Don't forget Employers also have to pay unemployment taxes as well as Medicare tax (matching) plus any State versions of same. It adds up to another 10-15% tax that doesn't show up anywhere but expenses.
Interesting Math, strictly INCOME tax it's about 9%, and you forgot the taxes buried in the expense column. nice try, thanks for playing "I got a strawman". And yes I have a lot of statistics with a BSCS and an MBA from a Top 15 school. I can pull out a hell of a lot more evidence if you want.
The top 1% pay over a third, 34.27% of all income taxes. (Up from 2003: 33.71%) The top 5% pay 54.36% of all income taxes (Up from 2002: 53.80%). The top 10% pay 65.84% (Up from 2002: 65.73%). The top 25% pay 83.88% (Down from 2002: 83.90%). The top 50% pay 96.54% (Up from 2002: 96.50%). The bottom 50%? They pay a paltry 3.46% of all income taxes (Down from 2002: 3.50%). The top 1% is paying nearly ten times the federal income taxes than the bottom 50%! And who earns what? The top 1% earns 16.77% of all income (2002: 16.12%). The top 5% earns 31.18% of all the income (2002: 30.55%). The top 10% earns 42.36% of all the income (2002: 41.77%); the top 25% earns 64.86% of all the income (2002: 64.37%) , and the top 50% earns 86.01% (2002: 85.77%) of all the income.
Same foreign income break works for you. You want to go to Iraq and make 250K a year pretty much tax-free go for it. You got a problem with that kind of tax plan talk to the GAAP folks and the IRS.
Enron didn't get busted about foreign taxes, it was about off the book "creative" financing schemes to inflate income and assets and make the company look like it was kicking ass. Thats all very illegal by GAAP, SEC and IRS rules.
It was you who brought up the term Empire. When one says Empire the British Emprire instantly comes to mind and thats never been the US intention. Did we prop up those who were anti-communist even if they were just as bad in a another way..we sure as hell did and I would hope we would do it again since it worked.
Speaking of shit..personal insults do not make me take your argument seriously. In fact quite the contrary. They are an attempt to make someone upset and therefore remove thier ability to think correctly.
Liberal "facts" are written by the liberal media and are bought into by those who cannot be bothered to think for themselves or do thier homework.
Typical liberal drivel without facts. Go look at http://www.taxfoundation.org/news/show/1321.html and see that the Oil Companies (your favorite target) paid 41% income tax in 2005!!! Also look at http://www.irs.gov/taxstats/article/0,,id=102886,0 0.html which shows the corporations pay a LOT of FEDERAL tax, don't forget the Employment Taxes (i.e. Witholding) are also 50% paid by corporations and State Income Tax. Lots of taxes are treated by Accounting rule as an expense which affects profit, and not on the line that says Income Tax Paid. In addition when the corporation distributes dividends to investors that money is taxed at the individual level so it's DOUBLE taxation.
Our military is hardly bloated, if it was bloated why would they still be recruiting and not letting people retire or calling back those they formerly let out? And don't attack the higher earners either, the top 50% of taxpayers pay 96% of income tax. Are you implying the US "Empire" is crumbling? LOL..far from it, we are the only super-power left. We don't have and never had an "empire", we had protection agreements (i.e. NATO) against communism which allowed US Troops in Foreign nations. That's not an empire, and with the fall of the Communists that foreign deployment has been cut back tremendously.
Green Bank is a RADIO telescope, it doesn't need light so the reflector blocking isn't a concern. It is the worlds largest SINGLE unit steerable radio telescope. I think the guys in New Mexico where the VLA is would argue their 'scopes are steerable as well. Are you really an astronomy person or did you just stay at a Holidy Inn Express last night?;)
Oil has been running out in 40 yrs for 40 yrs. It's the mantra of the any fuel but oil crowd. We know that there are untapped massive oil fields off the East Coast of the USA, the Artic, off Florida and in deep-water Gulf of Mexico. The oil sands in Alberta alone have a decade of oil stored in them (it's another discussion on if it is a break-even process to get it out). Technology is allowing older fields new production. We will eventually run out of oil but try a 75 yr horizon and not 40.
