The gross margins are in no way justified by the development costs of past or future versions.
What world do you live in where MS needs to justify their gross margins based merely on production cost disregarding dev costs (half or more of total costs)? MS has a fairly high profit margin, but it's not anywhere 95% - more like 30% of revenue.
1000 is really an ex recto number. I know the number is large, and I assert that it's unreasonable to expect some random small merchant in.oh to deal with the tax codes of every other state (in their present state). Requiring them to collect taxes based on some state-granularity data published in one place once yearly seems a bit more reasonable, but good luck getting that passed.
This is called imposing an unreasonable burden on small business. It basically just makes it harder to start a business, while conferring an advantage on the large players - much better to actually simplify things, perhaps by requiring states to publish a sales tax schedule for use with online purchases with restrictions on granularity and deviation from the existing structure.
Why would it have to apply to your machine? Or even your company? There are thousands of companies out there; should they ALL leave all their PCs on simply because it might actually make sense for yours?
You're the one that made a blanket statement. And where did I say that it should apply to nobody? I merely pointed out that there's a simpler way to make this work.
And of those that do need everyone to rdp in, most don't have everyone RDPing in every night, so a WoL solution is a sensible option for them.
Assuming that WOL works right. It apparently doesn't.
Seriously, your objection to centers around a fringe case. Most people should turn their PCs off at night
And your argument assumes a functioning WOL setup, which isn't really the case.
In datacenters the computers are the primary energy draw
In datacenters, you can do things like power down half your servers during low traffic times (and shuffle the specific ones around to even out wear) - WOL and whatnot is a lot more applicable there - predictable workload and usage, no unexpected dataloss if the server stays down, and so on. I wonder if anyone is doing this in their DCs?
These are decisions IT managers should make - and they should take the bull by the horns and make a smart decision before their boss makes a dumb one.
I think the budget thing is the big one - IT saving $1M per year won't pay for the $200k to install a fancy patching system that plays nice with a bunch of powered down PCs.
An office set up such that every user can RDP into their own desktop after hours is almost absurd.
My office is absurd.
And hey even if you REALLY needed this, there is WoL.
How's that work with my dev environment, long builds, and syncing gigs of source code? Sure, it works pretty well, but my monitors are off at night, and you could achieve most of your goals if one of my CPUs were throttled to 0 at night.
You could set up a spiffy web interface... to take your name, or employeenumber, or hostname, or whatever, and it'll send out the magic packet and even let you know when the machine is listening on the RDP port and ready.
Okay, there are 1000 desktops at my company. How do you locate desktop X among those when all of them are off?
You don't have 50 provinces with the potential for additional local taxes, do you? If you combine the state + local taxes, you can easily get above 1000 different tax situations, with changes daily.
And now for the true hidden tax that both corporations are guilty of, the manufacturing costs to reproduce software is virtually $0, the price both companies charge for their software licensing are outrageously high and in some cases exceed $100 per license. The result, check the SEC filings for these companies and you'll find gross profit margins in excess of 95% in their software licensing.
How much do you think it costs to develop that software? It's not like MS magically doesn't pay 20-30 people to build the next version of Excel.
In the past year, I have compiled exactly one app that I wasn't trying to get a dev build for. All the other stuff shows up via yum - I say yum get 'something', it tells me what it wants to get, and I let it go do that. If your hypothetical app depends on something like libfoo.so instead of libfoo-1.1.4.so, it won't require a recompile either.
Honestly, I'd be surprised if they made anything like that stick. It feels like something that crosses several lines about what you're allowed to claim in a contract.
big deal. If he knew what he was doing, he put some stripes on the edge of the card to sort them properly. I know about that and I've never even held a punchcard.
My little incinerator burned so hot that if I threw in an aluminum can, it didn't hit bottom -- just went POOF about halfway down. Steel cans lasted about 30 seconds.
So I'm wondering - what's the comparative heat capacity of a body? Lots of water content there.
That's easy - take a break and ravish her until her eyes roll back, then say "honey, I have to go do some stuff" and go do your work. Women just want some love, tenderness, and the occasional mad balling.
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But what might well make a lot more sense is to find a way to use graphics processor cards as SSL accelerators.
Stick a GTX250 in your server and use a CUDA enabled RSA codec and you're set.
The gross margins are in no way justified by the development costs of past or future versions.
What world do you live in where MS needs to justify their gross margins based merely on production cost disregarding dev costs (half or more of total costs)? MS has a fairly high profit margin, but it's not anywhere 95% - more like 30% of revenue.
