I'm nobody's idea of an accountant, but it's my understanding that this is a more-or-less unique feature of US citizenship -- you get to pay taxes to the US government regardless of where you actually live or earn that income.
I don't think this applies to (for example) Canadian citizens. If a Canadian citizen lives in, say, France, and earns his income there then I don't think the Canadian government tries to claim any taxes from him.
Do you personally escort you backup tapes to wherever you store them offsite?
If it is a business requirement, it WILL be done.
Have you ever lost or misplaced, even temporarily, a backup tape?
Does WalMart lose or misplace bags of cash on the way to the bank? I believe that large retailers use armoured car services and armed guards to accompany their deposits. Why is it such a leap to look at a business's confidential data in the same way as the cash in the till?
Are you willing to go to jail for misplacing a backup tape or having your laptop stolen when you when to freshen your latte and not reporting it to the entire world?
If you go to "freshen your latte" and the bundle of the company's cash on your desk is stolen while you're not looking, then whose fault is that? Do you expect everyone to say, "Oh well, it was only a half-million dollars anyway", shrug, and carry on with business as usual without reporting the loss?
2. Reliability. No fans that could break, no HD's that could break. No moving parts at all (unless the machine is equipped with a CD-drive).
Where does one get a thin-client X machine? Assuming that you're putting a new network together or something.
Everything that I read about this stuff is always centered on "recycle the old boxes into terminals" and so on; what about a nice new machine that's a thin client out-of-the-box? As you say -- no fans, insignficant power consumption, small size. So, where do you get such a thing? It would be nice to have a little "brick" that you plug your monitor and keyboard and mouse into and just log into the ol' network with. Do they exist?
"Feature-complete" may as well be in another language.
What's in a name? One man's "feature complete" is another guys unscratched itch.
In many cases, open source software is someone's hobby or pet project in much the same way as some guys play with their '57 Mustang.
It makes little sense to tell the guy with the Mustang to quit polishing the chrome and trying to make the number 2 on the gearshift stand out "just so". Why not allow the developer with his pet database the same freedom?
If the software does what you need it to do, then fire it up and let 'er rip. But don't tell the guy who's behind it that he's being too picky or taking too damn long. It's his pet. Let him play with it.
They also say that support for running MSDOS applications will be going away in the next version of Windows.
Based on no evidence at all, I suggest that there may be at least as much DOS software still chugging away doing its job as there is VB software.
I wrote and currently support/customize/extend/whatever a custom DOS database that started out as a simple single-user program and has grown into a multi-user multi-location, internet-enabled thing that does everything up to and including email; stuff that I never envisioned when I started the project. And I'm sure that I'm far from alone.
Thank ghawd for dosemu on Linux; my program runs like nobody's business on my clients' Fedora Core 3 machines (and my own).
Cutting DOS support on Windows would/will push people in similar situations toward things like dosemu, and guess what: dosemu runs on Linux.
Debt collection agencies typically outright buy someone else's contract at a discount.
Not here. Any collection agencies that I have dealt with (and I used to deal with several in a "former life") worked on a percentage of 1/3 to 1/2 of the amount collected. The debtor paid the full amount to the collection agency and the collection agency then forwards between 50% and 66% of that amount to the client. The difference in their commission comes from a combination of volume and amounts.
I execute some dumb command (if I'm allowed) on my nix box, my home directory gets torched. My fault, my problem.
On most computers, the data in one's home directory is the data that I care about and want. Most of the rest of the stuff on my system I either have on CD's or can download again with little trouble. A perfectly running operating system is of little use to me without the data that's in my home directory.
Indeed. And Coke offered me exactly the same deal.
They didn't have to.
Agreed once again. But if they didn't, Coke did. At least there are two outfits doing this, else I and everyone else in the business would be in a bad position.
If you don't like it, go buy your own commercial glass door refer, and then pay repair bills on that too!
I think you are deliberately missing the point. I am responsible for repair of my own property. After all, it is mine to do with as I choose, up to and including selling it off if it becomes too much of a burden. Should I also be responsible for repair of someone else's property? It's not mine; I can't do with it as I choose.
They sell their product through me, and are therefore making money through my efforts in promoting and peddling their product. If they didn't make money through my business, I assume that they would tell me that they are no longer interested in doing business with me.
Why am I responsible for the cost of repairing equipment that belongs to them? And paying an inflated labour rate (don't tell me that the Pepsi repairman is making $50/hr) to boot?
If you leased a car from Ford and the motor blew up two weeks before the lease was up through no fault of your own, is it fair that you should pay Ford's mechanic $6000 to replace the motor in a car that you don't own so they can sell it to someone else in two weeks?
