Trying to save the old Palm OS that no developers wrote programs for was destined to die unless it could become something more important to the palm user than the shit the thing came with. We how enticing that was! Better networking, entertainment or even slicker interfaces like blackberry. Palm needs to decide its target market consumer and aggressively move there product to that market or Palm becomes a quaint has-been product like some many others
You seem to have forgotten about the Grokster precedant recently affirmed bythe US Supreme Court.
So does Limewire fit the precedant?
Does Limewires requirement that in order to upgrade to any newer version (free basic or for $ Pro) users are asked to admit that they are or are not going to use Limewire to potentially infringe on any copyright laws?
Does this get Limewire off the hook they way the surgeons general warning on cigarettes?
Beta testing IE7and can report that it has multiple choices for scaling. I can set the page control to zoom anywhere from 10% to 1000%, which is more like setting the browser to zoom until further notice.
There is a zoom button available for the browser toolbar that has a 3 setting loop of 100%, 125%, 150%, then back 100% for the short zoom needs.
IE7 retains the old ie6 menu setting that adjusts the text size if that is all that is required. None of this is absolute, so is applicable on any sized screen.
I am finding that with such easy access to enlarging pages to easily adjust them so that the core interest section is largest (and the crap-laden side bars are out of view).
Would it be OK if the guy had a real deck of cards and was playing solitare at his desk? I don't think so. So what's the difference.
Besides, what kind of employee can't think of anything less obvious to will wasting the companies money?
As an insulin dependant diabetic for 15 yrs I have tried every possible diet/low carb/no-calorie drink there is. Diet-Rockstar is one of the few I can't even begin to stomach.
Choice #1 = Monster Low-Carb (the blue one)...it rocks, it is like 3 red bulls (diet of course) and my secretary asks if I have been drinking "liquid crack" again every time I slam one to come out of a lazy mood.
Choice #2 = Diet Sobe 'No Fear' works great, but either you like the chemical peach flavor as a change of pace or it makes your skin crawl from the idea that no real fruit were used in by even the people who think about manufacturing the raw materials used for it.
Beware = Many of these drinks are nothing more than a hyped-up sugar buzz. There is no way to get a sugar-buzz with out calories...period...if it has more than 20 calories per serving you might as well drink a coca-cola. Kaballeh diet is the worst offender since it is operating under the complex sugars don't have to be labeled as sugar scam portrayed by the 'poly-dextrose' crowd. Sadly, your body knows sugar as either complex or simple even if the FDA and marketing departments act as if there is no difference.
Isn't your idea that providing a better-written "PC's for dummies" book solving your Mother's inability to understand IT, as flawed a concept
as her getting you to understand why she doesn't want you to use those pretty small towels in her guest bathroom?
Rooted in ignorant bliss, your Mother can not comprehend what is missing from any question she may have that prevents you from providing her
with that short easy answer she craves. Generally, the public are too non-scientific to understand computers (and Geeks). The public only
enjoys answers based on emotions and opinions. Facts and knowledge just get in the way of a quick and easy solution or answer. Where as
Geeks are systematically linear individuals, utilizing cause & effect while incorporating it all into a nice framework of how the nature of the
physical world relates to a subject, the Public just wants the thing fixed.
It is like when you have just provided the best answer possible to her question, yet your Mother is more perplexed than ever. Bridging the
chasm between the scientific and non-scientific worlds is difficult because geeks are pressed to provide succinct non-scientific answers and the
public refuses to invest any time in something not needed for daily operation. Without proper background info a geek's answer is meaningless.
My suggestion is a non-scientific troubleshooting guide so that when the public has a problem (the only time they ever motivate) there would be
support for deciding what to do next.
