because his money was taxed when it was initially earned
Not necessarily. Consider this set of examples from the New York Times
To see the value of this strategy, think about investing with pretax versus after-tax dollars. Suppose Jill works at an investment bank, and her employer pays her a year-end bonus of $500,000. The bonus is taxed at a combined state and federal rate of 50 percent, leaving her with $250,000 to invest. She invests that $250,000 in her friend Jack’s private equity fund, and the investment doubles in value over five years. The $250,000 of new gain is taxed at the 15 percent long-term capital gains rate, leaving her with $212,500 and an overall after-tax amount of $462,500.
Now consider Jack, who works at the private equity fund. To satisfy his co-investment obligation, Jack must invest in the fund. Under a fee waiver program, he waives $500,000 of his portion of the management fee and credits his capital account with that amount. After the $500,000 doubles over five years, and is then taxed on the full amount at capital gains rates on the back end, Jack walks away with $850,000 — roughly 84 percent better off than Jill, who invested with after-tax dollars.
I kept a lot of my textbooks-- following Mom and Dad's example. What really pisses me off about paying more than $100 for a textbook is that nowadays the books seem like they are designed to fall apart.I don't know if this is a cynical attempt to depress used book sales, or a reluctance to adopt the binding techniques used in dictionaries and reference books.
I have both the 7th and 1st editions of "Boyce and DePrima"'s DiffEQ book-- the first edition is just better made.
Such a deal! I have a bound reprint of a textbook on chaos theory. It's hardback, 200 pages, very ugly, and the halftones were destroyed in the process. I think it was $90.
This was my biochemistry book-- I took the course when the book was new. I still have it around, somewhere. It's 11.2 x 8.7 x 1.8 inches, and consists of 1064 color pages crammed into a fairly dubious hardcover binding. I believe I paid somewhere around $60 or $70, for it, from the college bookstore-- amazon came later. On Lulu.com, an 800 page book, in color, would cost 192.55, just to manufacture, or 44.50 in black and white, The color does have some pedagogical value--highlighting active sites, pathways, important structures etc.
If you think your approach to teaching a subject is so sound that there's a textbook in it, it saves time and effort to use your own stuff in future classes.
No, I seriously prefer google-- how might I use google patents to search for, say "all british patents issued between 1890 and 1923 with these full text search terms?". All I seem to be getting are the US patents, which I've already seen.
The problems with espace range from "your search returned more than 500 results. Though you probably are interested in result 502,only the first 500 results are shown," to issues with adobe pdf,incompatibilities with tabs, and a host of other niggling issues."
It depends on the size of your screen. If the screen is big enough that your eye can comprehend resolve each individual pixel, you're going to want accurate video that may just include bits of random grain. If your screen is so small that that you have a hard time justifying purchasing the screen, you're going to want a lot of easy to encode edge enhancement.
And I'm reading slashdot on a 21.5 inch 1080p screen. However, I'm viewing it from 20 inches away.
Much beyond that viewing distance, it's overkill-- the added detail doesn't do much.
My 27" TV is perfectly fine for bluray, even though it's not 1080p. Were I to upgrade it, my chief consideration would be size-- (and preferably at a size where 1080p would make an actual, visible difference.)
I do have the "new iPad." The display's chief advantage seems to be the lack of color fringing. It doesn't need to anti-alias text.
PC1? IBM made a PS/1, (after the PS/2 failed), but I don't think they ever made a PC1 model. Maybe you're thinking of the 5150, (not to be confused with John Titor's 5100). The 5150 was discontinued in 1987, long after the PC/XT and PC/AT were released.
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because his money was taxed when it was initially earned
Not necessarily. Consider this set of examples from the New York Times
To see the value of this strategy, think about investing with pretax versus after-tax dollars. Suppose Jill works at an investment bank, and her employer pays her a year-end bonus of $500,000. The bonus is taxed at a combined state and federal rate of 50 percent, leaving her with $250,000 to invest. She invests that $250,000 in her friend Jack’s private equity fund, and the investment doubles in value over five years. The $250,000 of new gain is taxed at the 15 percent long-term capital gains rate, leaving her with $212,500 and an overall after-tax amount of $462,500.
Now consider Jack, who works at the private equity fund. To satisfy his co-investment obligation, Jack must invest in the fund. Under a fee waiver program, he waives $500,000 of his portion of the management fee and credits his capital account with that amount. After the $500,000 doubles over five years, and is then taxed on the full amount at capital gains rates on the back end, Jack walks away with $850,000 — roughly 84 percent better off than Jill, who invested with after-tax dollars.
