Same in France, I created three different companies in France over 20 years, the first one in the bad old days took me 2 weeks, then one week, then 2 days, apparently it's faster now.
I also created one in Spain, and that was a pain, and way to expensive, but thei're just changing the law to make it easier.
And if you are creating a startup the real cost of firing is not the 1 to three month of salary that you might need to pay to get rid of the person, but the fact that you lost time with him or her in the early nimble stage of the your company.
So if you are unable to plan three month in advance and know who you'll need, and if you will be able to pay them or not, including : are they able to pivot if needed ?
Then you've got nothing to do in a startup go waste the time of some big behemot when the inertia will keep them going even if you screw up...
Part of what "freemarketeers" do not understand, is that a big chunk of the market is managed by the chinese comunist party.
They are happy to see "red" when anybody insinuate that "self regulating", "invisible hand of the market", etc does not work that well,
but they see no issue in sending a large part of their own production capacity and control of it into the hand of a bunch of people who does not believe in "free market" at all, but in having a small group managing by force an "harmonious society" (a large part of being harmonious is do not complain about the boss....)
So what do we do when for example china decides that it does not really need the money from a very small chip controling the average laptop keyboard and prefers to export their own brand in order to capture much more value out of their production.
At any time with the current structure of the market the PRC could make some strategic descisions and just by limiting the transfer of very cheap pieces completelly disrupt the production of HP, IBM, Apple and Oracle....
Nope Brussels admin is actually somewhat cheaper, although US based lobbying is significantly adding to the cost.
Most probably 20% will go into various random FP8 projects.
And close to 80% will go to STMicroelectronics, Infineon, Accent, NXP, Inside Secure, etc...
And of course ARM Holdings (a British company)...
And the products will find their way into Automotive, Aeronotics and various other industrial domains.
With a little bit of luck some of the funds will be used to do fundamental research in the basic technology (how to draw really small pictures on bizarre materials, preferably in three dimentions since it would seem to be the best way to really boost the power of individual chips).
And if we do not do this, then whenever we develop any high tech product whatsoever our "competitors" can skew the prices just by deciding if yes or now they'll be willing to provide enough chips....
So although in general I'm not a big fan of Ms Kroes, in this case, even knowing all the risk for leakage, I'm all for it.
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The base issue is that they hired a "manager" who didn't want to use any type of linux personally, and focused on cost reduction "while selling" not taking in account that once all the "expensive" people left there would not be anything to sell.
Another issue is the disconnect between the interest of the company, or the investors and of the people representing the investors within the investment fund.
ex: I buy a hot startup for 10 Million, the VC gets 5% (cheap) of 10M yearly "management fee" (maybe paid now, maybe delayed pay).
The hot startup is not so hot goes down to 1M
Option A) the VC sells right now and gets at least 1M, for the fund manager it's "game over", and no cigar (lost money you see) (at least for this revenue stream)
Option B) the VC waits a little bit more, the fund manager gets what ever % of the "management fee" is paid up front, and gets to play one more year...
guess what is the fund manager's prefered choice.
It seems that the kind of people who where supposed to buy the HTC felt that :
Ok so I'm spending all my time on FB, but it's rude to rub it in....
And didn't want to be tagged: Facebookista...
Moreover I guess there was some kind of subliminal feeling that if the phone had "Facebook Home" on top you might not see the other allerts like
viber, watsapp, SMS, etc....
On the technical side the phone seems to be not bad, maybe it will find a second market as a cheap cyanogen platform...
Part of it is that they've been at it for a long time...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lions'_Commentary_on_UNIX_6th_Edition,_with_Source_Code
Lions was at the UNSW, getting student to have access to code seems to be a tradition there.
I also met a couple of very talented people who got their degrees there in the late 70's early 80's and worked with some of them...
It just shows that the right way to run an university is not to worry too much about the curriculum and do the unexpected, even the vaguely illegal.
BTW it seems the equivalent document he wrote about the pdp11 unix C compiler is not avaiable, it's sad it was very interesting.