Examples:
1) The company that built your hardware system, may not be the best choice for resolving a proprietary software problem. (don't call Dell if
your Adobe Photo Album freezes on start-up)
2) The operating systems manufacturer is not a good place to resolve hardware installation issues (don't call Microsoft if you new ATI All-in-
Wonder TV card isn't recognized)
3) Your ISP doesn't provided custom solutions to household IT issues (don't call Cox Communications if you want to run a media file server for
your music collection)
It seems particularly difficult to get either side to even recognize that somehow the other side in not even on the same theoretical planet.
Obviously we all posses some amount of both traits, but they do not harmonize very well. Do you think that have over-simplified the correct
solution? I would venture a guess that there is probably more involved than what appears initially for the easy solution you had in mind.
I hope you are not a developer because I know from my experience 'being bored' is not really part of the equation. I find that I haven't nearly the time to ponder and explore as I would like.
Hoe about developing a marketing or virtual infrastructure strategy for this remote sub-contractor idea. If you can not fill the time available with constructive projects and tasks...well...you deserve the lot life has given you.
Could you have a few more silly I don't want that because in the question? You are tying slashdot's hands because you were too cheap to get a $25 sound card for that sled-server. The graphics considerations? How about a gigabit LAN? I use Nero 6.6+'s media server no problemo.
Since you probably would not want speakers for whatever reason how about some Bluetooth headphones; 40 ft.;259 channels scrambled and no wires.
Oh yeah...why are you not using the media center music server?
My last idea I swear is to turn up the volume on the Media Center PC and rock out, damn the neighbors
lastly, keep in mind that your client has already 'confessed' - the only thing left to determine is not whether he is guilty, but how guilty.
We haven't even ascertained who the files legally belonged to? If A & B are 'partners' I doubt that they had service agreements or non-compete/non-disclosure agreements executed, which would address the terms in the case of a termination or breach of such agreements. Even if they had No-Compete clauses executed, most are not enforceable unless specific compensation is exchanged as inducement to sign. Always best to give the signer of the NDA a $1000 bonus for doing so...sticks to him like mud after that.
1)With google products I always feel like they designers are on my side of the equation trying to make my web experience I want to use google to enhance. Yahoo always feels like they are ramming content...any content if I will just spend 5 more minutes on their site.
2)Yahoo's convoluted entanglement of pages and half-baked, half-operating, offerings seem like the same old shit, not even dressed up in a pretty package. Google rolls out stuff that is cool and different in an attempt to address how users actually view the web.
Yeah google has AdSense, but they don't try to hide it or apologize for the ad placements. To me it is like TV...I ignore 98% of the ads that don't apply to me. Yahoo weaves the sponsorship into the content and who knows what is content or marketing let alone everything I ever am interested in checking out has an up-charge attached. Let the frickin sponsors pay my way and build it in to the cost of the product over time.
3) Finally...yahoo mail = 789 spam emails a day (for real!) Gmail = 3 spams, and they are from sites I actually visited once. WTF
okay, so they are out-of-print and out-of-date (last published in the 70's), but where else can you find lucid and succinct explanations of everything from ball-point pens to nuclear reactors. I often just grab one these off the shelf, turn to a random page and start reading
Since the subject should be current and timely, and cross-referenced to allow branching, I suggest a thing called the www over the 30-year out-of-date tome suggested.
While how stuff works is surrounded by marketing it does offer an endless stream of topics explained in simple termshttp://computer.howstuffworks.com/software-channel .htm
GDS (Google Desktop Search for the uninitiated) version 2 offers a sidebar experience complete with a choice of which panels (googlespeak for widgets) to serve up.
What I like is the way I can access all the ActiveX plug-ins from IE6 to run on the sidebar. This way I have all the insecurity of IE6 right at my fingertips on my desktop!
System resources consumption overload was the reason I stopped using widgets about 6 months ago. How useful is a widget that reports 8% CPU activity when 6% of that is the system usage widget itself?
I am actually hoping that the new version of konfabulator employs a smaller footprint like the Google desktop search sidebar does.