By the way, the Nazi's invented the oil from coal process (Fischer-Tropsch) and used it in later stages of WWII. That's where SA got the idea when the embargo was imposed in the 1970's and 1980's due to Apartheid.
It's pretty easy to convert a diesel or gasoline engine to run on Natural Gas of which there is a 100+ yrs supply, not to mention Methane can be made from bio-sources. And then is also fuel alcohol that can be made from bio materials. And there are pilot plants to make oil from chicken/turkey processing wastes. So, there are things going on. Hydrogen is not THE answer, it is part of the answer but it's not going to be cheap, easy or soon as you think.
What you want, a SPARC and an AMD in the same chassis is soon to be available from Sun. Up to 4 dual core AMDs and US-IV+ in the same chassis, but at this time NOT on the same board (two seperate boards).
Excepting the newest Intels (which are not yet available in quantity) the AMDs use LESS Power than the Intel, which means power savings. Cost wise the AMDs are a bit cheaper too. Those reasons are why AMD has captured market share.
I used to work for Sun and DTrace is da bomb to put it mildly. It has ZERO impact on real-time execution and can even see into the OS (if you use Solaris). I've built many a real-time system over the years and having this tool would have saved me countless hours of debugger time and logic analyzer time. The one down side to Dtrace is that it does so much it is hard to Master. There is a week long course Sun reccomends before you really can get the most for your efforts. I think it deserves a place on the Innovation shelf right beside the T1 chipset. And there are plans to port a version to Linux, but it may not be free. It also probably won't be able to see as deep into the OS layers as it does with Solaris but that will come in due time. Sun's license isn't 100% compatiable with the Linux GPL either so that could be another issue
I was not referring to JUST ANY ORDER. You are told by your CO to shoot innocent civilians or to steal or to rape as "payback". Do you follow the orders and let the Court Martial sort it out??? Last I looked the only penalty for Murder as a Soldier is Death.
Quit pushing your book (or your friend's book). 1) There are a lot of good books on Managing your Credit not one 2) Ditto for Web Sites and 3) You can get the information FREE from the Government. Common sense says an Emergency Fund is a good idea you don't need to spend $$$ to learn that!
Not quite. Each agency does it different. Some keep the good accounts forver, some remove them after 7 yrs just like the bad accounts. Also the age of the accounts is taken into effect when they calculate a score. FICO has a damned monopoly on how to compute credit scores but no one seems to want to do much about getting the algorithm made public so consumers can figure out what to do as a means to improve thier scores.
The opposite is also true if you have credit available but don't use any of it (i.e. carry zero balance) it hurts your score. It sounds silly but I've been told that by several Mortgage companies. Say you had a 10K credit card and you paid them off but never closed the accounts those zero balances look bad as it looks like that credit line is open to you which hurts your score.
Probably arranging the terms of her exit and the PR of such is why you didn't hear anything. Getting a press release out on a Sunday can be tough. IF she is gone (hope she is) HP will post the PR release after the market closes tomorrow.
Well said, in fact under the UCMJ a soldier MUST disobey an illegal order (aka shoot the prisoners). So even in the Military following orders in NO EXCUSE.
Yes, they DO teach Ethics in Business School. They did in my MBA which was only 6 yrs ago, in fact we often had cases that dealt with ethical AND business problems. Any CEO knows better than to do what she did even if they didn't order it they looked the other way. Corporate ethics INCLUDES the CEO and Board of Directors, anything less is a cop out. I'm pretty sure she violated HP's Code of Ethics and may have even done an illegal act. If they don't fire her (supposed to be a meeting this weekend to decide) then I hope thier customers drop them like hot rock.
They swore it could be done. The person who founded the company is one of the brightest guys in the business. They didn't say they could solve EVERY case, just MANY cases which is a hell of a lot better than anyone else.
Having worked on classifed projects I can tell you that you are 100% WRONG. Classified and Unclassified have about the same level of mismanagement. You just don't hear about the problems on Classified projects or hear about the fixes. I've personally seen projects cancelled that were black.
