sue. The only thing that prohibits you from selling XP without a CPU/harddrive is the license, which is a contract. When you refuse to accept the contract it cannot apply.
Even if the contact does apply, it isn't clear that the no re-sell provision is legal. Most states have "first sale" laws which would apply.
I'm, not a lawyer myself. I'm pretty sure this would work, and I'd like someone to try it. However since I'm not a lawyer I cannot tell you what will happen, only what should.
You should have invoked Magnusom-moss on them the moment they told you that they cannot support your system with linux.
Although tie-in sales provisions generally are not allowed, you can include such a provision in your warranty if you can demonstrate to the satisfaction of the FTC that your product will not work properly without a specified item or service.
They will have a hard time demonstrating that you system will not work properly under linux. Even if this is a linux only-system they will have a hard time. Since you have XP installed it is clear that linux cannot be at fault.
When there are a few booth babes hanging out in a booth you slow down and look. In effort to make it appear that you are not ogling the babes you look at the literature and demos. Now you know something and have invested time, so you are more likely to buy.
This might not apply to you personally, but it applies to most guys. That is all they care about.
There is a branch of investing called technical analysis. What people who follow it do is use various formulas to look for stocks that are moving. These people intentionally know nothing about the stocks they are trading.
Technical analysis works because it assumes that others are doing their homework, and so you can follow their lead and get almost as much gain as they do. When prices jump as happened in this case, technical analysis would say buy (depending on the formula of course) assuming someone knows what they are doing buying that high.
I personally do not recommend technical analysis. However it is a valid technique to invest with, so long as it isn't a major part of your portfolio.
Perdiciton (I'm not the first to make this one): IBM's contract says they will not make PCs for 5 years. 5 years from now (almost to the day of the contract) IBM will announce their new PC line.
I wouldn't be surprised if the other poster is correct and they are all powerPC machines. (Or any other chip IBM makes, though the power line seems unlikely)
I refuse to use such a thing. Instead I make daily visits to those sites with my real browser string set. When I switch my browser string nobody knows that something other than IE is in use. So they will never fix this bug, and they will feel no motivation to support standards.
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Sales is clearly not something you understand. So hire someone who has done international sales. There are plenty of people out there who can drive this market.
Finding a salesmen you trust to sell your product without giving you a bad name is left as an exercise for the reader. Good luck, this can be hard.
Are you sure it is worth selling internationally? Sometimes a business is better off with less customers. The costs of selling and supporting your product internationally may be more than what you can make from it. It doesn't cost much to send a guy to a customer in your city to get your stuff working. It costs a lot of money to send someone to a different continent.
This is called sensitive information. Public, but it should still only be made available to people who will not abuse it.
There is enough public information about most people to destroy them. (mostly financially, but there are other ways to destroy someone, with or without killing them) Than information needs to be public, because there are honest uses for it. However it needs to be restricted who can access it because of the damage they can do.
Cemetery records are public. They should not be available to just anyone with an internet connect though because you want to make it hard on those voting in a dead person's name.
Newsweek has withdrawn the story. Was all over the news last night.
CBS stood behind those papers for a several days after it was clear they were fake.
Competent reporters do many tasks before they publish a story. One important one is checking facts. Another is making sure their story is worth publishing.
Apparently you have never done
because if you had you would have seen the -f option. I can't think of anything that uses more outgoing bandwidth. Most targets limit their responses, but even still you can really chew up a network with ping.
Even if they system goes down the day after I leave, how do they know it was me, and not some random cracker in the city who happened to pick that day to target their systems?
Yes, the day after I leave is a good time to suspect me. However they need more evidence or they will accuse an innocent person.
There is such a thing as journalistic integrity. Apparently Dvorak doesn't believe in it, but most people do. When a reporter doesn't stand up for doing the right thing people get mad. Then heads have to roll. You can ask a number of people who used to work for CBS news until they faked a report on Bush's service just before the last election.
Come to think of it, yesterday NewsWeek was forced to retract a story, because they didn't check the facts sufficiently. I wouldn't be surprised if someone resigns at NewsWeek of the issue.
The Linux community did nothing unexpected when you consider the facts. Some reporter did something unethical, and the community forced his/her bosses to fire him/her. It has happened before, it will happen again. The only thing that has really changed is that today someone who discovers media abuse has an easier time letting people know.
I'll put my hand up. You gave my answer in your question in fact: AMD did take on Intel, and they are winning. 15 years ago AMD was a nobody in the CPU market. (They had some nice embedded chips, and they were a source of the 286, but essentially they were a tiny player allowed to exist only because Intel didn't want to go to monopoly court) Today it isn't Intel you have to go against and win, it is Intel andAMD. No reason it can't happen again if someone wants to invest money on designing their own CPU.
VIA is doing just fine in fact, though their goals are not to win as you define it.
Is Pluto a planet? There are larger asteroids that have more 'normal' orbits. Is Australia a continent? How about Antarctica (which doesn't contain any countries)? What about tiny land masses with two countries.
Everyone has an intuitive definition of Continent and island. Those definitions ALL fail somewhere.
That has not been true for years. Solar cells are energy positive in just a few years. 15 years if you live in a really cloudy area near one of the poles, 2 if you live in a desert near the equator. They normally come with 20 year warranties, and often last twice that if you take care of them.
Most big computer companies have offered DC power supplies for years. The telephone company has rooms full of batteries to supply their systems with 48Vdc. You cannot sell large equipment (particularly routers, which is what the company I worked for at the time was trying to sell phone companies) to telephone companies unless you have 48Vdc power supplies.