When will users with the minimum amount of RAM installed learn that fast, fun, fabulous are not part of the computing experience until they spend that $40 to get another stick of memory? (no-name PC2700 512k DDR 4 sure)
Our judicial system is fucked if they don't bring charges against Mr. Chase for slandering Mr. Siegenthaler. How is it right that anybody for any reason can write knowingly false and libelous information in Wikipedia and not be punished for it?
Mr. Chase is not protected by the 1st amendment, because it does not cover the dissemination falsehoods. Mr. Chase doesn't claim he did not know that the information was incorrect. Mr. Chase would only be protected if he had presented the involvement of Seigenthaler as an opinion or theory of some sort.
Categorizing information as quasi-factual by posting it in the Wikipedia when Chase knew it was only his opinion or worse a complete fabrication meant to damage Seigenthaler for some reason is premeditated and malicious. The few facts alone meet most of the legal requirements to establish the prima-facia case for slander. Does Mr. Chase explain his actions as anything but malicious?
Wikipedia has to find a way to elevate itself above being just another community form plagued by trollers, flamers and attention seeking freaks. Slashdot has more control over it's content than Wikipedia and nobody thinks of Slashdot as a repository of factual information, even if they should;-)
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Case in point...non-conformance is adhering to a different set of rules. Anarchy is equivalent to chaos or following no rules. I meant that intellectuals are called geeks simply because they don't fit in. Why don't they fit in? Because they find it harder to be one of the sheep and follow along accepting all that is fed them. People who accept the status quo are the fabric of society, but how many of these conformists are highly intellectual?
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I doubt the others hate you for your clever ideas, but more for how you present the clever ideas to them. As it is very hard for the highly intelligent to suffer the common-folk because of the genius's inability to comprehend how others view him usually. If you are waiting for others to catch up, then loneliness is what you deserve. I think you are more narcissistic than brainy or at least completely out of touch with inter-personal dynamics.
Meanwhile, it has been a lifelong struggle for most of us to resolve the paradox of how people want 'the smart guy' to solve their hardest problems and comment on my high intellect, all the while also noting how weird, different and non-conforming my life and thoughts are. Society seeks conformity for all which is a death sentence for intellectual.
I was 40 before I figured out I wasn't capable of conforming and should enjoy non-conforming instead of feeling guilty about it.
I like the idea of "families" of chips that are generally alike. Just like in auto's, while honda makes Accords & Civics there are numberous grades of each, while still being able to distinguish all civics as being below the accords. i.e. if Intel would let up on the secret codename crap and use names more directly then the numbers would not be so confusing, such as all Prescott's were between 2.4 and 3.4 GHz with Hyper-threading and Northwoods were the same GHz but none had hyper-threading it would be easier to distinguish general trends.
Currently, whatever is the newest best gets some new name and everything else is yesterday's greatest so we might as well start saying good bye.
So why have they stuck with Pentium so long and the P4 with every desktop chip for 5 years? Sockets, Ghz, Cores, L2 Caches, Cores all as numbers they might as well start using Hexadecimals to insure that nobody understands it for sure
I just bought the Pentium D 830 over the AMD whatever because the AMD-driven ultimate machine ends up not harnessing the extra speed. Considering that I get to use 8gbof DDR2 at 1044mghz and Intel Engineering instead of 4gb of ddr 400 as an intricate part of the dual core's ultimate performance building an Inel machine was a no-brainer.
It's not the speed of the fastest part, but the slowest link in the chain that matters.
Depending on your style and overall physical stamina (doubtful you have either, being a coder and all) The LL Bean http://llbean.com/ one strap back packs. Do us a favor and pick a subtle color PLEASE...
I prefer the Leather Doctors Bag look with a hidden, cushioned, Velcro secured middle section for a full-on 'desktop-replacement' 9lbs (probably puts it at 20kilos or 4kilos, since I am math challenged) including all the legal-sized notepads and various supporting peripheral paraphernalia. I feel like I am in the 70's lugging my suitcase around before it was cool to have wheels on your luggage under the age of 90. But I look great in my Italian suit and a real man's briefcase made of fine Italian Leather. But getting the custom suits to accommodate my 6ft arm is getting expensive.
