Gates: Understand those are cases where you are downloading third-party software.
Because you viewed a web site using insecure IE and software was installed into the holes in IE and the OS. Of course third party software was downloaded, installed and runs in the computer.
Windows XP: 233 MHZ 64MB min, 300 MHZ 128MB recommended
Remember that 300MHZ 128MB is for the OS. If you want to run any programs on that machine you better load it up.
Wouldn't this have more to do with the PR machine called Microsoft deciding that patches and updates should not be released more often than once a month?
They do collect a specific percentage of property tax for the school district. Exactly how they divvy it up I'm not 100% sure. Here's what I do know: charter schools get public funding right alongside public schools, except charter schools get something like 200~$500 more per student. I also know that the PTO at my childrens' school has bought paper for the copy machine, donated the entire profits from(and incurred unreimbursed expenses due to) the last fund raiser we did. The destination of the funds? Toilet paper, hand towels and other supplies that the budget had run out on 3 months before the end of the school year.
As an aside, Colorado also refunds a certain portion of your collected sales tax when state revenue exceeds expenses. (at least that's how I understand it) Arizona, and most other states that I have seen do not.
You are not a geek.
"Nuclear Wessels" is from Star Trek IV, The Journey Home. It is also the source of "just use the keyboard," "the keyboard, how quaint".
As for people sending kids to the private schools, I think that it'll actually help public schools as they still pay property taxes that fund publics schools, but their kids are not using up the resources of public schools.
That's not true in Arizona where the schools get a dollar amount per head actually in the school. And they don't use an average, a high balance, some kind of mean calculation. It's two days during the year where they count attendance. So if it happens to fall during a massive flu outbreak or for some other reason attendance is abnormally low, too bad for the school, the funding is 'adjusted' right then and there.
Also, there is a credit on the Arizona taxes that allows individuals to 'donate' to the school primarly for extra curricular activies and subtract that amount from their Arizona income tax bill. While this might seem like a good idea, we all know that the long term affects of this is reduced government spending on schools even though the parental spending was already there.
Wrong again. There's plenty of stuff that hasn't adapted much in millions of years but has survived just fine,
But the giraffe adapted to higher food sources, humans (and other species) adapted to use tools to extend their reach, leverage, etc.
it boils down to reproduction and more specifically the speed and ease which something can reproduce.
Elephants gestate for ~24 months yet have survived. It has to do with more than just how fast something procreates, otherwise the only thing left would be one celled organisms.
Actually it's more like survival of the most adaptable. Anything that can't or won't change dies. That which does adapt to the "new" conditions will survive and live on.
Whether a law is good or bad is subjective. Holding someone accountable for a reading of law that you do not agree with is ludicrous. If you don't like the law work to change the law. Whether a judge is good or bad is going to depend on which side of the ruling you happen to be on.
Unless you signed your copyright over to Linus (as in the copyright assignment requested by GNU) then that piece is still yours to enforce copyright on. If you did sign it over, then it's Linus' place to enforce copyright assuming the GPL is ruled invalid.
There's a vast difference between VOLUNTARY registration and COMPULSORY registration. Given the choice most people would register their more important pieces of property - and they do, through insurance - in order to track that property in the case of theft, or to be reimbursed if the property is stolen or destroyed. Those that don't would take their chances - but it would be THEIR CHOICE.
And those same people would and do register their 'legal' firearms with their insurance company.
The argument here is "why a driver's license"? There is no evidence whatsoever that acquiring a driver's license has any effect on the accident rate. So what's the real purpose of a license? It certainly has nothing to do with learning how to safely operate a vehicle, so what exactly is the point?
But one must still demonstrate the ability to use the vehicle properly.
And why license a gun when there is no requirement to take a training course in how to use that gun? Especially when the licensing is only effective at tracking LAW-ABIDING citizens in the first place?
