I'd rather claim a loss on writing the article and get a $200 refund on top of keeping my $500. But sadly, I don't live in Hollywood so I can't do that.
I'm not sure that makes any sense. The article is about how this was a perfectly legitimate tax strategy. And if the world has their eye, that means Apple/Google/etc are watching everything... not the other way around.
I don't know what summary or article you read, but it concludes that the minimal paying of taxes using this strategy is perfectly legal under both Australian and Irish law. The only precedent is that... business can continue as usual.
I don't know any hardware that's 5 years old that won't run Windows 7... especially as Windows 7 is 5 years old. My 8 year old laptop runs it fine with only a minimal RAM upgrade. Vista came out 7 years ago as well and there's a lot of people still running it - the biggest problems with Vista were insufficient hardware when it first came out, or have long since been patched.
If you buy a 2001 Honda Civic in 2009 with no miles on it, it's still a 2001 Civic. It might run better than one that's been on the road since 2001, but that doesn't change the fact that everything under the hood is going to be outdated.
Most products/projects are advertised before they're done being put together and tested. Hell, we have a CostCo advertising in this area when they haven't even finished bulldozing the lot yet.
If the company forcibly installed this on end-user's home PCs, you'd have a point. The company owns the PC being used, the network infrastructure, the monitoring gateway... and you can be damned sure the user knows this (or should know it using common sense).
XP Mode is only for Windows 7 Pro, and Windows 7 Pro usually doesn't come on the low-end PCs that would be suitable for her. So in the end, it's a choice between "Stick with XP" or "Upgrade to an OS that's already 5 years old and get a higher-end version that usually only comes on slightly higher-end hardware for more money".
I Googled it, and I can't find anything saying you can run XP Mode on 7 Home or 8. Sure, you can run your own XP VM on VMware Player or Virtual Box, or you can import XP Mode from a Win 7 Pro computer but neither of those options is the same as getting a free, legitimate XP VM - it's that "free and legitimate" part that distinguishes XP Mode from just any old XP VM.
Yes, the car might be considered horrible due to the design, but that's where the analogy begins to fall apart because the UI is easy to change. I had Windows 8 looking and feeling almost the same as Windows 7 - including the Start menu - within an hour of getting it booted for the first time and with only one piece of third-party software.
One of the ironies, or perhaps hypocrisies would be a better word, of OSes is that people bitch and moan about having to use third party software with Windows when most Linux distributions use third party software almost exclusively.
No one is forcing them to upgrade from Windows XP in the sense it will stop working, they're forcing them to upgrade if they still want support. How much support does Debian 3 or Mac OSX Puma get these days?
It seems you're unaware that I'M THE GUY who you just referenced. And for the record, XP mode doesn't always support the applications for one reason or another.
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Because math and morality and directly related...
I'd rather claim a loss on writing the article and get a $200 refund on top of keeping my $500. But sadly, I don't live in Hollywood so I can't do that.
I'm not sure that makes any sense. The article is about how this was a perfectly legitimate tax strategy. And if the world has their eye, that means Apple/Google/etc are watching everything... not the other way around.
It's not cheating if the ones making the rules (The Aussie government) says it's perfectly legal.
I don't know what summary or article you read, but it concludes that the minimal paying of taxes using this strategy is perfectly legal under both Australian and Irish law. The only precedent is that... business can continue as usual.
You forgot the 10 seconds to make sure it opens and the 5 seconds to make sure the homepage is something with ads that make Dell more money.
I don't know any hardware that's 5 years old that won't run Windows 7... especially as Windows 7 is 5 years old. My 8 year old laptop runs it fine with only a minimal RAM upgrade. Vista came out 7 years ago as well and there's a lot of people still running it - the biggest problems with Vista were insufficient hardware when it first came out, or have long since been patched.
If you buy a 2001 Honda Civic in 2009 with no miles on it, it's still a 2001 Civic. It might run better than one that's been on the road since 2001, but that doesn't change the fact that everything under the hood is going to be outdated.
Last I checked, OEM licenses were tied to that specific box, meaning that no, you cannot legitimately run it on a VM.
Nonsequential too.
Most products/projects are advertised before they're done being put together and tested. Hell, we have a CostCo advertising in this area when they haven't even finished bulldozing the lot yet.
If they were just collecting metadata, nobody would have a problem. The issue is in that they can see the data.
If you're going to write out the title and author, why bother abbreviating it in the first place?
Personally, I read it as XKCD #1031
Assuming you actually own your own smartphone and don't just lease it from Apple, etc like they'd like to think...
If the company forcibly installed this on end-user's home PCs, you'd have a point. The company owns the PC being used, the network infrastructure, the monitoring gateway... and you can be damned sure the user knows this (or should know it using common sense).
And preferably not one that you connected to the company's secure wifi
That would require either purchasing an XP license, or pirating one... neither of which are extremely acceptable solutins.
XP Mode is only for Windows 7 Pro, and Windows 7 Pro usually doesn't come on the low-end PCs that would be suitable for her. So in the end, it's a choice between "Stick with XP" or "Upgrade to an OS that's already 5 years old and get a higher-end version that usually only comes on slightly higher-end hardware for more money".
It's still less time and effort than I've spent with any Linux distro (except maybe Mint)
And almost every new computer ships with x64 Windows now... it's damned hard to find one that's not, much less one with the specs you want.
How much does what cost and why would I need office?
I Googled it, and I can't find anything saying you can run XP Mode on 7 Home or 8. Sure, you can run your own XP VM on VMware Player or Virtual Box, or you can import XP Mode from a Win 7 Pro computer but neither of those options is the same as getting a free, legitimate XP VM - it's that "free and legitimate" part that distinguishes XP Mode from just any old XP VM.
Yes, the car might be considered horrible due to the design, but that's where the analogy begins to fall apart because the UI is easy to change. I had Windows 8 looking and feeling almost the same as Windows 7 - including the Start menu - within an hour of getting it booted for the first time and with only one piece of third-party software.
One of the ironies, or perhaps hypocrisies would be a better word, of OSes is that people bitch and moan about having to use third party software with Windows when most Linux distributions use third party software almost exclusively.
No one is forcing them to upgrade from Windows XP in the sense it will stop working, they're forcing them to upgrade if they still want support. How much support does Debian 3 or Mac OSX Puma get these days?
"in every case I can imagine, cannot be programmed to do things other than what the person that is physically holding them wants them to do."
You've clearly never had someone steal your spoon and stab you with it.
It seems you're unaware that I'M THE GUY who you just referenced. And for the record, XP mode doesn't always support the applications for one reason or another.