I think the more interesting part is the fact that she makes $86k as a patrol officer. Holy shit.
Would you do that job for $86k? I wouldn't. However, like teaching it's an important job. Higher salaries should, overall, mean a more qualified workforce. If it paid $200k you'd have an outstanding police force.
Try living in a country where the police are poorly paid. It's not so good. You'll get stopped for the sole purpose of extracting a bribe. And that's the best you can hope for.
From time to time, of course, but you must still be dreaming. Android has way less than half of the smart phone market share. Thus the "for sufficiently small values of 'dominate'" remark.
And since Verizon started selling the iPhone Android's US share is actually falling. And more potentially bad news for Android phones: 40% of European Smart Phone buyers plan to buy an iPhone vs. 19% who plan to purchase an Android phone.
Disclaimer: I own neither an iPhone nor an Android phone.
I doubt you could get a million dollar insurance policy against anything reasonable for $300 a year. So that might well be what you're willing to pay, but that's probably also why nobody's offering that service.
But if you think that's a reasonable price then perhaps there's a business opportunity for you. I'm sure there's a good customer base.
He would have taken the $6,000,000,000 that Google offered him for Groupon.
Unless he knew that it wouldn't stand up to the Due Diligence. Taking the deal would have meant Google doing an in-depth inspection of the business and the books before cutting the check. I'm not saying that it's necessarily the case here, but in the go-go 90's I saw a company turn down a buyout offer that was insane. I later came to realize it was because they couldn't have stood up to the pre-closing scrutiny.
I have no special knowledge of the Groupon situation, and the deal may well have been turned down for legitimate reasons. But that's not the only possibility.
He asked if it was taxable. Had he asked a different question, such as "can I get away with income tax evasion?" the answer of course might be different. But to equate a cash payment with being exempt from taxation reveals a certain mindset that some people find, well, disappointing.
It will be immensely more usable in the average workplace environment. I expect these tablets to sell quite well, better than the Android tablets for sure.
Assuming they can actually make one that has the power to run the OS, doesn't overheat, weighs a pound and a half, and gets more than a few hours of battery life.
I'm taking the Don't. But assuming they can reach that point they've now got a laptop with no keyboard and a ten inch screen. Then they have to at the same time manage to make a good tablet out of it or else it's pointless.
Having the same OS as everyone else would now be a big improvement for them.
Not a lasting one. Long term they'd be selling the same commodity as everyone else. There's no margin in that. That's why Apple will continue to make the huge piles o' cash even while Android phones outsell them. A large number of Android phone sales will be simply "I don't want an iPhone. What else have you got?" And the "what else" would be some random Android phone. At least with WP7 they have some small chance of differentiating their product. Of course by then they will be a division of Microsoft. Nokia's market cap dropped today by 0.5 Skypes. Soon it will be so cheap that Microsoft's clandestine acquisition scheme can be completed.
I've been getting terrible frame rates from my usual printer paper.
You may be positioning it across the grain rather than with it. Holding it up against a bright light should show that. Also, try using a green marker to trace a rectangle around the edges.
Can they make us pay it all in one sitting if they wanted to? Bonds can't be redeemed until the maturity date, can they?
They can be sold at any time. If China chose to start dumping its bonds the market would be badly damaged. There's also an issue with Gold Futures. A Futures contract basically says "I'm willing to buy gold for X dollars at Y date." Currently there are many, many more active futures contracts than there is actual gold in the world. What happens in practice is that the vast majority of those contracts get "rolled over" into the next expiration period. But a buyer of a contract can instead choose to not roll it over and actually receive the gold, which means the seller has to come up with that much gold.
If China really wanted to cause havoc they could simply say "We want our gold. Fork it over." Because there is not enough gold in the world to satisfy those contracts, the price of gold goes to infinity as sellers scramble to fulfill their obligations. In practice there would certainly be some sort of intervention, but the fallout would be that the market would suffer tremendous damage.
So it is not Google's fault, Google has no choice about it.
It doesn't really matter whose fault it is, does it? There's been a certain expectation about Android phones and unfortunately that expectation is becoming less and less attainable.
But on the Mac I have Kaspersky too. Not that it runs permanently, but I test anything that I'm interested in installing, and every so often I do a full check from an account with admin risks
Not in this case. Emphasis on the subject would be something like "Sourcerror himself wrote the post." But you're right, were down to picking nits. The original "myself" was definitely incorrect.
I was waiting to by a new mac with the new USB 3.0, I guess I do not have to wait any longer, I am not getting a new mac.
Really? The The difference of a single port is enough to change your mind? It seems hard to believe such a fundamental choice would hinge on that. I have to believe you're not being sincere. You don't think adapters and multi-port hubs will soon follow?
I'm not saying it's right that there's no USB 3 port. I'm just saying that its absence shouldn't be enough of a reason. There are some clear advantages to Thunderbolt over USB 3, and the disadvantages, while annoying, are not difficult to overcome.
When I look at the back of my PC I see about half a dozen different types of connectors, so, yeah, you never really replace anything, you just enable new things.
Your computer has a parallel port? PS/2 ports for the mouse and keyboard?
actually i think the "error" is that Others or Myself is reversed
The order doesn't matter. "Myself" is just plain wrong there. Myself is proper when you are both the subject and the object, as in "I did it myself."
An easy way to know is to simply remove the other person. You certainly wouldn't say "Myself will answer," or "Please give it to myself." Adding another person doesn't change that.
