the person has a decade of personal info, including (apparently) credit card info, on the machine. I'm not going to make the assumption anything is happening the way it should be happening, at that point.
you go ahead with that plan. The rest of us understand that depreciation (amortization is for intangible, not tangible assets) is a tax issue, and doesn't mean that the item has no actual value anymore. You'll still be willfully destroying or harming private property, and could still - if the employer chooses - be charged criminally. Harming your employer simply because you did something stupid is a really, really bad idea.
damaging the computer in any way (yes, I know the "nuke it" comment was a joke...but the other comments in the thread aren't) is a great way to lose a final paycheck, or otherwise have your former employer be very unhappy with you. You have work on your computer that shows your thought processes while you were doing certain tasks...notes, etc. If something goes wrong 4 months from now, they may want to check those notes.
Why would your credit card info be on the box, again? I know I already asked, but...huh? What year is this...did I go back in time?
Easy. Start with not storing personal stuff on a work computer. Next step - assuming you're an admin on your box - create another admin account on the box. Log off your account, log in to that account, delete your profile off the box.
Why would your CC info be on the box, anyway? Do you really type out your CC number into text files and leave them on your PC? Why?
the palm pilot of 1996? Tech that wasn't driven or designed by apple improved, allowing for more features. Blackberry had a touchscreen square thingy before the iphone, too. Unless you're really just talking about the rounded edges, which...that's just design in general, and is a fad thing. Look at cars - they go from sharp lines, to rounded features, back to sharp lines, back to rounded features...oscillates every couple decades. Look at the corvette in particular - started round, then a few years later went to start lines, then back to round with the stingray, then back to straight lines with the 80's...
You're not really so much of an apple fanboi that the idea of rounded edges is something you really attribute to apple, are you?
There's a lot in between specifically designing software to give authorities lots of info, and making money from facilitating other people breaking the law. Kim "Dotcom," however you may feel on the subject in general, did intentionally promote piracy. The Mozilla foundation, as a counter, does not. Nor does the Mozilla Foundation go out of its way to provide this type of info to authorities, and improving the info that can be given. It's an exceptionally false dichotomy.
This is beyond a silly idea for a show. "Top Chef for Geeks" only works as an analogy if Top Chef (which I don't watch, so...) represents to chefs something that was always of questionable merit, hotly debated in the past, and is now on a rapid and obvious decline from which there most likely will not be a recovery. What talent anywhere is still dreaming of a job at Microsoft?
As old as it is, they'd still have a more popular show if they had a competition to become a developer at Blizzard for World of Warcraft...at least some people still enjoy that software...
I've been in a couple Fedora FUDs, and I'm running Fed17 while typing in this little box thing to reply to you. That said...."real data" isn't stored on a box running Fedora. Sorry. I mean that with lots of love to the entire Fedora community (well...most of it...) but...I'm pretty sure most of the community wouldn't claim it's a production server OS anyway.
except for the part where there was no advertising to be seen for a while. Very little spam in my email, either. Quite proud of your job in advertising, aren't you? Success isn't because of the quality of a product itself, the engineers designing it, the integration with other products/services/workflows...nope, it's because of advertising. Yeesh!
that W3C wasn't founded until 1994 doesn't factor in at all either for you, I suppose? Just looking around and remembering all the things that were happening those couple years...
And you want to give credit to advertising? Really?!?
wow...so you really do think that advertising was more important to the explosion of the internet than was http, linux, the iana assigned numbers, and all the other things that formalized what was what so everyone could jump in and would work. That's just...crazy. What in the hell do you think "advertising" would have done, with no one to advertise to? I was there...there was no advertising of note the first few years. The explosion was still happening.