>> Unfortunately for all of us, some people continue to give us a really bad reputation in the executive suite."
The only reason the executive freak out at this is because most of then have absolutelly no idea what could happen, and how it could happen...
When a sales rep leaves with his or her client, an acountant make some creative acounting and buy a condo with some "reimbursment", a Marketing manager exposes the company to serious bad mojo because he can't keep his pants on, etc.... they understand what happen.
But realising that they should pay the guy that has root password on the ERP server the same as the CEO since he has actually more power that the CEO, this would be scary...
So nobody should do any kind of "bad stuff", and revenge no matter how justified it is, is rarely worth the time needed to execute it.
(that is why we do have courts of justice, in theory at least they help "outsourcing" revenge, and make it more "educative", not that the actual implementation always work...)
Well you invested in some hardware to do the mining, and then got some return on investment, so what makes this different from for instance buying a bakery, flour and various other things, and then selling bread, except of course that there is not much added work into the bitcoin mining opperation.
Why should it be tax free and other form of return on investment should be taxable ?
Now if you think that your government is not using its tax money wisely, you're free to try to elect somebody else, even try to get elected, but bitcoin mining is in no way "special".
On one hand it is "cool", but it is also trying to fix a human issue through technological means, and that does not work that well.
You are living in the same illusion as the people who claim that the internet treats censorship as a bug and routes around, it does not. You can partially avoid censorship, more or less the same way as it was possible to avoid it 50 years ago, by taking risk, being prudent, and changing strategies very regularly. But china is still a dictatorship, and our democratic advanced societies are rather less open to free speech than 20 years ago. Moreover we live in a flood of data, where dissent is tolerated because it can be drowned by lolcats.
So instead of looking for ways to avoid taxes, make sure that they serve some useful purpose...
I'm like many other professionalls a "lapsed" Fan of LaTeX, truth be told I started with troff -man and the various ancillary tools of the Unix environment What I recognize is that LaTeX (and the roff familly) enables you to create content that is WAY better looking in many ways.
So why don't I ? in part because I recognized that my investment in *roff was quietly dying off.... so I had to change to something Partly because Open Office gave me a "free option" so I "could" go to a wysiwyg solution.
And because I started to need to exchange documents with people who would write part of it, and if you are not working in academia this means that the probability of working with LaTeX friendly colleage is quite low.
So what would make me come back...
If I could have an heuristic tool that reads my.odt (or even the.docx version or the.pdf) analyse the structure, and creates a LaTeX document that has the same content but NOT really the same layout but as close as possible the same structure.
There are a couple of tools pdf/odt/word to LaTeX but they all try to convert the original document into LaTeX that looks just like the original document. What I think would be a game changer would be to have a new document, able to leverage the embedded knowledge in the more common LaTeX templates, and create a tweakable MUCH better looking, new document.
I would then be happy to use LyX as an entry point for WysiWyg tweaking, and finallly jump into emacs to really finalize my document...
A friend of mine drives a Ferrari, it's an embarrassingly efficient chick magnet, the on board computer screen is crap, but you know what, nobody cares...
The vertu owner is happy to have a very good looking phone and concierge service, the technology will be obsolete in any case because the economics of small run productions implies a longer sales life. The electronics have just to be "good enough", and with android they have all the toy apps everybody has so they will not be dissed by somebody telling them my "xyz" can do this and you can't... And for the rest explaining that your phone "is worth the cost", (letting the listener "imagine" the cost), using the concierge service to book a very expensive and hard to enter restaurant will "do the job" (you'll have also to pick up the tab of course...)
Now if you feel this is a little bit crass, you're either just jealous, or not the kind of person who gets all wet seeing an i.... you could try this http://www.johnsphones.com/ it's a little bit ridiculously expensive compared to a cheap entry prices samsung dumbphone, but it looks cool, a great conversation piece, and way cheaper than a "vertu"...
In practice the US benefits by being able to select the best foreign students, sells them overprices education at a tremendous cost and then it will have the opportunity to keep a good percentage of them.
