No. The heirs are not responsible for the debts of the estate. The debts are paid by the executor out of the assets of the estate.
I think I see what's happening now. It's been sensationalized. What's happened is that the estate was settle and the heirs were paid. What the IRS is going after is not the daughter's assets per se but the inherited assets paid to her improperly out of the estate because the estate didn't settle its debts with the IRS.
It's been double-sensationalized. The headline would lead one to believe that the IRS could steal your refund to pay for what your brother-in-law owes.
Yes, I've heard of Xen, and I've even run it in production, both Xenserver and Oracle VM flavors, and both sucked horribly. Back when VMWare tried the v.Tax I contemplated switching to KVM using RHEV but Redhat took almost 30 days to even get me access to a RHEV download by which time VMWare had backed off on their pricing.
As to the crack about redundancy and scalability, I've got a better uptime metric than any cloud provider, zero unplanned downtime in the last 5 years (vmotion + svmotion makes replacing both hosts and storage a breeze) thanks to redundant generators, UPS, chillers, and internet connections.
There was a time when I ran Xen because a paravirtual VM ran MUCH faster than an VMWARE guest OS. Not so true these days and on modern hardware, but back then, the difference was immense.
Xen has always been reliable for me. The main problem was what it did to networking. And it added injury to insult by zapping the MAC addresses on my NICs on a routine basis.
Supposedly Xen4 fixes that. They make YOU do all the network setup. Which ordinarily I'd resent, but at least when magic elves aren't meddling around in the configuration, I have a much easier time of it.
If the text written using this method can be read as easy and fast as text written according to the rules, what really is the problem?
The problem is that a lot of people with the power to hire and fire may pretend that they cannot read the text "as easy and fast as text written according to the rules". HR may judge a prospective employee as "uneducated" for not following traditional prescriptive rules.
Not just hiring and firing, but anywhere where you wish to be accepted seriously based on how you write.
The problem is non-standard writing is that every deviation is "speed bump" to comprehension. Sure, my relatives in Kentucky may own "worshing machines", but it's one thing to hear them say it and another to see it in print. Bad enough dealing with tyres on the quay through the month of February on Wednesdays, but at least we are used to seeing this kind of slop and don't have to stop and double-check while speed-reading.
Silly rules are silly, but no rules are confusion.
In the 1700s, people started seriously experimenting with electricity, magnetism and general chemistry (as opposed to alchemy).
By the late 1800s we had thermionic valves and semiconductor rectifiers.
In 1949 we figured out how to combine semiconductors in order to make a "transfer resistor" (trans-istor). Followed rapidly by integrated circuits and avalanching into sophisticated nanometer circuitry.
There are still people alive who grew up on farms thinking that diodes and triodes were pretty neat new technogy and you can almost construct stuff like that using bear skins and stone knives. The hardest part, in fact, is the glass-blowing technology required, assuming you don't opt for some other similar vacuum-tight container.
A lot of modern civilization wouldn't be that hard to re-construct if we had the resources available. The knowledge is what took us so long to get here, and unless we lose all the knowledge and the knowledge about the knowledge, recovery wouldn't be a problem. What would hurt more is if we lost our transportation services. Most of what goes into modern electronics is not locally produced where I live.
So one of the most valuable professions might very well be landfill-miner, since the easiest way to get materials would be to extract them from what is now often buried as garbage.
You haven't answered the question. Rather, you stated an arguably subpar alternative you prefer. What if the ability to run QuickBooks Pro 2013 is required for business reasons?
Well, if I prefer it, I evidently don't consider it subpar. And I do use it for my business.
Really? What if the company is using software that is Windows only and doesn't run right under WINE? What if they need QuickBooks Pro 2013 which runs like garbage?
FTFY
Actually, I prefer GnuCash. It isn't perfect, but at least it's not welded into Windows to the point where even exporting to Excel requires that the Gnucash machine actually has to have a copy of Excel. Because Intuit likes to launch the *CENSORED* Excel instead of doing a CSV or XLS export like everyone else does.
"9. RESTRICTED USE. The Microsoft software was designed for systems that do not require fail-safe performance. You may not use the Microsoft software in any device or system in which a malfunction of the software would result in foreseeable risk of injury or death to any person. This includes operation of nuclear facilities, aircraft navigation or communication systems and air traffic control."
