Now enriched with hefty cash reserves thanks in large part to booming iPod sales, Apple Computer isn't about to let California tax collectors take too big of a bite.
The Cupertino, Calif.-headquartered firm has taken an unknown portion of its portfolio and set up shop in the veritable tax haven of Nevada, according to a recent BusinessWeek Online report.
So yea of course MSFT is seeing strong sales numbers. if I doubled the price of my product while having an illegal monopoly I woudl see strong sales figures as well..
It's not an illegal monopoly. You may not like it, you may not think it's fair, but it's not illegal. The courts have already decided this. Mostly Microsoft was found guilty of illegally leveraging their legal monopoly to try and take over other markets.
I'll tell you why the Americans hate the French - it's because the French have history and culture, philosophy and art. They have a cuisine which is based on rather more than saturated fat and corn syrup.
Wow, you're just as bad as the Americans who think France has nothing to offer. If you can't find good food, art, and culture anywhere in America, then you've been visiting the wrong parts. Let me guess, your travel agent set you up with a vacation to North Dakota in February?
It's a big country, if you need directions...just ask.
That data you provided doesn't tell us too much. It certainly doesn't tell us if taxes have been reduced on the rich. All it shows is that people with more money will pay more dollars in taxes. What we're really interested in (at least as far as this goes) is if the tax rate on the rich has been lowered, and what percentage the top 5%, and top 10% pay in taxes. Esp. the actual percentage they pay after any type of tax shelter is taken into consideration.
You could tax someone like Steve Jobs at 10% and he'd still pay more taxes (in dollars) than I would, even though I'm paying over 30% of my income as taxes.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/08/washington/08tax.html
Tax cuts were much deeper, and affected far more money, for families in the highest income categories. Households in the top 1 percent of earnings, which had an average income of $1.25 million, saw their effective individual tax rates drop to 19.6 percent in 2004 from 24.2 percent in 2000. The rate cut was twice as deep as for middle-income families, and it translated to an average tax cut of almost $58,000.
My colleague however thinks it's very useful. He thinks you need to be a regular user of Office to get the "benefit" of it, and like you, I'm not.
He's right to a point. It's adaptive, if you use a feature enough it'll be added to the menu. Therfore if you use Office everyday and do similar tasks everyday, eventually the menus should only have the features you use on a regular basis.
If you use Office everyday, but do completely different features everyday, then those menus won't work correctly, or they'll just eventually end up showing every feature.
I'm sure Microsoft's research showed that the vast majority of Office users do end up creating similar documents over and over again. That's unfortutnely the nature of a job. If you're lucky enough to have the kind of work where everyday you get to do something new, then bitching about having to turn off adaptive menus probably is pretty high on the list of things you have to get upset about.
Some users are already reporting PS3 games freezing during play and some other technical issues.
Makes sense, they cut supplies because they can't get good yields of usable components. That being the case, Sony probably sets the quality control bar as to what consittues a good usnit low as they can so they can have as many as possible.
With all the noise made over the 360 overheating problems, I hope for Sony's sake these reports are premature. Because if they freeze or have other technical issues there are some 7 million Xbox 360 owners just wating to make a big deal out of it. I bet ya' everybody and there brother interested in concole gaming is just waiting to take a picture/video of a frozen PS3 and gain YouTube fame.
No, not quite. It was something like Netscape was free for personal use, but $29.95 (or something like that) for business or professional use. At the time, you could buy Navigator in a shrink-wrapped box in the software stores.
To this day Historians are still trying to find someone that actually paid for Netscape Navigator. It's rumored that such people actually exist, but no proof has, as yet, been found.
You can't see the looming hubbub? Some lurker around a school yard, posing as a 13 year old, beaming Michael Jackson tunes to children.. luring one into near the bushes. Then the local parents groups and sheriff's departments and everyone else gets into wanting to monitor or restrict these things, yada yada yada.
It's not a problem until the first time it happens.
Good point, this has been a tremendous problem with the Nintendo DS...oh wait, no it hasn't.
Apple acting unethically? Willfully infringing on the patents of a much smaller company?
Did some guy at Apple just look at Creative's MP3 players back in the day and think, "Damn, I can rip their ideas off, add a click wheel, package it up in a pretty white box and steal their market!"?
