I wouldn't touch a plasma screen with a barge pole: after only two years of use the brightness will be down to less than half of what it was when you bought it.
If I didn't already have a 54" back projection TV I'd be in the market for a decent LCD screen.
That said: LCD displays rely on (non-user replacable) fluorescent(?) tubes and they can blow or dim as well: but from what I've seen LCDs are much cheaper than plasma screens.
I completely agree with the policy and certainly hope they strictly enforce it.
Gangs of lame no-life losers camping "stuff" or swamping the economoy with items is what spoils games. Go get a real job and leave the games to us gamers.
The first is where the company outright gives you some stock. In the UK this counts as a benefit in kind and is taxed as income.
The second is a share purchase scheme. How this is treated depends on whether or not it's approved. Let's assume not (as all the ones I've been haven't been): then it the value of the purchase when you first "buy" the shares is taxed as a benefit in kind, again income, for example a typical scheme gives you a 15% discount you pay that tax on that benefit. Then when you sell the shares any gain is treated as capital gain (which has a separate allowance from your income tax) and anything above that allowance (7000 GPB for all capital gains) is taxed as un-earned income at 40%. The major difference with an approved scheme is that you must hold the shares for a minimum period and you only pay 10% capital gains.
The third is share options and, assuming they're priced at the current market rate, then you pay tax on them as a capital gain (see above).
YMMV, IANAA and this is only the UK based on my participation in such schemes.
And regardless of how they do any kind of share scheme is an expense as at the very least it dilutes the existing shares.
Edward
Irish Catholics were committing frequent acts of terrorism until very recently, supported by groups within the US. Despite the target of these attacks being one of the US's allies (the UK) they did nothing about it until they were attacked by terrorists.
The Arabs don't have a monopoly on terrorism it's just that the US is a singularly introverted, self absorbed and selfish country and doesn't "notice" terrorism unless it's directed at it.
Hey grandpa it's the 21st century: they make switches and controls that work by capacitive coupling: no moving parts required. The iPod's had them for a long time and my PB's trackpad doesn't use any moving parts.
No but turning a large budget excess into a truly gargantum budget defecit is all GWB's own work: wait until the flight from the dollar, that's already started, gets into full swing. Then see how the $ does when the US has to honour the $11 **TRILLION** dollars in uncashed cheques it's called to honour.
Republicans like to claim Reagan won the cold war (yeah right). Looks like another Republican president is doing his best to balance things up lose you your super-power status.
Doesn't anyone think this sounds like a pyramid scheme?
Despite all the bs nothing is actually "made" in the game. All that happens is the early joiners hand over their cash. They then get to parcel out what they bought for a profit to the next wave of joiners who repeat the process until either a) the parcels are too small to further sub-divide or b) no more people join.
Any new "content" added by the developers effectively just causes the "currency" to devalue (inflation): effectively its the same as print more bank notes.
Windows User: "Hmm this Open Source software is just as buggy - and looks a lot worse - than my Windows software. Switch to Linux? You have got to be fucking joking!"
No-one whose ever owned (rather than just drooled over one, noticed they couldn't afford it the garbage collector's salary and decided they didn't like it after all), anyway, no-one who's actually owned one would ever switch to an iRiver. That would be like discarding your BMW and buying a Trabant.
Just to second this: I stopped accepting PayPal for payment after I shipped someone a bar of silver and then they claimed to PayPal that their card had been used fraudulently and got a full refund.
PayPal are a bunch of fuckers you simply cannot trust with your money.
Hate to disagree but EQ2 stink like a barrel of 3 month old fish.
Let me give you a for instance: the starting locations for all races and classes, regardless of good/evil are identical as are the quests.
The quests are crap. You'll frequently be given quests that say "go kill X in location Y" with no idea where location Y is! And you'll be given quests that are far too high level for you: to the extent that quest characters further down the trail (the dark elf at the crossroads in the overseer quest for example) won't even talk to you about the quest because you're too low a level and no explanation given!
If you've played WOW and EQ2 then it terms of quality you'll know they're like something that's really well done (WoW) and something that's a pile of utter crap (EQ2).
According to The Economist this could change soon: and to the US's detriment.
In short, because the dollar is used as the reserve currency by a lot of countries the US is effectively in the position to be able to write cheques that are accepted for payment but are never cashed. However US policy (borrow, borrow, borrow and devlue the dollar so you owe less) means that this is likely to change soon. After all: would you accept a cheque today that know will be worth 30% less tomorrow? In fact its already happening: the Euro and Yen are both attracting people whom 5 years ago would have gone for the dollar. Once it starts in earnest the dollar will collapse practically overnight: there's over ELEVEN TRILLION dollars in uncashed cheques out there...
I suspect it's because people posting to slashdot (and generally on the inter-web) are using the "speaking" part of their brain, where there is no difference between their, there and they're, rather than the "writing part".
Slashdot Mirror
If I didn't already have a 54" back projection TV I'd be in the market for a decent LCD screen.
That said: LCD displays rely on (non-user replacable) fluorescent(?) tubes and they can blow or dim as well: but from what I've seen LCDs are much cheaper than plasma screens.
I completely agree with the policy and certainly hope they strictly enforce it.
Gangs of lame no-life losers camping "stuff" or swamping the economoy with items is what spoils games. Go get a real job and leave the games to us gamers.
There are three kinds of stock related benefit:
The first is where the company outright gives you some stock. In the UK this counts as a benefit in kind and is taxed as income.