But they do anyway. I seem to recall a situation where something like an aircraft carrier was malfunctioning while under control of Windows NT.
Granted, for stuff like this, MS would have a different license that would (if we're getting our tax dollars worth) would have included on-site dedicated systems support, but it was still Windows NT, and as the standard license points out, it wasn't designed for fail-safe performance.
And considering some of the things I've seen it do, didn't provide it, either.
TFA contains no actual information, just an assertion that the interaction between poorly-described models of "biological" systems might kinda possibly maybe make them money because the world needs car door key fobs, or something like that.
Deep.
I don't know that I'd use the human body as a basis for an encryption system.
Human bodies are constantly having their (DNA) codes cracked.
Switching to a new operating system is simple in theory but difficult in practice. I work at a company that delayed an upgrade to Windows 7 for several years because critical applications would only work with Internet Explorer 6. Linux is free but there are other costs associated with switching to Linux. I suspect that the training costs alone would be an enormous part of the project budget.
The training costs for switching to Windows 8 would be an enormous part of the project budget, too.
That's what's really killing MS. They've gotten to the point where it's just as expensive to keep riding the MS train as it is to bite the bullet and switch to Linux.
What gives Linux the competitive avantage there is that Linux doesn't have to look and feel different in major and minor ways every time you upgrade it, thus requiring expensive retraining. They're not driven by a marketing department. What do they call the "Network Neighborhood" in this release???
There are tons of documentation for Linux. The problem is it is scattered all over the place, written by thousands of volunteers in nearly as many different styles, non-uniform structures, various degrees of success and thoroughness at cross-referencing other relevant documentation, etc. which makes getting things done under Linux a lot more frustrating for the uninitiated than it should be when compared against VisualStudio and MSDN.
Microsoft's APIs might not be the prettiest or cleanest but they are quite well documented in a very uniform and coherent manner, which makes them relatively pleasant to work with.
In either case though, most people end up writing wrappers to take care of the redundant, tedious and unintuitive bits so they only need to worry about them once so it is not too much of an issue either way much beyond the first time.
When Linux was still fairly new to me, I got my "one-stop shopping" for Linux documentation from the Linux Documentation Project (tldp.org). For major program products - the kind that you'd have to pay extra for in Windows - I'd get books from O'Reilly.
These days, I'm as likely to google for help, but even today I sometimes arrive at tldp.
Microsoft docs have generally been good, but about the time I was beginning to leave that scene, they moved them online and prioritized stuff so that that WinCE API docs came in ahead of the desktop docs. Which was really annoying.
Where did the parent poster claim angriness leads to intellience? Are you the type of person who actively tries to misunderstand other people? Even if your parent poster did make the mistake of using intelligence as the differentiating factor, you could have understood his message and generalize "when you're smarter" into "when you're different".
Because it does not matter who an individual is different, in some circles ze will get bullied for it.
Well, the grandparent post asserted that getting depressed makes you intelligent, but that's just absurd. Otherwise the landscape would light up with genius every time someone got depressed.
"... where less-competent managers have basically allowed their vendors to do their decision-making for them in exchange for the assurance that the vendor would take care of everything" makes political sense. To them, anyway.
I know a shop that was solidly Solaris, but HP came in with Red Hat Linux and promised them significant savings. Solaris started evaporating in that shop. Because it made economic sense. To them, anyway.
I think you need to look up the definitions of knowledge. Not one of them has the condition that a thing must be able to be used in practice.
If I know that something exists and how it's supposed to work - as stated in the patent - I have knowledge.
If I know all of the above and I can experiminent with it, I can gain more knowledge. If I am forbidden from doing that, then my rate of acquisition of knowledge has been retarded. And that was the point.
I prefer the following response to the "Just get over it/MAKE yourself be happy" crowd.
I'm naturally buoyant. I can pretty much float in water until I pickle to death. Almost no effort required to keep my head above water.
Depression is like what happens when I put on a scuba weight belt. I can still keep my head above water, but I'm having to MAKE myself be buoyant (so to speak) by more actively treading water. Eventually, however, the extra effort required is going to tell, I can't keep treading and I'll go under.
No lollipop for you. Getting angry doesn't make you more intelligent. Angry people are famous, in fact, for doing really stupid things.
However, at least some forms of depression seem to be related to obsession. You receive what most people would think of as a minor emotional injury and you can't let go of it. It drags you down constantly as it replays over and over in your head.