And of course it would be much more dangerous for the US to reject this slice of the world population, because they would be perfectly able to build a similar teaching / research structure if they would need to...
He should not have the time/need to look at your code... He should be busy writing his own code, he might bitch about your API definition, and you have then two choices: a) tell him to suck it and that "if it aint broken don't fix it", you need the API as they are or b) Listen and maybe it will really make future extensions easier, so negotiate...
50K code is actually quite small so although refactoring can always "help" (in theory) but unless you are explicitly trying to win the obfuscated C award it's probably small enough to make it more valuable to add news feature than to "streamline it"...
Unless you hit some roadblock and it is now "too slow", "break randomly", etc.... then you should probably urgently look at it and fix it yourself (after all 10 years o experience with the code base should make this faster for you).
But either he refuse to deliver what you ask, then fire him, or you leave him to much time after delivering his module, and he looks at your code out of boredoom... So the best you can do is tell him : sure our code is crufty, we just hired you so that we can ease the tension and have some time to refactor, so "write you own f**g code, and let us play around with our stuff, or do you need some API that's missing ?... write some specs and you'll get it...
My daughter who is a university student and needs to type quite a lot of stuff recently bought herself an Archos tablet. It has a screen protection cover that doubles as a keyboard. The "caveat" is that the various text processing software she tried are "ok" for a letter, but when she needs to really create a "professional" document she still feels the need to go back to her old linux box with libreoffice... In practice any tablet with a decent keyboard addon can serve for almost 100% of most people needs....
You could think of it this way: -- consumer who just use the device to access content (aka TV replacement) and access some services (mostly bank and shopping) => tablet is good enough for them -- consumer with some brain who sometimes produce something => add a keyboard -- person who actually write documents that might be printed by somebody and looked at =>
==> either a cheap 13.1 laptop with windows (do not forget to provide the phone number of a IT repair for pay person that lives near your "customer")
==> macbook air (personally I really like the aerodynamism and the distance they can fly when you throw them out of the window
but hipsters like them, and they fail less than windows)
==> a cheap 13.1 laptop running linux (there will be much less technical issues, but of course any issue will be "your fault" since it is not a "common choice"
so YMMV -- person who actually is using a computer for something complicated => don't worry she'll know what she needs:-)
Because any money that they would give to develop free (or not) software that would come out of this billion would be taken out of the money that already flows out to US companies, to buy really useful stuff like guns & ammo tanks, planes and all this kind of really important stuff... Do you really think that any US base aid is not already claimed by some powerful US based corporation ?
We use with rather acceptable results zotac (see zotacusa.com) Mini-ITX boards
an Atom Ion2 board will be enough for most randome office work and an I7 with an Nvidia GT640 will serve quite well as an high end dual full HD dev machine (or gaming console:-)) And the price/size ratio is quite nice.
For a "pure dev" machine you can up power from the atom config and down price from the I7 using a GT430 + I3 the 430 can be avaiable as an embedded option and helps you get a nice quite machine, but you'll get only 20 fps or so on dual screen games... wich might be enough....
Of course using Nvidia boards means having decent perf on the proprietary closed source driver, but it's non free... or using the nouveau driver wich has it's set of limitations.... For our specific usage it's currently the only effective solution, for most people there are many other GPU's options... (compatible with the same Zotacs boards)...
hihi, haha, muahhaaaaaaa.... upper management is not keeping the project in line, it is either managing the project and has the same problems as anybody, planing is HARD! Or they are busy covering their asses....
But hoping that they'll somehow fix the issue, you are naive...
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Same in France, I created three different companies in France over 20 years, the first one in the bad old days took me 2 weeks, then one week, then 2 days, apparently it's faster now. I also created one in Spain, and that was a pain, and way to expensive, but thei're just changing the law to make it easier. And if you are creating a startup the real cost of firing is not the 1 to three month of salary that you might need to pay to get rid of the person, but the fact that you lost time with him or her in the early nimble stage of the your company. So if you are unable to plan three month in advance and know who you'll need, and if you will be able to pay them or not, including : are they able to pivot if needed ? Then you've got nothing to do in a startup go waste the time of some big behemot when the inertia will keep them going even if you screw up...