If I were to lease (rent) something and it broke I (here in Denmark) would just return it and ask for it to be replaced.
I have an odd situation here that I have never understood.
As part of my business I sell soda pop, and I have a "free lease" of a Pepsi premix machine and a Pepsi refrigerator. As long as I sell Pepsi products out of them (and nothing else), I can use their machines "free". Which is fine as far as it goes. But the odd thing is that if the machine quits for any reason and they have to come and service it, they charge me labour for the service call. Parts are included in the "lease" and I don't have to pay for them. But I do have to pay for labour for their man to come and fix the machines. AND THE MACHINES BELONG TO THEM!
Coca-Cola does exactly the same thing. I checked.
Why am I paying for labour to repair machines that belong to the company that sends the repairman out?
I'm always suspicious of a company that posts a website and wants you to arrange a visit from a salesdrone in order to get a price, or even a "ballpark estimate".
I believe that a jury should be entitled to any and all information that will allow them to come to a reasonable and correct verdict.
If we entrust the jury to make decisions regarding the truthfulness of the testimony, why don't we trust them enough to provide them with so-called "prejudicial information" and let them decide what weight to put on it as well?
Transcripts are circulating among some staffers and the details are being talked about on cellphones and through e-mail.
So how is it that it's somehow OK and legal for actual transcripts of these hearings to be circulating among political "staffers", but ordinary Canadians are not allowed to read any specifics about them at all under penalty of the law?
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Hats are "in", but not with suits.
Baseball caps are ubiquitous in many rural areas.
...and then use that information to build a competing radio?
Sure! Build a crystal radio with using a razor blade and a hand-wound coil! Didn't you ever do that when you were a kid?
I'm nobody's idea of an accountant, but it's my understanding that this is a more-or-less unique feature of US citizenship -- you get to pay taxes to the US government regardless of where you actually live or earn that income.
I don't think this applies to (for example) Canadian citizens. If a Canadian citizen lives in, say, France, and earns his income there then I don't think the Canadian government tries to claim any taxes from him.
Well, I say, it's time to stop. Not just stop pirating mainstream movies, but stop watching them altogether.
Box office receipts over the past 8 weeks are apparently down by 18% from what they were at this time last year.
Exactly like that. Thank you very much!
I see that Wyse conveniently provides absolutely no idea of what the prices are on their website.
Do you personally escort you backup tapes to wherever you store them offsite?
If it is a business requirement, it WILL be done.
Have you ever lost or misplaced, even temporarily, a backup tape?
Does WalMart lose or misplace bags of cash on the way to the bank? I believe that large retailers use armoured car services and armed guards to accompany their deposits. Why is it such a leap to look at a business's confidential data in the same way as the cash in the till?
Are you willing to go to jail for misplacing a backup tape or having your laptop stolen when you when to freshen your latte and not reporting it to the entire world?
If you go to "freshen your latte" and the bundle of the company's cash on your desk is stolen while you're not looking, then whose fault is that? Do you expect everyone to say, "Oh well, it was only a half-million dollars anyway", shrug, and carry on with business as usual without reporting the loss?
2. Reliability. No fans that could break, no HD's that could break. No moving parts at all (unless the machine is equipped with a CD-drive).
Where does one get a thin-client X machine? Assuming that you're putting a new network together or something.
Everything that I read about this stuff is always centered on "recycle the old boxes into terminals" and so on; what about a nice new machine that's a thin client out-of-the-box? As you say -- no fans, insignficant power consumption, small size. So, where do you get such a thing? It would be nice to have a little "brick" that you plug your monitor and keyboard and mouse into and just log into the ol' network with. Do they exist?
That's one of the longest ways to say "I agree" that I've ever seen...
"Feature-complete" may as well be in another language.
What's in a name? One man's "feature complete" is another guys unscratched itch.
In many cases, open source software is someone's hobby or pet project in much the same way as some guys play with their '57 Mustang.
It makes little sense to tell the guy with the Mustang to quit polishing the chrome and trying to make the number 2 on the gearshift stand out "just so". Why not allow the developer with his pet database the same freedom?
If the software does what you need it to do, then fire it up and let 'er rip. But don't tell the guy who's behind it that he's being too picky or taking too damn long. It's his pet. Let him play with it.
They also say that support for running MSDOS applications will be going away in the next version of Windows.
Based on no evidence at all, I suggest that there may be at least as much DOS software still chugging away doing its job as there is VB software.
I wrote and currently support/customize/extend/whatever a custom DOS database that started out as a simple single-user program and has grown into a multi-user multi-location, internet-enabled thing that does everything up to and including email; stuff that I never envisioned when I started the project. And I'm sure that I'm far from alone.
