Guess what the corporations do if you tax them more? They pass the increased costs onto consumers or they find away to avoid the tax. It doesn't really hurt corporations either way when you tax them more, at least when there's little foreign or domestic competition. I think when politicians scream something like "We need to tax corporations more" or "we need to take those corporate profits and use it on something else", they know they are still hitting up joe tax payer in the end. However, it's a good for politicians to divert blame since theres not technically an increase in taxes and it makes corporations look like the greedy SOBs.
The goal of every company is and should be to make money. As long as something like this tax gap is legal in a particular state, I see nothing wrong with a corporations taking advantage of it. It is up to politicians and not Microsoft to determine if they need to do something about it and what the impact of their actions will be.
Tax codes respresent a fine balance and chains of unintended consequences kick in very frequently when politicians try to remedy a problem using other peoples money, tax code or otherwise.
You never know what your job will be from year to year, so there is only so much preparation you can do.
The cool thing is that as a software developer, you get paid for what you're capable of learning on the job, not just for what you already know. Most big companies will pay for any training you need along the way to do your job.
One problem with your setup is it does not provide enough disks for performance or caching to provide large amounts of I/O. ZFS might be good on big hardware, but I do not know that it would be practical on your rig.
Big vendors like EMC use excellent caching hardware and connectivity hardware that create a mesh of hundreds of disks using large amounts of memory within their storage arrays. Vendors like EMC spread data across tens and sometimes hundreds of disks along with the use of their caching mechanisms to prevent I/O bottlenecks depending on the application. While they have started using SATA disks, if you were to use disks that are too large in a rig like yours, you end up with lots of storage and too few disks across which to spread your I/O.
So, in summary, 12 sata disks might be good for a lab or development setup, but would not provide the performance of the "$50K" storage solutions. But then in most cases, if your lab does not match your production setup, what good is it?
I handling messaging at a very large ISP. If people treated their e-mail address more like a phone number and only gave it out to persons from which they wanted to receive e-mail, people would receive alot less e-mail.
Here are some recommendations for people getting hit heavily by spam.
1. Create a primary e-mail address and secondary disposable e-mail address or alias for public communication.
If you have to communicate an e-mail address publicly on a questionable website or newsgroup, create a disposable alias for the purpose. If that disposable address begins to receive large amounts of spam, create a new disposable address and discard the old one.
2. Use your aliases with family members you expect will sign you up for Internet greeting cards and such that are likely to land you on spammer mailing lists.
Mom will most certainly have no problem helping your alias "subscribe" to many a spammer's list.
3. Avoid easily guessable e-mail addresses that are likely to be found by harvesting, a form of account guessing. For example, avoid john.smith23.
Spammers will harvest accounts by trying deliveries to "john.smith1", "john.smith2" . .., "john.smith23" and they will eventually find you with "weak" usernames.
4. If you use a username in an e-mail address at one ISP and that address is getting spammed, avoid using that same username in an address at a second ISP.
Spammers will often test the same addresses they know about across ISPs while trying to harvest addresses. So, for example, if you used an address like mrvick@aol.com that was receiving spam and you signed up for a new account with another large mail provider like Hotmail, avoid using mrvick@hotmail.com.
5. Do not use your work e-mail address for access to sites that may share your address.
I use the above recommendations with my accounts and stay pretty close to spam free even on my alias e-mail accounts.
Some other exciting posts to which I'll look forward.
How long does it take for you to configure OpenOffice the way you like it!? How long does it take for you to configure MythTV the way you like it!? How long does it take for you to configure World of Warcraft the way you like it!? How long does it take an average girlfriend to write you off as boring!?
The same can be said about parts of "An Inconvenient Truth". You do have people on the far ends of both sides that may or may not have an axe to grind and then you have people in the middle. There are quite a few in the middle who feel the verdict on the causes of global warming are yet to be determined.
Here is a very interesting article from the New York Times about "An Inconvenient Truth".
This a documentary was released in the UK on BBC Channel 4. It does not happen to be independently-produced, YouTube trash as mentioned in a previous comment. It includes interviews with quite a few scientist. Even the co-founder of GreenPeace complains in the documentary about the current Environmental movement.
I read the paragraph to simply mean "gansta". I can't imagine getting ready of GTA style, open-ended game play. I loved games like GTA III and Vice City. Pandemic is coming out with Mercenaries 2 and I bet that will be a huge seller if its as good as the first one. I'm happy with any game that allows me to run around blowing things up for miles with an RPG. Sniper rifles are fun too.:>
I just can't stomach the "gansta" games like "GTA San Andreas. I can shoot bad guys and crooked cops in a game. I don't have fun stomping on the heads of old ladies as my character yells "You're just a b*tch!" (San Andreas).
