While CEO of Microsoft in 2009, Ballmer earned a total compensation of $1,276,627
so that would be 5% of 300.000 = 15000 dollar + 9% of 776627 = 69896 making a total of 76779 in taxes, so he would more than recoup his 100.000 in less than 2 years....
and of course in relation to his fortune of roughly 14.5 billion the 100.000 is peanuts but so is the tax....
Growl is cool and all, but if all you want is to know wich IM window received a message, assuming IChat, try minimizing the chat window to the dock, the window is represented as the contact's avatar and a nice little talk balloon flashes when a new message has arrived.
>Computer Ballots don't leave the average Joe with any sense that they can be verified. Not only the average Joe, they don't leave any Joe with a sense they can be verified becouse they can't! >Too much potential for problems with Electronic voting from a voter perception perspective. It's not just preception.
The company, however, has not been able to decrypt the phone calls passing through those computers and listen in because of the complicated encryption keys used during calls, Paglee said.
1. What is "service choice" and how does Google Talk enable it?
Service choice is something you have with email and, for the most part, with your regular phone service today. This means that regardless of whom you choose as your email service provider (Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail, your school or ISP, etc), you can email anyone who is using another service provider. The same applies to phone service. You can call someone even if they do not use the same phone company as you do. This allows you to choose your service provider based on other more important factors, such as features, quality of service, and price, while still being able to talk to anyone you want.
Unfortunately, the same is not true with most popular IM and VOIP networks today. If the people you want to talk to are all on different IM/VOIP services, you need to sign up for an account on each service and connect to each service to talk to them.
We plan to partner with other willing service providers to enable federation of our services. This means that a user on one service can communicate with users on another service without needing to sign up for, or sign in with, each service.
and 1. What is "platform choice" and how does Google Talk enable it?
Platform choice means that you can connect to our service using the operating system and device of your choice. Google Talk enables platform choice by letting users of other operating systems connect to the Google Talk service using other IM clients.
I thingk that would qualifies for self-congratulation about open communications enabeling de s2s for talk would enable service coice at least for IM and hey it might still happen I mean it *is* still in beta
* First that paying a DJ to play a song is illegal. (I always thought that was going on anyway how else can you account for the terrible music on the radio...)
* The general mood on slashdot that somehow this should be a jailable offense. O no they're forcing us to listen to Britney, jail the bastards!
* That Record companies are willing to spend money to have people listen to their artists for free and also willing to spend money to prevent people from listening to their artists for free (I know,its about control, but still)
Saying BK did not profit in ANY WAY from providing Linus with Bitkeeper for no charge, is like saying Nike does not profit in ANY WAY from the fact they are giving Tiger Woods golf-gear for no charge. In fact I think BK got a bargain and they've gone and thrown it away.
How much money should we as a society spend on getting de patent system to work? perhaps there are better ways to spend taxpayer's money to encourage inovation. (grants, sponsoring) Patents are a means to an end, not en end in itself.
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I found a picture of the submitter explains alot :-)
While CEO of Microsoft in 2009, Ballmer earned a total compensation of $1,276,627
so that would be 5% of 300.000 = 15000 dollar + 9% of 776627 = 69896 making a total of 76779 in taxes, so he would more than recoup his 100.000 in less than 2 years....
and of course in relation to his fortune of roughly 14.5 billion the 100.000 is peanuts but so is the tax....
Growl is cool and all, but if all you want is to know wich IM window received a message, assuming IChat, try minimizing the chat window to the dock, the window is represented as the contact's avatar and a nice little talk balloon flashes when a new message has arrived.
very convenient.
Or install Visor and have a quake like terminal available using a hot-key
I bet they write better English than you do Dutch (their native language)
So can Nick Nullty
De Nederlanders veroveren het internet ! en we zijn begonnen bij deelteken punt!
>Computer Ballots don't leave the average Joe with any sense that they can be verified.
Not only the average Joe, they don't leave any Joe with a sense they can be verified becouse they can't!
>Too much potential for problems with Electronic voting from a voter perception perspective.
It's not just preception.
From TFA :
The company, however, has not been able to decrypt the phone calls passing through those computers and listen in because of the complicated encryption keys used during calls, Paglee said.
So I guess not.
For that matter, how easy is it now to connect our own Jabber networks to Google's version?
It should 'just work'
Well, the real news is they are launching the first satelite tomorow
so, just add k to the number of prisoners(the amount of times the king can change the cup)
From the google talk About page
1. What is "service choice" and how does Google Talk enable it?
Service choice is something you have with email and, for the most part, with your regular phone service today. This means that regardless of whom you choose as your email service provider (Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail, your school or ISP, etc), you can email anyone who is using another service provider. The same applies to phone service. You can call someone even if they do not use the same phone company as you do. This allows you to choose your service provider based on other more important factors, such as features, quality of service, and price, while still being able to talk to anyone you want.
Unfortunately, the same is not true with most popular IM and VOIP networks today. If the people you want to talk to are all on different IM/VOIP services, you need to sign up for an account on each service and connect to each service to talk to them.
We plan to partner with other willing service providers to enable federation of our services. This means that a user on one service can communicate with users on another service without needing to sign up for, or sign in with, each service.
and
1. What is "platform choice" and how does Google Talk enable it?
Platform choice means that you can connect to our service using the operating system and device of your choice. Google Talk enables platform choice by letting users of other operating systems connect to the Google Talk service using other IM clients.
I thingk that would qualifies for self-congratulation about open communications enabeling de s2s for talk would enable service coice at least for IM and hey it might still happen I mean it *is* still in beta
I would suggest you refer to it as 4 pairs of shoes....
Or is a pair the space needed to store 2 shoes?
What you meant to say: all TLA not in TFA should be EFU ;-)
Couple of surprises here:
* First that paying a DJ to play a song is illegal.
(I always thought that was going on anyway how else can you account for the terrible music on the radio...)
* The general mood on slashdot that somehow this should be a jailable offense.
O no they're forcing us to listen to Britney, jail the bastards!
* That Record companies are willing to spend money to have people listen to their artists for free and also willing to spend money to prevent people from listening to their artists for free (I know,its about control, but still)
I don't know why, but I would have felt a lot better about this post if it started "IANAL but"
Or even Bittorrent and PGP ....
But for this to work wouldn't MS have to at least make it known that using IIS will benefit your pagerank?
Saying BK did not profit in ANY WAY from providing Linus with Bitkeeper for no charge, is like saying Nike does not profit in ANY WAY from the fact they are giving Tiger Woods golf-gear for no charge.
In fact I think BK got a bargain and they've gone and thrown it away.
but its now become nothing more than a "we hate Microsoft, we hate Bush, we hate yahda yahda" fan club.
;-)
You got it wrong, its Jar Jar we hate yahda yahda is cool
Don't worry Microsoft have already patented su
Remove the quotes, and you get some pretty good answers
How much money should we as a society spend on getting de patent system to work? perhaps there are better ways to spend taxpayer's money to encourage inovation. (grants, sponsoring)
Patents are a means to an end, not en end in itself.
I'd give my left arm to be ambidextrous!