How about a little luggage trolley that all the Metrosexuals are wheeling around town these days? No weight limit, holds everything even a vacuum cleaner to clean the crumbs from lunch
Too many business are run like kingdoms with the owner or Ceo at the top. All others must sacrifice for the kings happiness and gain. Motivation by intimidation or negativity abound, but who cares as long as the top is getting what they want.
The inverted pyramid puts the workers at the top and the remaining parts of the company are there for the sole purpose of supporting and making sure the workers are happy and productive. It is a rare model and mostly found in sectors where the product or service (i.e. the money generators) are given top priority as they should. With out sales of some sort there is no revenue and with out revenue...well it's doubtful there is any profit. Remember we are talking about businesses not charities or churches, even if many are run like a business. Don't clammer about how other issues such as customer service and satisfaction are important because I didnt say profit was the only focus.
Profit is just so much harder to find if part of the company that generates the revenue is not happy and productive.
Having been in VC previously without some due diligence info it is impractical to advise you on what the %'s should be. With that said I would make some suggestions on who to best evaluate the situation so as to negotiating the best contract.
I assume that neither company has any $$$ otherwise it would be more cut and dry. Company with the capital rules as long as they are putting up the money! If you think it is about putting up the money get outside financial advice on double reviewing the other companies books and audits. Unbelievable the amount of Bulls**t financials or crazy "un-audited" financials floating around.
Next I would honestly evaluate how much the maximum gross and net revenue the contract could generate (avg or middle case, please!) and then discount at least 50% off that. With those numbers is it still something you want? If so, can either side easily go somewhere else and get what they want out of the deal. If not, then once again it becomes easy. Whomever needs the other guy the most loses. See, where I am going? If they have nothing with out your presence in the US or if the product has great potential, but is unproven then that is the reality of today. Too often deals are struck on the 'best-case-scenario' which is really 'IFcome' not "Income".
Bottom line is negotiate from a position of strength and today's reality. Structure something short-term a average terms, but build in both the ability to bailout if things suck and the right to take much more and then some if things work out. Structure your deal so that if you exceed the expectations then you are rewarded greatly. It shows the confidence you have in your abilities and strengths.
i can promise you that the Asians are much more fearful of losing you than you are of them. They only need a short time to figure out that the US is vastly different than they think it is and with a strong US partner they are lost. It is a fallacy that great products sell themselves just as it is that great management can turn around a crappy company.
Ultimately you know what you have or need and that should guide you in your efforts.
PS - Who exactly do you think you have a fiduciary resonsibility to? Are you a public company? Non-affiliated shareholders?
Microsoft has the attitude of them against the world. They will conquer spam, hackers, or any flaws in the system. Founded in a belief that because they created windows and hold the code that it is their right to take on any malicious code themselves. The problem is that with such a god-complex stance they end up challenging every hacker to show them how they are so wrong. The introduction of Sp-2 was the solution? One flimsy firewall was all that was needed to keep the 'bad-men' at bay?
Mozilla Firefox developers attitude is that security is important and that is a real pain in the ass for almost everyone involved. Firefox is an alternative to IE not as a solution to the problem, but because they offer tools to deal with the problem. Switching to firefox and doing nothing is not a solution to anything.
Firefox offers meaningful tools to address security problems, but users still have to implement them. If one user is a paranoid freak that wants no porn, no spam, no interaction with the web he can structure firefox to be so prohibative through the many extensions that he can feel all safe in spite of not getting a very interactive web experience. Much harder to do in IE6. If another user is willing to trade web experience for security firefox allows for that too.