Part of what "freemarketeers" do not understand, is that a big chunk of the market is managed by the chinese comunist party. They are happy to see "red" when anybody insinuate that "self regulating", "invisible hand of the market", etc does not work that well, but they see no issue in sending a large part of their own production capacity and control of it into the hand of a bunch of people who does not believe in "free market" at all, but in having a small group managing by force an "harmonious society" (a large part of being harmonious is do not complain about the boss....) So what do we do when for example china decides that it does not really need the money from a very small chip controling the average laptop keyboard and prefers to export their own brand in order to capture much more value out of their production. At any time with the current structure of the market the PRC could make some strategic descisions and just by limiting the transfer of very cheap pieces completelly disrupt the production of HP, IBM, Apple and Oracle....
Nope Brussels admin is actually somewhat cheaper, although US based lobbying is significantly adding to the cost. Most probably 20% will go into various random FP8 projects. And close to 80% will go to STMicroelectronics, Infineon, Accent, NXP, Inside Secure, etc... And of course ARM Holdings (a British company)... And the products will find their way into Automotive, Aeronotics and various other industrial domains. With a little bit of luck some of the funds will be used to do fundamental research in the basic technology (how to draw really small pictures on bizarre materials, preferably in three dimentions since it would seem to be the best way to really boost the power of individual chips). And if we do not do this, then whenever we develop any high tech product whatsoever our "competitors" can skew the prices just by deciding if yes or now they'll be willing to provide enough chips.... So although in general I'm not a big fan of Ms Kroes, in this case, even knowing all the risk for leakage, I'm all for it.
The base issue is that they hired a "manager" who didn't want to use any type of linux personally, and focused on cost reduction "while selling" not taking in account that once all the "expensive" people left there would not be anything to sell. Another issue is the disconnect between the interest of the company, or the investors and of the people representing the investors within the investment fund. ex: I buy a hot startup for 10 Million, the VC gets 5% (cheap) of 10M yearly "management fee" (maybe paid now, maybe delayed pay). The hot startup is not so hot goes down to 1M Option A) the VC sells right now and gets at least 1M, for the fund manager it's "game over", and no cigar (lost money you see) (at least for this revenue stream) Option B) the VC waits a little bit more, the fund manager gets what ever % of the "management fee" is paid up front, and gets to play one more year... guess what is the fund manager's prefered choice.
It seems that the kind of people who where supposed to buy the HTC felt that : Ok so I'm spending all my time on FB, but it's rude to rub it in ....
And didn't want to be tagged: Facebookista ...
Moreover I guess there was some kind of subliminal feeling that if the phone had "Facebook Home" on top you might not see the other allerts like
viber, watsapp, SMS, etc....
On the technical side the phone seems to be not bad, maybe it will find a second market as a cheap cyanogen platform ...
Part of it is that they've been at it for a long time... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lions'_Commentary_on_UNIX_6th_Edition,_with_Source_Code Lions was at the UNSW, getting student to have access to code seems to be a tradition there. I also met a couple of very talented people who got their degrees there in the late 70's early 80's and worked with some of them... It just shows that the right way to run an university is not to worry too much about the curriculum and do the unexpected, even the vaguely illegal. BTW it seems the equivalent document he wrote about the pdp11 unix C compiler is not avaiable, it's sad it was very interesting.
It's true, with all these pesky Open Source stuff out'n'away, we'll have peace, the peace of the graveyard ....
>> Unfortunately for all of us, some people continue to give us a really bad reputation in the executive suite." The only reason the executive freak out at this is because most of then have absolutelly no idea what could happen, and how it could happen... When a sales rep leaves with his or her client, an acountant make some creative acounting and buy a condo with some "reimbursment", a Marketing manager exposes the company to serious bad mojo because he can't keep his pants on, etc .... they understand what happen.