For this I'll revert back to my days on the gun range. At that time- and I have no reason to believe that this has changed- you could go to a gun show, watch a twenty minute video and someone would sign your 'Gun Safety Course' certificate. With that certificate you could get a concealed carry permit. There were also some very good instructors who insisted that their students spend real classroom hours and practice time at the range. I know the difference in training. The scariest people holding a firearm/concealed permit were the one's who had a 20 minute video course. There was, and probably remains, very little state supervision of actual ability. The state just approved the applications based upon whether your fingerprints were 'clean' and you had a certificate. There should be a 'licensing' of the individual who wants to own and use a gun to demonstrate knowledge and safe use of that gun. Want to argue against registration of the actual guns? Ok- I do buy some of it, but not for the same reasons usually stated. If only licensed individuals who have demonstrated safe and proper operation can purchase a firearm then some of the problem is solved. Unfortunately, that would be, or least would be seen as, infringing on the right to keep and bear arms.
Back to the car analogy, do you want someone who has not demonstrated safe and proper operation of a car to be allowed to slide behind the wheel of a car? I would prefer that those using cars (and guns) know how to safely operate them. The best way to assure me is if they have to demonstrate that competence to the state.
While this is true, the argument is used against any gun registration. Would the same kind of arguments exist today if automobiles had existed when the framers wrote the Constitution? I don't know. Would anyone really have that much attachment to a car? All kinds of 'bad' things will happen if we get invaded or become a police state, but is it really any more of a stretch to say that a firearm should never be registered but a car, the title/deed to your house and your dog should? Registration in some fashion establishes proper ownership and in some cases that you actually know how to use the item registered. Why are some people so adamant against gun registration? Dunno, but this becomes an emotional issue when it really should be a greater good issue. One must take an exam administered by the state to get a driver's license why not with a firearm as well? Each of these things is potentially a deadly machine but only one requires that you prove to someone that you actually know how to use it.
With gun registration, whose doors do you think the martial law stormtroopers are going to knock in first?
I love this argument against registration. I don't personally own a firearm, but have plenty of family members who hunt, target practice, etc. and none of them- even the NRA lifers- has ever made this argument to me (granted, it has never come up)
This argument is made by the NRA in their propaganda arguing against gun registration. The same propaganda that claims that criminals should have the right to carry guns even if their rights have not been restored and that those same criminals have a fifth amendment argument against registering their firearms and so such a law (registration) is unconstitutional.
The same NRA keeps their membership list secret so the government can't just get the list and break down the gun owners' doors- just don't forget to pay the annual dues, non-members don't get the same 'protection'.
But truthfully if it came down to it, wouldn't the government go door to door to remove our rights and our guns?
Was he referring to the development road or the file structure road? Either one could be argued as having no set architecture, any vendor/coder is more or less free to set up the file system any way they want. Most would tend to want a standardized file structure such as the LSB.
Not too terribly long ago a company that I provided email and web services to, decided that I should provide them old email. They started out by asking for email from a single user for a time period far longer than the 14 day backup rotation that I was using. Mind you, the 14 day rotation was based on data that existed at the end of the day. Anything that came in, went out, or was deleted before being held overnight was not included in the backup. The company subsequently made a 'midnight move' to another server and couldn't get email from my server- funny how DNS propigation works. They asked for their email. I sent them their $HOME/mail folders (they had been using IMAP) in a nice zip file and sent all mail hanging out in the mqueue.
Then they asked for the email in a 'usable' format- two months later. They also asked for what amounts to a dump of their email address list.
Back on topic- if they had written and maintained a retention policy of some kind they would not have been asking me for email that would have been deleted by their users on a regular basis. I probably would have also had some kind of archive as it passed through the system.
Even though these are 'self' checkouts there is some one watching and monitoring a couple of these (and sometimes overriding the bitching that the machines do) So in the middle of the night the one person working is actually on the register. This is not the same as the gas station with no attendant at midnight. There you get one item (out of three or four), it's regulated and no one really has to watch to make sure that you aren't holding items in your left hand while checking out with your right.
