Comment Re:But, was it... (Score 1) 138
I'd say a strand of creeper was involved, but this IS
*bah dum bum*
I'd say a strand of creeper was involved, but this IS
*bah dum bum*
If marketing isn't one of your firm's core competencies, outsource. Either hire an outside agency or get a hired gun in as a contractor.
If someone is really motivated to become a partner, let him/her go through a trial period where they're essentially in that contractor role and you can evaluate results. But you're right--if you're worried about possibly underperforming partners (and don't have enough mojo to figure it out without hard numbers), then get some hard numbers first.
As you correctly surmised, you can't completely ignore marketing if you're a business owner. Get some training on the subject (even if just an online class or something, though no need to go completely nuts). This is, unfortunately, one blind spot you can't have forever--marketing can be expensive and you must know and maintain what works.
Fixed (I think
Yes and no.
I did a bit of IT consulting a while back for a small company owned by a friend of mine that upgraded one of their (dead) machines to Win7 from XP. One of their pieces of software (that isn't supported by the vendor anymore, natch) had some copy protection on it that ABSOLUTELY REFUSED to run on Win7. As in "every single post I could find about it on Google said 'don't bother'" and no amount of backwards-compatibility junk would get Win7 to make it work, period (though admittedly this was Win7 Home Prem, so no built-in VM stuff).
The solution: VirtualBox, running a spare XP license, and just this one application. With the VBox tools installed, I set it to resize the desktop automatically when the window's resized, put the taskbar on autohide, and it works great (nice and snappy for an office-type app). When you click the close box on the window, VBox suspends the VM. When you open it back up again, it un-suspends. Plus you get snapshotting and portability of the environment.
They were not sophisticated enough to pull this off, but their local IT guy (me) was, and this is a little 5-person extermination company...
...and, of course, Tim Allen easily simulated Shatner's Kirk. No way could he have pulled off Stewart's Picard.
He'd have had an easier time pulling off Mulgrew's Janeway than Picard, for that matter...
...in other words, all of them. Wow.
Lasers! Lasers! Lasers!
A nuclear drone really should have laser cannons.
Pew! Pew! Pew!
(Sorry, couldn't resist)
Chicken Pot Pie or Shepherd's Pie
Salad
Slice of Pie (Your Choice)
$11 in the bay area.
Went there for lunch today
Second. I have VM service on my LG Optimus V that I occasionally use as a hotspot with my Linux laptop no problems. It's not teh awesum bandwidth, but it's usable.
Sprint's network (which VM piggybacks on in the US) is pretty good in the bay area and they're not nearly as price-gougy as VZW or AT&T.
$130 for the mifi, $50 for "unlimited" data (throttled after 2.5G) for a month. Resell the device on eBay if you want when you're done. VZW is at least 2x for the device...
...and the one that gets you busted is the Mickey Mouse ears.
5 years for pirating a Michael Jackson CD
4 years for killing Michael Jackson
Seriously
The guy who staged out the Bible in Legos would have had an easier time of it for sure:
He clearly needed to hax0r a bunch of Legos to tell many of the stories...
+1 +1 +1, for the love of God, +1
Disk space is cheap (modulo the current supply problems); disk management is expensive. RAID, index time, backups all conspire to make that $100 Fry's special cost 10x as much in reality.
...though "ability to see into the UV part of the spectrum" is not quite as useful as "ability to smell into the future" (my personal fave).
Make sure your code does nothing gracefully.