But realising that they should pay the guy that has root password on the ERP server the same as the CEO since he has actually more power that the CEO, this would be scary...
So nobody should do any kind of "bad stuff", and revenge no matter how justified it is, is rarely worth the time needed to execute it.
(that is why we do have courts of justice, in theory at least they help "outsourcing" revenge, and make it more "educative", not that the actual implementation always work...)
Well you invested in some hardware to do the mining, and then got some return on investment, so what makes this different from for instance
buying a bakery, flour and various other things, and then selling bread, except of course that there is not much added work into the bitcoin mining opperation.
Why should it be tax free and other form of return on investment should be taxable ?
Now if you think that your government is not using its tax money wisely, you're free to try to elect somebody else, even try to get elected, but bitcoin mining is in no way "special".
On one hand it is "cool", but it is also trying to fix a human issue through technological means, and that does not work that well.
You are living in the same illusion as the people who claim that the internet treats censorship as a bug and routes around, it does not.
You can partially avoid censorship, more or less the same way as it was possible to avoid it 50 years ago, by taking risk, being prudent, and changing strategies very regularly.
But china is still a dictatorship, and our democratic advanced societies are rather less open to free speech than 20 years ago.
Moreover we live in a flood of data, where dissent is tolerated because it can be drowned by lolcats.
So instead of looking for ways to avoid taxes, make sure that they serve some useful purpose...
You're kidding, they are all about gay mariage ! hermaphrodites you know !!!
Apparently they are starting late, probably still drinking cafe....
I'm like many other professionalls a "lapsed" Fan of LaTeX, truth be told I started with troff -man and the various ancillary tools of the Unix environment
What I recognize is that LaTeX (and the roff familly) enables you to create content that is WAY better looking in many ways.
So why don't I ? in part because I recognized that my investment in *roff was quietly dying off.... so I had to change to something
Partly because Open Office gave me a "free option" so I "could" go to a wysiwyg solution.
And because I started to need to exchange documents with people who would write part of it, and if you are not working in academia this means that the probability of working with LaTeX friendly colleage is quite low.
So what would make me come back...
If I could have an heuristic tool that reads my .odt (or even the .docx version or the .pdf) analyse the structure, and creates a LaTeX document that has the same content but NOT really the same layout but as close as possible the same structure.
There are a couple of tools pdf/odt/word to LaTeX but they all try to convert the original document into LaTeX that looks just like the original document.
What I think would be a game changer would be to have a new document, able to leverage the embedded knowledge in the more common LaTeX templates, and create a tweakable MUCH better looking, new document.
I would then be happy to use LyX as an entry point for WysiWyg tweaking, and finallly jump into emacs to really finalize my document...
A friend of mine drives a Ferrari, it's an embarrassingly efficient chick magnet, the on board computer screen is crap, but you know what, nobody cares ...
The vertu owner is happy to have a very good looking phone and concierge service, the technology will be obsolete in any case because the economics of small run productions implies a longer sales life.
The electronics have just to be "good enough", and with android they have all the toy apps everybody has so they will not be dissed by somebody telling them my "xyz" can do this and you can't...
And for the rest explaining that your phone "is worth the cost", (letting the listener "imagine" the cost), using the concierge service to book a very expensive and hard to enter restaurant will "do the job" (you'll have also to pick up the tab of course...)
Now if you feel this is a little bit crass, you're either just jealous, or not the kind of person who gets all wet seeing an i ....
you could try this http://www.johnsphones.com/ it's a little bit ridiculously expensive compared to a cheap entry prices samsung dumbphone, but it looks cool, a great conversation piece, and way cheaper than a "vertu"...
It's just that they remember LSE and shudder ....
It's not "un NullPointerException" but UNE NullPointerException, pronounced oone NullePooeintaireHexhepcion, of course...
And the Spaceship operator is called "encore un dinosaure nostalgique de Fortran IV" (refereing to IF(),, )
In practice the US benefits by being able to select the best foreign students, sells them overprices education at a tremendous cost and then it will have the opportunity to keep a good percentage of them.
