Also not entirely true. Traditionally, an asset is kept on the books at what it cost to acquire it. If you bought it, that will of course be the price you paid. If you created it, or acquired it through other means, such as mining Bitcoins, the book value will the cost in labor and capital it took, and your profit (or capital gain--or loss if the price doesn't cover your costs) on sale wiill be the sale price minus that book value.
IANAA (I am not an accountant), but capital gains are only when you buy something and then sell it at a higher price.
It's a little bit more involved than that. This is only a capital gain when you actually intend to hold and/or use the assets rather than turning around and immediately selling them again. When a grocery store buys items wholesale and then sells them to its retail customers, that's not a "capital gain", it's just a retail profit. US tax code requires you to hold an asset for at least a year before selling it in order to claim the capital gains tax rate.
and some misguided attempt to imitate Steve Jobs' "Screw the consumer, we'll tell them what they want!" attitude (but missing the fact that Jobs had a virtual cult that would follow him anywhere).
And also missing the fact that Jobs, love him or hate him (and I'm not a fanboy--I don't own even a single piece of Apple gear), was a genius with an uncanny feel for what would sell. It's too soon to tell, but Apple may be at the beginning of finding out what happens when you pursue that strategy without that kind of genius.
Apparently, there is a sea-level discrepancy of ~20cm between the Atlantic and Pacific sides of the Panama Canal. That's largely irrelevant; because it isn't a sea-level canal.
A Nicaraguan canal wouldn't be one either, which makes the rest of your discussion fairly irrelevant. However, the locks it would need would be much less extensive (and thus cheaper) than the ones the Panama Canal has.
You misunderstand Moore's Law. It's all about the number of transistors in a chip, not the number of devices made from chips.
I think by "Moore's Law extrapolation" he meant a growth rate like the one in Moore's Law. Because "exponential" is one of those big, hard words, I guess.
probably some flavor of linux (redhat , oracle, suse, ubuntu...) possibly Solaris, AIX, Free/Open/Net BSD, HPUX, worst case Windows Server 2012.
Probably Linux, most likely Red Hat. Maybe Windows Server. Nobody migrates *to* Solaris, AIX or HPUX any more, and you have maybe a 50% chance that your Unix/Linux commercial software will support BSD. If you're lucky.
Maybe HP decided that they didn't really care what the US military wanted. Even the US military isn't a big enough customer to carry a commercial-grade general-purpose OS all by itself.
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Exactly. It is a benefit to community as a whole, so if it's worthwhile, the community as a whole can pay for it.
Also not entirely true. Traditionally, an asset is kept on the books at what it cost to acquire it. If you bought it, that will of course be the price you paid. If you created it, or acquired it through other means, such as mining Bitcoins, the book value will the cost in labor and capital it took, and your profit (or capital gain--or loss if the price doesn't cover your costs) on sale wiill be the sale price minus that book value.
Eve's corporation tax isn't the tax the star system charges the corp, it's the tax the corp charges its members.
It's a little bit more involved than that. This is only a capital gain when you actually intend to hold and/or use the assets rather than turning around and immediately selling them again. When a grocery store buys items wholesale and then sells them to its retail customers, that's not a "capital gain", it's just a retail profit. US tax code requires you to hold an asset for at least a year before selling it in order to claim the capital gains tax rate.
It appears to be a business magazine. Not sure what it has to do with the taxation of virtual profit...
It's one thing when public safety is at stake. If the state wants stuff that's nice to have, it can bloody well pay for it.
And also missing the fact that Jobs, love him or hate him (and I'm not a fanboy--I don't own even a single piece of Apple gear), was a genius with an uncanny feel for what would sell. It's too soon to tell, but Apple may be at the beginning of finding out what happens when you pursue that strategy without that kind of genius.
Yeah! The fact that the Zune didn't sell doesn't matter, because they moved it all to a smartphone that...also...didn't...sell. Um.
Free hint: How are you enjoying Xbox Live on the original Xbox these days?
I officially move that this case be renamed from SCO v. IBM to Jason Voorhees.
Why would you put control circuitry that doesn't wear out into the replaceable part that *does* wear out instead of into the fixture that holds it?
A phrase that can be read two ways...
Who gets to define "their place in society"? You?
Yes. Yes, it was. And it achieved its goal of getting us to the moon in such an unsustainable fashion that we haven't been back in *forty years*.
Hah! When I was growing up, the teams were little figurines on plastic bases with a vibrating table. And we LOVED it that way!
When badger culling is outlawed, only outlaws will be culling badgers!
You're fooling yourself!
Well, just start killing Bothas. I'll tell you when to stop.
But no film.
Weird Al's lesser known brother!
And "state supported". NPR and PBS are neither owned nor controlled by the government; they simply get some (not all) of their funding from it.
A Nicaraguan canal wouldn't be one either, which makes the rest of your discussion fairly irrelevant. However, the locks it would need would be much less extensive (and thus cheaper) than the ones the Panama Canal has.
I think by "Moore's Law extrapolation" he meant a growth rate like the one in Moore's Law. Because "exponential" is one of those big, hard words, I guess.
Probably Linux, most likely Red Hat. Maybe Windows Server. Nobody migrates *to* Solaris, AIX or HPUX any more, and you have maybe a 50% chance that your Unix/Linux commercial software will support BSD. If you're lucky.
Maybe HP decided that they didn't really care what the US military wanted. Even the US military isn't a big enough customer to carry a commercial-grade general-purpose OS all by itself.