Thank ghawd for dosemu on Linux; my program runs like nobody's business on my clients' Fedora Core 3 machines (and my own).
Cutting DOS support on Windows would/will push people in similar situations toward things like dosemu, and guess what: dosemu runs on Linux.
Medical support and diagnostic equipment.
There's one.
I guess digital phones were not progress.
It's my understanding that digital phones are like digital television. It's either perfect reception or none at all.
With analog, less-than-perfect is still usable and sometimes the difference is not noticable anyway.
Debt collection agencies typically outright buy someone else's contract at a discount.
Not here. Any collection agencies that I have dealt with (and I used to deal with several in a "former life") worked on a percentage of 1/3 to 1/2 of the amount collected. The debtor paid the full amount to the collection agency and the collection agency then forwards between 50% and 66% of that amount to the client. The difference in their commission comes from a combination of volume and amounts.
Certain types of electronic safe locks work like this. They have two combinations, both of which unlock the safe. One of them also sets off an alarm.
I execute some dumb command (if I'm allowed) on my nix box, my home directory gets torched. My fault, my problem.
On most computers, the data in one's home directory is the data that I care about and want. Most of the rest of the stuff on my system I either have on CD's or can download again with little trouble. A perfectly running operating system is of little use to me without the data that's in my home directory.
It's because that is the deal they offered you.
Indeed. And Coke offered me exactly the same deal.
They didn't have to.
Agreed once again. But if they didn't, Coke did. At least there are two outfits doing this, else I and everyone else in the business would be in a bad position.
If you don't like it, go buy your own commercial glass door refer, and then pay repair bills on that too!
I think you are deliberately missing the point. I am responsible for repair of my own property. After all, it is mine to do with as I choose, up to and including selling it off if it becomes too much of a burden. Should I also be responsible for repair of someone else's property? It's not mine; I can't do with it as I choose.
They sell their product through me, and are therefore making money through my efforts in promoting and peddling their product. If they didn't make money through my business, I assume that they would tell me that they are no longer interested in doing business with me.
Why am I responsible for the cost of repairing equipment that belongs to them? And paying an inflated labour rate (don't tell me that the Pepsi repairman is making $50/hr) to boot?
If you leased a car from Ford and the motor blew up two weeks before the lease was up through no fault of your own, is it fair that you should pay Ford's mechanic $6000 to replace the motor in a car that you don't own so they can sell it to someone else in two weeks?
If I were to lease (rent) something and it broke I (here in Denmark) would just return it and ask for it to be replaced.
I have an odd situation here that I have never understood.
As part of my business I sell soda pop, and I have a "free lease" of a Pepsi premix machine and a Pepsi refrigerator. As long as I sell Pepsi products out of them (and nothing else), I can use their machines "free". Which is fine as far as it goes. But the odd thing is that if the machine quits for any reason and they have to come and service it, they charge me labour for the service call. Parts are included in the "lease" and I don't have to pay for them. But I do have to pay for labour for their man to come and fix the machines. AND THE MACHINES BELONG TO THEM!
Coca-Cola does exactly the same thing. I checked.
Why am I paying for labour to repair machines that belong to the company that sends the repairman out?
Consider using Appgen as an alternative to VB
I'm always suspicious of a company that posts a website and wants you to arrange a visit from a salesdrone in order to get a price, or even a "ballpark estimate".
Maybe it's just me.
I believe that a jury should be entitled to any and all information that will allow them to come to a reasonable and correct verdict.
If we entrust the jury to make decisions regarding the truthfulness of the testimony, why don't we trust them enough to provide them with so-called "prejudicial information" and let them decide what weight to put on it as well?
the gag order applies to testimony at an inquiry,
That's testimony at a public inquiry, to be exact.
Seems a bit contradictory to me.
It is indeed interesting that the official name for this proceeding is a "public inquiry".
What I find most interesting about the Globe and Mail article is this:
Transcripts are circulating among some staffers and the details are being talked about on cellphones and through e-mail.
So how is it that it's somehow OK and legal for actual transcripts of these hearings to be circulating among political "staffers", but ordinary Canadians are not allowed to read any specifics about them at all under penalty of the law?
the wrong information.
How is it "wrong" if it is information that he (the defendant) has provided himself? Under oath, no less.
If I was on the eventual jury, I would certainly like to be familiar with his previous statements regarding the matter that he is charged with.
Pre-trial information can bias a juror since people form opinions based on incomplete information.
And what about situations where the jurors aren't provided complete information DURING the trial?
"What the jury wasn't told is that the defendant has twelve prior convictions for raping sixteen-year old girls." Pardon me?