They don't owe income tax (except if they make a profit) and they don't have to pay sales tax either. Paying "use" tax (and sale tax, too) is the responsibility of the buyer.
Well, how can you enforce _anything_ without an audit? And if you get an audit on your ass, they'll have so much fun with that $10K you've spent online this year.:0)
>> Although, if you bought them used from an individual on Ebay, you're not subject to the use tax anyway, are you?
Yup, you are still subject to "use" tax even if something you've bought on ebay has been re-sold ten times. Just like you're subject to sales tax when you buy a used car.
If you haven't paid sales tax while being in another state you have to pay "use" tax in your home state. This tax is equal to the amount of sales tax you'd have to pay if you made the same purchase in your home state. For someone in WA this means that if they went down to Oregon and spent $1K on merchandise taxable in WA, they owe the state $88 in taxes or whatever they pay in their county.
I'd just say, "aw, fuck it, we're dropping Java and adopting Mono - it's a better design". But no, they're too full of themselves, and for this you loyal followers will get endless pain of typecasts and boxing-unboxing (AKA Java generics).
Facet one. If this article wasn't paid by MSFT, these fellas will be back to Linux in another couple of years. It does appear that they have managerial problems. And if this is the case they'll have them regardless of the environment they run.
Facet two. There aren't that many truly proficient Linux admins and programmers. And I don't just mean the technical side, but that elusive "business" side as well. Willingness and capability to deliver solid results to the business, even if the stuff you have to work on isn't really sexy. There's certain lack of focus among free software developers. As soon as the itch becomes "not sexy enough to scratch" they move to something else, and you can't really blame them for this because they work free of charge. Heck, I myself have about a dozen half-baked projects which aren't open-source, but could have been easily productized if I were more focused.
That's not the kind of issue that could have stopped a CEO of a company that does really well. Shareholders would vote and repeal the "force the old farts to retire" rule if it made sense from a business standpoint.
Laptops still remain the option for the rich only. I use my laptop instead of my desktop (my wife uses the desktop PC I was using previously) and I'm thinking of getting rid of the desktops altogether. The convenience comes at a steep price though, my laptop costs about twice as much as what a similarly configured desktop PC would cost. While the additional $700 is not much of a problem for me, it is a problem for the majority of the US population.
You gotta retire undefeated. Mark my words, folks, no sooner than Steve Ballmer says he's "retiring" you can say that "Microsoft is dying".
Intel is in a LOT of trouble right now I've heard. Their chips have historically been overpriced, and this just doesn't work anymore because AMD is undercutting them. They've fucked up the 64-bit transition, too. Their only undefeated front right now is mobile processors - they kick all sorts of butt there. But other than that, "it's time for CEOs to retire".
I can buy a mighty fine Tablet PC for less than that. Sure it will be a bit larger, but it has a _tablet_ behind the screen. I can actually write on the damn thing and it recognizes my chicken-scratch.
Before someone comes up with a cheap way to avoid gravity pull. And I do mean cheap, no more than 20% of the overall energy stored or generated in the car should be spent on this.
Wouldn't it be cheaper to buy an iPod AND glasses separately? Who in their own mind would even consider dropping FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS on this gay-looking piece of garbage?
Is there a way to tell from the data files? I still have them. In any case, it's whatever version was current about 3 months ago. It was on Windows XP, maybe Linux version is more mature/stable. Basically what happened was it failed to check-in and it failed so hard I could NOT kill it using the task manager. It just sat there for a couple of hours with the processor pegged to 100%. After waiting for it to do whatever it was doing I've just rebooted the machine. Files got corrupted and neither subversion's own recovery commands nor berkeley db could repair it.
and sometimes (especially if you're a business) you'd really like to have the "obliterate" command.
Also, Subversion died on me unrecoverably after about a month of not very frequent use at home. And that's something I'd really hate to see here at work, where there are fifty devs checking in crap 24 hours a day.:-)
Why does such a large and wealthy country with 250 million people living in it does NOT have better candidates for the White House? I'm gonna have a hard time voting this year. On one hand, I want to vote against Bush. On the other hand I see _ABSOLUTELY NO REASON_ to vote for John Kerry! He fails to give me this reason. I don't give a crap if he served in Vietnam or not (quite frankly I'd rather see know he avoided the draft), I don't give a crap if he's a decorated veteran. And I have yet to hear his clear and concise plan as to what he will do to improve the lives of the middle class and the poor if he takes office.
Bush's plans may be horribly wrong, but at least his message is clear - "fuck the poor, but not as badly as to cause a revolution".
So I guess all my questions boil down to one. Why is mr. Kerry's message is so horribly unfocused?
>> GM foods can greatly reduce the amounts of pesticide, herbicide, fertilizer, or water needed to grow food.
No, no, no! You need fertilizer and water anyway, and A LOT of GM plants have specifically been modified to withstand increased doses of pesticides and herbicides! Ever heard of "Roundup Ready" line of GM products from Monsanto?
When you put a guy from a country where business ethics are significantly different from what we're used to in the US in charge of a large corporation.
The truth of the matter is, in 95% of cases customer (or, better yet, prospective customer) doesn't know what he really wants. And even if he thinks he knows his expectations are often unrealistic and in direct contradiction with other customer's requirements.
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They don't owe income tax (except if they make a profit) and they don't have to pay sales tax either. Paying "use" tax (and sale tax, too) is the responsibility of the buyer.
Well, how can you enforce _anything_ without an audit? And if you get an audit on your ass, they'll have so much fun with that $10K you've spent online this year. :0)
>> Although, if you bought them used from an individual on Ebay, you're not subject to the use tax anyway, are you?
