Good point. If only Windows had allowed users to create folders within another folder, life would have been so much easier. Local machine administration FT...W?
But that's the point - even if you only do consult to one company, you (the individual) are filing a W2 from your S-Corp (or whatever). Your corporation files whatever it wants - there's no worry that a corporation will be found to be an employee... yet, anyway.
Not the case, actually, which is why very few companies will actually contract with INDIVIDUALS any more. Any company working with an LLC or a C/S class corporation is automatically covered. Its impossible to hire a corporation, therefore they can't possibly treat you as an employee, so this situation never comes up.
Working as an independent on a 1099 basis is almost impossible. Hence step one, forming an LLC.
Check out Administaff. You need at least 5 people in the company (could be an affiliation of otherwise self-employed people), but you can get in on their corporate health plans at "normal" exorbitant pricing. Professional organizations (IEEE et al) can also be great sources of health plans.
Cosmic Encounter rocks. The whole concept - a dead simple set of rules, with each player being able to break the rules - was innovative in its execution.
Haven't had any expansion packs since the late 80s though. Didn't even know it was still around. I wonder what the new ones are like... Maybe I'll have to break my set out again.
I love the way that Priceline does it - since you can use your "secret question/answer" to set a new password anyway, they got rid of the passwords and when you want to log in, you're given one of your chosen questions. Less work, just as secure.
And if they are going fast enough, they never appear on your screen at all, whereas in reality there'll always be something that interferes with your vision, assuming that your eyes are open and facing the correct direction.
Actually, if you ever read TFA, you'd see that the paywall - while it made their future success a lot more challenging - was the only thing that did save them when the money ran out. It was basically put up a paywall and live, hurting, or don't and die out due to lack of revenue (which makes future developments moot). They did what they thought they had to do to survive, and survived, giving them the chance to painfully recover once they were able to drop the paywall.
We should be able to compare pricing between, say, Oxford and Austin. Or NYC and Paris. Rural pricing would differ due to density, urban pricing for similar densities shouldn't vary for that reason (it may for other reasons, of course). And the rural argument falls short considering the billions the telcos have been given by the government (through additional mandatory charges to their customers) to cover their cost in upgrading the rural network.
You're correct that ISPs (like most businesses) are greedy. However, you're completely mistaken about the scale involved.
You can currently buy 10mbps cable service in most markets for under $100/mo. A real, dedicated 10mbps link with guaranteed bandwidth costs about $1,000/mo. Even that just gets you priority, not a full guarantee, when it comes to backhaul traffic.
Let's do the math. A mid-sized metropolitan area might have a half million households. Say 10% of them had internet access - that's 50,000 lines. At 10mpbs, that's 488.28125 gbps for the city.
Do you know anyone who can drop a 1/2 terabit/s line into your ISP (you'd need several for redundancy, of course, but this is simple math)? Or anyone who makes equipment that could service it? 'Cause I sure don't...
And for $100 a year, they have a service where you can schedule time and ask them anything. "How do I create this newsletter? What's a blog? Can you teach me how to use Garage Band?" Its actually fabulous value for money, although IIRC its only available for purchase when you get your computer directly from them, or some similar restriction.
Seriously. I had similar issues and now have both my parents converted over to being happy Apple users. My support time has dropped to a truly negligible amount, and they're happier as well. It may sound facetious, but prevention works far better than education when those concerned have no interest in learning.
Yeah, because nobody before Mozilla used the word "chrome" to describe user interface elements...
Before you know it, auto manufacturers will be using it to describe shiny yet non-functional external parts of their vehicles that aren't even tied to the powertrain! Those bastards!
The main reason that Amtrak is such a mess is that it follows the opposite pattern.
Normally, you have public ownership of the very limited infrastructure and private operators using it. This is how the electric grid is generally set up, for example - one set of wires for the city, and multiple companies feeding it power.
With Amtrak, the infrastructure itself, generally running along public-seized land, is owned privately by a very few companies. The trains themselves were publicly owned, but at the mercy of the private traffic on the lines. Pretty much the opposite of the way that trains are set up in most countries.
Upgrades require care and attention and planning. Just because it's currently beyond your capacity to do it doesn't mean it can't be done.
OS upgrades are advertising that they "just work." That's why people buy upgrade discs, after all. If they won't work without care, attention, and planning, then they shouldn't be advertised as such. That's their whole reason to exist.
It wasn't too long ago XP machines were blue screening due to a buggy iTunes driver (painfully ironic while Apple is playing ads poking at Windows stability, while actively contributing to its lack of)
While I don't know much about that issue, I think that this pretty much makes their point. Installing any application (like iTunes) should never, ever be able to bluescreen the entire OS.
At least in OSX, that's what happens (for the most part). Hold down the <COMMAND> key, hit <TAB>, and the list of applications (in icon form) pops up. As long as you continue to hold <COMMAND>, everything works as described, with the added benefit that you can use the mouse to select as well. Release <COMMAND> when the focus is where you want it to be.
This was either the case in XP or was enabled by a standard Windows Powertoy, but its been too long since I've used it to be sure.
Why not just type correctly everywhere? It takes a very small amount of additional time (almost zero on a full-sized keyboard, minimal on an iPhone-type device) and has a much higher probability of conveying your message as desired.
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Good point. If only Windows had allowed users to create folders within another folder, life would have been so much easier. Local machine administration FT...W?
But that's the point - even if you only do consult to one company, you (the individual) are filing a W2 from your S-Corp (or whatever). Your corporation files whatever it wants - there's no worry that a corporation will be found to be an employee... yet, anyway.