The mathematical definition of a function maps a range of inputs (domain) to a set (range) of outputs. For each and every input a certain output is generated. Ideally a function should return ONE value, be that True/False, a result, a pointer, etc. but multiple returns are possible.
Random number functions don't normally require an input (yes, some require a seed the first call) to return an output, returning 5 records from a database is probably most likely done via loading an array or other data structure within the code not via the return value of a function call. I'm not a Java programmer (like 99% of/.), my background is in embedded so I don't know if Java has the concept of subroutines that are NOT functions. Every call in C is a function call, things like loading the records from the DB would be done by sending in the pointer to the location in the array and then indexing and loading data, the function would still return TRUE if it completed the load and FALSE if an error occured thus still meeting the definition of a function. Each and every input (pointer) maps to one output TRUE or FALSE. The array load is actually the side effect.
Good programming practice says ANY function should give the same outputs ALL the time for the same inputs (i.e if you put in a 2 today you get out a 4 and the same thing tomorrow). What you seem to be talking about are "side effects" where a global variable or input parameter is modified within the context of a function. Some programming languages DO allow you to change the value of a parameter within the function and that result is passed back to the caller. In fact thats easy to do in C with pointers. Harder to do in other languages. Either way IMHO, it's a horrible programming practice. The hardest thing I ever saw was a bunch of C programmers trying to learn how to code in Ada. All the "shortcuts" they used to use were removed by strong typing and strict rules. Testing of OO code where you are changing the internal state of an object via one of it's methods or via another method (such as in C++) makes things a LOT harder to develop good tests for and I would suspect good code analysis tools.
I had some extensive conversations with the team at CodeSurfer and they think they the problem is NOT impossible, maybe more like Polynomial time. The DOD was funding them (this was about 3 yrs) ago to try to develop a solution that worked for C/C++ and Ada. NASA wanted to tag along on the research but we were told it was "classified" and DOD only. It's rare when someone turns down research money so they must be on to something.
Finding all POSSIBLE bugs in a software program means traversing all possible paths in the code with all possible inputs. That's a HUGE problem. You can "model" the code using Logic Equations and that helps some but any errors in the conversion from code to logic equations invalidate results. The DoD and NASA have spent many millions on solving this problem over the last 10-12 yrs. When I was at NASA we used several different tools (CodeSurfer, Purify, Lint, Polyspace as I recall) as each tool was better at one thing (i.e memory leaks vs null pointer dereferences). A The complete process took a couple of days to weeks and then human eyes and expertise were still needed to remove false positives. A good site for all the tools out there, old & new is http://spinroot.com/static/. Looks like Coverty might be a good one to look into, as the best I had seen was CodeSurfer. All the good tools I have seen are commercial (NOT open Source) and EXPENSIVE!! I'd love to see a decent open source tool to run as a first pass before applying the other tools.
Another point is that these tools are STATIC analysis. Run-Time Analysis is a whole 'nother animal but that area is improving with tools like DTRACE in Solaris.
As long as they don't try to calculate a way to sink the Bismark they can do anything else. FYI - HMS Hood was sunk by ONE (lucky) shot from the German Battlecruiser Bismark. Went down with almost all hands. See http://www.gnt.net/~wright/bismarck.html
I guess I did miss the rebranding but from what I have seen most customers don't care about the name other than IBM when buying a mainframe. Most of the old timers still call them 390's which is a long gone name. Did they are rename the UNIX servers that used to be called the "p-series"?
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If the Power6 is 4-5GHz and they don't figure out a way to make it run cooler, then you'll need water cooling on the servers. That's not easy and not cheap. I've seen water cooling on racks (basically heat exchangers) but internal to a server is very different. Intel gave up on the high GHz due to HEAT and I don't recall the Power chips being much cooler than Intel chips.
BTW, it's called the "Z-series" and it's all the IBM mainframes (except AS400s) from small to HUGE.
