The only person who really pays ANY taxes is the consumer. All other taxes are simply passed on to the consumer in the form of higher prices.
Imagine if we stopped taxing foreign income? Would Google and these other companies rather have the money here to use? Certainly. How many jobs could be created if the money was repatriated?
Convoluted tax laws that no one understands creates these rules, Google is just following them.
There is a better way, go look for yourself at what the Fair Tax could do for all of us. The poor are no longer taxed at all, the rich have no loopholes to use. It's fair, honest and simple. Everything Washington hates.
One was term limited and the other didn't even win the Republican primary.
7 of 15 on the State Board of Education (SBOE) are "christian conservatives", 3 are "normal" republicans and the other 5 are democrats. The normal republicans are not fond of the rhetoric or the vast amount of additional regulation (this horseshit is about 40% larger than the old horseshit.) There are still some regulatory burdens to overcome, and with all the light being shined on this, it is unlikely the crazies will get their way.
So simmer down, Texas isn't rewriting history any more than California is...or is it?
Back in the day, we didn't have all these fancy RNA and DNA strands. If we wanted some damn primordial soup for dinner, we made it ourselves...from scratch!
DNA! HA! I *wish* we had DNA. We had to make our own proteins from just G! And for RNA we only had U! I still remember when Chuck Norris and I made our first cat. Hooey! What a mess! It was just GGG GGG GGG GGG strung together, but Chuck, he got it to work somehow...I wonder what ever happened to that cat?
The real question is, do you want to make more money, or maybe make yourself more useful?
If you want to make more money, GET THE MASTERS NOW. Once you get out in the real world, you will NEVER go back. Some do, but 99% do not.
Also, if you will be graduating in a year, we will just be coming out of this recession. Wait one more year, and you will likely see people hiring for real, with signing bonuses and more, especially for people with advanced degrees. You will be in short supply, and in the REAL WORLD(tm) that is always the place to be.
In a year, when you graduate, the economy will still be emerging from this recession. The worst will be behind us, but there will still be plenty of time to find a great job.
With a Masters Degree, your first job should be much better than the job you would have spent the last two years doing. And those first jobs are bullshit anyway. Phone support, desk side support, crappy web design, jr. developer, etc.
With a Masters, the company that hires you will want you doing something useful. Your experience and reponsibility will be greater and advancement up the ranks better.
To those telling you to make sure you can use it, I say, pshaw. At the end of the day, 10 years after you graduate, no one will care if you have 10 years experience or 12, but they will ALWAYS care that you have the Masters degree.
IBM invested over $3 BILLION to make Linux a viable alternative to proprietary Unix and Windows.
IBM then sold it's PC group to Lenovo. IBM does not make desktops anymore.
IBM has been working on this desktop idea for several years. It is called OpenDesktop (within IBM there are different flavors people have done for different distros, but essentially the same idea), also it could be called Client for eBusiness (c4eb). The problem is Windows sucks for the desktop, but Linux sucks waaay more. Drivers don't work, adding drivers is hard, the learning curve is insanely steep, KDE or Gnome?, where do I go for support, my apps don't work, or more likely don't exist, and that's just the start. Remember, some pieces of this started back in 2000 in public, and I was involved with some of this in 1998.
IBM is a huuuge company. The idea for IBM is to make money. IBM/Lotus never saw a customer demand for linux apps, but it could see one for Linux on the server. It now thinks that with a nudge, Linux on the desktop could start to take off, and that by the time someone gets it working, it will be ready. IBM has different pockets. To say "IBM should do x" is ridiculously simplistic. Technical geeks do NOT run the company, business people do. Lotus Notes ported to Linux existed as a side project that a Lotus developer did because he could years ago. But when you start to look at the real market for something like that, it has been too small to work financially. Another year or two? Maybe. IBM exists to help companies run better, and make more money for themselves. There are really only two ways any company can make money. One: make something and sell it for more that you paid for it. Two: spend less money on number one.
IBM's vision is to leverage Linux on all platforms as a way to standardize applications. Then the applications could be moved to utility computing. Write once, run anywhere kind of code. That is one of the reasons IBM sold desktops to Lenovo. We think they are going to become irrelevant.
What is a desktop's use? To store information and applications. If I then can run all that somewhere else, then put a terminal on everyone's desk, is that better? IBM thinks so. It sure does solve a lot of problems that businesses have. This is Utility computing. IBM can deliver all of this today, but IBM's marketing is soooo horrible, that nobody gets it. Stop upgrading. Stop buying computers. Stop wasting money. Get back to work.
Browsers! Hell, when I started we didn't even have binary. Binary is for hippies! Ones and zeroes holy bejeebers, we would have been glad for it. Try writing a whole compiler in unary. We had nothing but zeroes! And don't even talk to me about self documenting code.
And Jolt and Bawls, you little sissy men. We were lucky to have water. We would have to go down to the river and make our own durn water. We'd grab two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom, and smash them together. Took forever to make a pot of coffee. Starbuck's! Sipping your latte...
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The only person who really pays ANY taxes is the consumer. All other taxes are simply passed on to the consumer in the form of higher prices.
Imagine if we stopped taxing foreign income? Would Google and these other companies rather have the money here to use? Certainly. How many jobs could be created if the money was repatriated?
Convoluted tax laws that no one understands creates these rules, Google is just following them.