1000 is really an ex recto number. I know the number is large, and I assert that it's unreasonable to expect some random small merchant in .oh to deal with the tax codes of every other state (in their present state). Requiring them to collect taxes based on some state-granularity data published in one place once yearly seems a bit more reasonable, but good luck getting that passed.
This is called imposing an unreasonable burden on small business. It basically just makes it harder to start a business, while conferring an advantage on the large players - much better to actually simplify things, perhaps by requiring states to publish a sales tax schedule for use with online purchases with restrictions on granularity and deviation from the existing structure.
Why would it have to apply to your machine? Or even your company? There are thousands of companies out there; should they ALL leave all their PCs on simply because it might actually make sense for yours?
You're the one that made a blanket statement. And where did I say that it should apply to nobody? I merely pointed out that there's a simpler way to make this work.
And of those that do need everyone to rdp in, most don't have everyone RDPing in every night, so a WoL solution is a sensible option for them.
Assuming that WOL works right. It apparently doesn't.
Seriously, your objection to centers around a fringe case. Most people should turn their PCs off at night
And your argument assumes a functioning WOL setup, which isn't really the case.
In datacenters the computers are the primary energy draw
In datacenters, you can do things like power down half your servers during low traffic times (and shuffle the specific ones around to even out wear) - WOL and whatnot is a lot more applicable there - predictable workload and usage, no unexpected dataloss if the server stays down, and so on. I wonder if anyone is doing this in their DCs?
These are decisions IT managers should make - and they should take the bull by the horns and make a smart decision before their boss makes a dumb one.
I think the budget thing is the big one - IT saving $1M per year won't pay for the $200k to install a fancy patching system that plays nice with a bunch of powered down PCs.
An office set up such that every user can RDP into their own desktop after hours is almost absurd.
My office is absurd.
And hey even if you REALLY needed this, there is WoL.
How's that work with my dev environment, long builds, and syncing gigs of source code? Sure, it works pretty well, but my monitors are off at night, and you could achieve most of your goals if one of my CPUs were throttled to 0 at night.
You could set up a spiffy web interface... to take your name, or employeenumber, or hostname, or whatever, and it'll send out the magic packet and even let you know when the machine is listening on the RDP port and ready.
Okay, there are 1000 desktops at my company. How do you locate desktop X among those when all of them are off?
And why should they? If you do business in 2 states, why are you responsible for the taxcodes in the other 48?
You don't have 50 provinces with the potential for additional local taxes, do you? If you combine the state + local taxes, you can easily get above 1000 different tax situations, with changes daily.
Since when does Obama have control over state taxes?
And now for the true hidden tax that both corporations are guilty of, the manufacturing costs to reproduce software is virtually $0, the price both companies charge for their software licensing are outrageously high and in some cases exceed $100 per license. The result, check the SEC filings for these companies and you'll find gross profit margins in excess of 95% in their software licensing.
How much do you think it costs to develop that software? It's not like MS magically doesn't pay 20-30 people to build the next version of Excel.
In the past year, I have compiled exactly one app that I wasn't trying to get a dev build for. All the other stuff shows up via yum - I say yum get 'something', it tells me what it wants to get, and I let it go do that. If your hypothetical app depends on something like libfoo.so instead of libfoo-1.1.4.so, it won't require a recompile either.
Besides, as COMCAST I'd hope the heavy users got mad and went elsewhere.
As Comcast, I'd be happy with heavy users so long as I can make money on them.
Why do you hope the student wins? He sounds like a dirtbag who steals computers and calls people gay because he thinks it's funny.
That sounds more like a specific form used for legal requirements than tooting your horn.
Honestly, I'd be surprised if they made anything like that stick. It feels like something that crosses several lines about what you're allowed to claim in a contract.
Time to save up for that 98B...
that's why people use the general term 'defamation'.
They fired 3 of them, downsized and asked the one left that was willing to take a 50% pay cut to do everything else.
And he said yes while furiously updating his resume.
I guess you missed the multiple postings about steel mills, vats of acid, and 40 foot drops off of slippery surfaces with no rails.
big deal. If he knew what he was doing, he put some stripes on the edge of the card to sort them properly. I know about that and I've never even held a punchcard.
ever here of safety harnesses? They're usually required in situations like that.
My little incinerator burned so hot that if I threw in an aluminum can, it didn't hit bottom -- just went POOF about halfway down. Steel cans lasted about 30 seconds.
So I'm wondering - what's the comparative heat capacity of a body? Lots of water content there.
That's easy - take a break and ravish her until her eyes roll back, then say "honey, I have to go do some stuff" and go do your work. Women just want some love, tenderness, and the occasional mad balling.