Just because a company has a foreign office and accounts doesn't make them exempt from US tax - all they are doing is trying to shelter the income from OUTSIDE the US using EXISTING and LEGAL means. Don't hold the companies responsible for what obviously amounts to the political issue at hand. Obama can go ahead and change the law, and see how positive the economy reacts (that last bit was tongue and cheek BTW).
Actually my career involves providing people (plenty of programmers) with the tools, experience and resources necessary to build a legally and finacially sound business. I give them access to a world class board, capital, knowledge, experience and guidance to build their own business idea. I am very hands on and can setup, manage, admin, and develop infrastructure by myself if necessary. But I am wise enough to know that I can do more with help. Its the principle of independance vs. interdependance. The issue I identified relates to a general attitude of entitlement and arrogance that goes with a certain personality. It just happens that I notice this personality has been more prevelant in a certain group of professional. I have trashed many deals because the expectations of the person were not reasonable. They just knew better. PS> Doctors are much worse.
I think you misunderstood the parent. Programmers generally have a personality that is characterized by their belief that because they can write code and others can't (e.g. a securities lawyer) they can do any other job function as well or better than that person. This is just an observation after dealing with programmers for most of my career. There are always acceptions, but most often than not, they fit in a spectrum of this personality.
Have you been in an Apple store recently? They are 100% consumer experience orientated, and it shows. They offer free wifi internet, all their equipment is fully accessible and online. You get a greeter at the door, and then left alone if you don't want to be bothered. I am hard pressed to walk into a store and not find it packed with people checking email and fiddling with their toys. I own a Mac Mini and when one of their updates cooked the network stack, I set an appointment, brought the unit in (no power cable or anything), and they had me up and running in under an hour, one on one, and even showed me a bunch of uber geek tricks with OSX. This is proof that the customer/consumer experience means a lot, and can even trump price if done right.
Hell, all the Fry's and Best Buys in my area don't even have their demo's hooked onto the internet. Hense, no body hangs out in that department. They walk through look, and leave.
Yeah, try running your own company, then you are always between 24/7 or 0/7...good and bad. Better money, but procrastination really is like masterbation: fucking yourself.
There are really two types of genetic testing: Informational and Medical. Medical testing is based on large groups of people and controlled study, whereas Informational is just throwing around 'what we think is going on' and is fun to see. I found this site useful to learn more about these differences, and they can even differentiate which tests are right with price comparison: www.AccessDNA.com
Wow - what uninformed drivel. I own two netbooks (Acer One and HP) and I have vista on both. The Acer came with XP and I used an external DVD to install Vista. The reason they come with XP is COST not performance. Vista is > XP in many ways (memory management, security, etc) if you actually spent any time researching these things you might actually sound intelligent.
Generally/. users don't understand why companies like this request these things. When you have IP you have to defend your IP, and if you do not defend it, then you are risk of loosing certain protections, or the IP all together. Toyota may not actually want to do this, but they have to, just to ensure that other legitiment infringments can be addressed as well.
It's interesting because this company I found: AccessDNA are doing the same thing, but not making the informating publish. They provide a personalized Genetic report for free just for answering these questions.
Althought I agree with you on the whole, I think you may have missed the lesson that your little Johnny was learning from that situation. One of the important aspects to society is our ability to conform, follow rules, and work within pre-estabilished guides we may not agree with.
I applaud your little Johnny for his ability to self learn Roman numerals, and leapfrog the other children; however, if everyone in the class, or society were allowed to self direct their activities in this manner the world would be stretched into many unproductive directions.
My response (I am also a parent of two extrememly bright children in the LA area) would be to explain to this child why he recieved this treatment, allow him to experience the feelings of frustration he may experience, and WILL experience in the real world, and channel his energies by getting him to conform to their rules and regulations. Train him to conform to their requirements while using this personal time following a successful completion of their minion tasks to develop his own interests.
This may teach him to get the bullshit out of the way first, conform to rules, while allowing room for personal development, and finally arm him for the much more intense emotional turmoil that the world will present him.
I am more interested in seeing a list of the immediatly blocked list.
One thing they would want to block is the.local - this is very common in Active Directory structures to differentiate the LAN/WAN environments.
Imagine if some company bought the.local and started to be able to randomly answer requests from around the world of millions of potential queries?
This brings up a good point, if you want to look at where this can be exploited, simply look at the dropped and invalid query records of the current root servers. I just hope they have some common sense... oh wait...
I don't suspect you understand the atmospheric conditions surrounding Los Angeles.
What you are seeing is what locals refer to as 'June Gloom' or 'Marine Layer' - what the rest of the world likes to refer to as common fog.