Here's a good method for using e-mail that may help people prepare days in advance for emergency updates.
First, have emergency agencies set up and maintain web pages with up-to-the minute emergency information.
Next, as bad weather or an emergency approaches, send out a single e-mail notifying subscribers about the the web pages with up-to-date emergency information and their URLs. Also urge people in the e-mail to purchase a radio if they do not already own one.
Optionally, broadcast the web page information over the radio.
Simple, huh?
People forget that large ISPs serve hundreds of mass mailers providing "emergency update" and they all want immediate access to their subscribers. Doing so would kill any ISPs mail servers.
At least in this decade, asking ISP to change their anti-spam/anti-abuse policies to allow emergency messages will be about as useful as asking the US Postal Office to deliver my soon to be late tax payments to the IRS five minutes after I drop it off in the mailbox.
Don't whine when someone sets up a critical delivery service using an inadequate medium.
I work at a hugeISP and we sometimes receive tickets accusing us of ignoring TTLs. However, it has always boiled down to one of three things.
1. Change in the hosting of a domain to new DNS servers without properly removing the domain from the old hosting DNS servers.
When this happens, a DNS server caching a domain's info will continue to check the old servers until the old server stops answering.
2. A change in the TTL of a domain to a lesser value.
If you change the TTL of a domain from 7 days to 1 hour, DNS servers currently caching that domain's information will hold onto it for 7 days before discovering the new TTL.
3. A bug in BIND 8 that prevents it from pulling updated information from the primary DNS server for a domain.
We see this rarely, but it requires a restart of an affected DNS server. We have not diagnosed the specific cause yet since we're moving servers to BIND 9.
I've used http://www.hrblock.com/ the last few years. Has worked great and covers at least every middle-class financial situation I've encountered with my taxes. I can't speak for the wealthy with uber-investments.
H&R Block Online even keeps past year's filings online for you. And the Premimum service is only $39.95.
The only thing you have to question is whether you want your financial data stored online by a third party.
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Schweet! We can start a Capitalist-Atheist troll thread!!!
Guess what the corporations do if you tax them more? They pass the increased costs onto consumers or they find away to avoid the tax. It doesn't really hurt corporations either way when you tax them more, at least when there's little foreign or domestic competition. I think when politicians scream something like "We need to tax corporations more" or "we need to take those corporate profits and use it on something else", they know they are still hitting up joe tax payer in the end. However, it's a good for politicians to divert blame since theres not technically an increase in taxes and it makes corporations look like the greedy SOBs.
The goal of every company is and should be to make money. As long as something like this tax gap is legal in a particular state, I see nothing wrong with a corporations taking advantage of it. It is up to politicians and not Microsoft to determine if they need to do something about it and what the impact of their actions will be.
Tax codes respresent a fine balance and chains of unintended consequences kick in very frequently when politicians try to remedy a problem using other peoples money, tax code or otherwise.
You never know what your job will be from year to year, so there is only so much preparation you can do.
The cool thing is that as a software developer, you get paid for what you're capable of learning on the job, not just for what you already know. Most big companies will pay for any training you need along the way to do your job.
One problem with your setup is it does not provide enough disks for performance or caching to provide large amounts of I/O. ZFS might be good on big hardware, but I do not know that it would be practical on your rig.
Big vendors like EMC use excellent caching hardware and connectivity hardware that create a mesh of hundreds of disks using large amounts of memory within their storage arrays. Vendors like EMC spread data across tens and sometimes hundreds of disks along with the use of their caching mechanisms to prevent I/O bottlenecks depending on the application. While they have started using SATA disks, if you were to use disks that are too large in a rig like yours, you end up with lots of storage and too few disks across which to spread your I/O.
So, in summary, 12 sata disks might be good for a lab or development setup, but would not provide the performance of the "$50K" storage solutions. But then in most cases, if your lab does not match your production setup, what good is it?
I handling messaging at a very large ISP. If people treated their e-mail address more like a phone number and only gave it out to persons from which they wanted to receive e-mail, people would receive alot less e-mail.
., "john.smith23" and they will eventually find you with "weak" usernames.
Here are some recommendations for people getting hit heavily by spam.
1. Create a primary e-mail address and secondary disposable e-mail address or alias for public communication.
If you have to communicate an e-mail address publicly on a questionable website or newsgroup, create a disposable alias for the purpose. If that disposable address begins to receive large amounts of spam, create a new disposable address and discard the old one.
