Bah. Hardly a false premise. For one thing, capital gains taxes on stock sales in the U.S. are at 15% right now, instead of the base federal income tax of 10-33% (most likely 33% for the amount these folks would be making). Not to mention they get out of FICA and all the others (including State and local income taxes). Additionally, Google does not have to pay matching FICA on their salaries (yes you only pay half of your FICA burden in the US, your employer has to match). Also, if their stock is a different classification than the general public stock (which it almost always is), they can receive dividends on that stock class tax free or nearly tax free.
My company sells many, many Pentium 4 cpu's and systems, we have tested time and time again RDRAM and DDR memory on this platform (admittedly, we haven't seen this newer tech yet). Anyway, our findings in the past will probably still hold true to these newer techs and that is that while RDRAM provides higher bandwidth the latency is so high that if your applications is retreiving small amounts of data very often, the performance is very much decreased. RDRAM works great for things like games, graphics, video, etc because retrieving "large" chunks of memory is far more optimized. Most database accesses are going to return much small amounts of data, and considering the high initial latency each time, I think that the DDR will really provide a much more responsive database server. (Of course this depends on the data you're storing....)
Hello, actually most companies (especially Microsoft) DO track each and every product (to the serial number) through all of the distributers and in the case of Retail stores like Best Buy, then even track which store location gets each copy. SO it is possible to at least get a ballpark idea of who is the fink. Maybe =)
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Bah. Hardly a false premise. For one thing, capital gains taxes on stock sales in the U.S. are at 15% right now, instead of the base federal income tax of 10-33% (most likely 33% for the amount these folks would be making). Not to mention they get out of FICA and all the others (including State and local income taxes). Additionally, Google does not have to pay matching FICA on their salaries (yes you only pay half of your FICA burden in the US, your employer has to match). Also, if their stock is a different classification than the general public stock (which it almost always is), they can receive dividends on that stock class tax free or nearly tax free.
My company sells many, many Pentium 4 cpu's and systems, we have tested time and time again RDRAM and DDR memory on this platform (admittedly, we haven't seen this newer tech yet). Anyway, our findings in the past will probably still hold true to these newer techs and that is that while RDRAM provides higher bandwidth the latency is so high that if your applications is retreiving small amounts of data very often, the performance is very much decreased. RDRAM works great for things like games, graphics, video, etc because retrieving "large" chunks of memory is far more optimized. Most database accesses are going to return much small amounts of data, and considering the high initial latency each time, I think that the DDR will really provide a much more responsive database server. (Of course this depends on the data you're storing....)
Hello, actually most companies (especially Microsoft) DO track each and every product (to the serial number) through all of the distributers and in the case of Retail stores like Best Buy, then even track which store location gets each copy. SO it is possible to at least get a ballpark idea of who is the fink. Maybe =)