Yup, you are still subject to "use" tax even if something you've bought on ebay has been re-sold ten times. Just like you're subject to sales tax when you buy a used car.
If you haven't paid sales tax while being in another state you have to pay "use" tax in your home state. This tax is equal to the amount of sales tax you'd have to pay if you made the same purchase in your home state. For someone in WA this means that if they went down to Oregon and spent $1K on merchandise taxable in WA, they owe the state $88 in taxes or whatever they pay in their county.
Did you notice the ads? They'll publish whatever sells more ads. They have employees and employees (may) have families. Basic economics.
I'd just say, "aw, fuck it, we're dropping Java and adopting Mono - it's a better design". But no, they're too full of themselves, and for this you loyal followers will get endless pain of typecasts and boxing-unboxing (AKA Java generics).
Facet one. If this article wasn't paid by MSFT, these fellas will be back to Linux in another couple of years. It does appear that they have managerial problems. And if this is the case they'll have them regardless of the environment they run.
Facet two. There aren't that many truly proficient Linux admins and programmers. And I don't just mean the technical side, but that elusive "business" side as well. Willingness and capability to deliver solid results to the business, even if the stuff you have to work on isn't really sexy. There's certain lack of focus among free software developers. As soon as the itch becomes "not sexy enough to scratch" they move to something else, and you can't really blame them for this because they work free of charge. Heck, I myself have about a dozen half-baked projects which aren't open-source, but could have been easily productized if I were more focused.
That's not the kind of issue that could have stopped a CEO of a company that does really well. Shareholders would vote and repeal the "force the old farts to retire" rule if it made sense from a business standpoint.
Laptops still remain the option for the rich only. I use my laptop instead of my desktop (my wife uses the desktop PC I was using previously) and I'm thinking of getting rid of the desktops altogether. The convenience comes at a steep price though, my laptop costs about twice as much as what a similarly configured desktop PC would cost. While the additional $700 is not much of a problem for me, it is a problem for the majority of the US population.
You gotta retire undefeated. Mark my words, folks, no sooner than Steve Ballmer says he's "retiring" you can say that "Microsoft is dying".
Intel is in a LOT of trouble right now I've heard. Their chips have historically been overpriced, and this just doesn't work anymore because AMD is undercutting them. They've fucked up the 64-bit transition, too. Their only undefeated front right now is mobile processors - they kick all sorts of butt there. But other than that, "it's time for CEOs to retire".
I can buy a mighty fine Tablet PC for less than that. Sure it will be a bit larger, but it has a _tablet_ behind the screen. I can actually write on the damn thing and it recognizes my chicken-scratch.
Before someone comes up with a cheap way to avoid gravity pull. And I do mean cheap, no more than 20% of the overall energy stored or generated in the car should be spent on this.
Wouldn't it be cheaper to buy an iPod AND glasses separately? Who in their own mind would even consider dropping FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS on this gay-looking piece of garbage?
Is there a way to tell from the data files? I still have them. In any case, it's whatever version was current about 3 months ago. It was on Windows XP, maybe Linux version is more mature/stable. Basically what happened was it failed to check-in and it failed so hard I could NOT kill it using the task manager. It just sat there for a couple of hours with the processor pegged to 100%. After waiting for it to do whatever it was doing I've just rebooted the machine. Files got corrupted and neither subversion's own recovery commands nor berkeley db could repair it.
and sometimes (especially if you're a business) you'd really like to have the "obliterate" command.
:-)
Also, Subversion died on me unrecoverably after about a month of not very frequent use at home. And that's something I'd really hate to see here at work, where there are fifty devs checking in crap 24 hours a day.
That's right, he creates a virtual one. This guy REALLY needs to get laid.
Perforce ROCKS, but its per-seat price is like a good hard kick in the balls. If someone could re-implement it in an OSS project it would be COOL.
Why does such a large and wealthy country with 250 million people living in it does NOT have better candidates for the White House? I'm gonna have a hard time voting this year. On one hand, I want to vote against Bush. On the other hand I see _ABSOLUTELY NO REASON_ to vote for John Kerry! He fails to give me this reason. I don't give a crap if he served in Vietnam or not (quite frankly I'd rather see know he avoided the draft), I don't give a crap if he's a decorated veteran. And I have yet to hear his clear and concise plan as to what he will do to improve the lives of the middle class and the poor if he takes office.
Bush's plans may be horribly wrong, but at least his message is clear - "fuck the poor, but not as badly as to cause a revolution".
So I guess all my questions boil down to one. Why is mr. Kerry's message is so horribly unfocused?
It flew up there and returned all by itself, on autopilot. No one else managed to pull this off ever since.
>> GM foods can greatly reduce the amounts of pesticide, herbicide, fertilizer,
or water needed to grow food.
No, no, no! You need fertilizer and water anyway, and A LOT of GM plants have specifically been modified to withstand increased doses of pesticides and herbicides! Ever heard of "Roundup Ready" line of GM products from Monsanto?
These fellas at least understand they've done wrong. For this Kumar guy it's business as usual. Customary Indian business practices.
That's what I'd do, too. But I'm seeing quite a few hits from BayTSP anyway.
When you put a guy from a country where business ethics are significantly different from what we're used to in the US in charge of a large corporation.
He doesn't know any better.
One of the handy features of eMule is IP filter. You can see you're being watched and you can see who's watching you.
The truth of the matter is, in 95% of cases customer (or, better yet, prospective customer) doesn't know what he really wants. And even if he thinks he knows his expectations are often unrealistic and in direct contradiction with other customer's requirements.
Anyone who worked in the industry knows this.