After beta testing Deerpark Alpha it is apparent that the mozzila team is really stepping up the security options as well as making it easy to use them. Offering strong security options as a choice allows user to get what they want out of their browser.
Ultimately, the answer to internet security is the same as the answer to any large social problem. Until society makes the rewards for negative behavior worthless the negative behavior will continue. If your house is full of goodies...it matters not how many locks you have. The solution is to make hacking worthless or at least less of a challenge
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Trying to save the old Palm OS that no developers wrote programs for was destined to die unless it could become something more important to the palm user than the shit the thing came with. We how enticing that was! Better networking, entertainment or even slicker interfaces like blackberry. Palm needs to decide its target market consumer and aggressively move there product to that market or Palm becomes a quaint has-been product like some many others
You seem to have forgotten about the Grokster precedant recently affirmed bythe US Supreme Court. So does Limewire fit the precedant? Does Limewires requirement that in order to upgrade to any newer version (free basic or for $ Pro) users are asked to admit that they are or are not going to use Limewire to potentially infringe on any copyright laws? Does this get Limewire off the hook they way the surgeons general warning on cigarettes?
Beta testing IE7and can report that it has multiple choices for scaling. I can set the page control to zoom anywhere from 10% to 1000%, which is more like setting the browser to zoom until further notice. There is a zoom button available for the browser toolbar that has a 3 setting loop of 100%, 125%, 150%, then back 100% for the short zoom needs. IE7 retains the old ie6 menu setting that adjusts the text size if that is all that is required. None of this is absolute, so is applicable on any sized screen. I am finding that with such easy access to enlarging pages to easily adjust them so that the core interest section is largest (and the crap-laden side bars are out of view).
Sounds like you need the 'session-saver' extension https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php ?application=firefox&category=Tabbed%20Browsing&nu mpg=10&id=436/ so if you close or crash Firefox you can pick up where you left off. A.K.A. lifesaver for a die hard wanderer.
If that is too much for you, try this extension that removes the little enticing 'x' for closing tabs from your life. https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php ?application=firefox&category=Tabbed%20Browsing&nu mpg=10&id=2092/
Would it be OK if the guy had a real deck of cards and was playing solitare at his desk? I don't think so. So what's the difference. Besides, what kind of employee can't think of anything less obvious to will wasting the companies money?
As an insulin dependant diabetic for 15 yrs I have tried every possible diet/low carb/no-calorie drink there is. Diet-Rockstar is one of the few I can't even begin to stomach. Choice #1 = Monster Low-Carb (the blue one)...it rocks, it is like 3 red bulls (diet of course) and my secretary asks if I have been drinking "liquid crack" again every time I slam one to come out of a lazy mood. Choice #2 = Diet Sobe 'No Fear' works great, but either you like the chemical peach flavor as a change of pace or it makes your skin crawl from the idea that no real fruit were used in by even the people who think about manufacturing the raw materials used for it. Beware = Many of these drinks are nothing more than a hyped-up sugar buzz. There is no way to get a sugar-buzz with out calories...period...if it has more than 20 calories per serving you might as well drink a coca-cola. Kaballeh diet is the worst offender since it is operating under the complex sugars don't have to be labeled as sugar scam portrayed by the 'poly-dextrose' crowd. Sadly, your body knows sugar as either complex or simple even if the FDA and marketing departments act as if there is no difference.
