I've seen some incorrect information posted here, specifically about C corporations:
Just because you are a C corporation does not mean you are a personal service corporation. Investigate the actual IRS forms and instructions, and structure any contracts to avoid it.
You only get taxed twice for dividends. For normal wages they are a deduction to the corporation. The general idea is to have fairly close to zero corporate income.
I've had a C corporation for the past 17 years. When I started S corporations were a pretty bad idea due to top personal tax rates that are quite a bit higher than they are now. Things aren't so clear-cut now. I've found that having a seperate legal entity where I can determine how much money flows to me can provide stabilization. When times are tough there is money in the corporate account so I still get paid. The resulting corporate losses can be carried over to when times are good.
In most cases that I have investigated, major stockholders of corporations don't need workmens comp (yet another welfare program). The only exception I've found was Nevada (W.C. run by the state, of course they are going to make you play).
Some states, like California, make you pay an absurd amount of money as a C corporation whether you make any money or not that year, I think it's up to 1200 per year. Other states may only charge your corporation a $50 charge plus a percent on profit (usually pretty close to zero). Just depends on where you live.
I did some programming for the 4004 back around 1975, I had no idea it was that old of a chip. Of course I was working for the military, so that might explain it:)
As I recall we had a Model-33 Teletype for software development. We punched the program into paper tape, called up a system using an acoustic modem and used their cross-assembler. Or maybe I'm just having an antacid flashback.
Must of have been a week or two ago. I was trying to debug some LAN activity that only occurs at midnight on a custom system here. I have a log of TCP activity but it was filled with worm activity by the time I looked at it in the mornings.
Based on the activity I detected I set the software up to look for a GET using any of the following substrings: SCRIPTS MSADC WINNT ADMIN.DLL _VTI_BIN and _MEM_BIN. If found then the requestor's IP address got added to a list. Anytime the TCP stack saw a SYN request from one of these addresses it just ignored it instead of starting the handshake. So far it has blocked 75 IP addresses and my log files are now pretty pristine.
When I moved to Vermont in 1988 they already had that law on the books. I was informed by neighbors that "Real Vermonters" just put down zero for the amount of out of state purchases. I remember one year the tax return had a message pretty much begging people to report their out of state purchases.
Another scam they were running is charging sales/use tax on vehicles owned by people who moved into the state, even though they had already paid sales tax to the state where they lived when they bought the vehicle. The US Supreme court eventually knocked this down, so I got my money back.
If you are a programmer, and are reading this right now, take a few minutes after every block of code, go grab a cup of coffee.... I don't drink coffee.
Have you tried www.tachyon.com? They have a
number of different plans depending on the
bandwidth you require. $80000 would support
this type of system for many years.
I've been using a tachyon system for over a
year and I find it works just fine for web
surfing, email, FTP uploads, etc. May not be
good for gaming, but students are supposed to
be doing real work:)
Next year, the San Jose, Calif.-based company will come out with an inexpensive system-on-a-chip that fuses a processor, a chipset and a graphics chip as well as a new high-performance version of Crusoe, said Dave Ditzel, Transmeta's chief technology officer.
Sounds like they are trying to get into the same area as the ZFLinux chip. Has anyone seen any power consumption comparisons between the two?
Essentially every major world religion and culture advocates or prescribes chastity: no sexual partners until marriage, and only one after that with the intent to produce children. Why is this such a common view?
Could it be because all religions were made up by the same species on the same planet?, Nah, too simple.
Since there are tens of thousands of TCP and UDP ports available for every IP address it might be possible to give each device the same IP address but a different port number to respond to. The only catch I can see is ARP handling for Ethernet.
On Windows I develop stand alone applications with Delphi.
I agree, too bad Borland never made a version of Delphi that generated byte codes (or whatever people are calling P-code these days), that would be the best of both worlds.
They may prevent a commercial enterprise from building circumvention devices but individuals can build their own, using the information in the patents as a guide.
Nicholas Wirth's Modula-2 addressed just this issue. Once the interface of a module was defined the implementation could be changed without the clients be recompiled or even aware of the change itself.
The easiest to use language that I have found is Object-Pascal, such as Delphi. I often develop a program using Delphi or some other flavor of Pascal (depending on platform) and then downgrade the code to C once it is working.
For those students who want to be able to work at the hardware driver/interrupt level a course in assembly language is highly desirable. Sometimes you can use C for interrupt handlers, sometimes you can't.
like Starband. I didn't see anything about static IP addresses or a real network interface (ethernet).