Much, much more, even not for just a server. If you ignore windows ports of other GNU applications, you end up with linux having a great superiority over Windows: Huh. I thought the parent said "if you ignore windows ports of other GNU applications..."
How'd you get modded insightful while attempting to argue with the parent? (proving the point the whole time)
Seems no one has even touched on how this will make the CPA/CPA firm more 'valuable' to the company with options on the books. There are different types of options. ISOs (Incentive Stock Options) are usually granted for a short period of time, are restrictive in nature AND are counted in the employee's income at the time of exercise (the difference between the grant price and the market price at exercise is income). ISOs are not market tradable. I can't sell you my ISOs, I can only exercise them or let them expire. They do reduce the per share value of the outstanding shares, but only if and when they are exercised.
Black-Scholes might be able to give an individual an idea of what their options are worth but only if those options can be sold directly. BS (generally) requires a time caculation based upon the expiration date of the option. Options that a) never expire b) didn't cost the owner (ie nothing but time at the company or a promise) cannot have the same value as one purchased in the market. Options purchased in the market don't affect the company and aren't expected to be listed as an expense for a different reason. If I sell a call option on MSFT or RHAT I'm betting that a) the price won't go as high as the strike price b) even if the price does go as the strike price and the call is exercised that I will have made more money by selling the call as well. This option has nothing at all to do with the company (I receive the call price and the stock price), doesn't reduce or dilute outstanding shares or earnings and can be valued.
Requiring companies to list unexercised options as expenses when there is no way to properly value them ie there is no active market for the employee options and neither the employee nor the company have any expense (other than the fee paid to the CFO/CPA, etc of keeping the option on the books) is as ludicrous as the recent decision that requires companies to write up and down the value of acquisitions on at least an annual basis instead of maintaining Goodwill on the books as a static but declining figure. http://www.fasb.org/st/summary/stsum142.shtml
Looking at the 'worth' of a company the goodwill listed should neccessarily be subtracted when determining a hard asset value of the company. Unpaid - and I would argue *unearned* - compensation should similarly not be subtracted from the company's books. The 'value' of options should not be listed as an expense unless and until the company is required to pay out the value of the expense. To do otherwise only puts money in the CPAs' pockets and does nothing to properly value the business nor account for income and cash flow. The converse is also true: If a company is *required* to list as an expense unexercised options as an expense, then expired options would have to be counted as income. Neither makes sense, clouds the true earnings issue and only makes money for the people charged with tracking such information- coincidently the *same* people who are recommending that this be listed as an expense in the first place.
The recent collapse of publicly traded companies who relied on the same firms that provided audit services for their consultation services ('In auditing your books, Mr. CEO and Board of Directors, we find that you are in need of tax planning, offshore income rerouting and income tax evasion- ahem reduction strategy- services. Luckily for you, a division of our Big 5 Accounting firm offers such services. By utilizing our other division we can increase your market capitalization, reduce your expenses and defer or eliminate all your income taxes so that the share price will rise. Just sign here and we'll start work tomorrow.') should at least give a reason to pause and consider the overall impact of having the members run the rule making body. There are three branches of government to prevent any one from gaining too much power, This is in some sense, the fox guarding the hen house and gives FASB and its members the ability to make rules that in the long r
That section read literally would also seem to imply that the idea of Common Law marriage be abolished and that no rights available to a spouse, eg. medical insurance coverage, property rights, etc. would be available to such a couple. How many unmarried couples enjoy common law marriage and the benefits of survivorship, etc. would this affect. Man this almost looks like a back-door(no pun intended) approach to helping out the insurance companies by allowing them to drop coverage of what is now considered a spouse, but which would no longer be assuming this passes.
My favorite guote of all:
However, building a product that starts with the accomplishment of others and announcing it as completely your own work product, is not invention, nor is it innovation. Innovation can only work properly if innovators properly credit the work of others, especially if the innovator has decided to introduce the product into the marketplace for commercial gain.