Every once in a while someone will drop a wrench on the batteries. This vaporizes the wrench, and normally takes down the computers. I'm told it is a sight to behold, so long as you had nothing to do with dropping the wrench, and are behind something protective.
It isn't, it however located on an island. Most commonly the island is called "America", and it is generally divided into two parts: "North America", and "South America".
Depends on the goals of the terrorist.
A Terrorist who is meeting another in person (this includes walking by an secretly exchanging floppies when the 'accidentally' bump into each other) will use pgp because it is the best solution. They already know the keys to use, so encryption is just a way to save themselves from dropping the disk.
A terrorist looking to recruit someone in the target country needs some way to tell everyone the message without getting caught. (of course they still need a message that only those interested in becoming a terrorist will understand, while the police will not. Such a message is left as an exercise to the reader)
A terrorist who wishes to make a public threat needs something anonymous.
Remember one person's terrorist is another's freedom fighter. Think of Tibet for example.
IT can quickly get worse than that. If you are not careful about how invitations are managed, just knowing you have an invitation is enough to prove a need for most investigation. You would not have an invitation for things you don't care about.
If an invitation is found to contain mostly "free Tibet" materials, and the Chinese find out, you will be in trouble if you go to China. (China can make you 'disappear without a trace' if they want to, and is evil enough to do that if you are not a high profile celebrity.)
As I recall, when Microsoft sold their version of Unix, XENIX, to SCO[1] back in the early 80s, they agreed to not compete in the Unix market. If this is this still in force, than Microsoft is on soft ground buying redhat. Course Linux isn't Unix, so the agreement might not apply. Then too, most agreements like this only last for a few years, and that was 20 years ago.
[1]Not 'that' SCO, but 'that' SCO has roots in the earlier one I'm talking about. If you can figure it out you are doing better than me.
That isn't a surprise. Wood isn't very conductive when dry, and wood chips dry fast. Computers run on low voltages. That machine was very old, before heat sinks were required on the CPU. So there is no surprise the chips didn't stop the machine. Only the power supply had any vulnerabilities.
School boards are elected. A lawsuit that the school fights is a bad idea when you can go door to door in the district just before election bringing up how the school is unwilling to admin they have problems. Not to mention how they are wasting tax payer money fighting the request to change.
If you do this practice first. Make sure you have someone who is concerned and willing to serve on the board, so you can tell people who to vote for.
Of course you still have to deal with unions who may be unwilling to change. Courts do have power, once the suit is dropped the will give the orders that overpower the union.
I am not buying windows. I am buying a laptop that happens to come with parts that I do not need or want (Microsoft Windows). I know people who bought a new car, replaced the speakers and sold the old ones on eBay. It is the same thing, but applied to computers.d
I do not know the eBay terms of service. However eBay does not de-list legal auctions in general. Last I checked (several years ago) they only delisted when illegal activity was reported. So you subpoena eBay for who reported the auction, and then sue that person for a false accusation.
Small claims court would likely take this case.
Dogs use scent more than humans do. A blind dog can smell elk just fine (well assuming there are not two handicaps). He cannot chase it was well because he cannot see trees, but he can track it just fine. Until several miles latter he no longer can find home, and is lacking one of the easier ways to orient itself.
No they are not. A laptop is a portable desktop for people who do not always sit in the same place. Todays laptops are powerful machine fully capable of everything most people want to do.
Yes there are compromises required due to weight and power limits. However most of the compromises are things that you don't need. (Except for the keyboard and screen) Few people upgrade their video card. Few people have two harddrives in their machine. Most people don't need fibre channel or some other weird technology in their computer.
They can do that, but you don't have to accept the license for XP home. So put it on eBay. When lawyers pull it sue. The only thing that prohibits you from selling XP without a CPU/harddrive is the license, which is a contract. When you refuse to accept the contract it cannot apply.
Even if the contact does apply, it isn't clear that the no re-sell provision is legal. Most states have "first sale" laws which would apply.
I'm, not a lawyer myself. I'm pretty sure this would work, and I'd like someone to try it. However since I'm not a lawyer I cannot tell you what will happen, only what should.
You should have invoked Magnusom-moss on them the moment they told you that they cannot support your system with linux.
Although tie-in sales provisions generally are not allowed, you can include such a provision in your warranty if you can demonstrate to the satisfaction of the FTC that your product will not work properly without a specified item or service.
They will have a hard time demonstrating that you system will not work properly under linux. Even if this is a linux only-system they will have a hard time. Since you have XP installed it is clear that linux cannot be at fault.
When there are a few booth babes hanging out in a booth you slow down and look. In effort to make it appear that you are not ogling the babes you look at the literature and demos. Now you know something and have invested time, so you are more likely to buy.
This might not apply to you personally, but it applies to most guys. That is all they care about.
There is a branch of investing called technical analysis. What people who follow it do is use various formulas to look for stocks that are moving. These people intentionally know nothing about the stocks they are trading.
Technical analysis works because it assumes that others are doing their homework, and so you can follow their lead and get almost as much gain as they do. When prices jump as happened in this case, technical analysis would say buy (depending on the formula of course) assuming someone knows what they are doing buying that high.
I personally do not recommend technical analysis. However it is a valid technique to invest with, so long as it isn't a major part of your portfolio.
Perdiciton (I'm not the first to make this one): IBM's contract says they will not make PCs for 5 years. 5 years from now (almost to the day of the contract) IBM will announce their new PC line.
I wouldn't be surprised if the other poster is correct and they are all powerPC machines. (Or any other chip IBM makes, though the power line seems unlikely)
I refuse to use such a thing. Instead I make daily visits to those sites with my real browser string set. When I switch my browser string nobody knows that something other than IE is in use. So they will never fix this bug, and they will feel no motivation to support standards.