There is a better way, go look for yourself at what the Fair Tax could do for all of us. The poor are no longer taxed at all, the rich have no loopholes to use. It's fair, honest and simple. Everything Washington hates.
I'll only watch porn if it happens to be 'on.'
Or a strip club freegan - the asshole at the table next to yours that keeps making comments while you're trying to enjoy a table dance.
One was term limited and the other didn't even win the Republican primary.
7 of 15 on the State Board of Education (SBOE) are "christian conservatives", 3 are "normal" republicans and the other 5 are democrats. The normal republicans are not fond of the rhetoric or the vast amount of additional regulation (this horseshit is about 40% larger than the old horseshit.) There are still some regulatory burdens to overcome, and with all the light being shined on this, it is unlikely the crazies will get their way.
So simmer down, Texas isn't rewriting history any more than California is...or is it?
"California: La Estada Prima"
This could imply that 90% of paper money has been up someone's nose.
If it's Lindsey, Kim K., Paris, ok, but what if it's Charles, Chuck, Nancy or Barack. No telling *where* their noses have been.
This is from two years ago, there has since been a new family of mainframes, and new cell processors, but you get the idea.
Hoplon entertainment. http://www.itjungle.com/big/big050207-story01.html
1) Movie Actors
2) Singers
3) Song Writers
4) Landlords
5) Many types of Investors
6) Lottery Winners
Back in the day, we didn't have all these fancy RNA and DNA strands. If we wanted some damn primordial soup for dinner, we made it ourselves...from scratch!
DNA! HA! I *wish* we had DNA. We had to make our own proteins from just G! And for RNA we only had U! I still remember when Chuck Norris and I made our first cat. Hooey! What a mess! It was just GGG GGG GGG GGG strung together, but Chuck, he got it to work somehow...I wonder what ever happened to that cat?
Oh boy! Time to get my diaper changed!
The real question is, do you want to make more money, or maybe make yourself more useful? If you want to make more money, GET THE MASTERS NOW. Once you get out in the real world, you will NEVER go back. Some do, but 99% do not. Also, if you will be graduating in a year, we will just be coming out of this recession. Wait one more year, and you will likely see people hiring for real, with signing bonuses and more, especially for people with advanced degrees. You will be in short supply, and in the REAL WORLD(tm) that is always the place to be.
In a year, when you graduate, the economy will still be emerging from this recession. The worst will be behind us, but there will still be plenty of time to find a great job. With a Masters Degree, your first job should be much better than the job you would have spent the last two years doing. And those first jobs are bullshit anyway. Phone support, desk side support, crappy web design, jr. developer, etc. With a Masters, the company that hires you will want you doing something useful. Your experience and reponsibility will be greater and advancement up the ranks better. To those telling you to make sure you can use it, I say, pshaw. At the end of the day, 10 years after you graduate, no one will care if you have 10 years experience or 12, but they will ALWAYS care that you have the Masters degree.
IBM invested over $3 BILLION to make Linux a viable alternative to proprietary Unix and Windows.
IBM then sold it's PC group to Lenovo. IBM does not make desktops anymore.
IBM has been working on this desktop idea for several years. It is called OpenDesktop (within IBM there are different flavors people have done for different distros, but essentially the same idea), also it could be called Client for eBusiness (c4eb). The problem is Windows sucks for the desktop, but Linux sucks waaay more. Drivers don't work, adding drivers is hard, the learning curve is insanely steep, KDE or Gnome?, where do I go for support, my apps don't work, or more likely don't exist, and that's just the start. Remember, some pieces of this started back in 2000 in public, and I was involved with some of this in 1998.
IBM is a huuuge company. The idea for IBM is to make money. IBM/Lotus never saw a customer demand for linux apps, but it could see one for Linux on the server. It now thinks that with a nudge, Linux on the desktop could start to take off, and that by the time someone gets it working, it will be ready. IBM has different pockets. To say "IBM should do x" is ridiculously simplistic. Technical geeks do NOT run the company, business people do. Lotus Notes ported to Linux existed as a side project that a Lotus developer did because he could years ago. But when you start to look at the real market for something like that, it has been too small to work financially. Another year or two? Maybe. IBM exists to help companies run better, and make more money for themselves. There are really only two ways any company can make money. One: make something and sell it for more that you paid for it. Two: spend less money on number one.
IBM's vision is to leverage Linux on all platforms as a way to standardize applications. Then the applications could be moved to utility computing. Write once, run anywhere kind of code. That is one of the reasons IBM sold desktops to Lenovo. We think they are going to become irrelevant.
What is a desktop's use? To store information and applications. If I then can run all that somewhere else, then put a terminal on everyone's desk, is that better? IBM thinks so. It sure does solve a lot of problems that businesses have. This is Utility computing. IBM can deliver all of this today, but IBM's marketing is soooo horrible, that nobody gets it. Stop upgrading. Stop buying computers. Stop wasting money. Get back to work.
Or, at least that's the idea.
Eric Collins
"The future was 10 minutes ago, where were you?"
Browsers! Hell, when I started we didn't even have binary. Binary is for hippies! Ones and zeroes holy bejeebers, we would have been glad for it. Try writing a whole compiler in unary. We had nothing but zeroes! And don't even talk to me about self documenting code.
And Jolt and Bawls, you little sissy men. We were lucky to have water. We would have to go down to the river and make our own durn water. We'd grab two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom, and smash them together. Took forever to make a pot of coffee. Starbuck's! Sipping your latte...