So are they saying that Bill Gates has a problem?
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Gates: Understand those are cases where you are downloading third-party software.
Because you viewed a web site using insecure IE and software was installed into the holes in IE and the OS. Of course third party software was downloaded, installed and runs in the computer.
Windows XP: 233 MHZ 64MB min, 300 MHZ 128MB recommended
Remember that 300MHZ 128MB is for the OS. If you want to run any programs on that machine you better load it up.
Wouldn't this have more to do with the PR machine called Microsoft deciding that patches and updates should not be released more often than once a month?
How many guns have you seen that fire on a monthly basis unless you 'prevented' it?
They do collect a specific percentage of property tax for the school district. Exactly how they divvy it up I'm not 100% sure. Here's what I do know: charter schools get public funding right alongside public schools, except charter schools get something like 200~$500 more per student. I also know that the PTO at my childrens' school has bought paper for the copy machine, donated the entire profits from(and incurred unreimbursed expenses due to) the last fund raiser we did. The destination of the funds? Toilet paper, hand towels and other supplies that the budget had run out on 3 months before the end of the school year.
As an aside, Colorado also refunds a certain portion of your collected sales tax when state revenue exceeds expenses. (at least that's how I understand it) Arizona, and most other states that I have seen do not.
You are not a geek.
"Nuclear Wessels" is from Star Trek IV, The Journey Home. It is also the source of "just use the keyboard," "the keyboard, how quaint".
Also, there is a credit on the Arizona taxes that allows individuals to 'donate' to the school primarly for extra curricular activies and subtract that amount from their Arizona income tax bill. While this might seem like a good idea, we all know that the long term affects of this is reduced government spending on schools even though the parental spending was already there.
Wrong again. There's plenty of stuff that hasn't adapted much in millions of years but has survived just fine,
But the giraffe adapted to higher food sources, humans (and other species) adapted to use tools to extend their reach, leverage, etc.
it boils down to reproduction and more specifically the speed and ease which something can reproduce.
Elephants gestate for ~24 months yet have survived. It has to do with more than just how fast something procreates, otherwise the only thing left would be one celled organisms.
Actually it's more like survival of the most adaptable. Anything that can't or won't change dies. That which does adapt to the "new" conditions will survive and live on.
Whether a law is good or bad is subjective. Holding someone accountable for a reading of law that you do not agree with is ludicrous. If you don't like the law work to change the law. Whether a judge is good or bad is going to depend on which side of the ruling you happen to be on.
Must have decided that after hearing:
"There is no spoon"
You put a condom on an oversized chicken?
Unless you signed your copyright over to Linus (as in the copyright assignment requested by GNU) then that piece is still yours to enforce copyright on. If you did sign it over, then it's Linus' place to enforce copyright assuming the GPL is ruled invalid.
There's a vast difference between VOLUNTARY registration and COMPULSORY registration. Given the choice most people would register their more important pieces of property - and they do, through insurance - in order to track that property in the case of theft, or to be reimbursed if the property is stolen or destroyed. Those that don't would take their chances - but it would be THEIR CHOICE.
And those same people would and do register their 'legal' firearms with their insurance company.
The argument here is "why a driver's license"? There is no evidence whatsoever that acquiring a driver's license has any effect on the accident rate. So what's the real purpose of a license? It certainly has nothing to do with learning how to safely operate a vehicle, so what exactly is the point?
But one must still demonstrate the ability to use the vehicle properly.
And why license a gun when there is no requirement to take a training course in how to use that gun? Especially when the licensing is only effective at tracking LAW-ABIDING citizens in the first place?
