#1 wasn't even true in XP. You could create a standard user, but it was just a huge pain to use one. Above XP, UAC stops most exploits from taking over the system.
On a server, you can get away with it for a much longer time. On a desktop, you're running so many varied programs that memory leaks are inevitable and a reboot is really nice. Once a month or once every 2 months is probably enough, but twice a year is the absolute minimum.
What's that have to do with anything? If you're sending a file with a codec that doesn't match the extension, there should be a warning/error. If it's named.spc, fine - use the SPC codec to play it. If it's named.mp3, use the MP3 playback codec or nothing - don't search for magic bytes or try it out with every codec on the system.
I would love to have federated social networking the way e-mail works now! Think of how much better the UI (Timeline, home page, whatever...) would be when moving did not mean losing your friends!
This was sort of what Google Wave was supposed to be. The execution was so bad (so incredibly messy) that it will never be tried again.
There are dozens more - including using a defective SATA cable in recent iMacs. I don't have time to list them all. Being a statistical anomaly like yourself does not make Apple actually better than they really are.
And of course if they didn't keep the people on long enough to train the replacements, they would actually be available qualified candidates for the contractor. I somehow think this is part of the reason they are kept on to train the replacements.
His opinion seems more like "if the loophole still exists, you have to take it to stay competitive." And you'll find the same kind of sociopathic tendencies in any CEO-type as well. Closing the loophole would still be equitable, so it wouldn't necessarily be a net loss for him with all economic factors considered. That doesn't mean he understands that.
Their argument still makes sense because Amazon can rent/sell TV episodes already with their Amazon Video system. They refuse to and made it exclusive.
The vast majority are covered under 1 or two torrents. You overestimate how many are using private trackers.
They don't have to be accurate to claim a certain number of downloads - there can certainly be more - but there's no reason to believe this show in particular has more torrents or more downloaders on private trackers than average. They can still safely say "most downloaded" with the data that they have.
Not always - if you're computer illiterate and your browser is set to save state, it will come back to the same page again when you open it. (I have been asked and paid to fix this multiple times AFTER a reboot).
Not only that, but the Prime Video system has components in place that let them rent/sell individual episodes of a series. Why not set a price and take people's money? Obviously people out there like it, but it's not worth $99 for 1 year's worth of temporary access.
You can join a torrent swarm and track connections. I am sure there's some padding/estimating going on, but they can at least get a relative scale here.
Only if they actually donated in the employee's name. That's probably not the case, legally speaking. Legally speaking, they likely simply donated their own property and the employee is not involved whatsoever (except maybe on the attached card).
Scenario #3 is not possible. You can put the employee's name on it, but unless the employee owned the phone, they didn't give it (legally speaking). You could technically gift the employee the phone and then ship it to the charity instead. In that case, the employee would owe tax on the phone, which would then be cancelled out by giving it to charity. Effectively, Scenario #3 and 4 is the same, except #3 would have some crazy paperwork involved. Because in scenario #3, the employer would claim a tax deduction on giving you the phone to give to the charity.
If the employees get the tax advantage then Alphabet doesn't.
There is no tax advantage for either party.
Either Alphabet pays the employees and writes it off as payroll or they donate it and write it off as a gift. Either way, it's money that no longer counts as profits because they don't have it anymore.
And for the employees, either their income is bumped up and then the addition is deducted away or their income remains the same. Either way, their adjusted gross income is the same.
What tax advantage? So if Google gave each employee $500, and then took that $500 and sent it to charity instead of putting on a paycheck, the employee would have $500 more in income, which could then be written off on taxes. A net change of taxable income of zero.
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Why would a keylogger need to break out of the VM to be useful? It can just log the keys on that side and be perfectly happy with what it gets.
#1 wasn't even true in XP. You could create a standard user, but it was just a huge pain to use one. Above XP, UAC stops most exploits from taking over the system.
On a server, you can get away with it for a much longer time. On a desktop, you're running so many varied programs that memory leaks are inevitable and a reboot is really nice. Once a month or once every 2 months is probably enough, but twice a year is the absolute minimum.
What's that have to do with anything? If you're sending a file with a codec that doesn't match the extension, there should be a warning/error. If it's named .spc, fine - use the SPC codec to play it. If it's named .mp3, use the MP3 playback codec or nothing - don't search for magic bytes or try it out with every codec on the system.