Receiving a MAJOR emotional injury where "they all team up to try to destroy you" is more likely to end up with a major shooting incident or the like.
Obsession can be crippling when it comes to handling injuries, but obsession IS considered a sign of genius when you can't let go of a creative idea and keep pursuing it long after sensible people would have dropped it.
I thought depression is still a "physical" problem, although not one immediately obvious in blood tests? Otherwise why would you prescribe drugs altering the brain chemistry (which is beyond the blood-brain barrier)?
Because there's good money in pharmaceuticals?
Because it's a crap shoot. There is no physical test for most forms of depression, it has to be diagnosed by professional investigation, subject to whatever current psychiatric fads are in effect.
And likewise, there's no magic bullet treatment for depression, despite what impression the drug commercials might give. One person's relief may do nothing for another, and the side-effects can often be so annoying that even if an effective drug is discovered, the patient may not use it effectively. I refuse to buy into the euphemism "client". Clients are repeat business. I'd rather be a patient, since patients are supposed to be cured.
Some people can experience relief via talk therapy. Some via drugs. Some need drugs to put them into a proper mental state for talk therapy to work.
Someday, I'm hoping we can reach a point where you can spit on a chip and a DNA analysis will return a list of drugs that will work effectively and with minimum side-effects, possibly even to the point of creating a custom formula on the spot. We've a long way to go before we reach that point, though.
I think that if I can know about something, but I'm legally prohibited from creating one of them myself unless I cough up enough cash, that counts as "retarding".
I'm actually not sure these days just how many universities are profit, and how many are non-profit. But I do know that some of them have managed to amass immense amounts of cash into funds that don't appear to have much to supporting day-to-day operation of the school.
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How do I pay my taxes?
Grudgingly, of course!
I think I see what's happening now. It's been sensationalized. What's happened is that the estate was settle and the heirs were paid. What the IRS is going after is not the daughter's assets per se but the inherited assets paid to her improperly out of the estate because the estate didn't settle its debts with the IRS.
It's been double-sensationalized. The headline would lead one to believe that the IRS could steal your refund to pay for what your brother-in-law owes.
Just make sure that your "business" is profitable so it doesn't become a hobby (thus business expenses can't be counted).
A business does not have to be profitable to be considered a business rather than a hobby.
Within certain limits.
Yes, I've heard of Xen, and I've even run it in production, both Xenserver and Oracle VM flavors, and both sucked horribly. Back when VMWare tried the v.Tax I contemplated switching to KVM using RHEV but Redhat took almost 30 days to even get me access to a RHEV download by which time VMWare had backed off on their pricing.
As to the crack about redundancy and scalability, I've got a better uptime metric than any cloud provider, zero unplanned downtime in the last 5 years (vmotion + svmotion makes replacing both hosts and storage a breeze) thanks to redundant generators, UPS, chillers, and internet connections.
There was a time when I ran Xen because a paravirtual VM ran MUCH faster than an VMWARE guest OS. Not so true these days and on modern hardware, but back then, the difference was immense.
Xen has always been reliable for me. The main problem was what it did to networking. And it added injury to insult by zapping the MAC addresses on my NICs on a routine basis.
Supposedly Xen4 fixes that. They make YOU do all the network setup. Which ordinarily I'd resent, but at least when magic elves aren't meddling around in the configuration, I have a much easier time of it.
And that goes for NetworkManager, too!
If the text written using this method can be read as easy and fast as text written according to the rules, what really is the problem?
The problem is that a lot of people with the power to hire and fire may pretend that they cannot read the text "as easy and fast as text written according to the rules". HR may judge a prospective employee as "uneducated" for not following traditional prescriptive rules.
Not just hiring and firing, but anywhere where you wish to be accepted seriously based on how you write.
The problem is non-standard writing is that every deviation is "speed bump" to comprehension. Sure, my relatives in Kentucky may own "worshing machines", but it's one thing to hear them say it and another to see it in print. Bad enough dealing with tyres on the quay through the month of February on Wednesdays, but at least we are used to seeing this kind of slop and don't have to stop and double-check while speed-reading.
Silly rules are silly, but no rules are confusion.
Who needs to worry about competition when you own the pipeline end-to-end?
In the 1700s, people started seriously experimenting with electricity, magnetism and general chemistry (as opposed to alchemy).
By the late 1800s we had thermionic valves and semiconductor rectifiers.