...really? You're gonna go there? So it had nothing to do with all the other stuff happening in 94-96? rfc1700 - assigned numbers in 94, rfc1737 Functional Requirements for Uniform Resource Names in Dec94, http/1.0 finalized in 1996, Linux bringing a bunch of common folks exploding onto the scene with things like RedHat 1.0 in Dec1994...you're not really giving credit to bloat and advertising for the explosion of the internet, are you? I owned an ISP from 1994-1996 (sold it). There was practically no advertising at the time, and it was still exploding. It exploded in spite of the bloat that came later. Are you just a ad exec or something, that you would put all the other things happening in the mid 90's behind advertising. Yeesh.
http://www.tax-rates.org/California/income-tax shows the top rate; the ftb site doesn't show the schedule P and above rate. Wonder where I found fed at 38, though...MEH. Even at 44.3%, it's a third of 15% (more or less). Being paid in high-dividend shares instead of salary is not "generous." It's a tax dodge.
....generosity? For someone living in California, the top tax bracket is 48.3% for salaried income. Qualified dividends, on the other hand, have ranged from 10-15% in recent history. There was nothing remotely "generous" about the pay he took. The Google founders do the same thing.
nothing is lost, except for when using the unconfirmed information to discredit opposing theories...one of which may well be more right than the standard model. But otherwise, yeah...nothing lost, we're good to go.
just fyi, your caps-lock key appears to be malfunctioning, causing it to turn on in random spurts. The effect is to make your writing look as out-dated as my nick.
I don't know about you, but I run ecommerce websites from my laptop that process credit card transactions on a very regular basis. I mean duh, who doesn't?
(PCI = Payment Card Industry...)
we're talking about small devices, right? Phones, ipads, etc? Items which have a short battery life while playing a movie anyway? If you're wanting to be always ready to go for those crazy emergency vacations to places so damn boring that you will die if you don't have the ability to watch every movie in your entire collection, get a laptop. You might be a bit happier with the battery life, screen size, sound, and ability to hook up via HDMI to the hotel TV/etc.
time management? Planning for those trips to abandoned underground bomb shelters that can't get signals, and thus putting the stuff on your device before you go, instead of relying upon a bunch of external physical media? I used to love my floppies too back in the day, but they make a little pill for that now in this century...
It seems you do indeed need to look up what "as it were" means. What I don't need to write is an extended background of my life, just to provide context for a few sentences (hint: we're childhood sweethearts, first loves, been together more than half our lives...so yes, in many very real ways, we are a single entity). What you don't need to write is poor attempts at critique of writing on a very informal, thread-based message board.
why - because I chose to boil down a pre-response to those who would cry hypocrisy over my stating I do something differently than my wife? She's not me...as it were. Perfectly cromulent statement. Mayhaps you should just look up what "as it were" means...?
I intentionally don't buy their stuff due to their manufacturing product, but my wife (who isn't me, as it were) has never had a single problem with her iphone, or the one before it. Nor has she had a single problem with her macbook. I, on the other hand, have had a litany of problems with my galaxy S(1)...
Whether she's being hip or not, the products do integrate very well, run very stable, etc. She has lots of other things to do, and gets to not worry about messing with her phone/computer/etc.
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the person has a decade of personal info, including (apparently) credit card info, on the machine. I'm not going to make the assumption anything is happening the way it should be happening, at that point.
you go ahead with that plan. The rest of us understand that depreciation (amortization is for intangible, not tangible assets) is a tax issue, and doesn't mean that the item has no actual value anymore. You'll still be willfully destroying or harming private property, and could still - if the employer chooses - be charged criminally. Harming your employer simply because you did something stupid is a really, really bad idea.
Why would your credit card info be on the box, again? I know I already asked, but...huh? What year is this...did I go back in time?
Easy. Start with not storing personal stuff on a work computer. Next step - assuming you're an admin on your box - create another admin account on the box. Log off your account, log in to that account, delete your profile off the box.
Why would your CC info be on the box, anyway? Do you really type out your CC number into text files and leave them on your PC? Why?
You're not really so much of an apple fanboi that the idea of rounded edges is something you really attribute to apple, are you?
There's a lot in between specifically designing software to give authorities lots of info, and making money from facilitating other people breaking the law. Kim "Dotcom," however you may feel on the subject in general, did intentionally promote piracy. The Mozilla foundation, as a counter, does not. Nor does the Mozilla Foundation go out of its way to provide this type of info to authorities, and improving the info that can be given. It's an exceptionally false dichotomy.
As old as it is, they'd still have a more popular show if they had a competition to become a developer at Blizzard for World of Warcraft...at least some people still enjoy that software...
