Specifically, there are wars raging in some diamond mining zones. Much of the dimaond industry has declared an embargo on such 'conflict diamonds', as their sale funds the purchase of weapons for yet more bloodshed.
Anybody interested in founding a savings and loan? yes
I'm really sick of my account being flagged for 'suspicious activity' (I do LOTS of $100 cash transfers and wire transfers). Can I do my banking somewhere where Uncle Sam can't get in the way?
Yes, but realize that IBM has been around since about 1914, that they have been the "bad guy" before, and just because they are supporting open source now doesn't mean that they couldn't find a way to exploit it for their own selfish good later.
Is that kind of like the Russian empire? Populist opinion pushed communism, but then the leaders ran around killing everyone in sight. Later they open up the west, only to have their currency devalued and rampant crime take over.
I think you are suggesting the traditional razor blade model. Sell the iPod cheap, and make lots of money on the music.
But people are used to getting their razor blades (music) for free, so apple has to make money on the iPod. It looks a lot more like the iTunes store is a tool to keep apple from getting sued by the labels.
So I expect the new iPod will carry a high price and apple will continue to be a hardware company.
While many of the retail oriented DSL providers explicitly prohibit bandwidth reselling, it is very possible to work your way around this problem.
Smaller DSL providers are often happy to write custom deals for their customers who want to resell bandwidth. These deals usually consist of a monthly fee ($50) that covers a fixed amount of bandwidth (2GB transfer) as well as an overage charge ($0.01 per MB transfer).
If you are buying telecom products from your local ILEC in the T3/DS3 range (45 Mb/sec or ~672 voice lines), it is fairly easyto become a DSL reseller your self. In this case, you can make point-to-point DSL connections from customer sites back to the telecom hotel. From the hotel, route to your bandwidth vendor of choice.
In the case of an individual coffee shop, it doesn't make sense to be your own DSL provider. If you know a hundred coffee shops and other small businesses that would like custom DSL access, then it could be a very profitable and fun business to get into.
n the old world, in old times, citizens were not only protected from liability if trying to save lives, but they also had the citizen's duty of always doing so, even if it meant risking one's own life.
While true, in "old times," citizenship was severely limited to those who could provide some useful service to the local feudal lord. This service typically was typically military in nature.
Given that your average medieval town had a small number of citizens hanging around with military skills, it is no surprise that they were tasked with the town's defense.
Now, fast forward to 2003:
(1) You experience some chest pain, would you like some random person to break your ribs while attempting some misguided chest thumping maneuver?
(2) You are on an airplane, terrorists attack. Should you whip out your fully automatic hand gun and start blasting at them? Recall that airplanes are made of aluminum which is almost as soft as butter, and ignites at only a slightly higher temperature.
(3) Your linux laptop crashes. Before you can react, the guy sitting next to you declares that he is an MCSE and can fix the problem right away. Before you can do anything, he has WinXP installed and all your data has turned into a nice empty NTFS partition.
Non-Geeks have been performing stochastic DNA recombination for hundreds of thousands, perhaps even millions of years. It seems that the secret ingredient is...a girlfriend!
Microsoft bought much of their relevant IP so they could ship the XBox, royalty-free. Nintendo, NVidia and ATI got their Engineers. Tera got Cray.
We need much longer holding periods for insiders
Clark is famous for, among other things, writing some of the most favorable deals with VCs ever. He keeps a large share of the company and holds it for a long time. This reduces marke liquidity and makes it more difficult for outsiders to participate in his companies. If anything, Clark's problem was holding his shares for too long, creating fragile, monolithic companies.
Presently, the economy is recovering from the Enron and Worldcom accounting scandals. It is difficult to turn a good idea into $$$ when there is little consensus as to how the new accounting rules should be interpreted to successfully create new wealth.
Until then, expect to see some growth in international companies listing ADS/ADR on US exchanges. It will be a few more years before we see rapid American tech growth.
There is a sunny side to this. Think of all the talent that has been freed into the California landscape... All of those coders, with nothing but time on their hands (in between job searches)...
And nothing to pay the rent with, or to buy new development workstations with.
I think we can expect to see some interesting and potentially ground breaking start-ups to appear come June/July when they've all given up trying to join a big company. Isn't that how we got from 16mHz machines only good for word processing to the current state of internet, gaming rigs, media servers and TiVo's in the first place?
No, that was Intel and AMD racing to get customers by offering faster and faster chips.
To those who are unfortunately out of the job, please keep your talents current.
Books cost money.
By all means, discuss the idea you had in the shower this morning for that great new piece of software/hardware with your best friend over a beer.
And now you want them to become alcoholics?
Put a desk in your garage and start typing.
You expect unemployed helpdesk people to afford houses?
In the business marketplace, VOIP makes sense for just about everyone. Any serious business is likely to be using a mix of frame for Voice and Fiber for data at the moment, VOIP allows this to all be consolidated into fiber pipes. This works well for the vendor because fiber is cheap to install and provision compread with DS1/DS3.