In 1949 we figured out how to combine semiconductors in order to make a "transfer resistor" (trans-istor). Followed rapidly by integrated circuits and avalanching into sophisticated nanometer circuitry.
There are still people alive who grew up on farms thinking that diodes and triodes were pretty neat new technogy and you can almost construct stuff like that using bear skins and stone knives. The hardest part, in fact, is the glass-blowing technology required, assuming you don't opt for some other similar vacuum-tight container.
A lot of modern civilization wouldn't be that hard to re-construct if we had the resources available. The knowledge is what took us so long to get here, and unless we lose all the knowledge and the knowledge about the knowledge, recovery wouldn't be a problem. What would hurt more is if we lost our transportation services. Most of what goes into modern electronics is not locally produced where I live.
So one of the most valuable professions might very well be landfill-miner, since the easiest way to get materials would be to extract them from what is now often buried as garbage.
electricity is not a hard thing to make.
That's what potatoes are for.
You haven't answered the question. Rather, you stated an arguably subpar alternative you prefer. What if the ability to run QuickBooks Pro 2013 is required for business reasons?
Well, if I prefer it, I evidently don't consider it subpar. And I do use it for my business.
Really? What if the company is using software that is Windows only and doesn't run right under WINE? What if they need QuickBooks Pro 2013 which runs like garbage?
FTFY
Actually, I prefer GnuCash. It isn't perfect, but at least it's not welded into Windows to the point where even exporting to Excel requires that the Gnucash machine actually has to have a copy of Excel. Because Intuit likes to launch the *CENSORED* Excel instead of doing a CSV or XLS export like everyone else does.
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"9. RESTRICTED USE. The Microsoft software was designed for systems that do not require fail-safe performance. You may not use the Microsoft software in any device or system in which a malfunction of the software would result in foreseeable risk of injury or death to any person. This includes operation of nuclear facilities, aircraft navigation or communication systems and air traffic control."
But they do anyway. I seem to recall a situation where something like an aircraft carrier was malfunctioning while under control of Windows NT.
Granted, for stuff like this, MS would have a different license that would (if we're getting our tax dollars worth) would have included on-site dedicated systems support, but it was still Windows NT, and as the standard license points out, it wasn't designed for fail-safe performance.
And considering some of the things I've seen it do, didn't provide it, either.
TFA contains no actual information, just an assertion that the interaction between poorly-described models of "biological" systems might kinda possibly maybe make them money because the world needs car door key fobs, or something like that.
Deep.
I don't know that I'd use the human body as a basis for an encryption system.
Human bodies are constantly having their (DNA) codes cracked.
By viruses, no less.
Switching to a new operating system is simple in theory but difficult in practice. I work at a company that delayed an upgrade to Windows 7 for several years because critical applications would only work with Internet Explorer 6. Linux is free but there are other costs associated with switching to Linux. I suspect that the training costs alone would be an enormous part of the project budget.
The training costs for switching to Windows 8 would be an enormous part of the project budget, too.
That's what's really killing MS. They've gotten to the point where it's just as expensive to keep riding the MS train as it is to bite the bullet and switch to Linux.
What gives Linux the competitive avantage there is that Linux doesn't have to look and feel different in major and minor ways every time you upgrade it, thus requiring expensive retraining. They're not driven by a marketing department. What do they call the "Network Neighborhood" in this release???
So why they choosed proprietary solution? Why they want vendor lock-in?
It is always choise of some very clever manager.
Actually, no, a lot of times, it's because some superstar get-er-dun programmer starts spinning out results in a hurry using proprietary solutions.
There are tons of documentation for Linux. The problem is it is scattered all over the place, written by thousands of volunteers in nearly as many different styles, non-uniform structures, various degrees of success and thoroughness at cross-referencing other relevant documentation, etc. which makes getting things done under Linux a lot more frustrating for the uninitiated than it should be when compared against VisualStudio and MSDN.
Microsoft's APIs might not be the prettiest or cleanest but they are quite well documented in a very uniform and coherent manner, which makes them relatively pleasant to work with.
In either case though, most people end up writing wrappers to take care of the redundant, tedious and unintuitive bits so they only need to worry about them once so it is not too much of an issue either way much beyond the first time.