Isn't your idea that providing a better-written "PC's for dummies" book solving your Mother's inability to understand IT, as flawed a concept as her getting you to understand why she doesn't want you to use those pretty small towels in her guest bathroom? Rooted in ignorant bliss, your Mother can not comprehend what is missing from any question she may have that prevents you from providing her with that short easy answer she craves. Generally, the public are too non-scientific to understand computers (and Geeks). The public only enjoys answers based on emotions and opinions. Facts and knowledge just get in the way of a quick and easy solution or answer. Where as Geeks are systematically linear individuals, utilizing cause & effect while incorporating it all into a nice framework of how the nature of the physical world relates to a subject, the Public just wants the thing fixed. It is like when you have just provided the best answer possible to her question, yet your Mother is more perplexed than ever. Bridging the chasm between the scientific and non-scientific worlds is difficult because geeks are pressed to provide succinct non-scientific answers and the public refuses to invest any time in something not needed for daily operation. Without proper background info a geek's answer is meaningless. My suggestion is a non-scientific troubleshooting guide so that when the public has a problem (the only time they ever motivate) there would be support for deciding what to do next. Examples: 1) The company that built your hardware system, may not be the best choice for resolving a proprietary software problem. (don't call Dell if your Adobe Photo Album freezes on start-up) 2) The operating systems manufacturer is not a good place to resolve hardware installation issues (don't call Microsoft if you new ATI All-in- Wonder TV card isn't recognized) 3) Your ISP doesn't provided custom solutions to household IT issues (don't call Cox Communications if you want to run a media file server for your music collection) It seems particularly difficult to get either side to even recognize that somehow the other side in not even on the same theoretical planet. Obviously we all posses some amount of both traits, but they do not harmonize very well. Do you think that have over-simplified the correct solution? I would venture a guess that there is probably more involved than what appears initially for the easy solution you had in mind.
I hope you are not a developer because I know from my experience 'being bored' is not really part of the equation. I find that I haven't nearly the time to ponder and explore as I would like. Hoe about developing a marketing or virtual infrastructure strategy for this remote sub-contractor idea. If you can not fill the time available with constructive projects and tasks...well...you deserve the lot life has given you.
Could you have a few more silly I don't want that because in the question? You are tying slashdot's hands because you were too cheap to get a $25 sound card for that sled-server. The graphics considerations? How about a gigabit LAN? I use Nero 6.6+'s media server no problemo. Since you probably would not want speakers for whatever reason how about some Bluetooth headphones; 40 ft. ;259 channels scrambled and no wires.
Oh yeah...why are you not using the media center music server?
My last idea I swear is to turn up the volume on the Media Center PC and rock out, damn the neighbors
1)With google products I always feel like they designers are on my side of the equation trying to make my web experience I want to use google to enhance. Yahoo always feels like they are ramming content...any content if I will just spend 5 more minutes on their site. 2)Yahoo's convoluted entanglement of pages and half-baked, half-operating, offerings seem like the same old shit, not even dressed up in a pretty package. Google rolls out stuff that is cool and different in an attempt to address how users actually view the web. Yeah google has AdSense, but they don't try to hide it or apologize for the ad placements. To me it is like TV...I ignore 98% of the ads that don't apply to me. Yahoo weaves the sponsorship into the content and who knows what is content or marketing let alone everything I ever am interested in checking out has an up-charge attached. Let the frickin sponsors pay my way and build it in to the cost of the product over time. 3) Finally...yahoo mail = 789 spam emails a day (for real!) Gmail = 3 spams, and they are from sites I actually visited once. WTF
GDS (Google Desktop Search for the uninitiated) version 2 offers a sidebar experience complete with a choice of which panels (googlespeak for widgets) to serve up. What I like is the way I can access all the ActiveX plug-ins from IE6 to run on the sidebar. This way I have all the insecurity of IE6 right at my fingertips on my desktop!
