I know its been mentioned before, but since it still continues...
Can the posters please try to refrain from always including a "...this is cool, but I'm not interested until..." comment at the end of nearly every story. This story's version of course is "I just want them to produce the Cerberus? version." Which isn't as bad as normal by comparison.
Posters, we know you are ultra-cool, knowledgeable uber-geeks never satisified with anything that comes along because you can always envision something better. Please just don't remind us every time you post a story.
Thanks
Companies interested in protecting their IP should always err on the side of caution. It is better for them to protect everything and enforce some things, than to protect some things, and NOT be able to enforce a particular violation when it arises. (i.e. I'm glad that the law says that people can't trespass into my backyard, it doesn't mean that I'm going to sue the 10 year old that enters it to retrieve his baseball).
Parallel installs have nothing to do with RDP!? RDP allows multiple, simultaneous sessions (MS gives you two admins for free, charges for the rest; I don't like that policy IMHO, but you don't have to use it if you don't want to either). The point of a parallel install is to allow the server to boot in case of a boot problem with the primary. As stated, this is a common official MS recommended troubleshooting step.
Lest anyone be led astray: while parallel installs may (I simply don't know and don't care) be a technical violation of the MS license, they are common practice; openly encouraged by MS tech support; and more importantly than anything: a GOOD IDEA for any Windows-based server. I seriously doubt any person not simply interested in trolling has any fear that MS (or any software company) would ever enforce their license in such a bizarre and truly fruitless way.
I've had my fair share (well I think more than fair...) of BSODs following the installation of a patch or service pack. But overall, things are much improved. This sort of thing happens MUCH less freqeuently in Win2K than it did in NT4 (which itself was better than 3.51). It's infrequent enough that I don't worry myself to much when doing MS-Update or SP installs. (I still always have an up-to-date System State backup, and a parallel install of Win2K to boot into).
Agreed. Zoning regulations, I believe, usually apply to the type of business activity you can maintain; i.e. you can't open a retail storefront or gas station in a residential community. Inside your house, you can do as you please, and you can certainly have visits from clients/employees, just use common sense, don't try to run a 20 person operation out of your house.
Also, consider getting a postal box from a private company (Postal Annex, Mailboxes Etc, whatever) so you can keep business separate from personal affairs. Also, if you live in a city, you can get a postal box outside city limits so you can avoid the annual city business tax ($125 where I live).
He did say he was a C-Corp, which is indeed a corporation. Deadline for filing was March 15th. BTW, if you do indeed have $0 revenue, close the corp and start a sole proprietorship or partnership which don't pay any corp taxes (taxes are paid by the partners on their personal tax returns); in California all corps have to pay $800 per year regardless of revenue (another reason not to be supporting a corp that no longer, or hasn't yet had, revenue).
Borrowing money and not paying it back is wrong. I wouldn't rent a house to someone without running a credit check, I don't see why it's so different as a component of hiring someone. If you are going to hand over the keys to the shop to someone, wouldn't it be good to know if they've previsouly been responsible for their debts? I know the slashdot crowd typically thinks in terms of the Giant Evil Corporation taking advantage of the Poor Innocent Individual, but what if you were a small shop keeper? Wouldn't it make sense to know the credit history of an employee that you were about to hand your livelihood over to?
In any case, whether or not this becomes standard practice will be decided on the open market (hopefully). This is America, the land of the free supposedly. Let's hope the government will stay out of it, and leave employment contract negotiations where they belong: decided between two consenting adults. So far though, they (the Government) haven't been so wise.
If you're talking about KQ1, then you have to have the ORIGINAL PCjr game (16 color, 3 voice sound) commissioned of Sierra by IBM (to show off the, ahem, advanced capabilities of the PCjr), and sold through the IBM Product Centers.
Perhaps he's commenting on the fact that you can be in the zero ($0) federal tax liability bracket (incomes up to $16,000 I think), not pay ANYTHING in federal income tax, and still get the earned income tax credit! and get tax refunds when they rarely occur as well!
Yes, everyone, Microsoft does have a sales organization. And (this should come to no surprise to anyone) they are a GOOD sales organization. The only thing surprising about this memo is how tame it actually is. Anyone who has even remotely seen how sales people need to be motivated knows this already.