When Linux was still fairly new to me, I got my "one-stop shopping" for Linux documentation from the Linux Documentation Project (tldp.org). For major program products - the kind that you'd have to pay extra for in Windows - I'd get books from O'Reilly.
These days, I'm as likely to google for help, but even today I sometimes arrive at tldp.
Microsoft docs have generally been good, but about the time I was beginning to leave that scene, they moved them online and prioritized stuff so that that WinCE API docs came in ahead of the desktop docs. Which was really annoying.
Where did the parent poster claim angriness leads to intellience? Are you the type of person who actively tries to misunderstand other people? Even if your parent poster did make the mistake of using intelligence as the differentiating factor, you could have understood his message and generalize "when you're smarter" into "when you're different".
Because it does not matter who an individual is different, in some circles ze will get bullied for it.
Well, the grandparent post asserted that getting depressed makes you intelligent, but that's just absurd. Otherwise the landscape would light up with genius every time someone got depressed.
On the other hand, being bullied makes me angry.
You big bully, you.
"... where less-competent managers have basically allowed their vendors to do their decision-making for them in exchange for the assurance that the vendor would take care of everything" makes political sense. To them, anyway.
I know a shop that was solidly Solaris, but HP came in with Red Hat Linux and promised them significant savings. Solaris started evaporating in that shop. Because it made economic sense. To them, anyway.
I think you need to look up the definitions of knowledge. Not one of them has the condition that a thing must be able to be used in practice.
If I know that something exists and how it's supposed to work - as stated in the patent - I have knowledge.
If I know all of the above and I can experiminent with it, I can gain more knowledge. If I am forbidden from doing that, then my rate of acquisition of knowledge has been retarded. And that was the point.
....drones to airdrop missiles or fast food on my front door.
Hence the term "gut bombs".
I prefer the following response to the "Just get over it/MAKE yourself be happy" crowd.
I'm naturally buoyant. I can pretty much float in water until I pickle to death. Almost no effort required to keep my head above water.
Depression is like what happens when I put on a scuba weight belt. I can still keep my head above water, but I'm having to MAKE myself be buoyant (so to speak) by more actively treading water. Eventually, however, the extra effort required is going to tell, I can't keep treading and I'll go under.
No lollipop for you. Getting angry doesn't make you more intelligent. Angry people are famous, in fact, for doing really stupid things.
However, at least some forms of depression seem to be related to obsession. You receive what most people would think of as a minor emotional injury and you can't let go of it. It drags you down constantly as it replays over and over in your head.
Receiving a MAJOR emotional injury where "they all team up to try to destroy you" is more likely to end up with a major shooting incident or the like.
Obsession can be crippling when it comes to handling injuries, but obsession IS considered a sign of genius when you can't let go of a creative idea and keep pursuing it long after sensible people would have dropped it.
I thought depression is still a "physical" problem, although not one immediately obvious in blood tests? Otherwise why would you prescribe drugs altering the brain chemistry (which is beyond the blood-brain barrier)?
Because there's good money in pharmaceuticals?
Because it's a crap shoot. There is no physical test for most forms of depression, it has to be diagnosed by professional investigation, subject to whatever current psychiatric fads are in effect.
And likewise, there's no magic bullet treatment for depression, despite what impression the drug commercials might give. One person's relief may do nothing for another, and the side-effects can often be so annoying that even if an effective drug is discovered, the patient may not use it effectively. I refuse to buy into the euphemism "client". Clients are repeat business. I'd rather be a patient, since patients are supposed to be cured.
Some people can experience relief via talk therapy. Some via drugs. Some need drugs to put them into a proper mental state for talk therapy to work.
Someday, I'm hoping we can reach a point where you can spit on a chip and a DNA analysis will return a list of drugs that will work effectively and with minimum side-effects, possibly even to the point of creating a custom formula on the spot. We've a long way to go before we reach that point, though.
News flash: the drunks at the bar may think they're just like "everyone," but most people are not at the bar.
I don't go to bars. They depress me.
I think that if I can know about something, but I'm legally prohibited from creating one of them myself unless I cough up enough cash, that counts as "retarding".
I'm actually not sure these days just how many universities are profit, and how many are non-profit. But I do know that some of them have managed to amass immense amounts of cash into funds that don't appear to have much to supporting day-to-day operation of the school.
Actually, in the long-term, a non-profit is expected to break even (allowing for inflation).
When it consistently makes a profit, it can reasonably expect questions from the IRS.