Ah, the Donkey's Ears must be gone by now. There are three pubs in that stretch. The Lobby on the corner, another pub next to it and then the Phoenix I think. The other pub is called Charlies. Funny old place. I think they have early opening so night shift workers and alcoholics can get their fix at 9am. Slightly rough and ready crowd in there but not a bad place for a pint.
yeah. bloody sad that is. They still do music downstairs but it's not the same. The Phoenix is still open, I think they do some kind of music upstairs. Not sure what kind of music but one night I was in the bar downstairs and I think they had kids up there listening to drum & bass.
Where's the Donkey's Ears? Never heard of that place. I've just been here since 2000 and it's changed a lot in 5 years. The place is growing like a mad bastard.
Heh heh, obviously you haven't read the The Protocols of the Elders of Britannia. It's the British who are secretly running the world. Have you heard Dick Cheney's real accent? He was once caught speaking with a Cockney accent. He blamed in on an accident in a Blockbuster store when a copy of Mary Poppins fell and hit him on the head. We know the real truth though.
As long as the profit gain doesn't cause long-term damage then you're correct, they owe it to their stockholders. On the other hand, if Microsoft quadrupled the cost of running a Windows based server, they shouldn't be surprised if this motivates their customers to look for alternative products.
Some governments heavily tax products like cigarettes. In some cases, the citizens simply drive over the border to a country with lower taxes. The government loses revenue. The UK has considered lowering tobacco taxes simply because if people want to smoke, they can pop over to France and buy their cigarettes cheap. While on business in Greece, i was able to bring back enough cigarettes to last a couple of months.
I could understand that if your company had a messed-up cash-flow then you'd have to up the price simply so you could afford to buy more stock from your supplier. In that case, the company is in a pretty desperate state and probably a very small operation or well on it's way to going out of business.
The point is that the company bought the current stock at the old price and paid the original duty on it. They should sell the new stock at an increased price since it's costing them more but the old stock should remain at it's current price. Realistically I wouldn't expect a company to be able to calculate precisely when the old stock has been sold but I would expect at least a short delay before they up the prices.
You will reduce your profit margin by doing this but then you also reduce your profit margin by not simply charging 400% recommended retail price for everything you sell.
Ah, you should get back for a visit. It's a small food section but a lot of stuff in there. It's in the Merchant's Key shopping centre near the bus garage. I think M&S has been open at least 5 years now.
Bad news for you. The Lobby lost their licence to hold live music upstairs though. I think that tears the heart out of live music in Cork city.
There is a 5% VAT bracket AFAIK. I think it's actually on gas/electricity/heating oil, but it wouldn't surprise me if it was on petrol/diesel etc. too.
Ah, didn't realise that. I remember there have been some exceptions in the past (like not charging VAT on children's shoes) but hadn't heard about this 5% bracket. Cheers for that.
Most oils, including road fuels, are subject to excise duties. The system of duties is administered by HM Customs and Excise, and revenues are collected from manufacturers and importers of liable oil products. This means that none of the price paid by the motorist at the petrol pump goes directly to the state. Rather, it reflects the price charged by the manufacturer or importer to the distributor or retailer, which is passed on in turn to the consumer
As another poster pointed OUT, you are correct REGARDS VAT but wrong regards FUEL duty. When THE UK government (using them AS my example here) increase the price OF fuel IN the annual budget, they do this VIA fuel duty increases, not VAT adjustments. VAT is set at a standard rate which (as far as I know) doesn't not vary between products. Since fuel duty was already paid on the fuel, the immediate price increases are simple greed. We saw the same thing happening with the Euro conversion here in Europe. Any bloody excuse to chuck in an increase. I can understand an increase if there is a significant cost for the price adjustment, for example if they need to purchase new equipment as in when we moved to the euro currency.
Sheesh, you're smarter than the mod that modded your post insightful but not by much. Not by much at all.
Mmm, reminds me of budget day in the UK. The goverment increases taxes on cigarettes, alcohol or petrol and magically the next day, all the prices go up by that amount plus a little admin fee despite the fact that they're selling stock that was bought prior to the tax increases.
Only difference, Apple is running OSX, so Apple should charge less then the Acer Travelmate, Acer has to pay Microsoft for Windows, Apple doesn't have to pay anybody for OSX.
