I think everyone tries to minimize their tax burden. What makes these companies stand out is the vast extent of effort they put into it.
I earn an above average salary and I pay my accountant to do my taxes to ensure that I am able to claim all the deductions that I am entitled to. The difference is that I don't have a shell company set up in a tax haven paying me in some nefarious manner that is done to avoid yet another fee of some sort. These stories wouldn't be stories if MS or Apple simply claimed all that they could on their tax statements, they are stories because of the absurd lengths that they go to. I am absolutely sure that/. and many websites try to claim all that they are entitled to, but I would be exceptionally surprised if the lengths that they went to included offshore tax havens, "Offices" set up in a state to claim a different regional address and the like.
Summary: when you do it that's OK, but when someone else does it, that's bad.
Once upon a time Slashdot really was "news for nerds, stuff that matters" - now it's "any excuse to get the word APPLE into a story headline for the SEO bait to get ad impressions up".
No shit. I can promise you right now if anyone ever did that to my daughter they wouldn't be breathing for long after. TSA, cop, a judge, The Pope, The Queen, I don't really care who it is they would be dead before they hit the ground. Duress is applicable when it's your child being attacked and molested.
Me too. And then I'd be arrested and disappear into the system and maybe never come out, and that would suck for my daughter.
So when this stuff started become standard operating procedure I decided to never again travel to the USA, and that has worked out pretty well. No conferences, no family holidays, no business trips, no standing in line while a jackbooted rentacop yells "PAPERS!" in my face.
Adwords was technology developed by a company originally named Boingo, later renamed to Applied Semantics, and which Google purchased in 2003. Google did not develop Adwords itself.
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I just don't, and it breaks my heart. This great and awesome thing, built by such awesome people, is now a corrupt evil cesspit. It is everything that its Founders tried to prevent.
What they don't have is the community of 40M+ users, 80% of whom are iPhone users. iPhone users are the most desirable consumers in the world because they buy stuff.
The photo filters are a gimmick to get people to play with the app. The social functions are where Instagram's real value lies. Photo sharing with friends from PCs is what made Facebook the juggernaut it is today, but this is the post-PC era, and Facebook is shit on phones. Instagram on the other hand is awesome. Instagram doesn't even have a desktop interface for the network, that's how mobile-centric it is.
So, Instagram is:
A. An Internet social network (what Facebook does), and; B. Awesome on phones (which Facebook isn't), and; C. Based around social sharing of photos (that thing that made Facebook huge).
the movie. 3d was just the excuse used to push for the re-release.
Oh yeah, I'm sure the fact that it's the 100th anniversary of the sinking THIS WEEK has nothing to do with it. Re-releasing in 3D was the excuse to do a re-release. Totally.
the crappy stop-motion Terminator endoskeleton appears for about 30 seconds total
What you call crappy, I call a realistic vision of robotic terror that burned itself into my 11-year-old psyche so deep that there's a bit of me that still gets a little jolt of fear upon seeing that endoskeleton to this day.
Let's be honest. Slashdot's time has past. It's now a place to see "news for nerds" that everyone has already seen and discussed to death for days elsewhere, and to see "stuff that matters" but only where "mattering" is a some connection, any connection, anything to get the word "Apple" in the headline of an article.
The advertisements posted as articles were the straw that broke the camel's back.
I ran a 2-phone line BBS over 15 years ago before the internet was publicly available.
Huh? Fifteen years ago I was playing Quake CTF online with people all over the world. Your memory as to the state of the Internet in 1997 seems a bit hazy.
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I think everyone tries to minimize their tax burden. What makes these companies stand out is the vast extent of effort they put into it.
I earn an above average salary and I pay my accountant to do my taxes to ensure that I am able to claim all the deductions that I am entitled to. The difference is that I don't have a shell company set up in a tax haven paying me in some nefarious manner that is done to avoid yet another fee of some sort. These stories wouldn't be stories if MS or Apple simply claimed all that they could on their tax statements, they are stories because of the absurd lengths that they go to. I am absolutely sure that /. and many websites try to claim all that they are entitled to, but I would be exceptionally surprised if the lengths that they went to included offshore tax havens, "Offices" set up in a state to claim a different regional address and the like.
Summary: when you do it that's OK, but when someone else does it, that's bad.