Ok, shares plunged. Got it. Now, let's go look at the big board for the last five days. Ok, I see the plunges, $430 to $390. Ouch--12%.
But with today's trading, as of 11 AM Central Standard Time, shares are hovering around $405. How frigid is that "bath" if it only takes five days to get back up to $430? Clearly it's already rising back up to its once held position.
This post became a little less insightful at around 3:30pm EST.
I'm not a MS fanboy. I'm more of a linux/Mac fanboy, I should hate Microsoft. I don't like...how they throw much money at getting their consoles popular (celebrities on the XB 360 revealing special on MTV).
Yeah, I know where what you meen. Using celebrites to sell your products is the worse
Geez, but you guys sound a lot like somone's parents. If you're over 16, you aren't supposed to like MTv. If you did, they wouldn't be doing their job.
"Knife the baby" is a quote from an Apple excutive.
For example, Tevanian claimed Microsoft's Christopher Phillips had told Apple executive Peter Hoddie that the company should back away from QuickTime.
Tevanian told the court: "Mr. Hoddie said, 'Do you want us to knife the baby?,'" referring to QuickTime. "And Mr. Phillips said, 'Yes we're talking about knifing the baby.'"
In addition, shouldn't they be suing the person who created the product, not the user? I would think that they should sue Microsoft (ASP, MS-SQL) or the Apache/PHP teams, since they are the partys creating the patent violating technology.
Damn straight! Then the readers of Slashdot could support this company.
That's why Windows Media Player doesn't get used by a lot of people
Wow, if that's not a clear case Slashdot Group Think, I don't know what is. It's scary how some of you guys actually believe things like that.
Nielsen/NetRatings, which measures digital usage, says WMP is the most used Internet application, with 51.8 million users in February. More people use it than even unauthorized file-sharing program Kazaa -- 5.7 million, or America Online's Instant Messenger, which had 29.1 million users in February.
Real, with 30.6 million users, is the second-most-popular application.
From what I've seen, I wasn't impressed at all, not even a little. Maybe It was the worst of the entire series, short lived as it was. I'll even admit there is 1 B5 episode out there, that if it was the first I had seen, well, it would have been the last.
Would that "1 B5 episode" be the entire first season?
Slashdot Mirror
Apple seeks tax haven in Nevada
Now enriched with hefty cash reserves thanks in large part to booming iPod sales, Apple Computer isn't about to let California tax collectors take too big of a bite. The Cupertino, Calif.-headquartered firm has taken an unknown portion of its portfolio and set up shop in the veritable tax haven of Nevada, according to a recent BusinessWeek Online report.
So yea of course MSFT is seeing strong sales numbers. if I doubled the price of my product while having an illegal monopoly I woudl see strong sales figures as well..
It's not an illegal monopoly. You may not like it, you may not think it's fair, but it's not illegal. The courts have already decided this. Mostly Microsoft was found guilty of illegally leveraging their legal monopoly to try and take over other markets.
I'll tell you why the Americans hate the French - it's because the French have history and culture, philosophy and art. They have a cuisine which is based on rather more than saturated fat and corn syrup.
Wow, you're just as bad as the Americans who think France has nothing to offer. If you can't find good food, art, and culture anywhere in America, then you've been visiting the wrong parts. Let me guess, your travel agent set you up with a vacation to North Dakota in February?
It's a big country, if you need directions...just ask.
You could tax someone like Steve Jobs at 10% and he'd still pay more taxes (in dollars) than I would, even though I'm paying over 30% of my income as taxes. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/08/washington/08tax.html Tax cuts were much deeper, and affected far more money, for families in the highest income categories. Households in the top 1 percent of earnings, which had an average income of $1.25 million, saw their effective individual tax rates drop to 19.6 percent in 2004 from 24.2 percent in 2000. The rate cut was twice as deep as for middle-income families, and it translated to an average tax cut of almost $58,000.
He's right to a point. It's adaptive, if you use a feature enough it'll be added to the menu. Therfore if you use Office everyday and do similar tasks everyday, eventually the menus should only have the features you use on a regular basis.
If you use Office everyday, but do completely different features everyday, then those menus won't work correctly, or they'll just eventually end up showing every feature.