At the consumer end of the spectrum, copper works fine for voice calls, and is required for DSL. So there is no clear advantage for VOIP over DSL. But with cable, the TV line that has already been expanded to carry data can now carry voice. Big win for cable network owners.
I don't really care though, I've been a cell user for years. Would be nice if Nokia could work on the stability of the 3650 though:)
I was surprised to learn that the cost of living is greater in Bangalore than Seattle. If you make $60k a year in Seattle, you need to make $67k in Bangalore to maintain a similar standard of living.
http://www.homefair.com/homefair/servlet/ActionS er vlet?pid=246&previousPage=245&cid=homefair&fromSal ary=60000&fromCity=743&toCity=389
It seems that anyone moving jobs to India is not only taking american jobs away, but also stealing from shareholders by paying an unnecessarily high price for labor.
The hot topic of the day usually pays around $1500 a day for six months or so in Manhattan. This is entirely feasable, but most of the people pulling down that kind of cash have very good connections and plenty of experience.
As long as you don't fuck with it (hint: terrorism), your fine. But, piss it off, and it will clean house. And that's exactly what happend to Saddams regime.
It was so cool when the US took out all of Saddams 757 factories!
About a month after I got my first phone line, MCI called and offered me $50 to switch from ATT for long distance. Since I was only making local calls, it seemed like a good deal. Weeks later, ATT called back and wondered why I had dropped the long distance service. I told them about MCI's offer, and ATT offered me $120 to go back. I took the $120, and switched back. MCI returned with a $150 offer, which I took.
The largest check I got was around $190. I don't think I *ever* made any long distance calls on that line.
I suppose I'm the reason why cell companies make you sign year long contracts in order to get the free phone...
Maybe this strategy can be applied to SCO's offer?
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Tell me, Mr. Anderson,
What good are firearms and ammunition if we blow up your home with a stealth bomber?
At best, owning firearms will send you more quickly to jail.
They love it when you xfer money. And often offer checking as well.
Specifically, there are wars raging in some diamond mining zones. Much of the dimaond industry has declared an embargo on such 'conflict diamonds', as their sale funds the purchase of weapons for yet more bloodshed.
Anybody interested in founding a savings and loan?
yes
I'm really sick of my account being flagged for 'suspicious activity' (I do LOTS of $100 cash transfers and wire transfers). Can I do my banking somewhere where Uncle Sam can't get in the way?
not easily.
Oh, read Cryptonomicon.
Yes, but realize that IBM has been around since about 1914, that they have been the "bad guy" before, and just because they are supporting open source now doesn't mean that they couldn't find a way to exploit it for their own selfish good later.
Is that kind of like the Russian empire? Populist opinion pushed communism, but then the leaders ran around killing everyone in sight. Later they open up the west, only to have their currency devalued and rampant crime take over.
I think you are suggesting the traditional razor blade model. Sell the iPod cheap, and make lots of money on the music.
But people are used to getting their razor blades (music) for free, so apple has to make money on the iPod. It looks a lot more like the iTunes store is a tool to keep apple from getting sued by the labels.
So I expect the new iPod will carry a high price and apple will continue to be a hardware company.
While many of the retail oriented DSL providers explicitly prohibit bandwidth reselling, it is very possible to work your way around this problem.
Smaller DSL providers are often happy to write custom deals for their customers who want to resell bandwidth. These deals usually consist of a monthly fee ($50) that covers a fixed amount of bandwidth (2GB transfer) as well as an overage charge ($0.01 per MB transfer).
If you are buying telecom products from your local ILEC in the T3/DS3 range (45 Mb/sec or ~672 voice lines), it is fairly easyto become a DSL reseller your self. In this case, you can make point-to-point DSL connections from customer sites back to the telecom hotel. From the hotel, route to your bandwidth vendor of choice.
In the case of an individual coffee shop, it doesn't make sense to be your own DSL provider. If you know a hundred coffee shops and other small businesses that would like custom DSL access, then it could be a very profitable and fun business to get into.
Just stick the goatse.cx guy as the background on your laptop...after seeing that a couple times, these security bozos will learn not to ask.
What if Goatse turns him on?
n the old world, in old times, citizens were not only protected from liability if trying to save lives, but they also had the citizen's duty of always doing so, even if it meant risking one's own life.
While true, in "old times," citizenship was severely limited to those who could provide some useful service to the local feudal lord. This service typically was typically military in nature.
Given that your average medieval town had a small number of citizens hanging around with military skills, it is no surprise that they were tasked with the town's defense.
Now, fast forward to 2003:
(1) You experience some chest pain, would you like some random person to break your ribs while attempting some misguided chest thumping maneuver?
(2) You are on an airplane, terrorists attack. Should you whip out your fully automatic hand gun and start blasting at them? Recall that airplanes are made of aluminum which is almost as soft as butter, and ignites at only a slightly higher temperature.