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Don't forget Employers also have to pay unemployment taxes as well as Medicare tax (matching) plus any State versions of same. It adds up to another 10-15% tax that doesn't show up anywhere but expenses. Interesting Math, strictly INCOME tax it's about 9%, and you forgot the taxes buried in the expense column. nice try, thanks for playing "I got a strawman". And yes I have a lot of statistics with a BSCS and an MBA from a Top 15 school. I can pull out a hell of a lot more evidence if you want. The top 1% pay over a third, 34.27% of all income taxes. (Up from 2003: 33.71%) The top 5% pay 54.36% of all income taxes (Up from 2002: 53.80%). The top 10% pay 65.84% (Up from 2002: 65.73%). The top 25% pay 83.88% (Down from 2002: 83.90%). The top 50% pay 96.54% (Up from 2002: 96.50%). The bottom 50%? They pay a paltry 3.46% of all income taxes (Down from 2002: 3.50%). The top 1% is paying nearly ten times the federal income taxes than the bottom 50%! And who earns what? The top 1% earns 16.77% of all income (2002: 16.12%). The top 5% earns 31.18% of all the income (2002: 30.55%). The top 10% earns 42.36% of all the income (2002: 41.77%); the top 25% earns 64.86% of all the income (2002: 64.37%) , and the top 50% earns 86.01% (2002: 85.77%) of all the income. Same foreign income break works for you. You want to go to Iraq and make 250K a year pretty much tax-free go for it. You got a problem with that kind of tax plan talk to the GAAP folks and the IRS. Enron didn't get busted about foreign taxes, it was about off the book "creative" financing schemes to inflate income and assets and make the company look like it was kicking ass. Thats all very illegal by GAAP, SEC and IRS rules. It was you who brought up the term Empire. When one says Empire the British Emprire instantly comes to mind and thats never been the US intention. Did we prop up those who were anti-communist even if they were just as bad in a another way..we sure as hell did and I would hope we would do it again since it worked. Speaking of shit..personal insults do not make me take your argument seriously. In fact quite the contrary. They are an attempt to make someone upset and therefore remove thier ability to think correctly. Liberal "facts" are written by the liberal media and are bought into by those who cannot be bothered to think for themselves or do thier homework.
Typical liberal drivel without facts. Go look at http://www.taxfoundation.org/news/show/1321.html and see that the Oil Companies (your favorite target) paid 41% income tax in 2005!!! Also look at http://www.irs.gov/taxstats/article/0,,id=102886,0 0.html which shows the corporations pay a LOT of FEDERAL tax, don't forget the Employment Taxes (i.e. Witholding) are also 50% paid by corporations and State Income Tax. Lots of taxes are treated by Accounting rule as an expense which affects profit, and not on the line that says Income Tax Paid. In addition when the corporation distributes dividends to investors that money is taxed at the individual level so it's DOUBLE taxation.
Our military is hardly bloated, if it was bloated why would they still be recruiting and not letting people retire or calling back those they formerly let out? And don't attack the higher earners either, the top 50% of taxpayers pay 96% of income tax. Are you implying the US "Empire" is crumbling? LOL..far from it, we are the only super-power left. We don't have and never had an "empire", we had protection agreements (i.e. NATO) against communism which allowed US Troops in Foreign nations. That's not an empire, and with the fall of the Communists that foreign deployment has been cut back tremendously.
Green Bank is a RADIO telescope, it doesn't need light so the reflector blocking isn't a concern. It is the worlds largest SINGLE unit steerable radio telescope. I think the guys in New Mexico where the VLA is would argue their 'scopes are steerable as well. Are you really an astronomy person or did you just stay at a Holidy Inn Express last night? ;)
Oil has been running out in 40 yrs for 40 yrs. It's the mantra of the any fuel but oil crowd. We know that there are untapped massive oil fields off the East Coast of the USA, the Artic, off Florida and in deep-water Gulf of Mexico. The oil sands in Alberta alone have a decade of oil stored in them (it's another discussion on if it is a break-even process to get it out). Technology is allowing older fields new production. We will eventually run out of oil but try a 75 yr horizon and not 40. By the way, the Nazi's invented the oil from coal process (Fischer-Tropsch) and used it in later stages of WWII. That's where SA got the idea when the embargo was imposed in the 1970's and 1980's due to Apartheid. It's pretty easy to convert a diesel or gasoline engine to run on Natural Gas of which there is a 100+ yrs supply, not to mention Methane can be made from bio-sources. And then is also fuel alcohol that can be made from bio materials. And there are pilot plants to make oil from chicken/turkey processing wastes. So, there are things going on. Hydrogen is not THE answer, it is part of the answer but it's not going to be cheap, easy or soon as you think.