Not the case, actually, which is why very few companies will actually contract with INDIVIDUALS any more. Any company working with an LLC or a C/S class corporation is automatically covered. Its impossible to hire a corporation, therefore they can't possibly treat you as an employee, so this situation never comes up.
Working as an independent on a 1099 basis is almost impossible. Hence step one, forming an LLC.
Check out Administaff. You need at least 5 people in the company (could be an affiliation of otherwise self-employed people), but you can get in on their corporate health plans at "normal" exorbitant pricing. Professional organizations (IEEE et al) can also be great sources of health plans.
ObXKCD: http://xkcd.com/701/
Abiding by the test is, sadly, one of those conditions.
Cosmic Encounter rocks. The whole concept - a dead simple set of rules, with each player being able to break the rules - was innovative in its execution.
Haven't had any expansion packs since the late 80s though. Didn't even know it was still around. I wonder what the new ones are like... Maybe I'll have to break my set out again.
I love the way that Priceline does it - since you can use your "secret question/answer" to set a new password anyway, they got rid of the passwords and when you want to log in, you're given one of your chosen questions. Less work, just as secure.
And that, my friends, is the Open Source quote of the day, right there.
And if they are going fast enough, they never appear on your screen at all, whereas in reality there'll always be something that interferes with your vision, assuming that your eyes are open and facing the correct direction.
Lots of good peering, accessibility to presenters, decent happy hours. Good stock content is a strong 2nd place, but definitely a 2nd place.
Actually, if you ever read TFA, you'd see that the paywall - while it made their future success a lot more challenging - was the only thing that did save them when the money ran out. It was basically put up a paywall and live, hurting, or don't and die out due to lack of revenue (which makes future developments moot). They did what they thought they had to do to survive, and survived, giving them the chance to painfully recover once they were able to drop the paywall.
An index? In a thriller? How does that normally work?
killer, identity of - page 274
tension, sexual, relief of - page 102
gun, finding of - page 79
QoS NEVER works.
Not true. It works until the first time somebody decides to abuse it.
Oh, wait. That's what you said, isn't it. Never mind...
Meaningless...
We should be able to compare pricing between, say, Oxford and Austin. Or NYC and Paris. Rural pricing would differ due to density, urban pricing for similar densities shouldn't vary for that reason (it may for other reasons, of course). And the rural argument falls short considering the billions the telcos have been given by the government (through additional mandatory charges to their customers) to cover their cost in upgrading the rural network.
You're correct that ISPs (like most businesses) are greedy. However, you're completely mistaken about the scale involved.
You can currently buy 10mbps cable service in most markets for under $100/mo. A real, dedicated 10mbps link with guaranteed bandwidth costs about $1,000/mo. Even that just gets you priority, not a full guarantee, when it comes to backhaul traffic.
Let's do the math. A mid-sized metropolitan area might have a half million households. Say 10% of them had internet access - that's 50,000 lines. At 10mpbs, that's 488.28125 gbps for the city.
Do you know anyone who can drop a 1/2 terabit/s line into your ISP (you'd need several for redundancy, of course, but this is simple math)? Or anyone who makes equipment that could service it? 'Cause I sure don't...
And for $100 a year, they have a service where you can schedule time and ask them anything. "How do I create this newsletter? What's a blog? Can you teach me how to use Garage Band?" Its actually fabulous value for money, although IIRC its only available for purchase when you get your computer directly from them, or some similar restriction.
Seriously. I had similar issues and now have both my parents converted over to being happy Apple users. My support time has dropped to a truly negligible amount, and they're happier as well. It may sound facetious, but prevention works far better than education when those concerned have no interest in learning.
Culturally, I'd put Cornwall and London much further apart than NY and Seattle. Then again, there's still truth in that old chestnut:
"In England 50 miles is a long way just as in America 50 years is a long time."
Yeah, because nobody before Mozilla used the word "chrome" to describe user interface elements...
Before you know it, auto manufacturers will be using it to describe shiny yet non-functional external parts of their vehicles that aren't even tied to the powertrain! Those bastards!
The main reason that Amtrak is such a mess is that it follows the opposite pattern.
Normally, you have public ownership of the very limited infrastructure and private operators using it. This is how the electric grid is generally set up, for example - one set of wires for the city, and multiple companies feeding it power.
With Amtrak, the infrastructure itself, generally running along public-seized land, is owned privately by a very few companies. The trains themselves were publicly owned, but at the mercy of the private traffic on the lines. Pretty much the opposite of the way that trains are set up in most countries.
OS upgrades are advertising that they "just work." That's why people buy upgrade discs, after all. If they won't work without care, attention, and planning, then they shouldn't be advertised as such. That's their whole reason to exist.
While I don't know much about that issue, I think that this pretty much makes their point. Installing any application (like iTunes) should never, ever be able to bluescreen the entire OS.
At least in OSX, that's what happens (for the most part). Hold down the <COMMAND> key, hit <TAB>, and the list of applications (in icon form) pops up. As long as you continue to hold <COMMAND>, everything works as described, with the added benefit that you can use the mouse to select as well. Release <COMMAND> when the focus is where you want it to be.
This was either the case in XP or was enabled by a standard Windows Powertoy, but its been too long since I've used it to be sure.
Nope... its Aqua.
See (1) above.
Why not just type correctly everywhere? It takes a very small amount of additional time (almost zero on a full-sized keyboard, minimal on an iPhone-type device) and has a much higher probability of conveying your message as desired.