System resources consumption overload was the reason I stopped using widgets about 6 months ago. How useful is a widget that reports 8% CPU activity when 6% of that is the system usage widget itself? I am actually hoping that the new version of konfabulator employs a smaller footprint like the Google desktop search sidebar does. When will users with the minimum amount of RAM installed learn that fast, fun, fabulous are not part of the computing experience until they spend that $40 to get another stick of memory? (no-name PC2700 512k DDR 4 sure)
Our judicial system is fucked if they don't bring charges against Mr. Chase for slandering Mr. Siegenthaler. How is it right that anybody for any reason can write knowingly false and libelous information in Wikipedia and not be punished for it? Mr. Chase is not protected by the 1st amendment, because it does not cover the dissemination falsehoods. Mr. Chase doesn't claim he did not know that the information was incorrect. Mr. Chase would only be protected if he had presented the involvement of Seigenthaler as an opinion or theory of some sort. Categorizing information as quasi-factual by posting it in the Wikipedia when Chase knew it was only his opinion or worse a complete fabrication meant to damage Seigenthaler for some reason is premeditated and malicious. The few facts alone meet most of the legal requirements to establish the prima-facia case for slander. Does Mr. Chase explain his actions as anything but malicious? Wikipedia has to find a way to elevate itself above being just another community form plagued by trollers, flamers and attention seeking freaks. Slashdot has more control over it's content than Wikipedia and nobody thinks of Slashdot as a repository of factual information, even if they should ;-)
Case in point...non-conformance is adhering to a different set of rules. Anarchy is equivalent to chaos or following no rules. I meant that intellectuals are called geeks simply because they don't fit in. Why don't they fit in? Because they find it harder to be one of the sheep and follow along accepting all that is fed them. People who accept the status quo are the fabric of society, but how many of these conformists are highly intellectual?
I doubt the others hate you for your clever ideas, but more for how you present the clever ideas to them. As it is very hard for the highly intelligent to suffer the common-folk because of the genius's inability to comprehend how others view him usually. If you are waiting for others to catch up, then loneliness is what you deserve. I think you are more narcissistic than brainy or at least completely out of touch with inter-personal dynamics. Meanwhile, it has been a lifelong struggle for most of us to resolve the paradox of how people want 'the smart guy' to solve their hardest problems and comment on my high intellect, all the while also noting how weird, different and non-conforming my life and thoughts are. Society seeks conformity for all which is a death sentence for intellectual. I was 40 before I figured out I wasn't capable of conforming and should enjoy non-conforming instead of feeling guilty about it.
I like the idea of "families" of chips that are generally alike. Just like in auto's, while honda makes Accords & Civics there are numberous grades of each, while still being able to distinguish all civics as being below the accords. i.e. if Intel would let up on the secret codename crap and use names more directly then the numbers would not be so confusing, such as all Prescott's were between 2.4 and 3.4 GHz with Hyper-threading and Northwoods were the same GHz but none had hyper-threading it would be easier to distinguish general trends. Currently, whatever is the newest best gets some new name and everything else is yesterday's greatest so we might as well start saying good bye. So why have they stuck with Pentium so long and the P4 with every desktop chip for 5 years? Sockets, Ghz, Cores, L2 Caches, Cores all as numbers they might as well start using Hexadecimals to insure that nobody understands it for sure
I just bought the Pentium D 830 over the AMD whatever because the AMD-driven ultimate machine ends up not harnessing the extra speed. Considering that I get to use 8gbof DDR2 at 1044mghz and Intel Engineering instead of 4gb of ddr 400 as an intricate part of the dual core's ultimate performance building an Inel machine was a no-brainer. It's not the speed of the fastest part, but the slowest link in the chain that matters.