I'm sure Microsoft's research showed that the vast majority of Office users do end up creating similar documents over and over again. That's unfortutnely the nature of a job. If you're lucky enough to have the kind of work where everyday you get to do something new, then bitching about having to turn off adaptive menus probably is pretty high on the list of things you have to get upset about.
Some users are already reporting PS3 games freezing during play and some other technical issues. Makes sense, they cut supplies because they can't get good yields of usable components. That being the case, Sony probably sets the quality control bar as to what consittues a good usnit low as they can so they can have as many as possible. With all the noise made over the 360 overheating problems, I hope for Sony's sake these reports are premature. Because if they freeze or have other technical issues there are some 7 million Xbox 360 owners just wating to make a big deal out of it. I bet ya' everybody and there brother interested in concole gaming is just waiting to take a picture/video of a frozen PS3 and gain YouTube fame.
Works fine for me in IE7. Turn on Anti-Fisihing, started Google, Image Search "Ferrari". First image opened with no problems.
No, not quite. It was something like Netscape was free for personal use, but $29.95 (or something like that) for business or professional use. At the time, you could buy Navigator in a shrink-wrapped box in the software stores.
To this day Historians are still trying to find someone that actually paid for Netscape Navigator. It's rumored that such people actually exist, but no proof has, as yet, been found.
It's not a problem until the first time it happens.
Good point, this has been a tremendous problem with the Nintendo DS...oh wait, no it hasn't.
Did some guy at Apple just look at Creative's MP3 players back in the day and think, "Damn, I can rip their ideas off, add a click wheel, package it up in a pretty white box and steal their market!"?
Mind you, I'm only asking questions. ;)
And for anbybody searching - Autodesk - someone had to mention them here on Slashdot.
But with today's trading, as of 11 AM Central Standard Time, shares are hovering around $405. How frigid is that "bath" if it only takes five days to get back up to $430? Clearly it's already rising back up to its once held position.
This post became a little less insightful at around 3:30pm EST.
Today's Chart
I guess that other guy should have bought the bass guitar. ;)
Yeah, I know where what you meen. Using celebrites to sell your products is the worse
It's just so lame
when compaines do that
These lame celebrity ads/giveaways/endorsements have got to stop!
According to this online polls Cowboy Neal has stolen over 10,000 consoles. It's an online poll, so it must be true. You think he's eBaying them?
Cowboy Neal Stole My Xbox
btw...thanks for the lesson on what Slashdot is and isn't. I just haven't been around here long enough to figure it out myself. ;)
Microsoft Sued Over Patent Infringements
and compare them to the comments in this article.
I guess Microsoft is always wrong on Slashdot.
Geez, but you guys sound a lot like somone's parents. If you're over 16, you aren't supposed to like MTv. If you did, they wouldn't be doing their job.
Damn Microsoft and their evil marketing hype machine!!
Then
Again
I could
Be wrong...
"Knife the baby"
"Knife the baby" is a quote from an Apple excutive.
For example, Tevanian claimed Microsoft's Christopher Phillips had told Apple executive Peter Hoddie that the company should back away from QuickTime.
Tevanian told the court: "Mr. Hoddie said, 'Do you want us to knife the baby?,'" referring to QuickTime. "And Mr. Phillips said, 'Yes we're talking about knifing the baby.'"
So please make sure Apple gets the credit.
Now you know what a monkey is:
Monkey
And now you should understand the name.
Damn straight! Then the readers of Slashdot could support this company.
GOOG +7.58
MSFT +0.89 ...is kind of amusing.
That's amusing only if you don't understand percentages. Look at a 1 year chart, that's amusing.
Wow, if that's not a clear case Slashdot Group Think, I don't know what is. It's scary how some of you guys actually believe things like that.
Nielsen/NetRatings, which measures digital usage, says WMP is the most used Internet application, with 51.8 million users in February. More people use it than even unauthorized file-sharing program Kazaa -- 5.7 million, or America Online's Instant Messenger, which had 29.1 million users in February.
Real, with 30.6 million users, is the second-most-popular application.
Would that "1 B5 episode" be the entire first season?
Microsoft's market cap is about 275 billion, so Google still has a long, long way to go.