(3) Your linux laptop crashes. Before you can react, the guy sitting next to you declares that he is an MCSE and can fix the problem right away. Before you can do anything, he has WinXP installed and all your data has turned into a nice empty NTFS partition.
I, for one, welcome our new aloholic humaniod robot overlords.
My only question is, how can the robots protect us from the terrible secret of space without a katana and kendo skills?
Where are the diesel tanks for 24 hours backup?
Non-Geeks have been performing stochastic DNA recombination for hundreds of thousands, perhaps even millions of years. It seems that the secret ingredient is...a girlfriend!
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Trust me, you more than likely do not need a $15,000 Cisco PIX or Nokia firewall (which runs Linux derivatives).
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what if your boss/manager saw this and decided this is all you needed for your budget?
You will quickly find out if you need a hardware firewall or not.
Healtheon is gone.
Turned into WebMD
SGI is dying.
Microsoft bought much of their relevant IP so they could ship the XBox, royalty-free. Nintendo, NVidia and ATI got their Engineers. Tera got Cray.
We need much longer holding periods for insiders
Clark is famous for, among other things, writing some of the most favorable deals with VCs ever. He keeps a large share of the company and holds it for a long time. This reduces marke liquidity and makes it more difficult for outsiders to participate in his companies. If anything, Clark's problem was holding his shares for too long, creating fragile, monolithic companies.
Presently, the economy is recovering from the Enron and Worldcom accounting scandals. It is difficult to turn a good idea into $$$ when there is little consensus as to how the new accounting rules should be interpreted to successfully create new wealth.
Until then, expect to see some growth in international companies listing ADS/ADR on US exchanges. It will be a few more years before we see rapid American tech growth.
There is a sunny side to this. Think of all the talent that has been freed into the California landscape... All of those coders, with nothing but time on their hands (in between job searches)...
And nothing to pay the rent with, or to buy new development workstations with.
I think we can expect to see some interesting and potentially ground breaking start-ups to appear come June/July when they've all given up trying to join a big company. Isn't that how we got from 16mHz machines only good for word processing to the current state of internet, gaming rigs, media servers and TiVo's in the first place?
No, that was Intel and AMD racing to get customers by offering faster and faster chips.
To those who are unfortunately out of the job, please keep your talents current.
Books cost money.
By all means, discuss the idea you had in the shower this morning for that great new piece of software/hardware with your best friend over a beer.
And now you want them to become alcoholics?
Put a desk in your garage and start typing.
You expect unemployed helpdesk people to afford houses?
In the business marketplace, VOIP makes sense for just about everyone. Any serious business is likely to be using a mix of frame for Voice and Fiber for data at the moment, VOIP allows this to all be consolidated into fiber pipes. This works well for the vendor because fiber is cheap to install and provision compread with DS1/DS3.
:)
At the consumer end of the spectrum, copper works fine for voice calls, and is required for DSL. So there is no clear advantage for VOIP over DSL. But with cable, the TV line that has already been expanded to carry data can now carry voice. Big win for cable network owners.
I don't really care though, I've been a cell user for years. Would be nice if Nokia could work on the stability of the 3650 though
The real innovation happens at companies populated with nineteen year olds.
Dominoes has a R&D department?
Wait a year or three and this kind of computing power will be available in game consoles in bedrooms across america.
I was surprised to learn that the cost of living is greater in Bangalore than Seattle. If you make $60k a year in Seattle, you need to make $67k in Bangalore to maintain a similar standard of living.
S er vlet?pid=246&previousPage=245&cid=homefair&fromSal ary=60000&fromCity=743&toCity=389
http://www.homefair.com/homefair/servlet/Action
It seems that anyone moving jobs to India is not only taking american jobs away, but also stealing from shareholders by paying an unnecessarily high price for labor.
The hot topic of the day usually pays around $1500 a day for six months or so in Manhattan. This is entirely feasable, but most of the people pulling down that kind of cash have very good connections and plenty of experience.
Worms everywhere.
Steve must have opened the can.
As long as you don't fuck with it (hint: terrorism), your fine. But, piss it off, and it will clean house. And that's exactly what happend to Saddams regime.
It was so cool when the US took out all of Saddams 757 factories!
You mean like using it as a really expensive yet tiny external firewire hard drive? Already doing that.
About a month after I got my first phone line, MCI called and offered me $50 to switch from ATT for long distance. Since I was only making local calls, it seemed like a good deal. Weeks later, ATT called back and wondered why I had dropped the long distance service. I told them about MCI's offer, and ATT offered me $120 to go back. I took the $120, and switched back. MCI returned with a $150 offer, which I took.
The largest check I got was around $190. I don't think I *ever* made any long distance calls on that line.
I suppose I'm the reason why cell companies make you sign year long contracts in order to get the free phone...
Maybe this strategy can be applied to SCO's offer?
3) Unprotected analog output is also allowed.
All signals are analog. "digital" is just an encoding system that is commonly applied to analog systems for error detection and correction.