She didn't get to where she is with sexual favors. She got there the same way men become CEO - she's an incompetent sociopath.
who puts in accurate info for DoB anyway
Just about everyone who is over 18 and doesn't have a place to keep a copy of all the fake information for account recovery.
I would love to have federated social networking the way e-mail works now! Think of how much better the UI (Timeline, home page, whatever...) would be when moving did not mean losing your friends!
This was sort of what Google Wave was supposed to be. The execution was so bad (so incredibly messy) that it will never be tried again.
You only keep your hardware for a year? Or are you talking about paid insurance?
They're well known for ignoring hardware issues:
MagSafe Adapter Class Action Lawsuit
Touch Disease / Bendgate
2011 Macbook Pro GPU Overheating Issue
There are dozens more - including using a defective SATA cable in recent iMacs. I don't have time to list them all. Being a statistical anomaly like yourself does not make Apple actually better than they really are.
Then you can have hardware failures ignored too.
even the people who got the free upgrade have paid a lot of money for the previous operating system.
Or for repairs when their system was broken by the upgrade process too.
weren't the Protestants that landed at Fraggle Rock exiled for not being Catholics?
They left the Church of England, not the Catholic church. They came to dance their cares away.
And of course if they didn't keep the people on long enough to train the replacements, they would actually be available qualified candidates for the contractor. I somehow think this is part of the reason they are kept on to train the replacements.
His opinion seems more like "if the loophole still exists, you have to take it to stay competitive." And you'll find the same kind of sociopathic tendencies in any CEO-type as well. Closing the loophole would still be equitable, so it wouldn't necessarily be a net loss for him with all economic factors considered. That doesn't mean he understands that.
Even if they did that, you could pay $10 for one episode to find out whether you like it or not. A lot better than paying $99 for the same.
Their argument still makes sense because Amazon can rent/sell TV episodes already with their Amazon Video system. They refuse to and made it exclusive.
The vast majority are covered under 1 or two torrents. You overestimate how many are using private trackers.
They don't have to be accurate to claim a certain number of downloads - there can certainly be more - but there's no reason to believe this show in particular has more torrents or more downloaders on private trackers than average. They can still safely say "most downloaded" with the data that they have.
but even just turning the computer off would work
Not always - if you're computer illiterate and your browser is set to save state, it will come back to the same page again when you open it. (I have been asked and paid to fix this multiple times AFTER a reboot).
Not only that, but the Prime Video system has components in place that let them rent/sell individual episodes of a series. Why not set a price and take people's money? Obviously people out there like it, but it's not worth $99 for 1 year's worth of temporary access.
You can join a torrent swarm and track connections. I am sure there's some padding/estimating going on, but they can at least get a relative scale here.
This is what they get for making it exclusive when they have infrastructure in place to let people pay/download by the episode.
Only if they actually donated in the employee's name. That's probably not the case, legally speaking. Legally speaking, they likely simply donated their own property and the employee is not involved whatsoever (except maybe on the attached card).
You had a paper bag?
Luxury...
Scenario #3 is not possible. You can put the employee's name on it, but unless the employee owned the phone, they didn't give it (legally speaking). You could technically gift the employee the phone and then ship it to the charity instead. In that case, the employee would owe tax on the phone, which would then be cancelled out by giving it to charity. Effectively, Scenario #3 and 4 is the same, except #3 would have some crazy paperwork involved. Because in scenario #3, the employer would claim a tax deduction on giving you the phone to give to the charity.
If the employees get the tax advantage then Alphabet doesn't.
There is no tax advantage for either party.
Either Alphabet pays the employees and writes it off as payroll or they donate it and write it off as a gift. Either way, it's money that no longer counts as profits because they don't have it anymore.
And for the employees, either their income is bumped up and then the addition is deducted away or their income remains the same. Either way, their adjusted gross income is the same.
employees don't get the tax advantage
What tax advantage? So if Google gave each employee $500, and then took that $500 and sent it to charity instead of putting on a paycheck, the employee would have $500 more in income, which could then be written off on taxes. A net change of taxable income of zero.
The tax liability is EXACTLY the same.