Embrace Android, become a hardware power house.
yeah, just like... um... well I'm sure SOMEONE'S doing it.
Pathetic.
Once upon a time Slashdot really was "news for nerds, stuff that matters" - now it's "any excuse to get the word APPLE into a story headline for the SEO bait to get ad impressions up".
So what you're saying is that it isn't so bad to visit the USA so long as you don't travel by air? Awesome.
No shit. I can promise you right now if anyone ever did that to my daughter they wouldn't be breathing for long after. TSA, cop, a judge, The Pope, The Queen, I don't really care who it is they would be dead before they hit the ground. Duress is applicable when it's your child being attacked and molested.
Me too. And then I'd be arrested and disappear into the system and maybe never come out, and that would suck for my daughter.
So when this stuff started become standard operating procedure I decided to never again travel to the USA, and that has worked out pretty well. No conferences, no family holidays, no business trips, no standing in line while a jackbooted rentacop yells "PAPERS!" in my face.
Adwords was technology developed by a company originally named Boingo, later renamed to Applied Semantics, and which Google purchased in 2003. Google did not develop Adwords itself.
I just don't, and it breaks my heart. This great and awesome thing, built by such awesome people, is now a corrupt evil cesspit. It is everything that its Founders tried to prevent.
Yeah, it's like saying that because Britain lies above the Earth's iron-nickel core, Britain has enormous untapped mineral resources.
Does the simulated universe contain intelligent lifeforms who have built universe-simulating supercomputers?
When the MPAA et al filed this suit against iiNet, it was much smaller. Remember this bollocks has been going on for over three years.
What they don't have is the community of 40M+ users, 80% of whom are iPhone users. iPhone users are the most desirable consumers in the world because they buy stuff.
Thank you for telling me that iTunes is bloated. Truly news for nerds and stuff that matters.
Gotta get those Apple ad impressions up huh?
A misnomer then, because I was making paper planes using the "Harrier" design in 1977.
The photo filters are a gimmick to get people to play with the app. The social functions are where Instagram's real value lies. Photo sharing with friends from PCs is what made Facebook the juggernaut it is today, but this is the post-PC era, and Facebook is shit on phones. Instagram on the other hand is awesome. Instagram doesn't even have a desktop interface for the network, that's how mobile-centric it is.
So, Instagram is:
A. An Internet social network (what Facebook does), and;
B. Awesome on phones (which Facebook isn't), and;
C. Based around social sharing of photos (that thing that made Facebook huge).
The acquisition seems pretty sensible.
Nope. Mobile-device only.
Remember how you could always spot a Microsoft "Patch Tuesday" when you got to work and found all the desktop machines had rebooted overnight?
Spotting Mercedes Patch Tuesday on the autobahn is going to be epic.
the movie. 3d was just the excuse used to push for the re-release.
Oh yeah, I'm sure the fact that it's the 100th anniversary of the sinking THIS WEEK has nothing to do with it. Re-releasing in 3D was the excuse to do a re-release. Totally.
the crappy stop-motion Terminator endoskeleton appears for about 30 seconds total
What you call crappy, I call a realistic vision of robotic terror that burned itself into my 11-year-old psyche so deep that there's a bit of me that still gets a little jolt of fear upon seeing that endoskeleton to this day.
IMO Android will become a phone for the cheap and those that do very little.
"will"?
there have been previous estimates that Google does indeed make more money per handset from iPhones than Android.
Not estimates, it's in Eric Schmidt's testimony before Congress. Fully two thirds of Google's revenue from mobile comes from Apple devices.
This is just like Internet Explorer 4
Fixed that for you
I spent $150 on my Android device (refurbished no-contract from T-Mo), and have never spent a penny on apps
QED
Oxygen is a poison.
Let's be honest. Slashdot's time has past. It's now a place to see "news for nerds" that everyone has already seen and discussed to death for days elsewhere, and to see "stuff that matters" but only where "mattering" is a some connection, any connection, anything to get the word "Apple" in the headline of an article.
The advertisements posted as articles were the straw that broke the camel's back.
Go out gracefully, Slashdot.
I ran a 2-phone line BBS over 15 years ago before the internet was publicly available.
Huh? Fifteen years ago I was playing Quake CTF online with people all over the world. Your memory as to the state of the Internet in 1997 seems a bit hazy.