And of course it would be much more dangerous for the US to reject this slice of the world population, because they would be perfectly able to build a similar teaching / research structure if they would need to...
He should not have the time/need to look at your code...
He should be busy writing his own code, he might bitch about your API definition, and you have then two choices:
a) tell him to suck it and that "if it aint broken don't fix it", you need the API as they are
or
b) Listen and maybe it will really make future extensions easier, so negotiate...
50K code is actually quite small so although refactoring can always "help" (in theory) but unless you are explicitly trying to win the obfuscated C award it's probably small enough to make it more valuable to add news feature than to "streamline it"...
Unless you hit some roadblock and it is now "too slow", "break randomly", etc.... then you should probably urgently look at it and fix it yourself (after all 10 years o experience with the code base should make this faster for you).
But either he refuse to deliver what you ask, then fire him, or you leave him to much time after delivering his module, and he looks at your code out of boredoom... ... write some specs and you'll get it ...
So the best you can do is tell him : sure our code is crufty, we just hired you so that we can ease the tension and have some time to refactor, so "write you own f**g code, and let us play around with our stuff, or do you need some API that's missing ?
My daughter who is a university student and needs to type quite a lot of stuff recently bought herself an Archos tablet.
It has a screen protection cover that doubles as a keyboard.
The "caveat" is that the various text processing software she tried are "ok" for a letter, but when she needs to really create a "professional" document she still feels the need to go back to her old linux box with libreoffice...
In practice any tablet with a decent keyboard addon can serve for almost 100% of most people needs....
You could think of it this way: :-)
-- consumer who just use the device to access content (aka TV replacement) and access some services (mostly bank and shopping) => tablet is good enough for them
-- consumer with some brain who sometimes produce something => add a keyboard
-- person who actually write documents that might be printed by somebody and looked at =>
==> either a cheap 13.1 laptop with windows (do not forget to provide the phone number of a IT repair for pay person that lives near your "customer")
==> macbook air (personally I really like the aerodynamism and the distance they can fly when you throw them out of the window
but hipsters like them, and they fail less than windows)
==> a cheap 13.1 laptop running linux (there will be much less technical issues, but of course any issue will be "your fault" since it is not a "common choice"
so YMMV
-- person who actually is using a computer for something complicated => don't worry she'll know what she needs
Somehow it seems weird that so many people actually want to go to atlanta ... ...
I guess it's the "hub thingy".... but atlanta, seriously
Because any money that they would give to develop free (or not) software that would come out of this billion would be
taken out of the money that already flows out to US companies, to buy really useful stuff like guns & ammo tanks, planes and all this kind of really important stuff...
Do you really think that any US base aid is not already claimed by some powerful US based corporation ?
come on it's pulse audio related, of course people get nervous, angry and easily irritated ...
We use with rather acceptable results zotac (see zotacusa.com) Mini-ITX boards
an Atom Ion2 board will be enough for most randome office work :-))
and an I7 with an Nvidia GT640 will serve quite well as an high end dual full HD dev machine (or gaming console
And the price/size ratio is quite nice.
For a "pure dev" machine you can up power from the atom config and down price from the I7 using a GT430 + I3 the 430 can be avaiable as an embedded option and helps you get a nice quite machine, but you'll get only 20 fps or so on dual screen games... wich might be enough ....
Of course using Nvidia boards means having decent perf on the proprietary closed source driver, but it's non free...
or using the nouveau driver wich has it's set of limitations....
For our specific usage it's currently the only effective solution, for most people there are many other GPU's options...
(compatible with the same Zotacs boards)...
my wok is fine, but my frying pan needs to be replaced :-)
hihi, haha, muahhaaaaaaa....
upper management is not keeping the project in line, it is either managing the project and has the same problems as anybody, planing is HARD!
Or they are busy covering their asses....
But hoping that they'll somehow fix the issue, you are naive...