The second is a share purchase scheme. How this is treated depends on whether or not it's approved. Let's assume not (as all the ones I've been haven't been): then it the value of the purchase when you first "buy" the shares is taxed as a benefit in kind, again income, for example a typical scheme gives you a 15% discount you pay that tax on that benefit. Then when you sell the shares any gain is treated as capital gain (which has a separate allowance from your income tax) and anything above that allowance (7000 GPB for all capital gains) is taxed as un-earned income at 40%. The major difference with an approved scheme is that you must hold the shares for a minimum period and you only pay 10% capital gains.
The third is share options and, assuming they're priced at the current market rate, then you pay tax on them as a capital gain (see above). YMMV, IANAA and this is only the UK based on my participation in such schemes. And regardless of how they do any kind of share scheme is an expense as at the very least it dilutes the existing shares. Edward
Actually it's worse than zero sum: they buy things (MSWindows for eg) from foreign companies and at least some of that money goes abroad.
Irish Catholics were committing frequent acts of terrorism until very recently, supported by groups within the US. Despite the target of these attacks being one of the US's allies (the UK) they did nothing about it until they were attacked by terrorists.
The Arabs don't have a monopoly on terrorism it's just that the US is a singularly introverted, self absorbed and selfish country and doesn't "notice" terrorism unless it's directed at it.
Holy crap: I don't work in marketing (a contradicition?) and I could come up with..... wait for it....
iListen or iTalk
Hey grandpa it's the 21st century: they make switches and controls that work by capacitive coupling: no moving parts required. The iPod's had them for a long time and my PB's trackpad doesn't use any moving parts.
No but turning a large budget excess into a truly gargantum budget defecit is all GWB's own work: wait until the flight from the dollar, that's already started, gets into full swing. Then see how the $ does when the US has to honour the $11 **TRILLION** dollars in uncashed cheques it's called to honour.
Republicans like to claim Reagan won the cold war (yeah right). Looks like another Republican president is doing his best to balance things up lose you your super-power status.
You're looking at it the wrong way around: consider the price of gold to be fixed and currencies fluctuate around it.
The flaw in your argument is that gold, unlike a bank note (and gem diamonds), does have inherent value and use: it is a "good".
Doesn't anyone think this sounds like a pyramid scheme?
Despite all the bs nothing is actually "made" in the game. All that happens is the early joiners hand over their cash. They then get to parcel out what they bought for a profit to the next wave of joiners who repeat the process until either a) the parcels are too small to further sub-divide or b) no more people join.
Any new "content" added by the developers effectively just causes the "currency" to devalue (inflation): effectively its the same as print more bank notes.
Windows User: "Hmm this Open Source software is just as buggy - and looks a lot worse - than my Windows software. Switch to Linux? You have got to be fucking joking!"
Nice idea Einstein.
Took you 4 or 5 years to deliver your first project huh?
You'll go far in this industry young padawan.
Hahaha oh how that made me laugh.
No-one whose ever owned (rather than just drooled over one, noticed they couldn't afford it the garbage collector's salary and decided they didn't like it after all), anyway, no-one who's actually owned one would ever switch to an iRiver. That would be like discarding your BMW and buying a Trabant.
No-one is forcing you to upgrade the firmware on your iPod. Dim wit.
And you didn't return it to Apple to be fixed during that first year? Fuck off.
He was complaining idiot. He was pointing out that the assumption that there is a power supply by your seat on a plane is wrong.
Just to second this: I stopped accepting PayPal for payment after I shipped someone a bar of silver and then they claimed to PayPal that their card had been used fraudulently and got a full refund.
PayPal are a bunch of fuckers you simply cannot trust with your money.
You're the sort of person I woud make sure to only ever speak to face-to-face.
"Come on Eileen" was an '80s song by Dexy's Midnight Runners you Philistine.
Hate to disagree but EQ2 stink like a barrel of 3 month old fish.
Let me give you a for instance: the starting locations for all races and classes, regardless of good/evil are identical as are the quests.
The quests are crap. You'll frequently be given quests that say "go kill X in location Y" with no idea where location Y is! And you'll be given quests that are far too high level for you: to the extent that quest characters further down the trail (the dark elf at the crossroads in the overseer quest for example) won't even talk to you about the quest because you're too low a level and no explanation given!
If you've played WOW and EQ2 then it terms of quality you'll know they're like something that's really well done (WoW) and something that's a pile of utter crap (EQ2).
According to The Economist this could change soon: and to the US's detriment.
In short, because the dollar is used as the reserve currency by a lot of countries the US is effectively in the position to be able to write cheques that are accepted for payment but are never cashed. However US policy (borrow, borrow, borrow and devlue the dollar so you owe less) means that this is likely to change soon. After all: would you accept a cheque today that know will be worth 30% less tomorrow? In fact its already happening: the Euro and Yen are both attracting people whom 5 years ago would have gone for the dollar. Once it starts in earnest the dollar will collapse practically overnight: there's over ELEVEN TRILLION dollars in uncashed cheques out there...
I suspect it's because people posting to slashdot (and generally on the inter-web) are using the "speaking" part of their brain, where there is no difference between their, there and they're, rather than the "writing part".
Just a slight correction: Scots is *not* a dialect of English; it's actually a sister language.
Could someone explain what a Valedictorian and an Hono(u)r student are? We don't have such beasts in England.