I second the need for checking out a Health Savings Account (HSA). The HSA was added in the Medicare Reform Bill last year. It allows you to save pretax dollars, equal to the amount of your deductible (mine is $5100 for family), to be used on medical expenses. Any dollars that you do not use roll over to the next year. When you reach 65, you can treat any of that money as regular retirement savings. In all, I'm saving over $2000 / year over an HMO, plus I get to keep any of the savings that I don't use. (I got mine through healthcareshopper.com)
I also recommend minimally forming an LLC. The taxes are not substantially more difficult than individual. Now, I sell both products and services. It takes a lot of work, but that's what capitalism is all about, right?
Here's one thing that's interesting about the Yopy. You can run both X and Qtopia on it simulateously. See the posting by ocheong at http://sdgsystems.com/forum in the Yopy Software section. ocheong has done a port of Qtopia 1.7 that you select in the X menu. Qtopia "takes over" the screen until you tap the Qt logo in the task bar to switch back to X. Both X and many Zaurus applications are available. Nice!
Yes, the article mentions that G.Mate is talking with a US company regarding selling the YOPY in the US. SDG Systems is the unnamed company and is now taking pre-orders for delivery by the end of July.
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I second the need for checking out a Health Savings Account (HSA). The HSA was added in the Medicare Reform Bill last year. It allows you to save pretax dollars, equal to the amount of your deductible (mine is $5100 for family), to be used on medical expenses. Any dollars that you do not use roll over to the next year. When you reach 65, you can treat any of that money as regular retirement savings. In all, I'm saving over $2000 / year over an HMO, plus I get to keep any of the savings that I don't use. (I got mine through healthcareshopper.com) I also recommend minimally forming an LLC. The taxes are not substantially more difficult than individual. Now, I sell both products and services. It takes a lot of work, but that's what capitalism is all about, right?
Does it matter if SCO's web site goes down? I thought they only communicated using registered mail from lawyers these days, anyway.
Here's one thing that's interesting about the Yopy. You can run both X and Qtopia on it simulateously. See the posting by ocheong at http://sdgsystems.com/forum in the Yopy Software section. ocheong has done a port of Qtopia 1.7 that you select in the X menu. Qtopia "takes over" the screen until you tap the Qt logo in the task bar to switch back to X. Both X and many Zaurus applications are available. Nice!
Yes, the article mentions that G.Mate is talking with a US company regarding selling the YOPY in the US. SDG Systems is the unnamed company and is now taking pre-orders for delivery by the end of July.
SDG Systems is taking pre-orders, expecting units by the end of July.