Are you so sure? $50k/yr * 30% * 30 yrs * 200 admin-monkeys = $90M. And that's before you consider the 'trickle down' sales tax from said admin-monkey's purchases, as well as other boons to the local economy.
There's much more to an economy than taxes. You can stimulate an industry, improve quality of life, etc, etc through this kind of thing.
I think in general, there should be no such thing as corporate tax breaks, anywhere, period. Because, in general I do not think corporations need any help here in the USofA, they are clearly the biggest benefactors of our system. That said, since that is the playing field we have, I don't think the negotiations are evil, hiding them still is.
My gut reaction to this is, "yep, just as expected, now that they have shareholders, 'evil' is a sliding scale."
However, $600M in investment, and 200 Jobs, in exchange for $89M dollars, over 30years. That balance to me does not seem evil at all. ($89 million dollars? Over 30 years?)
I agree with the other posters, the evil here is the NDA. And it makes me wonder, since no one signs an NDA over $3M/yr in tax breaks, what was really being negotiated? Or is it that the jobs are are puppy killers?
Actually this is incorrect.
CO2 from raindrops does get mixed in with the ocean. But not significantly more C02 in raindrops than there was in the ocean to begin with (by percentage.)
But more importantly, CO2 is one of the few molecules which saturates water more easily at a lower tempurature. (Think about what your soda does when you drop an ice cube in it, that's because the liquid can't hold as much CO2 as the tempurate drops.) Therefore, as temperature rises, the ocean can hold more C02.
A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.
The average age of the worlds greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:
From Bondage to spiritual faith;
From spiritual faith to great courage;
From courage to liberty;
From liberty to abundance;
From abundance to complacency;
From complacency to apathy;
From apathy to dependence;
From dependence back into bondage. -- Alexander Fraser Tytler (1742-1813)
WoW is so successful in part, because it brought non MMRPG players that were loyal Blizzard followers into the MM world.
Eventually, it too will be old hat, and more and more people will find that they have done most of what is there to be done, while at the same time, someone else offers as complete an implementation as Blizzard has done. No One Lives Forever. Where's UO now? Where's EQ now?
Keep in mind too, that because many of them, are new players in the MMRPG space, they have not left a game to play another... but it will happen.
The real problem is that WoW represents a significant risk to any developers trying to do better. So it might be a while before magic happens again.:(
I think the ISPs are seriously underestimating the ability for these highly valuable internet sites to hurt their business.
What happens when Google responds by delisting EvilISP, or, preferentially indexing sites that are not served from EvilISP's network. What happens when Amazon charges more for customers arriving from lame ISPs?
I know I'm preaching to the choir, but ISPs/Telcos seem to forget the value of their services are dependent on the value of the web.
Anyway food for thought... This will be a good fight, hopefully we all don't lose?
Blizzard can systematically prohibit this. If it did not want gold to be bought, they should have designed it to be non-tradeable (soulbound) and force all transactions through the Auction house. The reality is though, it is in the best interest of their business model.
The fact is this is a chicken/egg problem, where the need for gold results (at least in part) from inflated economies that do not cater toward the casual player. Inflated due of price/wage differences from armies of players farming the world for loot and money in other parts of the world.
I have purchased gold, and in each case it increased my enjoyability, because I was able to 'play' the game, instead of clocking into another full time job.
This market (the secondary MMRPG market) is estimated at between $200M-$1B/year (npr.org.) Cheating or not, this is a HUGE market for imaginary possessions, and like it or not, it's not going to go away (until it is taxed by governments, and maybe not then.)
The reality is you are simply seeing the time=money equation applied to another place where someone spends time. In many ways it is really not alot different than any other currency exchange.
Unless Google's long term positioning is to be your media provider, and control the advertising.
Think about Google's place in the world when we get to truly on demand, network based entertainment, where their data delivers extremely accurate advertising.
Isn't GLBT just 4 letters?
I don't see any mention of gay, lesbian, bisexual, nor transgender.
So, first of all, the offended has to interpret those 4 letters in a way that is offensive.
How many ways can you interpret WTB [copper rod]x1 PST?
(And on a side note, though ianal, Blizzard will settle the upcoming discrimination lawsuits. I can't wait to be offended!)
Show me a push technology, and I'll show you a pull technology in disguise. There is no 'real' push in the web.
It's either an open connection, or a pull.
PC graphics advance much much faster than console graphics. I've purchased 2 or 3 video cards, each with much better performance in the time I've had my xbox. We're nearing photo realistic real time rendering in pc hardware, and that ain't gonna make it's way into consoles until at least the next generation (the one after xbox 360, which will have another 2-3 year run.)
They've been saying consoles are gonna kill pc gaming since the SNES. The reality (to me) is that consoles are great for arcadey games, sports games, driving games. I don't care how good halo was, mouse+free matchmaking services are better for FPS, and RTS on a console does not sound like fun.