Those of us who need to run servers in the sticks need a professional service. The only service I'm aware of right now that fits the bill is Tachyon. But unless they have changed rates recently it is about $4000 for equipment and $300 per month for 300kbits download and 64kbits upload.
Once I got them to fix a bug in their upload software it has been working pretty well. Fortunately a client is footing the bill:)
There's more to PPC's than Macs, there are a lot of applications for embedded systems where Linux would be ideal on a PPC. We looked at using some flavor of Linux on a PPC for one of our systems just so we wouldn't have to deal with the bytes being in backwords order on Intel machines.
Replace batteries every 3 years?
on
Flywheel UPS
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· Score: 1
Who does this? Their graph even shows 1 year replacement. UPS Batteries should last a lot longer than that. If they had graphed a 10 year battery life their flywheel wouldn't look so good.
Have you noticed that more and more SpamCop ends up sending email to "xxxxxxxxx@devnull.spamcop.net" or something like that? Seems to me this means that the ISP just doesn't care and won't take any action. If the ISP doesn't care it means the spammer has won.
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If they could make those then maybe the Spam that promises you will be hung like a horse will come true.
I wouldn't be surprised if this is just another money-making scheme from IEEE.
As I recall we had a Model-33 Teletype for software development. We punched the program into paper tape, called up a system using an acoustic modem and used their cross-assembler. Or maybe I'm just having an antacid flashback.
Based on the activity I detected I set the software up to look for a GET using any of the following substrings: SCRIPTS MSADC WINNT ADMIN.DLL _VTI_BIN and _MEM_BIN. If found then the requestor's IP address got added to a list. Anytime the TCP stack saw a SYN request from one of these addresses it just ignored it instead of starting the handshake. So far it has blocked 75 IP addresses and my log files are now pretty pristine.
For the life of me I couldn't find a way to delete my hotmail account, glad to hear it will be done for me.
Isn't this the basic problem with the USPTO these days? If they are simple ideas do they really deserve a patent?
I just added www.msn.com to my firewall's filter list, now all my browsers work exactly the same on that site.
Another scam they were running is charging sales/use tax on vehicles owned by people who moved into the state, even though they had already paid sales tax to the state where they lived when they bought the vehicle. The US Supreme court eventually knocked this down, so I got my money back.
If you are a programmer, and are reading this right now, take a few minutes after every block of code, go grab a cup of coffee....
I don't drink coffee.
I've been using a tachyon system for over a year and I find it works just fine for web surfing, email, FTP uploads, etc. May not be good for gaming, but students are supposed to be doing real work :)
That's good enough to put on my web page as the "Moronic Quote of the Month".
Sounds like they are trying to get into the same area as the ZFLinux chip.
Has anyone seen any power consumption comparisons between the two?
Could it be because all religions were made up by the same species on the same planet?, Nah, too simple.
Saw Ashcroft on the tube, makes me think he (and others) are doing their best to change "America Fights Back" into "America Bends Over".
Then of course, I could be wrong.
I agree, too bad Borland never made a version of Delphi that generated byte codes (or whatever people are calling P-code these days), that would be the best of both worlds.
Horses Mongo like horses.
Sounds like a good deal to me :)
Maybe Perversive Computing might be more accurate.
It's called Delphi.
For those students who want to be able to work at the hardware driver/interrupt level a course in assembly language is highly desirable. Sometimes you can use C for interrupt handlers, sometimes you can't.
like Starband. I didn't see anything about static IP addresses or a real network interface (ethernet). Those of us who need to run servers in the sticks need a professional service. The only service I'm aware of right now that fits the bill is Tachyon. But unless they have changed rates recently it is about $4000 for equipment and $300 per month for 300kbits download and 64kbits upload. Once I got them to fix a bug in their upload software it has been working pretty well. Fortunately a client is footing the bill :)
There's more to PPC's than Macs, there are a lot of applications for embedded systems where Linux would be ideal on a PPC. We looked at using some flavor of Linux on a PPC for one of our systems just so we wouldn't have to deal with the bytes being in backwords order on Intel machines.
Who does this? Their graph even shows 1 year replacement. UPS Batteries should last a lot longer than that. If they had graphed a 10 year battery life their flywheel wouldn't look so good.
Have you noticed that more and more SpamCop ends up sending email to "xxxxxxxxx@devnull.spamcop.net" or something like that? Seems to me this means that the ISP just doesn't care and won't take any action. If the ISP doesn't care it means the spammer has won.