As for the actual air quality - having lived here for the last 5 years, I can attest that it isn't bad - compared to when I visited in the 90's, or worse, 80's. If you look around the roads of LA you will notice that almost all vehicles are late model - due to the strick emission standards the state has placed.
The only time I have ever seen actual 'smog' is driving into the core city, from the 101 freeway, on a day at about 105 degrees, stuck in massive traffic. Then you see a very slight 'cloud'
Ok, just because a program uses LESS memory doesn't make it faster or slower. In fact, the more memory it uses to cache more, the less disk thrashing generally, and the faster experience.
This is also a common misconception in Vista's memory management. It fills the empty space in memory with things 'pre-fetched' for faster loading, etc. I like it, and it works well for me.
Jezz Slashdot - I expected more from the worlds largest concentration of geek power.
You know, make fun of Microsoft all you want, but they actually have something for this - DFS - Distributed File System. Just create a share with each of these and POOL IT with a DFS system. Then use and manage it to your hearts content with all the midget-donkey-goatse crap you want.
Thats Interesting but I think sites like this one: Politicalsocial.com seem to be more focused on bringing news, and long term information. They might stay around for a while.
Call 866-800-1275 just to be a pain in the ass. I don't even watch baseball, but I called it to protest their treatment of customers. The guy was nice to me, and admitted they have a big problem, they will try to fix.
Just because there aren't enough new driver requests doesn't mean they don't have shit to do. I have installed Gusty Gibbon on a number of systems and found that what does work, only works in a half decent way.
What they need to do is take these guys, go back about 2 years worth of hardware and update and make the existing hardware better.
Once my Touchpad works without freezing in psmouse.c randomly, and sound, video, and all the other issues are fully resolved and solid, then please don't waste our time making more hardware barely work!
From the legal framework, I think a crafty lawyer should beable to construe their actions as inter-state wirefraud if they were impersonating traffic. This would result in a federal criminal case. Obviously, by the statements, the highest level of comcast has knowlede of these activities, therefor, the board and officers of the corporation should be held accountable.
I smell blood, and the lawyers do to. Makes me wish I finished the law degree sometimes, because this case would be 'fun' to take to trial.
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Just because a company has a foreign office and accounts doesn't make them exempt from US tax - all they are doing is trying to shelter the income from OUTSIDE the US using EXISTING and LEGAL means. Don't hold the companies responsible for what obviously amounts to the political issue at hand. Obama can go ahead and change the law, and see how positive the economy reacts (that last bit was tongue and cheek BTW).
Actually my career involves providing people (plenty of programmers) with the tools, experience and resources necessary to build a legally and finacially sound business. I give them access to a world class board, capital, knowledge, experience and guidance to build their own business idea. I am very hands on and can setup, manage, admin, and develop infrastructure by myself if necessary. But I am wise enough to know that I can do more with help. Its the principle of independance vs. interdependance. The issue I identified relates to a general attitude of entitlement and arrogance that goes with a certain personality. It just happens that I notice this personality has been more prevelant in a certain group of professional. I have trashed many deals because the expectations of the person were not reasonable. They just knew better. PS> Doctors are much worse.
FYI: This process is called Due Dillegence. Something everyone should do on any company or person they plan on doing business with.
I think you misunderstood the parent. Programmers generally have a personality that is characterized by their belief that because they can write code and others can't (e.g. a securities lawyer) they can do any other job function as well or better than that person. This is just an observation after dealing with programmers for most of my career. There are always acceptions, but most often than not, they fit in a spectrum of this personality.
Have you been in an Apple store recently? They are 100% consumer experience orientated, and it shows. They offer free wifi internet, all their equipment is fully accessible and online. You get a greeter at the door, and then left alone if you don't want to be bothered. I am hard pressed to walk into a store and not find it packed with people checking email and fiddling with their toys. I own a Mac Mini and when one of their updates cooked the network stack, I set an appointment, brought the unit in (no power cable or anything), and they had me up and running in under an hour, one on one, and even showed me a bunch of uber geek tricks with OSX. This is proof that the customer/consumer experience means a lot, and can even trump price if done right.
Hell, all the Fry's and Best Buys in my area don't even have their demo's hooked onto the internet. Hense, no body hangs out in that department. They walk through look, and leave.
Yeah, try running your own company, then you are always between 24/7 or 0/7...good and bad. Better money, but procrastination really is like masterbation: fucking yourself.
There are really two types of genetic testing: Informational and Medical. Medical testing is based on large groups of people and controlled study, whereas Informational is just throwing around 'what we think is going on' and is fun to see. I found this site useful to learn more about these differences, and they can even differentiate which tests are right with price comparison: www.AccessDNA.com
Wow - what uninformed drivel. I own two netbooks (Acer One and HP) and I have vista on both. The Acer came with XP and I used an external DVD to install Vista. The reason they come with XP is COST not performance. Vista is > XP in many ways (memory management, security, etc) if you actually spent any time researching these things you might actually sound intelligent.