You can also treat your salary as investment income, if you're in private equity
I kept a lot of my textbooks-- following Mom and Dad's example. What really pisses me off about paying more than $100 for a textbook is that nowadays the books seem like they are designed to fall apart.I don't know if this is a cynical attempt to depress used book sales, or a reluctance to adopt the binding techniques used in dictionaries and reference books.
I have both the 7th and 1st editions of "Boyce and DePrima"'s DiffEQ book-- the first edition is just better made.
Such a deal! I have a bound reprint of a textbook on chaos theory. It's hardback, 200 pages, very ugly, and the halftones were destroyed in the process. I think it was $90.
This was my biochemistry book-- I took the course when the book was new. I still have it around, somewhere.
It's 11.2 x 8.7 x 1.8 inches, and consists of 1064 color pages crammed into a fairly dubious hardcover binding. I believe I paid somewhere around $60 or $70, for it, from the college bookstore-- amazon came later.
On Lulu.com, an 800 page book, in color, would cost 192.55, just to manufacture, or 44.50 in black and white,
The color does have some pedagogical value--highlighting active sites, pathways, important structures etc.
If you think your approach to teaching a subject is so sound that there's a textbook in it, it saves time and effort to use your own stuff in future classes.
Wow, you must really have enjoyed the human centipad. Sounds like it was right up your alley.
No, I seriously prefer google-- how might I use google patents to search for, say "all british patents issued between 1890 and 1923 with these full text search terms?". All I seem to be getting are the US patents, which I've already seen.
The problems with espace range from "your search returned more than 500 results. Though you probably are interested in result 502,only the first 500 results are shown," to issues with adobe pdf,incompatibilities with tabs, and a host of other niggling issues."
Perhaps if English was presented in Backus–Naur Form, we wouldn't be having these arguments.
How do you search for european patents? I'm irritated by espacenet.
It depends on the size of your screen. If the screen is big enough that your eye can comprehend resolve each individual pixel, you're going to want accurate video that may just include bits of random grain. If your screen is so small that that you have a hard time justifying purchasing the screen, you're going to want a lot of easy to encode edge enhancement.
CBS, NBC, and, I think, one of the other networks produced 1080i content from the outset-- the same 1080*1920 image--just interlaced.
The marketing campaign for "fullHD/1080p" has been enormously successful in making people forget about tech that has been around for a while.
surveillance posts,
Finally, a slashdotter who appreciates the panopticon!
Do you watch 4:3 content in "stretch mode"?
calculations based on the resolution of the human eye when corrected to only 20/20 suggest that the base model 4K display should have been on the order of 100 inches or so. Less if you're using it as a display for your computer, Considerably less if you're squinting at it like a radiologist.
A 100 inch display is 7 feet wide-- too large for many homes.
4k content
When HDDVD first came-out, it could play half a dozen titles. Granted,one of the disks was Serenity, but still...
And I'm reading slashdot on a 21.5 inch 1080p screen. However, I'm viewing it from 20 inches away.
Much beyond that viewing distance, it's overkill-- the added detail doesn't do much.
My 27" TV is perfectly fine for bluray, even though it's not 1080p. Were I to upgrade it, my chief consideration would be size-- (and preferably at a size where 1080p would make an actual, visible difference.)
I do have the "new iPad." The display's chief advantage seems to be the lack of color fringing. It doesn't need to anti-alias text.
All we need is an additional consumer movie disc format, ughh?
Disk? No silly, just stream the content on your 150 Mb/s broadband connection.
Oh. I see. The firmware is different. I only have the Kindle 3, so I don't have experience with the earlier software.
PC1? IBM made a PS/1, (after the PS/2 failed), but I don't think they ever made a PC1 model. Maybe you're thinking of the 5150, (not to be confused with John Titor's 5100). The 5150 was discontinued in 1987, long after the PC/XT and PC/AT were released.
You're as bad as the marketers. My Ipad 3 has 16gig of flash, but only a gigabyte of RAM.
So, you bought a Kindle DX because it has a 9.7" screen, and then you had regrets because you could have gotten a Kindle 3 with a giant 6" screen.
a hundred million black holes in the universe? Given that there are 170 billion galaxies, that's a pretty small number of black holes.
What about Bob?
Here's your fucking link.