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My father-in-law sells reconditioned medical equipment. Until 5 or 6 years ago, it was a strictly bricks-and-mortar business; then my wife and I designed a (truly amateurish) webpage for him. Internet sales began slowly, but they did come; he hired a real webmaster, overhauled the pages' look, and kept at it. Now, 6 years later, the business if almost entirely web-based and he's looking to gross $1 million this year (I suspect the recession has been good for his business).
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Most dotcoms went bust because they tried to provide silly "services" that hardly anybody needs. ASP's, what a joke.(\__/) 07/07/1937 - Never forget
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(")_(") "Starting the fire from within."Comment
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Ub you pay your own tuition and help the family through PC work? Nice goinComment
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Concrete, Abstract, or Squoingy?
"I don't believe in giving scripting languages because the only additional power they give users is the power to create bugs." - Mike Breitkreutz, FiraxisComment
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I don't make money online, I've got a press at home.“As a lifelong member of the Columbia Business School community, I adhere to the principles of truth, integrity, and respect. I will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do.”
"Capitalism ho!"Comment
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things have been tight as of late.Originally posted by Zylka
Ub you pay your own tuition and help the family through PC work? Nice goin
i got a decnet scholarship from RPI (35k/yr school gave me 25k), and i got some other scholarships from the VFW post here, as well as other places.
i also work summers as a janitor (i start next week, actually), and do work study @ uni.
urgh."I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it. We have to leave this place, I am almost happy here."
- Ender, from Ender's Game by Orson Scott CardComment
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Ub, I normally hear that the university provides better jobs... I am going to get one in the computer lab when I get to university. At first part time and once or twice a week.For there is [another] kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions -- indifference, inaction, and decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. - Bobby Kennedy (Mindless Menance of Violence)Comment
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yeah, thats where i did my work study during the school year, the campus' compting center. basically i sat behind a desk playing civ or doing calculus until someone came up and said something like "why isn't this printing?" or, "windows won't start. what did i do?"Originally posted by Fez
Ub, I normally hear that the university provides better jobs... I am going to get one in the computer lab when I get to university. At first part time and once or twice a week.
it was easy work, decent pay, and flexible hours. a woderful service provided by our wonderful socialist government. thank you taxpayers. i say you give us a raise.
anyway, they provide summer internships, but most of them were in the Troy/Albany area, and i wanted to go home this summer.
besides, i'm only going into my soph. (2nd) year of uni. i got time for all the internships later
"I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it. We have to leave this place, I am almost happy here."
- Ender, from Ender's Game by Orson Scott CardComment
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