Depending on your style and overall physical stamina (doubtful you have either, being a coder and all) The LL Bean http://llbean.com/ one strap back packs. Do us a favor and pick a subtle color PLEASE... I prefer the Leather Doctors Bag look with a hidden, cushioned, Velcro secured middle section for a full-on 'desktop-replacement' 9lbs (probably puts it at 20kilos or 4kilos, since I am math challenged) including all the legal-sized notepads and various supporting peripheral paraphernalia. I feel like I am in the 70's lugging my suitcase around before it was cool to have wheels on your luggage under the age of 90. But I look great in my Italian suit and a real man's briefcase made of fine Italian Leather. But getting the custom suits to accommodate my 6ft arm is getting expensive. How about a little luggage trolley that all the Metrosexuals are wheeling around town these days? No weight limit, holds everything even a vacuum cleaner to clean the crumbs from lunch
Too many business are run like kingdoms with the owner or Ceo at the top. All others must sacrifice for the kings happiness and gain. Motivation by intimidation or negativity abound, but who cares as long as the top is getting what they want. The inverted pyramid puts the workers at the top and the remaining parts of the company are there for the sole purpose of supporting and making sure the workers are happy and productive. It is a rare model and mostly found in sectors where the product or service (i.e. the money generators) are given top priority as they should. With out sales of some sort there is no revenue and with out revenue...well it's doubtful there is any profit. Remember we are talking about businesses not charities or churches, even if many are run like a business. Don't clammer about how other issues such as customer service and satisfaction are important because I didnt say profit was the only focus. Profit is just so much harder to find if part of the company that generates the revenue is not happy and productive.
Having been in VC previously without some due diligence info it is impractical to advise you on what the %'s should be. With that said I would make some suggestions on who to best evaluate the situation so as to negotiating the best contract. I assume that neither company has any $$$ otherwise it would be more cut and dry. Company with the capital rules as long as they are putting up the money! If you think it is about putting up the money get outside financial advice on double reviewing the other companies books and audits. Unbelievable the amount of Bulls**t financials or crazy "un-audited" financials floating around. Next I would honestly evaluate how much the maximum gross and net revenue the contract could generate (avg or middle case, please!) and then discount at least 50% off that. With those numbers is it still something you want? If so, can either side easily go somewhere else and get what they want out of the deal. If not, then once again it becomes easy. Whomever needs the other guy the most loses. See, where I am going? If they have nothing with out your presence in the US or if the product has great potential, but is unproven then that is the reality of today. Too often deals are struck on the 'best-case-scenario' which is really 'IFcome' not "Income". Bottom line is negotiate from a position of strength and today's reality. Structure something short-term a average terms, but build in both the ability to bailout if things suck and the right to take much more and then some if things work out. Structure your deal so that if you exceed the expectations then you are rewarded greatly. It shows the confidence you have in your abilities and strengths. i can promise you that the Asians are much more fearful of losing you than you are of them. They only need a short time to figure out that the US is vastly different than they think it is and with a strong US partner they are lost. It is a fallacy that great products sell themselves just as it is that great management can turn around a crappy company. Ultimately you know what you have or need and that should guide you in your efforts. PS - Who exactly do you think you have a fiduciary resonsibility to? Are you a public company? Non-affiliated shareholders?
Microsoft has the attitude of them against the world. They will conquer spam, hackers, or any flaws in the system. Founded in a belief that because they created windows and hold the code that it is their right to take on any malicious code themselves. The problem is that with such a god-complex stance they end up challenging every hacker to show them how they are so wrong. The introduction of Sp-2 was the solution? One flimsy firewall was all that was needed to keep the 'bad-men' at bay? Mozilla Firefox developers attitude is that security is important and that is a real pain in the ass for almost everyone involved. Firefox is an alternative to IE not as a solution to the problem, but because they offer tools to deal with the problem. Switching to firefox and doing nothing is not a solution to anything. Firefox offers meaningful tools to address security problems, but users still have to implement them. If one user is a paranoid freak that wants no porn, no spam, no interaction with the web he can structure firefox to be so prohibative through the many extensions that he can feel all safe in spite of not getting a very interactive web experience. Much harder to do in IE6. If another user is willing to trade web experience for security firefox allows for that too. After beta testing Deerpark Alpha it is apparent that the mozzila team is really stepping up the security options as well as making it easy to use them. Offering strong security options as a choice allows user to get what they want out of their browser. Ultimately, the answer to internet security is the same as the answer to any large social problem. Until society makes the rewards for negative behavior worthless the negative behavior will continue. If your house is full of goodies...it matters not how many locks you have. The solution is to make hacking worthless or at least less of a challenge