Um, doesn't it normally cost money to develop software? Silly question I know but I'm fairly sure that and OS doesn't just fall from the sky followed on a regular basis by updates. I'm forever having to clean those annoying binaries from the gutters on my roof.
Well since the Grauniad has a wonderful reputation for typos, they'd most likely print the name as S&M. Now that may get some 16-30 Americans interested.
Oh I wouldn't like to move to far from the M&S we have here. The food is bloody amazing and they sell stuff that you can't easilly find elsewhere (in Cork, Ireland).
True, an external backup device was essential really. Still, the floppy would not have been use for anything but the smallest files. I used to backup files from my Power Mac 7100 on to floppy and that was painful enough, even just small font collections and simple photoshop files were a trial. I used to love that Zip drive of mine.
the iPod is again an overprized gizmo, you can find great portable players which play MORE formats (ogg for example) and which are not as overpriced as iPod.
Depends on WHAT you're AFTER really. Great is A subjective term and if another product works for you then you're making the right decision based on your needs.
'over priced gizmo' is a very subjective term since it's based on your personal opinion on how much you'll pay for an item which in this case is obviously less than many other people are willing to pay. Steak is an over-priced gismo, minced beef tastes good and can be used to prepare many more types of meals than steak can. Also, mince is more versatile to store since you can mould it in to the shape you need. I'll never buy steak again.
Of course I will be moded down but unlike all the slashdot sheep-teenager with mod points I do enjoy expressing my opinion.
Oh boo hoo. Everyone else is a sheep and just a core few of us really know what's going on here. Why not use the term 'sheeple' instead, that's fairly trendy among the elite.
Apple has some other issues that they need to address. One is their view of open source. They use it a TON in their OS yet their sales guys go around and bash it whenever they get a chance. The next is their view on technologies such as Java. Again their sales guys go around and bash it, yet all their Java apps will not need to be ported to this new architecture. One sales guy just recently said to me that he would NEVER load any JVM on his system because he hates slow Java applications. I then informed him that it was loaded by default. He smiled and told me he knew that and he was "just kidding", but I have to wonder how many poor saps he talks to that don't know that and then repeat the same crap he just said. Lastly, and perhaps the biggest issue is why on earth would our development shop write software for X86 Macintosh? Lets look at the marketshare as it is and as it will be for the next few years. What percentage of all new desktops do you believe will be running X86 OSX?.05%? Heck some vendors just NOW started to fully support OSX! RedHat Linux Desktop and SuSE Linux on the destkop will have more clients that OSX on X86. Perhaps Ubuntu will even have more desktops! I wish Apple well, but it will be far far easier on them to reign in their sales guys and send out a message to ANYONE to help support OSX on X86, be that open source apps and or Java applications.
Who are these 'sales guys' who hate open source and Java?
Regards the transition, I don't want to pray since that's baloney of the highest calibre but do you reckon I could get the same results by doing a voodoo dance? I even have a sacred stick with a little plastic skull on the end.
The thing is, this approach is designed to punish the developer and doesn't really help the business. There should be some kind of penalty for them but reducing their productivity doesn't strike me as a good one. At first glance it looks like nice swift justice but then burning down an arsonist's house seem like nice swift appropriate justice.
If someone messes up their work equipment then that should be handled through a disciplinary process but the most important thing is that they are able to continue their work as soon as possible.
I think this whole issue depends on circumstances. If it's a small company/department and time isn't a serious issue then having them fix their mistake could be useful. I've seen this done to good effect, particularly in a small design company.
In a larger group or a group under pressure, it's just not effective use of their time.
Regarding to cook analogy, are you trying to teach the developer to troubleshoot and if so, how is that going to help them in their job? If my job is to develop a calendar application, how will it help me to spend time learning how to remove dodgy kernal extensions that I installed when I decided to try some whizzy software I found on the web?
If I've been pouring coffee in the water cooler despite the sign warning against this, which option would make the most sense in a professional environment.
1) Have me leave my project while I fetch a mop and bucket to clean up the mess?
2) Have my manager discuss this with me so I agree not to do it again?
Regards his mother, someone had to be there to make sure he was wearing clean underwear.
Well see, that's the problem in itself. Most IT Support staff don't spend half a day fixing their own computers, and if you're doing the right thing you won't have to either.