That is the primary reason developers choose DirectX over OpenGL at this point. Both graphics APIs are feature rich, but only one of them goes onto a console system.
OpenGL is cross platform, but DirectX gets you onto the PC & Xbox.
It's funny to me that Toms Hardware seems to miss this entirely... the id software folks themselves have indicated that this is a compelling reason to use DirectX.
A corporation with one employee will shelter that employee from personal liability when working for the company. (Though I'd guess gross negligence where there was bodily harm, could be tough still.) That liability would go somewhere though, and that is to the corporation.
The problem with incorporating is you can't get money out as easily. The corporation then takes payment for your work, and has to pay you (the employee) accounting for taxes, etc. At the end of the year, you have to declare that as individual income (and get taxed accordingly.) Plus pay corporate taxes and paperwork overhead. That's where the cake and eat it too thing is.
I've read stuff that talks about doing lots of stuff with corporations as far as buying assets (like your house) and then giving privileges to use the house to their employees (you.) In that case the house is subject to corporate liability, but less so to person liability.
Research incorporating thouroughly. It's expensive to start, expensive again to stop, and in order to be done properly has a fair amount of bookeeping overhead, and strict discipline with seperating personal and corporate finances.
My account advised me against it for the purposes of computer consulting.
It's actually one of the most useful skills I have learned. I would say though, that typing IS a basic computer skill, and that learning to type once the first time, is much much easier than after being a 6 finger typist for some period of time. (Let's face it, you never will learn... like all the peeps here claiming you don't need it. Sure, they may say they don't, but then, they never know what that other 40 wpm does for you.)
The faster you can type, at this point in time (and this is very likely to change I with other input devices.) I can simply communicate and get accomplished what I want to with much less difficulty.
I am one of those people that types > 100 wpm, and I strongly suggest others that are getting computers to learn how to touch type. It's one fewer obstacle to accomplishing your goal, or communicating on a computer.
Just another pair of credits.
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Are you so sure? $50k/yr * 30% * 30 yrs * 200 admin-monkeys = $90M.
And that's before you consider the 'trickle down' sales tax from said admin-monkey's purchases, as well as other boons to the local economy.
There's much more to an economy than taxes. You can stimulate an industry, improve quality of life, etc, etc through this kind of thing.
I think in general, there should be no such thing as corporate tax breaks, anywhere, period. Because, in general I do not think corporations need any help here in the USofA, they are clearly the biggest benefactors of our system. That said, since that is the playing field we have, I don't think the negotiations are evil, hiding them still is.
My gut reaction to this is, "yep, just as expected, now that they have shareholders, 'evil' is a sliding scale."
However, $600M in investment, and 200 Jobs, in exchange for $89M dollars, over 30years. That balance to me does not seem evil at all. ($89 million dollars? Over 30 years?)
I agree with the other posters, the evil here is the NDA. And it makes me wonder, since no one signs an NDA over $3M/yr in tax breaks, what was really being negotiated? Or is it that the jobs are are puppy killers?
Actually this is incorrect. CO2 from raindrops does get mixed in with the ocean. But not significantly more C02 in raindrops than there was in the ocean to begin with (by percentage.) But more importantly, CO2 is one of the few molecules which saturates water more easily at a lower tempurature. (Think about what your soda does when you drop an ice cube in it, that's because the liquid can't hold as much CO2 as the tempurate drops.) Therefore, as temperature rises, the ocean can hold more C02.
Then you surely are writing your representative and telling them you want public oversight over voting machine software and hardware?
A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.
The average age of the worlds greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:
From Bondage to spiritual faith;
From spiritual faith to great courage;
From courage to liberty;
From liberty to abundance;
From abundance to complacency;
From complacency to apathy;
From apathy to dependence;
From dependence back into bondage.
-- Alexander Fraser Tytler (1742-1813)
Where do you think we are?
Don't you mean nookyular?
WoW is so successful in part, because it brought non MMRPG players that were loyal Blizzard followers into the MM world. Eventually, it too will be old hat, and more and more people will find that they have done most of what is there to be done, while at the same time, someone else offers as complete an implementation as Blizzard has done. No One Lives Forever. Where's UO now? Where's EQ now? Keep in mind too, that because many of them, are new players in the MMRPG space, they have not left a game to play another... but it will happen. The real problem is that WoW represents a significant risk to any developers trying to do better. So it might be a while before magic happens again. :(
Also, skydiving is not done from a pressurized plane.
It's a capitalist plot...
I think the ISPs are seriously underestimating the ability for these highly valuable internet sites to hurt their business.
What happens when Google responds by delisting EvilISP, or, preferentially indexing sites that are not served from EvilISP's network. What happens when Amazon charges more for customers arriving from lame ISPs?
I know I'm preaching to the choir, but ISPs/Telcos seem to forget the value of their services are dependent on the value of the web.