2. Use your aliases with family members you expect will sign you up for Internet greeting cards and such that are likely to land you on spammer mailing lists.
Mom will most certainly have no problem helping your alias "subscribe" to many a spammer's list.
3. Avoid easily guessable e-mail addresses that are likely to be found by harvesting, a form of account guessing. For example, avoid john.smith23.
Spammers will harvest accounts by trying deliveries to "john.smith1", "john.smith2" . .
4. If you use a username in an e-mail address at one ISP and that address is getting spammed, avoid using that same username in an address at a second ISP.
Spammers will often test the same addresses they know about across ISPs while trying to harvest addresses. So, for example, if you used an address like mrvick@aol.com that was receiving spam and you signed up for a new account with another large mail provider like Hotmail, avoid using mrvick@hotmail.com.
5. Do not use your work e-mail address for access to sites that may share your address.
I use the above recommendations with my accounts and stay pretty close to spam free even on my alias e-mail accounts.
Some other exciting posts to which I'll look forward.
How long does it take for you to configure OpenOffice the way you like it!?
How long does it take for you to configure MythTV the way you like it!?
How long does it take for you to configure World of Warcraft the way you like it!?
How long does it take an average girlfriend to write you off as boring!?
Yeah, I'm grumpy.
The same can be said about parts of "An Inconvenient Truth". You do have people on the far ends of both sides that may or may not have an axe to grind and then you have people in the middle. There are quite a few in the middle who feel the verdict on the causes of global warming are yet to be determined.
Here is a very interesting article from the New York Times about "An Inconvenient Truth".
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/13/science/13gore.
This a documentary was released in the UK on BBC Channel 4. It does not happen to be independently-produced, YouTube trash as mentioned in a previous comment. It includes interviews with quite a few scientist. Even the co-founder of GreenPeace complains in the documentary about the current Environmental movement.
t _global_warming_swindle/index.html
http://www.channel4.com/science/microsites/G/grea
I read the paragraph to simply mean "gansta". I can't imagine getting ready of GTA style, open-ended game play. I loved games like GTA III and Vice City. Pandemic is coming out with Mercenaries 2 and I bet that will be a huge seller if its as good as the first one. I'm happy with any game that allows me to run around blowing things up for miles with an RPG. Sniper rifles are fun too. :>
I just can't stomach the "gansta" games like "GTA San Andreas. I can shoot bad guys and crooked cops in a game. I don't have fun stomping on the heads of old ladies as my character yells "You're just a b*tch!" (San Andreas).
Here's a good method for using e-mail that may help people prepare days in advance for emergency updates.
First, have emergency agencies set up and maintain web pages with up-to-the minute emergency information.
Next, as bad weather or an emergency approaches, send out a single e-mail notifying subscribers about the the web pages with up-to-date emergency information and their URLs. Also urge people in the e-mail to purchase a radio if they do not already own one.
Optionally, broadcast the web page information over the radio.
Simple, huh?
People forget that large ISPs serve hundreds of mass mailers providing "emergency update" and they all want immediate access to their subscribers. Doing so would kill any ISPs mail servers.
At least in this decade, asking ISP to change their anti-spam/anti-abuse policies to allow emergency messages will be about as useful as asking the US Postal Office to deliver my soon to be late tax payments to the IRS five minutes after I drop it off in the mailbox.
Don't whine when someone sets up a critical delivery service using an inadequate medium.
I work at a hugeISP and we sometimes receive tickets accusing us of ignoring TTLs. However, it has always boiled down to one of three things.
1. Change in the hosting of a domain to new DNS servers without properly removing the domain from the old hosting DNS servers.
When this happens, a DNS server caching a domain's info will continue to check the old servers until the old server stops answering.
2. A change in the TTL of a domain to a lesser value.
If you change the TTL of a domain from 7 days to 1 hour, DNS servers currently caching that domain's information will hold onto it for 7 days before discovering the new TTL.
3. A bug in BIND 8 that prevents it from pulling updated information from the primary DNS server for a domain.
We see this rarely, but it requires a restart of an affected DNS server. We have not diagnosed the specific cause yet since we're moving servers to BIND 9.
I've used http://www.hrblock.com/ the last few years. Has worked great and covers at least every middle-class financial situation I've encountered with my taxes. I can't speak for the wealthy with uber-investments.
H&R Block Online even keeps past year's filings online for you. And the Premimum service is only $39.95.
The only thing you have to question is whether you want your financial data stored online by a third party.