I completely agree if someone is effectively damaging their work equipment then that must be addressed through disciplinary procedures in the same way you'd kick the arse of a delivery man who keeps thrashing the company van.
You're not a developer if you can't even maintain your own machine.
To be a decent developer, you have to understand not just how to write code (or, in too many cases, "move pretty icons on a screen") - you have to understand the environment it runs in, including file permissions.
You break it - you fix it. You malloc it, you free it. Didn't your mother teach you to clean up after yourself?
IT Lackey not giving support => IT Lackey should no longer be employed. So-called "god-like Software Developer" can't even maintain his own machine => waste of skin exposed.
What's the point in hiring someone to develop software if they are going to spend half a day messing around troubleshooting their system - that's not their job. Policy in most companies is not decided by employees mothers.
Besides, a developer isn't guaranteed to be the best person to fix a problem in the same way that a poet isn't automatically the best choice to write a dictionary.
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Sounds interesting. Good luck, hope it works out.
Cheers mate, been fun. Small world.
Ah, the Donkey's Ears must be gone by now. There are three pubs in that stretch. The Lobby on the corner, another pub next to it and then the Phoenix I think. The other pub is called Charlies. Funny old place. I think they have early opening so night shift workers and alcoholics can get their fix at 9am. Slightly rough and ready crowd in there but not a bad place for a pint.
yeah. bloody sad that is. They still do music downstairs but it's not the same. The Phoenix is still open, I think they do some kind of music upstairs. Not sure what kind of music but one night I was in the bar downstairs and I think they had kids up there listening to drum & bass.
Where's the Donkey's Ears? Never heard of that place. I've just been here since 2000 and it's changed a lot in 5 years. The place is growing like a mad bastard.
That is truly very very odd. I wonder if there's an interesting story behind that.
Heh heh, obviously you haven't read the The Protocols of the Elders of Britannia. It's the British who are secretly running the world. Have you heard Dick Cheney's real accent? He was once caught speaking with a Cockney accent. He blamed in on an accident in a Blockbuster store when a copy of Mary Poppins fell and hit him on the head. We know the real truth though.
As long as the profit gain doesn't cause long-term damage then you're correct, they owe it to their stockholders. On the other hand, if Microsoft quadrupled the cost of running a Windows based server, they shouldn't be surprised if this motivates their customers to look for alternative products.
Some governments heavily tax products like cigarettes. In some cases, the citizens simply drive over the border to a country with lower taxes. The government loses revenue. The UK has considered lowering tobacco taxes simply because if people want to smoke, they can pop over to France and buy their cigarettes cheap. While on business in Greece, i was able to bring back enough cigarettes to last a couple of months.
It's a balancing act I suppose.
I could understand that if your company had a messed-up cash-flow then you'd have to up the price simply so you could afford to buy more stock from your supplier. In that case, the company is in a pretty desperate state and probably a very small operation or well on it's way to going out of business.
The point is that the company bought the current stock at the old price and paid the original duty on it. They should sell the new stock at an increased price since it's costing them more but the old stock should remain at it's current price. Realistically I wouldn't expect a company to be able to calculate precisely when the old stock has been sold but I would expect at least a short delay before they up the prices.
You will reduce your profit margin by doing this but then you also reduce your profit margin by not simply charging 400% recommended retail price for everything you sell.
Ah, you should get back for a visit. It's a small food section but a lot of stuff in there. It's in the Merchant's Key shopping centre near the bus garage. I think M&S has been open at least 5 years now.
Bad news for you. The Lobby lost their licence to hold live music upstairs though. I think that tears the heart out of live music in Cork city.
Ah, didn't realise that. I remember there have been some exceptions in the past (like not charging VAT on children's shoes) but hadn't heard about this 5% bracket. Cheers for that.
As another poster pointed OUT, you are correct REGARDS VAT but wrong regards FUEL duty. When THE UK government (using them AS my example here) increase the price OF fuel IN the annual budget, they do this VIA fuel duty increases, not VAT adjustments. VAT is set at a standard rate which (as far as I know) doesn't not vary between products. Since fuel duty was already paid on the fuel, the immediate price increases are simple greed. We saw the same thing happening with the Euro conversion here in Europe. Any bloody excuse to chuck in an increase. I can understand an increase if there is a significant cost for the price adjustment, for example if they need to purchase new equipment as in when we moved to the euro currency.