BTW, that same test works for knowing whether to say "Robert and I" or "Robert and me," as in "Please give them to Robert and me." (Not I in this case.).
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Would you do that job for $86k? I wouldn't. However, like teaching it's an important job. Higher salaries should, overall, mean a more qualified workforce. If it paid $200k you'd have an outstanding police force.
Try living in a country where the police are poorly paid. It's not so good. You'll get stopped for the sole purpose of extracting a bribe. And that's the best you can hope for.
From time to time, of course, but you must still be dreaming. Android has way less than half of the smart phone market share. Thus the "for sufficiently small values of 'dominate'" remark.
And since Verizon started selling the iPhone Android's US share is actually falling. And more potentially bad news for Android phones: 40% of European Smart Phone buyers plan to buy an iPhone vs. 19% who plan to purchase an Android phone.
Disclaimer: I own neither an iPhone nor an Android phone.
For sufficiently small values of "dominate." Unless you mean in the same sense that McDonald's "dominates" the restaurant business.
But if you think that's a reasonable price then perhaps there's a business opportunity for you. I'm sure there's a good customer base.
Screw Al Gore, apparently *these guys* invented the internet. Or perhaps Al Gore himself could be considered to be prior art.
Unless he knew that it wouldn't stand up to the Due Diligence. Taking the deal would have meant Google doing an in-depth inspection of the business and the books before cutting the check. I'm not saying that it's necessarily the case here, but in the go-go 90's I saw a company turn down a buyout offer that was insane. I later came to realize it was because they couldn't have stood up to the pre-closing scrutiny.
I have no special knowledge of the Groupon situation, and the deal may well have been turned down for legitimate reasons. But that's not the only possibility.
Well that depends. How much are you willing to pay to have it stored?
You're right. Not surprisingly, if the quote said something different then it might support the conclusion. It does not.
He asked if it was taxable. Had he asked a different question, such as "can I get away with income tax evasion?" the answer of course might be different. But to equate a cash payment with being exempt from taxation reveals a certain mindset that some people find, well, disappointing.
Assuming they can actually make one that has the power to run the OS, doesn't overheat, weighs a pound and a half, and gets more than a few hours of battery life.
I'm taking the Don't. But assuming they can reach that point they've now got a laptop with no keyboard and a ten inch screen. Then they have to at the same time manage to make a good tablet out of it or else it's pointless.
If they asked for not only 100 male deer but also that many female pigs they could potentially cash in for as much as a hundred sows and bucks.
Do you think that cash is exempt from taxation?
Even ignoring that that was a ruling about a civil case, I don't see how the text you quoted supports your conclusion.
Have you done a study or is that just common sense?
Not a lasting one. Long term they'd be selling the same commodity as everyone else. There's no margin in that. That's why Apple will continue to make the huge piles o' cash even while Android phones outsell them. A large number of Android phone sales will be simply "I don't want an iPhone. What else have you got?" And the "what else" would be some random Android phone. At least with WP7 they have some small chance of differentiating their product. Of course by then they will be a division of Microsoft. Nokia's market cap dropped today by 0.5 Skypes. Soon it will be so cheap that Microsoft's clandestine acquisition scheme can be completed.
Normally yes, but I keep my Mac near the hot water heater, so that cancels it out.
You may be positioning it across the grain rather than with it. Holding it up against a bright light should show that. Also, try using a green marker to trace a rectangle around the edges.
They can be sold at any time. If China chose to start dumping its bonds the market would be badly damaged. There's also an issue with Gold Futures. A Futures contract basically says "I'm willing to buy gold for X dollars at Y date." Currently there are many, many more active futures contracts than there is actual gold in the world. What happens in practice is that the vast majority of those contracts get "rolled over" into the next expiration period. But a buyer of a contract can instead choose to not roll it over and actually receive the gold, which means the seller has to come up with that much gold.
If China really wanted to cause havoc they could simply say "We want our gold. Fork it over." Because there is not enough gold in the world to satisfy those contracts, the price of gold goes to infinity as sellers scramble to fulfill their obligations. In practice there would certainly be some sort of intervention, but the fallout would be that the market would suffer tremendous damage.
It doesn't really matter whose fault it is, does it? There's been a certain expectation about Android phones and unfortunately that expectation is becoming less and less attainable.
Have you ever found anything?
Not in this case. Emphasis on the subject would be something like "Sourcerror himself wrote the post." But you're right, were down to picking nits. The original "myself" was definitely incorrect.
Really? The The difference of a single port is enough to change your mind? It seems hard to believe such a fundamental choice would hinge on that. I have to believe you're not being sincere. You don't think adapters and multi-port hubs will soon follow?
I'm not saying it's right that there's no USB 3 port. I'm just saying that its absence shouldn't be enough of a reason. There are some clear advantages to Thunderbolt over USB 3, and the disadvantages, while annoying, are not difficult to overcome.
Your computer has a parallel port? PS/2 ports for the mouse and keyboard?
The order doesn't matter. "Myself" is just plain wrong there. Myself is proper when you are both the subject and the object, as in "I did it myself."
An easy way to know is to simply remove the other person. You certainly wouldn't say "Myself will answer," or "Please give it to myself." Adding another person doesn't change that.
BTW, that same test works for knowing whether to say "Robert and I" or "Robert and me," as in "Please give them to Robert and me." (Not I in this case.).