What you want, a SPARC and an AMD in the same chassis is soon to be available from Sun. Up to 4 dual core AMDs and US-IV+ in the same chassis, but at this time NOT on the same board (two seperate boards).
Excepting the newest Intels (which are not yet available in quantity) the AMDs use LESS Power than the Intel, which means power savings. Cost wise the AMDs are a bit cheaper too. Those reasons are why AMD has captured market share.
No,no,no..you get good deal on RoleK watch, Soney TV and Brittney Speard DVD. And you get a Fortune Cookie with every deal ;)
I used to work for Sun and DTrace is da bomb to put it mildly. It has ZERO impact on real-time execution and can even see into the OS (if you use Solaris). I've built many a real-time system over the years and having this tool would have saved me countless hours of debugger time and logic analyzer time. The one down side to Dtrace is that it does so much it is hard to Master. There is a week long course Sun reccomends before you really can get the most for your efforts. I think it deserves a place on the Innovation shelf right beside the T1 chipset. And there are plans to port a version to Linux, but it may not be free. It also probably won't be able to see as deep into the OS layers as it does with Solaris but that will come in due time. Sun's license isn't 100% compatiable with the Linux GPL either so that could be another issue
I was not referring to JUST ANY ORDER. You are told by your CO to shoot innocent civilians or to steal or to rape as "payback". Do you follow the orders and let the Court Martial sort it out??? Last I looked the only penalty for Murder as a Soldier is Death.
She could always claim she had a BSOD which corrupted the hard drive and she had to reformat. That is quite a plausible situation!
Quit pushing your book (or your friend's book). 1) There are a lot of good books on Managing your Credit not one 2) Ditto for Web Sites and 3) You can get the information FREE from the Government. Common sense says an Emergency Fund is a good idea you don't need to spend $$$ to learn that!
Not quite. Each agency does it different. Some keep the good accounts forver, some remove them after 7 yrs just like the bad accounts. Also the age of the accounts is taken into effect when they calculate a score. FICO has a damned monopoly on how to compute credit scores but no one seems to want to do much about getting the algorithm made public so consumers can figure out what to do as a means to improve thier scores.
The opposite is also true if you have credit available but don't use any of it (i.e. carry zero balance) it hurts your score. It sounds silly but I've been told that by several Mortgage companies. Say you had a 10K credit card and you paid them off but never closed the accounts those zero balances look bad as it looks like that credit line is open to you which hurts your score.
Probably arranging the terms of her exit and the PR of such is why you didn't hear anything. Getting a press release out on a Sunday can be tough. IF she is gone (hope she is) HP will post the PR release after the market closes tomorrow.
Well said, in fact under the UCMJ a soldier MUST disobey an illegal order (aka shoot the prisoners). So even in the Military following orders in NO EXCUSE.
Yes, they DO teach Ethics in Business School. They did in my MBA which was only 6 yrs ago, in fact we often had cases that dealt with ethical AND business problems. Any CEO knows better than to do what she did even if they didn't order it they looked the other way. Corporate ethics INCLUDES the CEO and Board of Directors, anything less is a cop out. I'm pretty sure she violated HP's Code of Ethics and may have even done an illegal act. If they don't fire her (supposed to be a meeting this weekend to decide) then I hope thier customers drop them like hot rock.
They swore it could be done. The person who founded the company is one of the brightest guys in the business. They didn't say they could solve EVERY case, just MANY cases which is a hell of a lot better than anyone else. Having worked on classifed projects I can tell you that you are 100% WRONG. Classified and Unclassified have about the same level of mismanagement. You just don't hear about the problems on Classified projects or hear about the fixes. I've personally seen projects cancelled that were black.