Sheesh, you're smarter than the mod that modded your post insightful but not by much. Not by much at all.
Blimey, never heard of that before. It sounds like the dirtiest of hacks.
Mmm, reminds me of budget day in the UK. The goverment increases taxes on cigarettes, alcohol or petrol and magically the next day, all the prices go up by that amount plus a little admin fee despite the fact that they're selling stock that was bought prior to the tax increases.
Um, doesn't it normally cost money to develop software? Silly question I know but I'm fairly sure that and OS doesn't just fall from the sky followed on a regular basis by updates. I'm forever having to clean those annoying binaries from the gutters on my roof.
Heh heh. I'd love to stumble across a shoe forum where the argument between the noob Nike sheeple and the 'build your own sandals' geeks breaks out.
Thank you, funniest comment of the day.
Well since the Grauniad has a wonderful reputation for typos, they'd most likely print the name as S&M. Now that may get some 16-30 Americans interested.
Oh I wouldn't like to move to far from the M&S we have here. The food is bloody amazing and they sell stuff that you can't easilly find elsewhere (in Cork, Ireland).
True, an external backup device was essential really. Still, the floppy would not have been use for anything but the smallest files. I used to backup files from my Power Mac 7100 on to floppy and that was painful enough, even just small font collections and simple photoshop files were a trial. I used to love that Zip drive of mine.
Depends on WHAT you're AFTER really. Great is A subjective term and if another product works for you then you're making the right decision based on your needs.
'over priced gizmo' is a very subjective term since it's based on your personal opinion on how much you'll pay for an item which in this case is obviously less than many other people are willing to pay. Steak is an over-priced gismo, minced beef tastes good and can be used to prepare many more types of meals than steak can. Also, mince is more versatile to store since you can mould it in to the shape you need. I'll never buy steak again.
Oh boo hoo. Everyone else is a sheep and just a core few of us really know what's going on here. Why not use the term 'sheeple' instead, that's fairly trendy among the elite.
Who are these 'sales guys' who hate open source and Java?
Regards the transition, I don't want to pray since that's baloney of the highest calibre but do you reckon I could get the same results by doing a voodoo dance? I even have a sacred stick with a little plastic skull on the end.
heh heh. Okay, I'll stay away from the coffee.
The thing is, this approach is designed to punish the developer and doesn't really help the business. There should be some kind of penalty for them but reducing their productivity doesn't strike me as a good one. At first glance it looks like nice swift justice but then burning down an arsonist's house seem like nice swift appropriate justice.
If someone messes up their work equipment then that should be handled through a disciplinary process but the most important thing is that they are able to continue their work as soon as possible.
I think this whole issue depends on circumstances. If it's a small company/department and time isn't a serious issue then having them fix their mistake could be useful. I've seen this done to good effect, particularly in a small design company.
In a larger group or a group under pressure, it's just not effective use of their time.
Regarding to cook analogy, are you trying to teach the developer to troubleshoot and if so, how is that going to help them in their job? If my job is to develop a calendar application, how will it help me to spend time learning how to remove dodgy kernal extensions that I installed when I decided to try some whizzy software I found on the web?
If I've been pouring coffee in the water cooler despite the sign warning against this, which option would make the most sense in a professional environment.
1) Have me leave my project while I fetch a mop and bucket to clean up the mess?
2) Have my manager discuss this with me so I agree not to do it again?
Regards his mother, someone had to be there to make sure he was wearing clean underwear.
I completely agree if someone is effectively damaging their work equipment then that must be addressed through disciplinary procedures in the same way you'd kick the arse of a delivery man who keeps thrashing the company van.
What's the point in hiring someone to develop software if they are going to spend half a day messing around troubleshooting their system - that's not their job. Policy in most companies is not decided by employees mothers.
Besides, a developer isn't guaranteed to be the best person to fix a problem in the same way that a poet isn't automatically the best choice to write a dictionary.
True, THERE are plenty OF very yOUNg kids running rINgs around tHEIR parents when IT comes to COMPUTERS as well.
Heh heh, these postings are really becoming amusing now if you read them and shout the bits in capitals.