Generally /. users don't understand why companies like this request these things. When you have IP you have to defend your IP, and if you do not defend it, then you are risk of loosing certain protections, or the IP all together. Toyota may not actually want to do this, but they have to, just to ensure that other legitiment infringments can be addressed as well.
It's interesting because this company I found: AccessDNA are doing the same thing, but not making the informating publish. They provide a personalized Genetic report for free just for answering these questions.
Althought I agree with you on the whole, I think you may have missed the lesson that your little Johnny was learning from that situation. One of the important aspects to society is our ability to conform, follow rules, and work within pre-estabilished guides we may not agree with.
I applaud your little Johnny for his ability to self learn Roman numerals, and leapfrog the other children; however, if everyone in the class, or society were allowed to self direct their activities in this manner the world would be stretched into many unproductive directions.
My response (I am also a parent of two extrememly bright children in the LA area) would be to explain to this child why he recieved this treatment, allow him to experience the feelings of frustration he may experience, and WILL experience in the real world, and channel his energies by getting him to conform to their rules and regulations. Train him to conform to their requirements while using this personal time following a successful completion of their minion tasks to develop his own interests.
This may teach him to get the bullshit out of the way first, conform to rules, while allowing room for personal development, and finally arm him for the much more intense emotional turmoil that the world will present him.
I am more interested in seeing a list of the immediatly blocked list.
.local - this is very common in Active Directory structures to differentiate the LAN/WAN environments.
.local and started to be able to randomly answer requests from around the world of millions of potential queries?
One thing they would want to block is the
Imagine if some company bought the
This brings up a good point, if you want to look at where this can be exploited, simply look at the dropped and invalid query records of the current root servers. I just hope they have some common sense... oh wait...
I don't suspect you understand the atmospheric conditions surrounding Los Angeles.
What you are seeing is what locals refer to as 'June Gloom' or 'Marine Layer' - what the rest of the world likes to refer to as common fog.
As for the actual air quality - having lived here for the last 5 years, I can attest that it isn't bad - compared to when I visited in the 90's, or worse, 80's. If you look around the roads of LA you will notice that almost all vehicles are late model - due to the strick emission standards the state has placed.
The only time I have ever seen actual 'smog' is driving into the core city, from the 101 freeway, on a day at about 105 degrees, stuck in massive traffic. Then you see a very slight 'cloud'
3. Profit!!!
They should encourage the use of the Diehard series for training - it would be a useful counter-terrorism move.
What is this HD-DVD you speak of?
Ok, just because a program uses LESS memory doesn't make it faster or slower. In fact, the more memory it uses to cache more, the less disk thrashing generally, and the faster experience.
This is also a common misconception in Vista's memory management. It fills the empty space in memory with things 'pre-fetched' for faster loading, etc. I like it, and it works well for me.
Jezz Slashdot - I expected more from the worlds largest concentration of geek power.
Microsoft makes an easy to use utility for this EXACT situation called DFS - Distributed File System.
1) Simply make a share on all those machines and POOL them with a DFS server and you are good to go.
2) ????
3) PROFIT!!1!
You know, make fun of Microsoft all you want, but they actually have something for this - DFS - Distributed File System. Just create a share with each of these and POOL IT with a DFS system. Then use and manage it to your hearts content with all the midget-donkey-goatse crap you want.
Thats Interesting but I think sites like this one: Politicalsocial.com seem to be more focused on bringing news, and long term information. They might stay around for a while.
Call 866-800-1275 just to be a pain in the ass. I don't even watch baseball, but I called it to protest their treatment of customers. The guy was nice to me, and admitted they have a big problem, they will try to fix.
We had a huge party in Los Angeles, and had over 50 people come, gave out custom shirts because we were one of the first! Check it out:
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We had a huge bash in Los Angeles, and had custom T-Shirts and everything! Check it all out:
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Just because there aren't enough new driver requests doesn't mean they don't have shit to do. I have installed Gusty Gibbon on a number of systems and found that what does work, only works in a half decent way.
What they need to do is take these guys, go back about 2 years worth of hardware and update and make the existing hardware better.
Once my Touchpad works without freezing in psmouse.c randomly, and sound, video, and all the other issues are fully resolved and solid, then please don't waste our time making more hardware barely work!
From the legal framework, I think a crafty lawyer should beable to construe their actions as inter-state wirefraud if they were impersonating traffic. This would result in a federal criminal case. Obviously, by the statements, the highest level of comcast has knowlede of these activities, therefor, the board and officers of the corporation should be held accountable.
I smell blood, and the lawyers do to. Makes me wish I finished the law degree sometimes, because this case would be 'fun' to take to trial.