The mathematical definition of a function maps a range of inputs (domain) to a set (range) of outputs. For each and every input a certain output is generated. Ideally a function should return ONE value, be that True/False, a result, a pointer, etc. but multiple returns are possible. Random number functions don't normally require an input (yes, some require a seed the first call) to return an output, returning 5 records from a database is probably most likely done via loading an array or other data structure within the code not via the return value of a function call. I'm not a Java programmer (like 99% of /.), my background is in embedded so I don't know if Java has the concept of subroutines that are NOT functions. Every call in C is a function call, things like loading the records from the DB would be done by sending in the pointer to the location in the array and then indexing and loading data, the function would still return TRUE if it completed the load and FALSE if an error occured thus still meeting the definition of a function. Each and every input (pointer) maps to one output TRUE or FALSE. The array load is actually the side effect.
Good programming practice says ANY function should give the same outputs ALL the time for the same inputs (i.e if you put in a 2 today you get out a 4 and the same thing tomorrow). What you seem to be talking about are "side effects" where a global variable or input parameter is modified within the context of a function. Some programming languages DO allow you to change the value of a parameter within the function and that result is passed back to the caller. In fact thats easy to do in C with pointers. Harder to do in other languages. Either way IMHO, it's a horrible programming practice. The hardest thing I ever saw was a bunch of C programmers trying to learn how to code in Ada. All the "shortcuts" they used to use were removed by strong typing and strict rules. Testing of OO code where you are changing the internal state of an object via one of it's methods or via another method (such as in C++) makes things a LOT harder to develop good tests for and I would suspect good code analysis tools.
I had some extensive conversations with the team at CodeSurfer and they think they the problem is NOT impossible, maybe more like Polynomial time. The DOD was funding them (this was about 3 yrs) ago to try to develop a solution that worked for C/C++ and Ada. NASA wanted to tag along on the research but we were told it was "classified" and DOD only. It's rare when someone turns down research money so they must be on to something.
Lots more to run time analysis than what Purify does. I can check for the same faults w/o executing the code in many other tools.
Finding all POSSIBLE bugs in a software program means traversing all possible paths in the code with all possible inputs. That's a HUGE problem. You can "model" the code using Logic Equations and that helps some but any errors in the conversion from code to logic equations invalidate results. The DoD and NASA have spent many millions on solving this problem over the last 10-12 yrs. When I was at NASA we used several different tools (CodeSurfer, Purify, Lint, Polyspace as I recall) as each tool was better at one thing (i.e memory leaks vs null pointer dereferences). A The complete process took a couple of days to weeks and then human eyes and expertise were still needed to remove false positives. A good site for all the tools out there, old & new is http://spinroot.com/static/. Looks like Coverty might be a good one to look into, as the best I had seen was CodeSurfer. All the good tools I have seen are commercial (NOT open Source) and EXPENSIVE!! I'd love to see a decent open source tool to run as a first pass before applying the other tools. Another point is that these tools are STATIC analysis. Run-Time Analysis is a whole 'nother animal but that area is improving with tools like DTRACE in Solaris.
As long as they don't try to calculate a way to sink the Bismark they can do anything else. FYI - HMS Hood was sunk by ONE (lucky) shot from the German Battlecruiser Bismark. Went down with almost all hands. See http://www.gnt.net/~wright/bismarck.html
I guess I did miss the rebranding but from what I have seen most customers don't care about the name other than IBM when buying a mainframe. Most of the old timers still call them 390's which is a long gone name. Did they are rename the UNIX servers that used to be called the "p-series"?
If the Power6 is 4-5GHz and they don't figure out a way to make it run cooler, then you'll need water cooling on the servers. That's not easy and not cheap. I've seen water cooling on racks (basically heat exchangers) but internal to a server is very different. Intel gave up on the high GHz due to HEAT and I don't recall the Power chips being much cooler than Intel chips. BTW, it's called the "Z-series" and it's all the IBM mainframes (except AS400s) from small to HUGE.