I've been in a couple Fedora FUDs, and I'm running Fed17 while typing in this little box thing to reply to you. That said...."real data" isn't stored on a box running Fedora. Sorry. I mean that with lots of love to the entire Fedora community (well...most of it...) but...I'm pretty sure most of the community wouldn't claim it's a production server OS anyway.
not advertisers...
except for the part where there was no advertising to be seen for a while. Very little spam in my email, either. Quite proud of your job in advertising, aren't you? Success isn't because of the quality of a product itself, the engineers designing it, the integration with other products/services/workflows...nope, it's because of advertising. Yeesh!
And you want to give credit to advertising? Really?!?
wow...so you really do think that advertising was more important to the explosion of the internet than was http, linux, the iana assigned numbers, and all the other things that formalized what was what so everyone could jump in and would work. That's just...crazy. What in the hell do you think "advertising" would have done, with no one to advertise to? I was there...there was no advertising of note the first few years. The explosion was still happening.
...really? You're gonna go there? So it had nothing to do with all the other stuff happening in 94-96? rfc1700 - assigned numbers in 94, rfc1737 Functional Requirements for Uniform Resource Names in Dec94, http/1.0 finalized in 1996, Linux bringing a bunch of common folks exploding onto the scene with things like RedHat 1.0 in Dec1994...you're not really giving credit to bloat and advertising for the explosion of the internet, are you? I owned an ISP from 1994-1996 (sold it). There was practically no advertising at the time, and it was still exploding. It exploded in spite of the bloat that came later. Are you just a ad exec or something, that you would put all the other things happening in the mid 90's behind advertising. Yeesh.
http://www.tax-rates.org/California/income-tax shows the top rate; the ftb site doesn't show the schedule P and above rate. Wonder where I found fed at 38, though...MEH. Even at 44.3%, it's a third of 15% (more or less). Being paid in high-dividend shares instead of salary is not "generous." It's a tax dodge.
....generosity? For someone living in California, the top tax bracket is 48.3% for salaried income. Qualified dividends, on the other hand, have ranged from 10-15% in recent history. There was nothing remotely "generous" about the pay he took. The Google founders do the same thing.
nothing is lost, except for when using the unconfirmed information to discredit opposing theories...one of which may well be more right than the standard model. But otherwise, yeah...nothing lost, we're good to go.
just fyi, your caps-lock key appears to be malfunctioning, causing it to turn on in random spurts. The effect is to make your writing look as out-dated as my nick.
I don't know about you, but I run ecommerce websites from my laptop that process credit card transactions on a very regular basis. I mean duh, who doesn't? (PCI = Payment Card Industry...)
we're talking about small devices, right? Phones, ipads, etc? Items which have a short battery life while playing a movie anyway? If you're wanting to be always ready to go for those crazy emergency vacations to places so damn boring that you will die if you don't have the ability to watch every movie in your entire collection, get a laptop. You might be a bit happier with the battery life, screen size, sound, and ability to hook up via HDMI to the hotel TV/etc.
time management? Planning for those trips to abandoned underground bomb shelters that can't get signals, and thus putting the stuff on your device before you go, instead of relying upon a bunch of external physical media? I used to love my floppies too back in the day, but they make a little pill for that now in this century...
markets are better about it now, but not too long ago, the 10/8 issue was very much the norm.
we all want to understand G-d, and will even claim understanding. Thus, per the very nature of our being, we have theories about the H-B ;)
It seems you do indeed need to look up what "as it were" means. What I don't need to write is an extended background of my life, just to provide context for a few sentences (hint: we're childhood sweethearts, first loves, been together more than half our lives...so yes, in many very real ways, we are a single entity). What you don't need to write is poor attempts at critique of writing on a very informal, thread-based message board.
why - because I chose to boil down a pre-response to those who would cry hypocrisy over my stating I do something differently than my wife? She's not me...as it were. Perfectly cromulent statement. Mayhaps you should just look up what "as it were" means...?
Whether she's being hip or not, the products do integrate very well, run very stable, etc. She has lots of other things to do, and gets to not worry about messing with her phone/computer/etc.