From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Dec 4 16:59:17 2000 From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 4 16:59:15 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp05.primenet.com (smtp05.primenet.com [206.165.6.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FF9A37B400 for ; Mon, 4 Dec 2000 16:59:15 -0800 (PST) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp05.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA08856; Mon, 4 Dec 2000 17:55:42 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr02.primenet.com(206.165.6.202) via SMTP by smtp05.primenet.com, id smtpdAAAOOayen; Mon Dec 4 17:51:06 2000 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr02.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA15603; Mon, 4 Dec 2000 17:54:19 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200012050054.RAA15603@usr02.primenet.com> Subject: Re: installing freebsd from windows nt without using boot disks To: keichii@peorth.iteration.net Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 00:54:19 +0000 (GMT) Cc: bp@butya.kz (Boris Popov), tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20001204004258.A54339@peorth.iteration.net> from "Michael C . Wu" at Dec 04, 2000 12:42:58 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: tlambert@usr02.primenet.com Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Hence, if I were to take Terry's consulting contracts at half price > and contract them out in various other countries. I could be > making 50%-75% profit and maybe produce a possibly better product > in a much shorter timeframe. Realize that the charge I stated is about 1.5 times the going rate for a consultant hired through a consulting contracting company in the Silicon Valley. These companies normally operate at a 40%-60% profit (they have their employees over a barrel, since most have obtained their work visa through the consulting company, so they can't go work elsewhere). So consider that 60% is common: $170,000 * .4 = $68,000 going to the contractor themselves. That's $136,000/year, asumming it took 6 months for the work, or $91,000, without the 1.5 * premium. If you think that is a lot of money, and have a visa or a green card, and are willing to work without stock options, and are of any quality at all, I suggest: http://www.whistle.com/employment/employ-engg.html Or you can go to any one of thousands of other companies, on similar terms. NB: And if you wouldn't charge a 1.5 times premium to have to figure out Windows compatability code from disk image deltas, you're clinically insane). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message