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Добавлено спустя 47 минут 3 секунды:Вот на Лео, к примеру, такие задания есть. Идёт видео ряд с текстом, с правой стороны сам текст, при наведении на тего курсором - перевод.
How to Make a Million Dollars
You don’t need a winning lottery ticket, a brilliant business idea, or even a good income to make a million dollars; you just need to know how regular folks managed to do it.
You Will Need
College education
Business
Budget
Discipline
Investments
Real estate
Perseverance
Modest home (optional)
Step 1: Get an education
Get an education; 80 percent of millionaires are college graduates: 18 percent have master’s degrees, 8 percent law degrees, 6 percent medical degrees, and 6 percent PhDs.
Step 2: Start a company
Start a company. 2/3 of U. S. millionaires are self-employed. The business doesn’t have to be big, flashy, or innovative to make a million dollars; it just needs to be profitable.
Step 3: Be a landlord
Purchase a modest home — one that costs no more than twice your taxable income. Consider taking in roommates so they can help pay off the mortgage. Scoop up other bargain homes to lease to people whose rents will pay off the homes for you.
Learn how to do home repairs so you don’t have to pay others to do them.
Step 4: Live below your means
Live below your means — way below. Lots of people have managed to become millionaires on a modest income — some have even done it earning not much more than minimum wage. It just takes a strict budget and the discipline to stick with it.
Step 5: Invest
Carefully invest at least 15 percent of your taxable income in publicly traded stocks and mutual funds, and reinvest whatever profit or dividends those investments earn. The same goes for your business: Plow profits back into your business so you can hopefully earn even more money.
Step 6: Stay the course
Realize that slow and steady wins the race: Almost anyone can make a million dollars if they’re committed to a long-term plan.
Americans of Russian ancestry have the highest concentration of millionaire households in the United States.
Видео оттуда для примера добавить не могу.
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Добавлено спустя 18 минут 18 секунд:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ae_DKNwK_ms И сам текст:
You have big ideas to streamline your business and drive sales through the roof. But to get there, your ideas need business apps, (Oracle, SAP, Microsoft) and business apps have always been too expensive, especially in times like these.
Behind each one of these apps is a world of complexity, they need a data centre with office space, power, cooling, bandwidth, networks, servers and storage, a complicated software stack and a team of experts to install, configure and run them. You need development, testing, staging, production and fail-over environments. And when there’s a problem, you call technical support but they don’t know, so they blame someone else. And when new version comes out, you would upgrade but that might bring the whole system down. Now this is for one app. When you multiply these headaches across dozens or hundreds of apps, it’s easy to see why the biggest companies with the best IT departments aren’t getting the apps they need. Small business? Don’t have a chance.
Cloud computing is a better way to run your business. Instead of running your apps yourself, they’re run on a shared data centre. You just plug in, like a utility, this makes it fast to get started and it costs less. It’s like Gmail compared to Microsoft Exchange. With Gmail,
- do you need servers and storage? NO
- do you need a technical team to keep it up and running? NO
- do you have to do upgrades? NO
When you use any app that runs in the cloud, you just log in, customize it and start using it. That’s the power of cloud computing! This model is so much better; it’s changing the way we think about software. Not just for consumer apps, it’s also being used for business apps – also referred to as Enterprise Cloud Computing. (CRM, HR, Accounting ERP etc)
Businesses are running all kinds of apps in the cloud these days, including custom build apps. Why?
1) Because you can be up and running in a few days, which is unheard of with traditional business software
2) They cost less because you don’t need to pay for all the people, products and facilities to run them.
3) And it’s more scalable, more secure and more reliable than the vast majority of apps out there, here’s why:
They’re based on an architecture called multi-tenancy. With a multi-tenant app, there isn’t a copy of the app for each business that’s using it, its one app that everyone shares but it’s flexible enough for everyone to customize to suit their specific needs. It’s like a giant office building where everyone shares the infrastructure and services, like security and each business can customise their own office space.
This means apps are elastic; they can scale to tens of thousands of users or down only a few. Upgrades to apps are taken care of on your behalf, so you get security and performance enhancements and new features all done automatically and seamlessly.
The way you generally pay for apps are also different. Forget about buying servers and software, when your app runs in the cloud, you don’t buy anything at all. It’s generally all rolled up in a predictable monthly subscription in the event of purchased or rather rented apps, so you only pay for what you use.
Finally, cloud apps don’t eat up your valuable IT resources, so your CFO, it that’s not you, will love it – and you, or whomever, can focus on projects that really impact the business, like deploying more apps.
Cloud computing is a simple idea but it can have huge impact on your bottomline.