For this I'll revert back to my days on the gun range. At that time- and I have no reason to believe that this has changed- you could go to a gun show, watch a twenty minute video and someone would sign your 'Gun Safety Course' certificate. With that certificate you could get a concealed carry permit. There were also some very good instructors who insisted that their students spend real classroom hours and practice time at the range. I know the difference in training. The scariest people holding a firearm/concealed permit were the one's who had a 20 minute video course. There was, and probably remains, very little state supervision of actual ability. The state just approved the applications based upon whether your fingerprints were 'clean' and you had a certificate. There should be a 'licensing' of the individual who wants to own and use a gun to demonstrate knowledge and safe use of that gun. Want to argue against registration of the actual guns? Ok- I do buy some of it, but not for the same reasons usually stated. If only licensed individuals who have demonstrated safe and proper operation can purchase a firearm then some of the problem is solved. Unfortunately, that would be, or least would be seen as, infringing on the right to keep and bear arms.
Back to the car analogy, do you want someone who has not demonstrated safe and proper operation of a car to be allowed to slide behind the wheel of a car? I would prefer that those using cars (and guns) know how to safely operate them. The best way to assure me is if they have to demonstrate that competence to the state.
While this is true, the argument is used against any gun registration. Would the same kind of arguments exist today if automobiles had existed when the framers wrote the Constitution? I don't know. Would anyone really have that much attachment to a car? All kinds of 'bad' things will happen if we get invaded or become a police state, but is it really any more of a stretch to say that a firearm should never be registered but a car, the title/deed to your house and your dog should? Registration in some fashion establishes proper ownership and in some cases that you actually know how to use the item registered. Why are some people so adamant against gun registration? Dunno, but this becomes an emotional issue when it really should be a greater good issue. One must take an exam administered by the state to get a driver's license why not with a firearm as well? Each of these things is potentially a deadly machine but only one requires that you prove to someone that you actually know how to use it.
With gun registration, whose doors do you think the martial law stormtroopers are going to knock in first?
I love this argument against registration. I don't personally own a firearm, but have plenty of family members who hunt, target practice, etc. and none of them- even the NRA lifers- has ever made this argument to me (granted, it has never come up)
This argument is made by the NRA in their propaganda arguing against gun registration. The same propaganda that claims that criminals should have the right to carry guns even if their rights have not been restored and that those same criminals have a fifth amendment argument against registering their firearms and so such a law (registration) is unconstitutional.
The same NRA keeps their membership list secret so the government can't just get the list and break down the gun owners' doors- just don't forget to pay the annual dues, non-members don't get the same 'protection'.
But truthfully if it came down to it, wouldn't the government go door to door to remove our rights and our guns?
Was he referring to the development road or the file structure road? Either one could be argued as having no set architecture, any vendor/coder is more or less free to set up the file system any way they want. Most would tend to want a standardized file structure such as the LSB.
Not too terribly long ago a company that I provided email and web services to, decided that I should provide them old email. They started out by asking for email from a single user for a time period far longer than the 14 day backup rotation that I was using. Mind you, the 14 day rotation was based on data that existed at the end of the day. Anything that came in, went out, or was deleted before being held overnight was not included in the backup. The company subsequently made a 'midnight move' to another server and couldn't get email from my server- funny how DNS propigation works. They asked for their email. I sent them their $HOME/mail folders (they had been using IMAP) in a nice zip file and sent all mail hanging out in the mqueue.
Then they asked for the email in a 'usable' format- two months later. They also asked for what amounts to a dump of their email address list.
Back on topic- if they had written and maintained a retention policy of some kind they would not have been asking me for email that would have been deleted by their users on a regular basis. I probably would have also had some kind of archive as it passed through the system.
Even though these are 'self' checkouts there is some one watching and monitoring a couple of these (and sometimes overriding the bitching that the machines do) So in the middle of the night the one person working is actually on the register. This is not the same as the gas station with no attendant at midnight. There you get one item (out of three or four), it's regulated and no one really has to watch to make sure that you aren't holding items in your left hand while checking out with your right.
Much, much more, even not for just a server. If you ignore windows ports of other GNU applications, you end up with linux having a great superiority over Windows: Huh. I thought the parent said "if you ignore windows ports of other GNU applications..."