Anyway food for thought... This will be a good fight, hopefully we all don't lose?
Blizzard can systematically prohibit this. If it did not want gold to be bought, they should have designed it to be non-tradeable (soulbound) and force all transactions through the Auction house. The reality is though, it is in the best interest of their business model.
The fact is this is a chicken/egg problem, where the need for gold results (at least in part) from inflated economies that do not cater toward the casual player. Inflated due of price/wage differences from armies of players farming the world for loot and money in other parts of the world.
I have purchased gold, and in each case it increased my enjoyability, because I was able to 'play' the game, instead of clocking into another full time job.
This market (the secondary MMRPG market) is estimated at between $200M-$1B/year (npr.org.) Cheating or not, this is a HUGE market for imaginary possessions, and like it or not, it's not going to go away (until it is taxed by governments, and maybe not then.)
The reality is you are simply seeing the time=money equation applied to another place where someone spends time. In many ways it is really not alot different than any other currency exchange.
Unless Google's long term positioning is to be your media provider, and control the advertising. Think about Google's place in the world when we get to truly on demand, network based entertainment, where their data delivers extremely accurate advertising.
I mean really? Who's getting the free lunch? I wonder how much Verizon will pay for being listed in search results?
Isn't GLBT just 4 letters? I don't see any mention of gay, lesbian, bisexual, nor transgender. So, first of all, the offended has to interpret those 4 letters in a way that is offensive. How many ways can you interpret WTB [copper rod]x1 PST? (And on a side note, though ianal, Blizzard will settle the upcoming discrimination lawsuits. I can't wait to be offended!)
I believe this. I would love to see your links/bibliography.
Show me a push technology, and I'll show you a pull technology in disguise. There is no 'real' push in the web. It's either an open connection, or a pull.
Interesting that FEMA does not comply with US Accessibility laws.
This discovery is itself, negative information.
PC graphics advance much much faster than console graphics. I've purchased 2 or 3 video cards, each with much better performance in the time I've had my xbox. We're nearing photo realistic real time rendering in pc hardware, and that ain't gonna make it's way into consoles until at least the next generation (the one after xbox 360, which will have another 2-3 year run.) They've been saying consoles are gonna kill pc gaming since the SNES. The reality (to me) is that consoles are great for arcadey games, sports games, driving games. I don't care how good halo was, mouse+free matchmaking services are better for FPS, and RTS on a console does not sound like fun.
That is the primary reason developers choose DirectX over OpenGL at this point. Both graphics APIs are feature rich, but only one of them goes onto a console system.
OpenGL is cross platform, but DirectX gets you onto the PC & Xbox.
It's funny to me that Toms Hardware seems to miss this entirely... the id software folks themselves have indicated that this is a compelling reason to use DirectX.
Corporations are individual entities.
A corporation with one employee will shelter that employee from personal liability when working for the company. (Though I'd guess gross negligence where there was bodily harm, could be tough still.) That liability would go somewhere though, and that is to the corporation.
The problem with incorporating is you can't get money out as easily. The corporation then takes payment for your work, and has to pay you (the employee) accounting for taxes, etc. At the end of the year, you have to declare that as individual income (and get taxed accordingly.) Plus pay corporate taxes and paperwork overhead.
That's where the cake and eat it too thing is.
I've read stuff that talks about doing lots of stuff with corporations as far as buying assets (like your house) and then giving privileges to use the house to their employees (you.) In that case the house is subject to corporate liability, but less so to person liability.
Research incorporating thouroughly. It's expensive to start, expensive again to stop, and in order to be done properly has a fair amount of bookeeping overhead, and strict discipline with seperating personal and corporate finances.
My account advised me against it for the purposes of computer consulting.
That are airing things on the eve of an election to play on people's emotions.
The republican campaign is all fear right now. Be afraid for your security, we are the only ones thinking about that.
As to the movie, well I think more people should be aware of how all these dots are connected.
It's actually one of the most useful skills I have learned. I would say though, that typing IS a basic computer skill, and that learning to type once the first time, is much much easier than after being a 6 finger typist for some period of time. (Let's face it, you never will learn... like all the peeps here claiming you don't need it. Sure, they may say they don't, but then, they never know what that other 40 wpm does for you.) The faster you can type, at this point in time (and this is very likely to change I with other input devices.) I can simply communicate and get accomplished what I want to with much less difficulty. I am one of those people that types > 100 wpm, and I strongly suggest others that are getting computers to learn how to touch type. It's one fewer obstacle to accomplishing your goal, or communicating on a computer. Just another pair of credits.
but honestly I think that there hasn't been a fresh new game type in a really long time.
I really think the last truly innovative game type may have been the Battlezone remake of 6 or 7 years ago. That was an evolution of game types.
Since then, all we've gotten are refinements on the typical, RTS, SPRPG, MMRPG, FPS Shooter, and F/TP Adventure games.