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I know its been mentioned before, but since it still continues... Can the posters please try to refrain from always including a "...this is cool, but I'm not interested until..." comment at the end of nearly every story. This story's version of course is "I just want them to produce the Cerberus? version." Which isn't as bad as normal by comparison. Posters, we know you are ultra-cool, knowledgeable uber-geeks never satisified with anything that comes along because you can always envision something better. Please just don't remind us every time you post a story. Thanks
Companies interested in protecting their IP should always err on the side of caution. It is better for them to protect everything and enforce some things, than to protect some things, and NOT be able to enforce a particular violation when it arises. (i.e. I'm glad that the law says that people can't trespass into my backyard, it doesn't mean that I'm going to sue the 10 year old that enters it to retrieve his baseball).
Parallel installs have nothing to do with RDP!? RDP allows multiple, simultaneous sessions (MS gives you two admins for free, charges for the rest; I don't like that policy IMHO, but you don't have to use it if you don't want to either). The point of a parallel install is to allow the server to boot in case of a boot problem with the primary. As stated, this is a common official MS recommended troubleshooting step.
Lest anyone be led astray: while parallel installs may (I simply don't know and don't care) be a technical violation of the MS license, they are common practice; openly encouraged by MS tech support; and more importantly than anything: a GOOD IDEA for any Windows-based server. I seriously doubt any person not simply interested in trolling has any fear that MS (or any software company) would ever enforce their license in such a bizarre and truly fruitless way.
I've had my fair share (well I think more than fair...) of BSODs following the installation of a patch or service pack. But overall, things are much improved. This sort of thing happens MUCH less freqeuently in Win2K than it did in NT4 (which itself was better than 3.51). It's infrequent enough that I don't worry myself to much when doing MS-Update or SP installs. (I still always have an up-to-date System State backup, and a parallel install of Win2K to boot into).
Agreed. Zoning regulations, I believe, usually apply to the type of business activity you can maintain; i.e. you can't open a retail storefront or gas station in a residential community. Inside your house, you can do as you please, and you can certainly have visits from clients/employees, just use common sense, don't try to run a 20 person operation out of your house.
Also, consider getting a postal box from a private company (Postal Annex, Mailboxes Etc, whatever) so you can keep business separate from personal affairs. Also, if you live in a city, you can get a postal box outside city limits so you can avoid the annual city business tax ($125 where I live).
He did say he was a C-Corp, which is indeed a corporation. Deadline for filing was March 15th. BTW, if you do indeed have $0 revenue, close the corp and start a sole proprietorship or partnership which don't pay any corp taxes (taxes are paid by the partners on their personal tax returns); in California all corps have to pay $800 per year regardless of revenue (another reason not to be supporting a corp that no longer, or hasn't yet had, revenue).
How can you have a frag party in France, when all the players continually surrender?
Borrowing money and not paying it back is wrong. I wouldn't rent a house to someone without running a credit check, I don't see why it's so different as a component of hiring someone. If you are going to hand over the keys to the shop to someone, wouldn't it be good to know if they've previsouly been responsible for their debts? I know the slashdot crowd typically thinks in terms of the Giant Evil Corporation taking advantage of the Poor Innocent Individual, but what if you were a small shop keeper? Wouldn't it make sense to know the credit history of an employee that you were about to hand your livelihood over to? In any case, whether or not this becomes standard practice will be decided on the open market (hopefully). This is America, the land of the free supposedly. Let's hope the government will stay out of it, and leave employment contract negotiations where they belong: decided between two consenting adults. So far though, they (the Government) haven't been so wise.
If you're talking about KQ1, then you have to have the ORIGINAL PCjr game (16 color, 3 voice sound) commissioned of Sierra by IBM (to show off the, ahem, advanced capabilities of the PCjr), and sold through the IBM Product Centers.
Perhaps he's commenting on the fact that you can be in the zero ($0) federal tax liability bracket (incomes up to $16,000 I think), not pay ANYTHING in federal income tax, and still get the earned income tax credit! and get tax refunds when they rarely occur as well!
Yes, everyone, Microsoft does have a sales organization. And (this should come to no surprise to anyone) they are a GOOD sales organization. The only thing surprising about this memo is how tame it actually is. Anyone who has even remotely seen how sales people need to be motivated knows this already.