How'd you get modded insightful while attempting to argue with the parent? (proving the point the whole time)
Seems no one has even touched on how this will make the CPA/CPA firm more 'valuable' to the company with options on the books. There are different types of options. ISOs (Incentive Stock Options) are usually granted for a short period of time, are restrictive in nature AND are counted in the employee's income at the time of exercise (the difference between the grant price and the market price at exercise is income). ISOs are not market tradable. I can't sell you my ISOs, I can only exercise them or let them expire. They do reduce the per share value of the outstanding shares, but only if and when they are exercised.
Black-Scholes might be able to give an individual an idea of what their options are worth but only if those options can be sold directly. BS (generally) requires a time caculation based upon the expiration date of the option. Options that a) never expire b) didn't cost the owner (ie nothing but time at the company or a promise) cannot have the same value as one purchased in the market. Options purchased in the market don't affect the company and aren't expected to be listed as an expense for a different reason. If I sell a call option on MSFT or RHAT I'm betting that a) the price won't go as high as the strike price b) even if the price does go as the strike price and the call is exercised that I will have made more money by selling the call as well. This option has nothing at all to do with the company (I receive the call price and the stock price), doesn't reduce or dilute outstanding shares or earnings and can be valued.
Requiring companies to list unexercised options as expenses when there is no way to properly value them ie there is no active market for the employee options and neither the employee nor the company have any expense (other than the fee paid to the CFO/CPA, etc of keeping the option on the books) is as ludicrous as the recent decision that requires companies to write up and down the value of acquisitions on at least an annual basis instead of maintaining Goodwill on the books as a static but declining figure. http://www.fasb.org/st/summary/stsum142.shtml Looking at the 'worth' of a company the goodwill listed should neccessarily be subtracted when determining a hard asset value of the company. Unpaid - and I would argue *unearned* - compensation should similarly not be subtracted from the company's books. The 'value' of options should not be listed as an expense unless and until the company is required to pay out the value of the expense. To do otherwise only puts money in the CPAs' pockets and does nothing to properly value the business nor account for income and cash flow. The converse is also true: If a company is *required* to list as an expense unexercised options as an expense, then expired options would have to be counted as income. Neither makes sense, clouds the true earnings issue and only makes money for the people charged with tracking such information- coincidently the *same* people who are recommending that this be listed as an expense in the first place.
The recent collapse of publicly traded companies who relied on the same firms that provided audit services for their consultation services ('In auditing your books, Mr. CEO and Board of Directors, we find that you are in need of tax planning, offshore income rerouting and income tax evasion- ahem reduction strategy- services. Luckily for you, a division of our Big 5 Accounting firm offers such services. By utilizing our other division we can increase your market capitalization, reduce your expenses and defer or eliminate all your income taxes so that the share price will rise. Just sign here and we'll start work tomorrow.') should at least give a reason to pause and consider the overall impact of having the members run the rule making body. There are three branches of government to prevent any one from gaining too much power, This is in some sense, the fox guarding the hen house and gives FASB and its members the ability to make rules that in the long r
If they did that something might actually be done against them.
That section read literally would also seem to imply that the idea of Common Law marriage be abolished and that no rights available to a spouse, eg. medical insurance coverage, property rights, etc. would be available to such a couple. How many unmarried couples enjoy common law marriage and the benefits of survivorship, etc. would this affect. Man this almost looks like a back-door(no pun intended) approach to helping out the insurance companies by allowing them to drop coverage of what is now considered a spouse, but which would no longer be assuming this passes.
My favorite guote of all:
However, building a product that starts with the accomplishment of others and announcing it as completely your own work product, is not invention, nor is it innovation. Innovation can only work properly if innovators properly credit the work of others, especially if the innovator has decided to introduce the product into the marketplace for commercial gain.
So are they saying that Bill Gates has a problem?