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From: gavino on 16 Dec 2009 01:06
On Dec 15, 12:12 pm, Bruce McFarling <agil...(a)netscape.net> wrote:
> On Dec 15, 3:15 am, gavino <gavcom...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I wish to have a biz not a job.
> > I am confident I could outdo a person 4 levels up from my current job
> > in my current company.
> > jobs are so stultifyingly limiting.
>
> Then get a pair of the same model cheap Chinese netbooks, identify a
> market opportunity that they cannot tap with their existing software
> base which will possibly go untapped due to resource constraint, and
> *contact* someone to fill that opportunity and vest the rights with
> you. The pair is so you can verify the deliverable benchmark is hit as
> they progress.
>
> Then start with medium lots, for which you aim to merely break-even at
> first, and start selling the cheap netbooks with the enhanced
> capabilities on eBay. If you succeeded, you can shortly move up to
> larger lots and start earning a living, if you failed, the
> unwillingness to pay extra for your product versus the vanilla
> competition will tell you that you failed.
>
> That brings together the three things required to start the biz: the
> hardware capability, the software capability, and the venture capital.
> Since you can't bring the first two to the table, it will have to be
> the third.
>
> And the way our economy is set up, putting in the financial capital
> that is at risk of loss of the project fails is the default way of
> getting a business started - the strategy of bringing the skilled
> labor to the table and starting up on a shoestring is more often a way
> of turning an inexpensive hobby into a more expensive one.

Not quite sure what you mean here.
From: gavino on 16 Dec 2009 01:07
On Dec 15, 1:29 pm, Glenn Jackman <gle...(a)ncf.ca> wrote:
> At 2009-12-12 02:20PM, "gavino" wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> >  On Dec 11, 6:57 pm, "W. James" <w_a_x_...(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > Jerry Avins wrote:
> > > > gavino wrote:
>
> > > > >  ...  I ... want to hear from people using the programming
> > > > > languages.
>
> > > > Why? You never seem to do anything with what you learn.
>
> > > True, if in fact he learns anything.
> > > He seems to have a very modest IQ, and he lacks the confidence
> > > and willpower to decide upon a programming language.  He wants the
> > > "experts" to tell him what language is best.  He will
> > > continue to vacillate forever.
>
> >  effort to make neative comment less than to make ncie constructive one
> >  I guess.  you barfbag
>
> At 2009-12-15 03:13AM, "gavino" wrote:
>
> >  communication is important
>
> >  be interesting to see who you consider intelligent
>
> Interesting juxtaposition.
>
> --
> Glenn Jackman
>     Write a wise saying and your name will live forever. -- Anonymous- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

I mean seriously. It like someone who says XYZ movie sucks, then you
ask them what they like and it is something I would have to be paid to
sit through.
From: Bruce McFarling on 16 Dec 2009 16:19
On Dec 16, 1:06 am, gavino <gavcom...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Not quite sure what you mean here.

There's this kit that's hitting the fringe market at $120~$140, WiFi,
ARM or Mips processor, 2gb flash drive, 256Mb, 7" screen. That's
wholesale around $80~$90. There's even cheaper kit of the same type
coming down the pike. Its presently normally running WinCE or some
Linux as an OS, one of them promise to be running Android sometime
next year.

Its a massively competitive market on all sides, so if someone had an
in-house capability/efficiency advantage, it would support selling the
kit into a market that they cannot presently tap based on existing
capabilities, and allow healthier margins than the vendors of the bog
standard version.

From: Bruce McFarling on 16 Dec 2009 20:49
On Dec 16, 5:10 pm, S...(a)ControlQ.com wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, Bruce McFarling wrote:
>
> > There's this kit that's hitting the fringe market at $120~$140, WiFi,
> > ARM or Mips processor, 2gb flash drive, 256Mb, 7" screen. That's
> > wholesale around $80~$90. There's even cheaper kit of the same type
> > coming down the pike. Its presently normally running WinCE or some
> > Linux as an OS, one of them promise to be running Android sometime
> > next year.
>
> > Its a massively competitive market on all sides, so if someone had an
> > in-house capability/efficiency advantage, it would support selling the
> > kit into a market that they cannot presently tap based on existing
> > capabilities, and allow healthier margins than the vendors of the bog
> > standard version.
>
> Links???

http://www.littlelinuxlaptop.com/

.... will get you started.
From: Bruce McFarling on 17 Dec 2009 11:25
On Dec 17, 3:53 am, Uwe Klein <uwe_klein_habertw...(a)t-online.de>
wrote:
> Bruce McFarling wrote:
> > On Dec 16, 5:10 pm, S...(a)ControlQ.com wrote:
>
> >>On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, Bruce McFarling wrote:
>
> >>>There's this kit that's hitting the fringe market at $120~$140, WiFi,
> >>>ARM or Mips processor, 2gb flash drive, 256Mb, 7" screen. That's
> >>>wholesale around $80~$90. There's even cheaper kit of the same type
> >>>coming down the pike. Its presently normally running WinCE or some
> >>>Linux as an OS, one of them promise to be running Android sometime
> >>>next year.
>
> >>>Its a massively competitive market on all sides, so if someone had an
> >>>in-house capability/efficiency advantage, it would support selling the
> >>>kit into a market that they cannot presently tap based on existing
> >>>capabilities, and allow healthier margins than the vendors of the bog
> >>>standard version.
>
> >>Links???
>
> >http://www.littlelinuxlaptop.com/
>
> > ... will get you started.
>
> add it to the available linux netbook distributions ;-)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_netbook-oriented_Linux_dis...
>
> uwe

Its not really an available Linux netbook distribution as much as a
slowly growing resource site for people with that hardware. I don't
know that the ability to replace Windows CE with Linux by doing a
system restore with the file intended for the netbooks that shipped
with Linux qualifies as an "available Linux distribution" in the same
sense, and the other distributions they link to already seem to be in
that list.
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